With entrancing desert photography, and a blend of old pop and blues mixing indiscriminately with opera records, WILLOW SPRINGS is a haunting, bizarre, morbid and darkly comical piece of German New Cinema from one of the movement’s most provocative queer icons.
SATANIK is a lurid and wildly entertaining take on the Italian fumetti neri, a Dr. Jekyl and Ms. Hyde with eye-popping costuming and shameless sex and violence.
Film collectors rescue and preserve obscure and forgotten photochemical films from basement vault, releasing and restoring titles before analog film disappear, blurring lines between piracy and preservation as archives seek their holdings.
Join archivists Ioana and Garrett of Astral Projections for an evening of subversive feminine film from throughout the 20th century, featuring selections from the Nyback Archive. You'll see a documentary about women in experimental film, an interview with the inimitable gardener Ruth Stout, a satirical short about labor, and so much more!
THE BLIND OWL is Chilean Surrealist Raul Ruiz's spinning of Iranian author Sadegh Hedayat's beloved 1937 novella through dreams and movies, full of ghastly and sublime images. It's a ghostly reflection on modern mythology, Orientalism, and editing as an act of destruction, considered one of the director's finest achievements.
Actress Kelli Maroney comes to The Clinton Street Theater for a double feature presented by Queer Screams film festival!
THE MAGIC TOYSHOP is a wondrous and strange prestige-television adaptation of Angela Carter's beloved first Magic Realist novel, with a screenplay she provided herself.
From witchy Gogol adaptations, sinisterly psychedelic Alice in Wonderland serials and cigarette ads, to surrealist parables, antifascist poems, and even Stephen King (!), Ukrainian animators rebuilt their industry after the second world war and made Kievnauchfilm one of the most distinguished animation studios in the world.
Eschewing the elegant stylings of Soviet animation of the time, Parn opted for a surreal style that could be ugly and disturbing, but even more varied and meticulous. This program includes his masterpieces HOTEL E and BREAKFAST ON THE GRASS, along with many other rare treats from his career.
