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Thursday 24, September

Fat Girl

Fat Girl

R

Thursday 24, September

Sex is Comedy

Sex is Comedy

Thursday 24, September

Kaboom

Kaboom

Thursday 24, September

Friday 25, September

Her Will Be Done

Her Will Be Done

Friday 25, September

Situations

Situations

Friday 25, September

Crash (35mm)

Crash (35mm)

Friday 25, September

Saturday 26, September

The Departed (35mm)

The Departed (35mm)

Rfor strong brutal violence, pervasive language, some strong sexual content and drug material

Saturday 26, September

Paint Me a Road Out of Here

Paint Me a Road Out of Here

Saturday 26, September

Situations

Situations

Saturday 26, September

Matador Bolero

Matador Bolero

Saturday 26, September

Sunday 27, September

A. Rimbaud

A. Rimbaud

Sunday 27, September

Her Will Be Done

Her Will Be Done

Sunday 27, September

Fat Girl

Fat Girl

R

Sunday 27, September

Monday 28, September

Idlewild (35mm)

Idlewild (35mm)

Monday 28, September

1-800-HOT-DUCK X FUGUE SPA: “THATS ENTERTAINMENT!”

1-800-HOT-DUCK X FUGUE SPA: “THATS ENTERTAINMENT!”

Monday 28, September

Tuesday 29, September

Zola

Zola

Rfor strong sexual content and language throughout, graphic nudity, and violence including a sexual assault.

Tuesday 29, September

Chronovisor

Chronovisor

Tuesday 29, September

Wednesday 30, September

Lost Landscapes of New York

Lost Landscapes of New York

Wednesday 30, September

The Misconceived - 35MM

The Misconceived - 35MM

Wednesday 30, September

Thursday 1, October

Idlewild (35mm)

Idlewild (35mm)

Thursday 1, October

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco

Thursday 1, October

The Misconceived - 35MM

The Misconceived - 35MM

Thursday 1, October

Friday 2, October

The Misconceived - 35MM

The Misconceived - 35MM

Friday 2, October

Bird in Hand

Bird in Hand

Friday 2, October

The Plagiarists

The Plagiarists

Friday 2, October

Saturday 3, October

Still Film

Still Film

Saturday 3, October

The Misconceived - 35MM

The Misconceived - 35MM

Saturday 3, October

Kaboom

Kaboom

Saturday 3, October

Sunday 4, October

Bird in Hand

Bird in Hand

Sunday 4, October

Common Carrier

Common Carrier

Sunday 4, October

Concessions - 35MM

Concessions - 35MM

Sunday 4, October

Monday 5, October

Lakeview Terrace (35mm)

Lakeview Terrace (35mm)

Monday 5, October

Wings of Desire

Wings of Desire

Monday 5, October

Tuesday 6, October

Chronovisor

Chronovisor

Tuesday 6, October

Chicken with Plums

Chicken with Plums

Tuesday 6, October

Wednesday 7, October

On a String

On a String

Rfor some language and sexual content/nudity

Wednesday 7, October

The Sun Never Sets

The Sun Never Sets

Rfor language including some sexual references.

Wednesday 7, October

Thursday 8, October

The Sun Never Sets

The Sun Never Sets

Rfor language including some sexual references.

Thursday 8, October

All the Mornings of the World

All the Mornings of the World

Thursday 8, October

Wings of Desire

Wings of Desire

Thursday 8, October

Friday 9, October

The Downtown Festival: Art/New York + 3 Downtown A

The Downtown Festival: Art/New York + 3 Downtown A

Friday 9, October

The Downtown Festival: The Basics of Philosophy

The Downtown Festival: The Basics of Philosophy

Friday 9, October

The Downtown Festival: Two Neighbors

The Downtown Festival: Two Neighbors

Friday 9, October

Saturday 10, October

The Downtown Festival: Beyond the Threshold

The Downtown Festival: Beyond the Threshold

Saturday 10, October

The Downtown Festival: Dwarf Neon Mayfield

The Downtown Festival: Dwarf Neon Mayfield

Saturday 10, October

The Downtown Festival: L.I.E.

The Downtown Festival: L.I.E.

Saturday 10, October

The Downtown Festival: The Mayflower

The Downtown Festival: The Mayflower

Saturday 10, October

Sunday 11, October

The Downtown Festival: Sitting Ducks

The Downtown Festival: Sitting Ducks

Sunday 11, October

The Downtown Festival: The Joyless Economy

The Downtown Festival: The Joyless Economy

Sunday 11, October

The Downtown Festival: Slauson Rec

The Downtown Festival: Slauson Rec

Sunday 11, October

Monday 12, October

The Downtown Festival: Let Them Be Seen

The Downtown Festival: Let Them Be Seen

Monday 12, October

The Downtown Festival: Big Break

The Downtown Festival: Big Break

Monday 12, October

Tuesday 13, October

The Downtown Festival: Galicia!

The Downtown Festival: Galicia!

