Tickets FREE. Join guest programmers Ariella Tai and Tracy Kernell as they present the 2023 short film Quiet As It’s Kept, directed by Ja’Tovia Gary, followed by the 1996 feature film Naked Acts, directed by Bridgett M. Davis.
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Tickets $15. In 1981, Jessie Maple became one of the first African American women to direct an independent film with this raw, unflinching portrait of heroin addiction and recovery. Shot on location in Harlem, Will stars Obaka Adedunyo as the title character, a former All-American basketball star who has fallen from grace because of his dependence on junk. Soon after Will promises his wife, Jean (Loretta Devine, in her screen debut), that he’ll go straight, he becomes a father figure to Little Brother (Robert Dean), a street-tough teen who appears to be following in Will’s footsteps. Restored from the 16mm camera negative and magnetic sound elements by the Black Film Center & Archive (BFCA), the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Time-Based Media Archives and Conservation staff, and the Center for African American Media Arts.
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Tickets $15. An evening of thought provoking, visually stimulating, and performative art making. The evening begins with a live soundtrack by musical artist Ceremonial Abyss to the 1972 short film Athanor, followed by an opportunity to explore a curated selection of books on film from Passages Book store. The evening culminates in a mesmerizing short film program.
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Tickets $15. Join Nationale for a special movie night featuring Peter Hujar’s Day. Nationale will be vending Peter Hujar’s books and hosting a salon-style discussion after the film.
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Tickets $15. Join Brain Dead—L.A.’s boundary-pushing creative collective—for a one-day-only special screening of the 2022 Japanese superhero film Shin Ultraman.
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Tickets $15. Bingo starlet Violet Hex will add extra chaos to John Waters’ perfectly unhinged suburban nightmare with custom Movie Bingo.
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Tickets $15. Bring your own knitting, crocheting, and fiber arts to the Tomorrow Theater for this special event co-hosted by RITUAL DYES, who will be there to offer assistance and support.
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Tickets $15. Join us for another Movie Bingo, hosted by the one-and-only Violet Hex! For this edition, we’ll journey into the technicolor time capsule of drag herstory that is Wigstock: The Movie!
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Tickets $15. Our second edition of Movie Book Club features The Chronology of Water, based on the acclaimed memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, who will join us in person for the post-screening conversation.
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Tickets $15. The story of Nola Darling’s simultaneous sexual relationships with three different men is told by her and by her partners and other friends. All three men wanted her to commit solely to them; Nola resists being “owned” by a single partner.
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