Category: Special Event

WHERE’S ANTON?

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WHERE’S ANTON
Dir. Joe DeNardo, 2012
22 min. USA.
FRIDAY, MAY 3 – 5:00 PM

WHERE’S ANTON is a movie around Gun Outfit, the band, and the persons individually. WHERES ANTON moves through the band, and the band through it. WHERES ANTON is a musical story, shot on 16mm, blending the shared narratives of document and artifice. The band acts, and the band is itself. Utilizing the writings of Dan Swire, who also plays drums in the band Gun Outfit, WHERES ANTON offers that oft-attempted but rarely achieved unique window into the dream states of collective creativity.

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PLAYING IN DECAY

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Playing in Decay – Abandoned Theaters and the Paris Underground
Slide show and video followed by brief Q&A
THURSDAY MAY 2 – 8:00 PM
ONE NIGHT ONLY

Julia Solis (author of “New York Underground”) talks about her new book “Stages of Decay”, featuring photos of deteriorating theaters across the US and Europe. Lazar Kunstmann & Jon Lackman of the infiltration group Les UX – also known for setting up a secret cinema underneath Paris – will present the “Pantheon User’s Guide”, a video on their secret restoration of the Pantheon clock.

DREAMLAND: THE CONEY ISLAND AMATEUR PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY DREAM FILMS

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DREAMLAND: THE CONEY ISLAND AMATEUR PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY DREAM FILMS
Presented by Zoe Beloff
USA, Approx. 80 minutes
Silent/English
THURSDAY, MAY 9 – 8:00 and 10:00 PM

In 1926, after returning to New York after World War I, Albert Grass assembled a group of his friends (largely working-class people), all of whom had an interest in Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis, into a society that met in an office on Coney Island to discuss their inner lives. A major project of the secretive Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society, as they were known, was making films of members’ dreams, in the service of understanding the life of the mind.  Years later, with the Society all but an urban legend, multimedia artist and filmmaker Zoe Beloff discovered some mysterious, Freudian 16mm home movies at a flea market, and made it her mission to collect and preserve, as well as understand, the films.

Now, for one night only at Spectacle, Zoe Beloff will present the collected films of the Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society in their original 16mm format. Filmed between 1926 and 1972, the films present the uncovered dreams, fears, and desires of Society members throughout the decades. These nine short films are beautiful, poignant, and surprising by turns, and present the raw, unfiltered inner emotional lives of several generations of Brooklynites.

SLEEP ∞ OVER performs THE HANDS OF ORLAC (IN 3D)

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MONDAY, APRIL 15TH – 8:00PM and 10:00PM
TWO SETS!
ONE NIGHT ONLY!

THE HANDS OF ORLAC (IN 3D)
Dir. Robert Wiene, 1924
An abstract re-rendering by Spectacle’s Jon Dieringer
Music by SLEEP ∞ OVER

Paul Orlac (Conrad Veidt) is a world famous concert pianst. En route home from being on tour to the waiting arms of his loving wife Yvonne, Orlac is gravely injured in a train wreck that threatens the loss of his titular hands. Yvonne begs Dr. Serral to save them and the good doctor obliges. He replaces Orlac’s ivory ticklers with those of condemned murderer Vasseur. The surgery is a success but Orlac immediately senses something not quite right. When he discovers where his new hands came from he vows never to touch his beautiful wife again. They fall into poverty with Orlac unable to play and Yvonne seeks help from her father-in-law. He is cruel to her an denies her any support. Yvonne returns home and asks Orlac to go speak with his father. When he arrives to see his father, he is dead. Vassuers fingerprints are everywhere and what follows is a harrowing tale of blackmail and murder. Is Orlac the killer? Or are more sinister forces at work?

Four years after working together on THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, director Robert Wiene and Conrad Veidt reunite and set the screen ablaze. Join us for an evening featuring a special anaglyph 3D re-cut from Spectacle’s Jon Dieringer and a live score from Austin’s psych/dream/ether/lo-fi/true-mage pop band SLEEP ∞ OVER as they pass through our fair borough on their most recent tour.

Glasses will be provided.

One night, two sets, three dimensions – not to be missed.

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