Tuesday 13, October

The Downtown Festival: Tycoon

The Downtown Festival: Tycoon

Tuesday 13, October

The Downtown Festival: Chronicles of Shpongle

The Downtown Festival: Chronicles of Shpongle

Tuesday 13, October

Wednesday 14, October

The Downtown Festival: Signals in the Distance

The Downtown Festival: Signals in the Distance

Wednesday 14, October

The Downtown Festival: Little Miss Sun Sign

The Downtown Festival: Little Miss Sun Sign

Wednesday 14, October

The Downtown Festival: Sensing Systems

The Downtown Festival: Sensing Systems

Wednesday 14, October

The Downtown Festival: Fellas

The Downtown Festival: Fellas

Wednesday 14, October

Thursday 15, October

The Downtown Festival: The Story of Eve

The Downtown Festival: The Story of Eve

Thursday 15, October

The Downtown Festival: Chelsea Walls

The Downtown Festival: Chelsea Walls

Thursday 15, October

The Downtown Festival: Tell Her That I Love Her

The Downtown Festival: Tell Her That I Love Her

Thursday 15, October

Friday 16, October

The Downtown Festival: The Water is Always Warm

The Downtown Festival: The Water is Always Warm

Friday 16, October

The Downtown Festival: Amoeba

The Downtown Festival: Amoeba

Friday 16, October

The Downtown Festival: Cabaret Boys

The Downtown Festival: Cabaret Boys

Friday 16, October

Saturday 17, October

The Downtown Festival: The Projectionist

The Downtown Festival: The Projectionist

Saturday 17, October

The Downtown Festival: Surfaces and the Self

The Downtown Festival: Surfaces and the Self

Saturday 17, October

Sunday 18, October

The Downtown Festival: Dissolutions

The Downtown Festival: Dissolutions

Sunday 18, October

The Downtown Festival: Karishika

The Downtown Festival: Karishika

Sunday 18, October

The Downtown Festival Amos Poe: Unmade

The Downtown Festival Amos Poe: Unmade

Sunday 18, October

Wednesday 21, October

Prison

Prison

Wednesday 21, October

Thursday 22, October

The Red Violin

The Red Violin

Rfor some sexuality

Thursday 22, October

Friday 23, October

Nosferatu + Live Score

Nosferatu + Live Score

PG

Friday 23, October

Vampyr + Live Score

Vampyr + Live Score

Friday 23, October

Saturday 24, October

Another Day in Paradise (35mm)

Another Day in Paradise (35mm)

Saturday 24, October

Dead Media

Dead Media

Saturday 24, October

Sunday 25, October

Miss Me Yet

Miss Me Yet

Sunday 25, October

Tuesday 27, October

Leila and the Wolves

Leila and the Wolves

Tuesday 27, October

Wednesday 28, October

Ganja & Hess

Ganja & Hess

Wednesday 28, October

Friday 30, October

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 35MM

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 35MM

R

Friday 30, October

Suspiria (1977)

Suspiria (1977)

R

Friday 30, October

Halloween (1978)

Halloween (1978)

R

Friday 30, October

Saturday 31, October

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 35MM

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 35MM

R

Saturday 31, October

Suspiria (1977)

Suspiria (1977)

R

Saturday 31, October

Halloween (1978)

Halloween (1978)

R

Saturday 31, October

Sunday 1, November

Ganja & Hess

Ganja & Hess

Sunday 1, November

Thursday 5, November

The Draughtsman's Contract

The Draughtsman's Contract

Thursday 5, November

Friday 6, November

Tickled (10th Anniversary)

Tickled (10th Anniversary)

RRated R for language

Friday 6, November

Sunday 8, November

Tickled (10th Anniversary)

Tickled (10th Anniversary)

RRated R for language

Sunday 8, November

Thursday 19, November

Tár

Tár

Rfor some language and brief nudity.

Thursday 19, November

1-800-HOT-DUCK X FUGUE SPA: “THATS ENTERTAINMENT!”

1-800-HOT-DUCK X FUGUE SPA: “THATS ENTERTAINMENT!”

Internets original decrepit queen of mixtape menagerie, 1-800-HOT-DUCK, returns to NYC with her special friend FUGUE SPA, New York’s underground slide show party and video sensation with a show you absolutely can not miss called…. “THATS ENTERTAINMENT!”

Monday 28, September

A. Rimbaud

A. Rimbaud

The improbable life of French poet Arthur Rimbaud unfolds with all the shock and playfulness of his poetry.

Sunday 27, September

All the Mornings of the World

All the Mornings of the World

An ambitious young musician's life becomes entwined with that of his reclusive master in director Alain Corneau’s haunting portrait of composer Marin Marais and his teacher, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe. With a landmark score by Jordi Savall–whose viola da gamba recordings inspired novelist Pascal Quignard’s original story–Tous les Matins du Monde is a transporting meditation on artistic devotion, memory, and longing.

Thursday 8, October

Another Day in Paradise (35mm)

Another Day in Paradise (35mm)

In the hope of a big score, two junkie couples team up to commit various drug robberies which go disastrously wrong, leading to dissent, violence, and murder.

Saturday 24, October

Bird in Hand

Bird in Hand

Bird In Hand is a 2025 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Melody C. Roscher, in her directorial debut. It stars Alisha Wainwright, Christine Lahti, James Le Gros, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Jeffrey Nordling and K. Todd Freeman. It had its world premiere at the 2025 Tribeca Festival on June 6, 2025.

Friday 2, October

Sunday 4, October

Show Future Dates
Chicken with Plums

Chicken with Plums

Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed to await death.

Tuesday 6, October

Chronovisor

Chronovisor

An armchair mystery in which the life of a reclusive academic collides with the story of a clandestine technology that can photograph the past.

Tuesday 29, September

Tuesday 6, October

Show Future Dates
Common Carrier

Common Carrier

In this kaleidoscopic portrait, a screenwriter, an actor, an urban shaman, and the director himself contend with the everyday annoyances that fill the life of an artist.

