COLLATERALIZED DAMAGE (REMIX)
2014. Edit by Jean-Louis Piquette / Live DJ set by Zed The Professor.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 29 – 10PM
ONE NIGHT ONLY!

Spectacle is thrilled to welcome Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx to our humble theater for a live DJ set to mark the 10th birthday of Michael Mann’s beyond-moody crime thriller COLLATERAL. As an essay on the nature of indifference, the film tends to belabor existentialist clichés about the value of living in the present and the need for improvisation. But as an experiment in the potential for digital video to capture the distinctive glow of Los Angeles? It’s an indispensable addendum to the constant, almost bionic repicturing of America’s most populous, smog-encrusted megacity, with Dion Beebe and Paul Cameron’s HD cameras careening down blackened arterials, capturing backlit plastic signs and streaking white-hot neon from one lonely strip mall to the next.

To commemorate 8.6.04, the mysterious video editor Jean-Louis Piquette – a cat who cut his teeth on Spec trailers, so cool he doesn’t even attend his own screenings – will realign the film’s frames, while Zed the Professor (The New School) will provide a live-DJ set rescore. The result is a new kind of cinema-as-wallpaper, in which noir fantasies about the City of Angels are digitalized and compressed almost to the point of un-recognizability. (And it started like any other night….)