Sunday 4, October

Concessions - 35MM

Concessions - 35MM

On the last day at the closing Royal Alamo Cinema, employees, outcasts and oddballs cross paths in interwoven stories of rejection, redemption, and fate.

Sunday 4, October

Crash (35mm)

Crash (35mm)

After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.

Friday 25, September

Dead Media

Dead Media

The story of a troubled young woman, her lonely Gen X uncle, a haunted DVD, and a movie night that won't die.

Saturday 24, October

Fat Girl

Fat Girl

R

Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, Elena, whom she both loves and hates. Elena is fifteen and devilishly beautiful. Neither more futile, nor more stupid than her younger sister, she cannot understand that she is merely an object of desire. And, as such, she can only be taken. Or had. Indeed, this is the subject: a girl's loss of virginity. And, that summer, it opens a door to tragedy.

Thursday 24, September

Sunday 27, September

Show Future Dates
Ganja & Hess

Ganja & Hess

Ganja & Hess is a 1973 experimental horror film written and directed by Bill Gunn and starring Marlene Clark and Duane Jones. The film follows the exploits of anthropologist Dr. Hess Green (Jones) who becomes a vampire after being stabbed by his intelligent, but unstable, assistant (Gunn) with an ancient cursed dagger. Green falls in love with his assistant's widow, Ganja (Clark), who learns Green's dark secret.

Wednesday 28, October

Sunday 1, November

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Halloween (1978)

Halloween (1978)

R

Credited, rightfully, as the film that kickstarted the “slasher” subgenre, Carpenter’s 1978 Halloween is a masterwork of building tension, an exercise in mood and suspense that takes its cues from Hitchcock, unlike most of the 80s gorefests it would inspire. The film’s key innovation – besides the indelibly terrifying image of the blank-faced “shape” aka Michael Myers – is setting it in an innocuous American suburb; there’s nowhere, not even a nice middle class home, where the viewer is safe. Jamie Lee Curtis makes her scream queen debut as one of several babysitters being stalked by a masked, escaped mental patient on Halloween night, her only savior being the patient’s maniacally driven doctor, played with gusto by the great Donald Pleasance. But the secret weapon of Halloween is the score – composed by Carpenter himself – a tinkling, off-meter piano figure that continues to haunt long after the final unsettling frame. A Halloween season perennial.

Friday 30, October

Saturday 31, October

Show Future Dates
Her Will Be Done

Her Will Be Done

In a remote village, Nawojka grapples with dark urges she believes stem from an ancestral curse. Her world shifts when Sandra moves in next door, offering a glimpse of freedom from her family's rigid control.

Friday 25, September

Sunday 27, September

Show Future Dates
Idlewild (35mm)

Idlewild (35mm)

At a sexy, sizzling nightclub, pianist Percival lives life by the rules, while Rooster, the club's flashy lead performer, struts his stuff on the stage. But all changes when greed, fame and murder threaten to destroy them and the joint.

Monday 28, September

Thursday 1, October

Show Future Dates
Kaboom

Kaboom

Smith's (Thomas Dekker) everyday life in the dorms - hanging out with his arty, sarcastic best friend Stella (Haley Bennett), hooking up with a beautiful free spirit named London (Juno Temple), lusting for his gorgeous but dim surfer roommate Thor (Chris Zylka) - all gets turned upside down after one fateful, terrifying night. Tripping on some hallucinogenic cookies he ate at a party, Smith is convinced he's witnessed the gruesome murder of an enigmatic Red Haired Girl who has been haunting his dreams. What he discovers as he tries to find out the truth leads him deeper and deeper into a mystery that will forever change not only the course of his young life but the destiny of the entire world. This anarchic comedy is a return to the camp style of Gregg Araki's early work and premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

Thursday 24, September

Saturday 3, October

Show Future Dates
Lakeview Terrace (35mm)

Lakeview Terrace (35mm)

A troubled and bigoted African-American L.A.P.D. Officer will stop at nothing to force out a friendly interracial couple who just moved in next door to him.

Monday 5, October

Leila and the Wolves

Leila and the Wolves

Drawing on the Arab heritage of the ‘Arabian Nights’, Leila and the Wolves combines fictional drama, archival footage, fantasy sequences, mosaic pattern, to refute the colonial and male dominated version of history. Leila travels across time and space to explore the collective memory of Arab women in Palestine and Lebanon and their hidden role in historical events.

Tuesday 27, October

Lost Landscapes of New York

Lost Landscapes of New York

Since 2006, Rick Prelinger has made 37 participatory urban history events that have played to large and vocal audiences in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, Detroit and at festivals throughout the world. As films play, viewers are invited to comment, to ask questions and to interact with one another. This autumn the revised LOST LANDSCAPES project returns to New York for the first time since its premiere in 2017. LOST LANDSCAPES OF NEW YORK (2017-26, 83 min., HD video transferred from 35mm, 16mm and 8mm film) mixes home movies shot by New Yorkers, tourists and semi-professional cinematographers with outtakes from feature films and background "process plates" picturing granular details of New York's cityscape. The combination of intimate moments, neighborhood memories from many New York City communities and expansive perspectives forms a 21st-century city symphony whose soundtrack will be made by the audience. Spanning much of the 20th century (1920-1980), LOST LANDSCAPES recalls buried memories of daily life, work and celebration while asking audiences to reflect on possible futures for New York City. This screening adds newly found material to the original 2017 film.

Wednesday 30, September

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco

San Francisco shines throughout this wide-ranging, unbounded panorama made from 128 years of San Francisco moving images with a soundtrack made fresh by the audience as the film plays. Celebrating the city as a center of creativity, style, resistance and freedom, LOST LANDSCAPES is drawn from some 300 newly-unearthed (and a few familiar) archival films plus "guest appearances" from San Francisco filmmakers. This 37th in a series of "urban history events" recreates the textures and activities of everyday life, labor and play, replaying known and unknown historical moments, daylighting lost and found infrastructures, revealing the scars of settlement and pointing to more hopeful futures. Highlights include transportation in the air, water and on the land; images of the City's rich and resilient communities; unfamiliar footage of familiar places; countercultures and counterdemonstrators; and unpredictable moments on the streets. As always, the audience makes the soundtrack. Please come prepared to raise your voices; identify places, people and events; and ask questions of others in the audience.

Thursday 1, October

Matador Bolero

Matador Bolero

New York nightclub, The Matador, becomes the site of a high-profile murder that attracts the attention of an obsessive detective, a TV news reporter, and an elusive being living outside the realms of time and space. Their stories converge with that of a new-age cult operating at the command of an ultra-intelligent supercomputer named Bolero.

Saturday 26, September

Miss Me Yet

Miss Me Yet

A ten-part archival documentary series that explores life under the George W. Bush presidency. "Undeniably compelling." - Drew Gillis, The AV Club A selection of episodes will be screened followed by a discussion with political commentator/comedian Sam Seder. Seder cohosted an earlier edition of his show The Majority Report in 2004 alongside actress/comedian Janeane Garofalo. The discussion will reach back to the era of the Patriot Act, the Iraq War, what it was like to be skeptical of the direction of America under the George W. Bush admin... and the repercussions of it today.

Sunday 25, October

Nosferatu + Live Score

Nosferatu + Live Score

PG

Nosferatu -- Live Score by the Andrew Alden Ensemble Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.

Friday 23, October

On a String

On a String

Rfor some language and sexual content/nudity

A Juilliard-trained violist navigates the New York City freelance classical musician scene, playing gigs that often draw her into the personal lives of strangers, all while living in her oddball family's NYC apartment.

Wednesday 7, October

Paint Me a Road Out of Here

Paint Me a Road Out of Here

The 50 year journey of women at Rikers Jail and a painting that leads the way out.

Saturday 26, September

Prison

Prison

Inspired by Bibbe Hansen's experiences in a juvenile detention center. Directed by Andy Warhol.

Wednesday 21, October

Sex is Comedy

Sex is Comedy

Catherine Breillat’s behind-the-scenes account of shooting Fat Girl stars Anne Parillaud as Breillat surrogate Jeanne, a director intent on getting her film’s most intimate sequence just right—even if it means alternately coaxing and battling her fragile, needy young actors (Grégoire Colin and Roxane Mesquida, virtually recreating her role from Fat Girl). Once again exploring her signature obsessions, Breillat uses this metafictional format to investigate the ethical responsibilities of the artist, the messy logistics of running a set, and the slippery nature of realism, as applied to one of filmmaking’s most challenging ordeals: the simulated sex scene. Culminating in one actor’s ribald high jinks with a body prosthetic and another’s breakthrough into shattering emotional territory, Sex Is Comedy is Breillat’s heady, brilliant synthesis of the ridiculous and the sublime.

Thursday 24, September

Situations

Situations

Three months after a painful breakup, a Los Angeles based photographer drifts through Silverlake’s creative chaos—dodging well-meaning friends, career pressures, and fleeting flings—until an unexpected connection forces him to confront what he truly wants from love, art, and himself.

Friday 25, September

Saturday 26, September

Show Future Dates
Still Film

Still Film

The basis of Still Film is a fictional audio deposition of a “non-party witness” who testifies to the past forty years of cinematic exposure (a period aligned with my lifetime), with promises made and broken. The multi-generational characters include the witness, the lawyers, and the recordist. While no character is specifically me, all are performed in voiceover by me, addressing memories, biographical details, conspiracy theories, and ideas I’ve wrestled with for years. The script has been written as if an actual legal deposition. The visuals are 35mm publicity stills from Hollywood movie press kits: a “carousel” of 140 slides chosen from the hundreds I’ve collected since 2019 that hold some associative meaning, however arbitrary, in my memory. Publicity stills are distributed by film studios to promote upcoming releases. 35mm film transparency slides were the standard until the early 2000s, when digital press kits took over (a turning point that happens to align with my legal coming-of-age). As objects, each are unique photographic prints subject to the ravages of time and handling, now preserved through scanning into 4K digital cinema.

Saturday 3, October

Suspiria (1977)

Suspiria (1977)

R

Both the pinnacle of his career and the giallo subgenre, Dario Argento's Suspiria ranks in the pantheon of the greatest horror movies of all time, and with damn good reason. Masterfully employing dream logic (the script was co-written by then wife Daria Nicolodi) and gloriously garish lighting techniques, the film is a true modern fairy tale that tells the story of a ballet student (Jessica Harper) who transfers to a German dance academy only to find it is run by a coven of murderous witches. Argento's command of shock and suspense is on full display in every blood-soaked scene, but the true secret weapon of Suspiria is the unbelievably scary and propulsive score by the prog rock band Goblin. It all adds up to that rare witches brew: the perfect horror experience.

Friday 30, October

Saturday 31, October

Show Future Dates
Tár

Tár

Rfor some language and brief nudity.

From writer-producer-director Todd Field comes TÁR, starring Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár, the groundbreaking conductor of a major German Orchestra. We meet Tár at the height of her career, as she’s preparing both a book launch and a much-anticipated live performance of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. Over the ensuing weeks, her life unravels in a singularly modern way. The result is a searing examination of power and its impact and durability in today’s society.

Thursday 19, November

The Departed (35mm)

The Departed (35mm)

Rfor strong brutal violence, pervasive language, some strong sexual content and drug material

To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.

Saturday 26, September

The Downtown Festival Amos Poe: Unmade

The Downtown Festival Amos Poe: Unmade

Amos Poe: Unmade, a film by Sebastian Mlynarski World Premiere Plus select works by Amos Poe Q&A with Sebastian Mlynarski, moderated by David Fear Film measures time; time measures life. Amos Poe: Unmade follows the legendary underground filmmaker through three years of terminal illness—not as a farewell portrait, but as a final, uncompromising work of his own cinema.

Sunday 18, October

The Downtown Festival: Amoeba

The Downtown Festival: Amoeba

In Singapore, school dropout Choo (16) returns to her elite all-girls Chinese school to join the graduating class. Her little acts of rebellion towards her tyrannical teachers attract the admiration of three other misfits—Vanessa, Gina and Sofia. She’s drawn to them too and confides about the ghost in her room. The new friends’ idea: using Sofia’s camcorder to evidence the ghost. The four form an inseparable group, and meet an unlikely kindred spirit—Sofia’s family driver, Uncle Phoon (70). Inspired by his stories about the triad gangs that ruled the streets of colonial Singapore and defied the authorities openly, they decided to form a gang. But how do you form a gang in modern Singapore, where even chewing gum is illegal?

Friday 16, October

The Downtown Festival: Art/New York + 3 Downtown A

The Downtown Festival: Art/New York + 3 Downtown A

IN COLLABORATION WITH PAUL TSCHINKEL’S ART/NEW YORK: 3 DOWNTOWN ARTISTS - ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE, JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT, AND NAN GOLDIN Screening followed by a conversation between director and producer Paul Tschinkel, art historian and curator Marc H. Miller, moderated by filmmaker and founder & director of The Downtown Festival Rebekah Sherman-Myntti Presented in collaboration with Paul Tschinkel’s pioneering video series ART/new york, this program brings together rare archival portraits of three artists who helped define the visual culture of downtown New York. Through interviews, exhibition footage, and intimate documentation, the program traces the work and lives of Robert Mapplethorpe, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Nan Goldin at pivotal moments in their careers. A 1982 studio interview captures a 21-year-old Basquiat on Crosby Street as he discusses his process, persona, and rapid ascent through the New York art world. Mapplethorpe is seen in a 1983 interview from his downtown loft, speaking candidly about the ideas, relationships, and charged subject matter behind a body of work that transformed contemporary photography. The program also revisits Goldin’s celebrated 1996 Whitney Museum retrospective, which brought together more than 25 years of photographs documenting her friends, lovers, and the alternative cultures of New York, Boston, Berlin, Tokyo, and beyond. Together, these films form an extraordinary record of three singular artists whose work emerged from, documented, and permanently altered the cultural landscape of downtown New York.

Friday 9, October

The Downtown Festival: Beyond the Threshold

The Downtown Festival: Beyond the Threshold

BEYOND THE THRESHOLD SELECTION OF SHORT FILMS Aja Monet: Live at the Blue Note, NYC, directed by All Rights Aint Reserved ©️, 7 min. The Following Day, directed by Conor Fay, 12 min. Derdim, directed by Ellis Kaan Özen, 5 min. Acid City, directed by Jack Wedge & Will Freudenheim, 12 min. Niceland, directed by Julián Gallese, 18 min. Echoes, directed by Kate Sterlin, 10 min. YUME, directed by Selma Cervantes, 10 min. JAMNI, directed by Tina Pasotra, 9 min. Proxima, directed by Wren Martin, 21 min.

Saturday 10, October

The Downtown Festival: Big Break

The Downtown Festival: Big Break

BIG BREAK is the debut feature from comedy group Simple Town. The movie follows Caroline, Felipe, and Will as they visit their old comedy partner, Sam, who struck rich in Hollywood and left them behind. Staying at his isolated house in the woods, the trio has one goal: convince Sam to cast them in his next big movie. But when a dark secret slips out, old resentments turn to horror, and this washed-up comedy group learns what it really means to kill.

Monday 12, October

The Downtown Festival: Cabaret Boys

The Downtown Festival: Cabaret Boys

A fringe therapist takes the world by storm with a galaxy-brained new approach to self-help called the Jackman Method. Through immersive sessions, he transforms wayward young men into semi-employable outsider artists—all from the comfort of his posh home office in New York City. When an unhinged ex-patient returns to his care and is chosen to headline the practice’s first ever cabaret night, the fallout is immense. Diva behavior, grueling rehearsals, and public scandal threaten to destroy not only the show but the Jackman Method itself.

Friday 16, October

The Downtown Festival: Chelsea Walls

The Downtown Festival: Chelsea Walls

Set over the course of a single day at New York’s legendary Chelsea Hotel, Ethan Hawke’s directorial debut follows a mosaic of artists, writers, musicians, and dreamers navigating their creative ambitions and personal lives within the storied walls of the downtown landmark.

Thursday 15, October

The Downtown Festival: Chronicles of Shpongle

The Downtown Festival: Chronicles of Shpongle

The film follows a group of religious harvesters in a forgotten mythological underworld hidden behind closed doors in contemporary New York City as they harvest a mind-altering fungus called "Shpongle" that links users to a fantastical world.

Tuesday 13, October

The Downtown Festival: Dissolutions

The Downtown Festival: Dissolutions

Dissolutions is a selection of works about crossing into states that feel just outside ordinary reality. Moving through memory, death, altered consciousness, addiction, violence, fate, and the supernatural, these works explore what happens when familiar boundaries begin to blur. Characters are pulled toward other versions of their lives, confronted by forces they cannot fully understand, and asked to reckon with what lies beyond what they thought they knew. DO IT LIVE, directed by Abyn Reabe, 3 min. Cerulea, directed by AJ Lambert, 16 min. 0rson, directed by Alan Jones, 10 min. Hollis, directed by Conor Scheinberg, 13 min. Linnea, directed by Hillary Sproul, 9 min. None The Wiser, directed by Isabella Ivoš, 7 min. CARDBOARD, directed by Juice Caballero, 13 min. Hot Sarah, directed by Marissa Rubio, 14 min. Just Below Heaven, directed by William Rowley, 12 min. This Time For Real, directed by Zachary Zamsky, 19 min.

Sunday 18, October

The Downtown Festival: Dwarf Neon Mayfield

The Downtown Festival: Dwarf Neon Mayfield

DWARF NEON MAYFIELD, a film by Leland Nally New York Premiere Screening followed by a conversation between director Leland Nally, moderated by SPECIAL GUEST Synopsis: A kaleidoscopic portrait of a place and its people, Dwarf Neon Mayfield travels the Kentucky countryside following a twin set of storms of historic intensity. Humans and animals alike traverse the new contours of their world while left to live amongst the wreckage. Elemental images of the living and the dying form an intimate panorama of collapse from America’s deepest interior; what of the old world remains?.

Saturday 10, October

The Downtown Festival: Fellas

The Downtown Festival: Fellas

When we meet the Fellas, Nick has been dumped by his girlfriend and finds an apartment with Will in NYC's worst neighborhood. His one solace is a dumpster-dived, controversial DVD box set gifted by their friend Marty. After it disappears from their housewarming, Nick is convinced one of the guests (or his ex's new, college-aged boyfriend) is to blame and enlists the Fellas to get it back. Matt just goes on an app date.

Wednesday 14, October

The Downtown Festival: Galicia!

The Downtown Festival: Galicia!

What if you went on a holiday... and the apocalypse happened? GALICIA! is a found-footage, hybrid-documentary following a couple through home video footage as they visit their friends at a winery in rural Spain and inadvertently capture the end of days.

Tuesday 13, October

The Downtown Festival: Karishika

The Downtown Festival: Karishika

30th Anniversary Screening Presented by Nolly Babes Video Intro by Producer Ifeanyi Ikpoenyi Screening followed by a conversation between Nolly Babes’ Ebele and Tochi Anueyiagu and SPECIAL GUEST Karishika stands as a definitive milestone in African horror cinema. The film follows a young, astonishingly beautiful girl sent directly from the pit of hell on a demonic assignment to turn humanity away from God. Mandated by Satan himself, her primary target is the spiritual bedrock of society: men of God. Operating in the physical world, she uses the very things humans value more than their faith—limitless money, high fashion, luxury cars, mansions, and seduction—to cause absolute havoc and draw souls to hellfire. While she pushes society to the brink of spiritual collapse and almost succeeds, a powerful question remains: what divine intervention or human resistance will stop her from achieving total victory? About Nolly Babes: Nolly Babes is a living archive of Nollywood, curated by sisters Ebele and Tochi Anueyiagu. The duo works across film, art, and music.

Sunday 18, October

The Downtown Festival: L.I.E.

The Downtown Festival: L.I.E.

L.I.E., a film by Michael Cuesta 25th Anniversary Screening Screening followed by a conversation between director Michael Cuesta, moderated by SPECIAL GUEST Synopsis: Following his mother's death and his father's abandonment, a grieving 15-year-old boy slides into a life of suburban delinquency, leading to an unlikely and dangerous friendship with an older, predatory ex-Marine.

Saturday 10, October

The Downtown Festival: Let Them Be Seen

The Downtown Festival: Let Them Be Seen

In Tapoleng, a small forgotten and profoundly religious South African village tethered to three borders that form a kind of holy trinity, a new religion emerges. Once the church served as refuge during the old apartheid order, later giving way to communion in taverns. Now, this evolution culminates in the camera... A sacred spectacle that subtly supersedes the spiritual, where no other authority offers anything worth believing in but themselves.

Monday 12, October

The Downtown Festival: Little Miss Sun Sign

The Downtown Festival: Little Miss Sun Sign

As the camera orbits him, Joey Frank struggles to convey an idea about astrology to a rotating group of guests. In 2006, in a manic episode in a matinee of Little Miss Sunshine, Joey Frank had an epiphany that he attempts to recreate by watching the film again. 14 hours of stopping and starting gets boiled and trimmed down to 101 minutes, so that Little Miss Sun Sign is the same length and size as the film from whence it came. Little Miss Sun Sign ultimately addresses syncronization as a mental and planetary principle. Starting with a Lacanian therapist and her son, the film has a range of experts and novices, each a facet of the quixotic conversation.

Wednesday 14, October

The Downtown Festival: Sensing Systems

The Downtown Festival: Sensing Systems

Works by Andrew Norman Wilson and Jonah Freeman SENSING SYSTEMS explores perception, technology, information, and the ways sound and image shape how we understand the world around us. The selection of works by Andrew Norman Wilson and Jonah Freeman speak to one another through sound, vision, machine perception, and the relationship between human and technological systems.

Wednesday 14, October

The Downtown Festival: Signals in the Distance

The Downtown Festival: Signals in the Distance

Signals in the Distance is a selection of works that explore isolation, disconnection, life at the margins, and the search for belonging. The films interrogate what happens when people withdraw, are left alone, set adrift, or pulled away from the lives they knew. There are fragile, unexpected forms of connection and togetherness that can emerge through uncertainty, dependence, abandonment, and chance encounters.

Wednesday 14, October

The Downtown Festival: Sitting Ducks

The Downtown Festival: Sitting Ducks

Two small-time thieves come together as a bizarre comic duo in a quest to make their childhood dreams come true. This Cannes favorite finds the duo in a limousine stuffed with cash stolen from the mob as they take off for Miami, where they plan to fly to a safe haven in Costa Rica. The third film from American maverick Henry Jaglom returns to the big screen in a new 2K restoration.

Sunday 11, October

The Downtown Festival: Slauson Rec

The Downtown Festival: Slauson Rec

Slauson Rec, a film by Leo Lewis O'Neil U.S. Premiere. Screening followed by a conversation between director Leo Lewis O'Neil, moderated by SPECIAL GUEST Slauson Rec examines the fine line between mentorship and manipulation in the pursuit of making art within an experimental theater collective. In 2018, Shia LaBeouf launched a free theater school at the Slauson Rec Center in South Central, Los Angeles. What started as an open, egalitarian workshop quickly evolved into intense daily rehearsals led by Shia, pushing participants to their limits. First-time filmmaker Leo Lewis O'Neil, a participant from day one, documents this complex journey of shifting power dynamics, and the lasting impact on the diverse group over three years.

Sunday 11, October

The Downtown Festival: Surfaces and the Self

The Downtown Festival: Surfaces and the Self

Surfaces and the Self is a selection of works about identity, performance, desire, and the roles people play for themselves and for one another. The films move between comedy, absurdity, intimacy, and chaos. They explore what happens when performances begin to slip and people unravel, reinvent themselves, misbehave, or simply stop playing along. Mantra, directed by Ally Ioannides, 2 min. On God, directed by Andrew Theodore Balasia, 10 min. What is your style?, directed by Avery O’Rourke, 3 min. Alone With Them, directed by Brice Birdsall, 3 min. The Dress, directed by Erin Grant and Taylore Scarabelli, 11 min. This Way, directed by Ethan DeLorenzo and Victoria Pedretti, 19 min. Not Punching, directed by Kiernan Francis, 11 min. Sticky Man, directed by Lena Greene, 1 min. Mouthfeel, directed by Max Tullio, 13 min. Bog Communism, directed by Roisin Agnew, 8 min. Big Check, directed by Samuel Puglia, 14 min. Sweet Fang, directed by Shalemar Coloma, 2 min. The Rubberheads, directed by T.C. Davidson, 4 min.

Saturday 17, October

The Downtown Festival: Tell Her That I Love Her

The Downtown Festival: Tell Her That I Love Her

Romane decides to adapt Clémentine Autain’s book about her mother for the screen. The project forces her to confront her past and her own mother, who abandoned her when she was nine months old.

Thursday 15, October

The Downtown Festival: The Basics of Philosophy

The Downtown Festival: The Basics of Philosophy

The Basics of Philosophy, a film by Paul Schrader U.S. Premiere Screening followed by a conversation between director Paul Schrader, moderated by SPECIAL GUEST John Jorissen teaches philosophy in a small liberal arts school in the American Midwest, and is writing a book on Spinoza. His life revolves around teaching, writing and spending time with his partner Becca, a fellow professor, and her adolescent son Willie. Jorissen is smart, serious and distant. Something from the past torments him. When Jorrisen's estranged father passes away, an unexpected figure from that buried history reemerges—Miguel Vasque, the son of the family’s former gardener, who carries with him the weight of a long-ago incident. Their reunion forces Jorrisen to confront uncomfortable truths about guilt, obligation, and the fragile nature of the life he’s constructed.

Friday 9, October

The Downtown Festival: The Joyless Economy

The Downtown Festival: The Joyless Economy

The Joyless Economy a film by Marjorie Conrad New York Premiere Screening followed by a conversation between director Marjorie Conrad, moderated by SPECIAL GUEST A documentary that explores how a woman's movie collection triggers her infidelity. Created for one viewer—the woman whose confessions are revealed through hypnotic second-person narration. Director's statement: I photographed the subject's entire film collection, and, with few exceptions, preserved the order in the edit. She supplied the home movies. The words are hers, edited from months of interviews she recorded herself, answering my questions. Considering how specific she was in the way she chose to present herself, I knew this was as far as we could go. This documentary provides data. The elusiveness of the data is also data.

Sunday 11, October

The Downtown Festival: The Mayflower

The Downtown Festival: The Mayflower

The Mayflower, a film by Nick Sandow World Premiere Screening followed by a conversation between director Nick Sandow, moderated by SPECIAL GUEST After a heart diagnosis, actor/director Nick Sandow sets out to make what may be his final film. Blending documentary and narrative, The Mayflower follows Nick as he investigates family secrets, confronts mortality, and searches for meaning, identity and his late father.

Saturday 10, October

The Downtown Festival: The Projectionist

The Downtown Festival: The Projectionist

A reclusive projectionist haunted by a wrongful conviction and the loss of his wife lives in solitude inside a fading art house theater—until one fateful night when his past resurfaces, forcing him to confront the truth, rekindle love, and find peace in the glow of the

Saturday 17, October

The Downtown Festival: The Story of Eve

The Downtown Festival: The Story of Eve

After a public scandal, an aging film star flees to a remote island with her devoted young lover where isolation blurs performance and reality.

Thursday 15, October

The Downtown Festival: The Water is Always Warm

The Downtown Festival: The Water is Always Warm

THE WATER IS ALWAYS WARM follows the dissolution of a friendship after one friend becomes involved in a controversial religion. The haunted comedy unfolds through a series of dinners that take place over the course of several years, each date farther apart than the last, until finally there are no more.

Friday 16, October

The Downtown Festival: Two Neighbors

The Downtown Festival: Two Neighbors

TWO NEIGHBORS, a film by Ondine Viñao North American Premiere Screening followed by a conversation between director Ondine Viñao, cast members, moderated by SPECIAL GUEST Inspired by Aesop’s fable Avaricious and Envious and the viral 4chan meme archetypes of Stacy, Becky, Chad, and the Virgin. Becky, an ambitious but struggling writer, is overcome by envy and spite when she meets Stacy, a beautiful but insatiable socialite, at a lavish party hosted by Stacy’s father at their country estate. The evening descends slowly into chaos, and the girls’ lives are forever transformed after the unexpected arrival of a modern-day genie who promises to grant their deepest, darkest wishes.

Friday 9, October

The Downtown Festival: Tycoon

The Downtown Festival: Tycoon

Los Angeles on the cusp of the 2028 Summer Olympics: a series of devastating livestock viruses have wiped out meat and poultry production across the nation, leaving genetically-modified cockroaches the most viable alternative. Meanwhile, a cockroach infestation of biblical proportions overwhelms the city, triggering a rash of eminent domain abuses. Two young grifters dream up their next big score in a paranoid landscape perpetually reshaped by the collapse between legitimized and illegitimate forms of celebration and theft.

Tuesday 13, October

The Draughtsman's Contract

The Draughtsman's Contract

A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.

Thursday 5, November

The Misconceived - 35MM

The Misconceived - 35MM

A failed filmmaker turned carpenter is hired by his estranged college buddy, now a successful sculptor renovating the vacation home of his dreams.

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The Plagiarists

The Plagiarists

A young couple is shaken by a seemingly fraudulent yet unprovable act that strikes to the core of their cultural pretensions.

Friday 2, October

The Red Violin

The Red Violin

Rfor some sexuality

A perfect red-colored violin inspires passion, making its way through three centuries over several owners and countries, eventually ending up at an auction where it may find a new owner.

Thursday 22, October

The Sun Never Sets

The Sun Never Sets

Rfor language including some sexual references.

Wendy’s life is thrown into chaos when her boyfriend, Jack, who is older and divorced with children, insists they take space to evaluate the relationship. During their break, Wendy runs into her ex, Chuck, forcing them into a volatile triangle.

Wednesday 7, October

Thursday 8, October

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 35MM

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 35MM

R

En route to visit their grandfather's grave (which has apparently been ritualistically desecrated), five teenagers drive past a slaughterhouse, pick up (and quickly drop) a sinister hitch-hiker, eat some delicious home-cured meat at a roadside gas station, before ending up at the old family home... where they're plunged into a never-ending nightmare as they meet a family of cannibals who more than make up in power tools what they lack in social skills...

Friday 30, October

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Tickled (10th Anniversary)

Tickled (10th Anniversary)

RRated R for language

Webworm Presents: Tickled's 10 Year Anniversary It's been 10 years since Tickled came out, and director David Farrier is bringing his documentary back to where the story started: New York. Two screenings, each featuring a unique post-film Q&A with Farrier and guests from the world of Tickled. What's happened since the film premiered at Sundance in 2016? What happened with those lawsuits? What happened to those millions of tickling dollars? Come join us, as Tickled turns 10.

Friday 6, November

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Vampyr + Live Score

Vampyr + Live Score

Vampyr -- Live Score by the Andrew Alden Ensemble With Vampyr, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer's brilliance at achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundly unsettling imagery (The Passion of Joan of Arc and Day of Wrath) was for once applied to the horror genre. Yet the result—concerning an occult student assailed by various supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village outside Paris—is nearly unclassifiable, a host of stunning camera and editing tricks and densely layered sounds creating a mood of dreamlike terror. With its roiling fogs, ominous scythes, and foreboding echoes, Vampyr is one of cinema's great nightmares.

Friday 23, October

Wings of Desire

Wings of Desire

An angel tires of overseeing human activity and wishes to become human when he falls in love with a mortal.

Monday 5, October

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Zola

Zola

Rfor strong sexual content and language throughout, graphic nudity, and violence including a sexual assault.

Zola (Taylour Paige), a Detroit waitress, strikes up a new friendship with a customer, Stefani (Riley Keough), who seduces her to join a weekend of dancing and partying in Florida. What at first seems like a glamorous trip full of “hoeism” rapidly transforms into a 48-hour journey involving a nameless pimp, an idiot boyfriend, some Tampa gangsters and other unexpected adventures in this wild, see-it-to-believe-it tale.

Tuesday 29, September