1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd New Orleans, LA 70113
(504) 352-1150 rene@zeitgeistnola.org
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Sunday, October 21st
3:00 pm - FIVE FINGERS FOR MARSEILLES Twenty years after fleeing from the brutal police aggression in colonial Marseilles, a member of the Five Fingers returns seeking peace, but with the town under new threat, he must reluctantly fight to free it, in this thriller from South African filmmaker Michael Matthews. 5:15 pm - GAVAGAI a beautiful, melancholy journey through loss and its aftermath. Andreas Lust (Revanche) plays Carsten Neuer, a grieving husband whose wife had been translating Norwegian poet Tarjei Vesaas' poems into Chinese before her death. Neuer travels to Telemark, Norway, Vesaas’ home in the hopes of finding a fitting resting place, and partly in an attempt to come to terms with his grief. 7:00 pm - SUMMER ’03 A 16-year-old girl and her extended family are left reeling after her calculating grandmother unveils an array of secrets on her deathbed starring June Squibb, Joey King, Jack Kilmer, Andrea Savage, Erin Darke, etc. 9:00 pm - SPLIT THE FIRST ATOM Storytelling, transcendental music and video featuring special guest Adam Sekular. |
"Something for and against everybody"
Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center a.k.a. Zeitgeist Theatre Experiments, inc Zeitgeist is a non-profit, art house cinema that was founded in New Orleans in November 1986.
November 2018 will be Zeitgeist's 32nd Anniversary and we are aging well! __________________________________ Sundays are only $6 for Teachers Tuesday is Bring Your Dog To The Movie Night! See 2 or more films on the same night for only $5 each! _______________________________ $8 General || $7 Students & Seniors || $6 Members Patron Members Free - unless otherwise noted. Advanced tickets available as needed. Zeitgeist now accepts MOVIE PASS |
ZEITGEIST – NOUN, GERMAN. THE SPIRIT OF THE TIMES; GENERAL TREND, MOOD OR FEELING CHARACTERISTIC OF A PARTICULAR PERIOD OF TIME, ESPECIALLY AS IT IS REFLECTED IN THE ARTS, LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY, ETC. \ˈtsīt-ˌgīst, ˈzīt-\
N O W S H O W I N G :
Opens October 19:
GAVAGAI
Rob Tregenza (Norwegian drama)
October 19 through 25 @ 5:15 pm nightly
[TRAILER] [TICKETS]
In this innovative and moving project, Director Rob Tregenza (Talking to Strangers) and screenwriter Kirk Kjeldsen have adapted the poetry of the Norwegian writer Tarjei Vesaas (1897-1970) to the screen. Andreas Lust (Revanche) plays Carsten Neuer, a grieving husband whose wife had been translating Vesaas’ poems into Chinese before her death. Neuer travels to Telemark, Vesaas’ home turf, partly in the hopes of finding a fitting resting place, and partly in an attempt to come to terms with his grief. Immense care has been taken to set up a field of resonances between this storyline, Vesaas’ writing, and the Norwegian landscapes invoked by the poems and shot on location in splendid 35mm. Counterpoints between Vesaas’ words and Neuer’s situation invoke the core problems involved in all sorts of translations. (The title, “Gavagai,” was the philosopher Willard van Orman Quine’s famous term for a word in an imaginary language that, perhaps like life itself, can be interpreted in multiple ways.) This film does not feel like an intellectual game, but rather a slow-burning odyssey in the face of death. Through its subtle treatment of the twists and turns of individual loss, Gavagai stands as both a remarkable homage to an important figure in Scandinavian literature and a humor-tinged journey into the underworld of grief.
GAVAGAI
Rob Tregenza (Norwegian drama)
October 19 through 25 @ 5:15 pm nightly
[TRAILER] [TICKETS]
In this innovative and moving project, Director Rob Tregenza (Talking to Strangers) and screenwriter Kirk Kjeldsen have adapted the poetry of the Norwegian writer Tarjei Vesaas (1897-1970) to the screen. Andreas Lust (Revanche) plays Carsten Neuer, a grieving husband whose wife had been translating Vesaas’ poems into Chinese before her death. Neuer travels to Telemark, Vesaas’ home turf, partly in the hopes of finding a fitting resting place, and partly in an attempt to come to terms with his grief. Immense care has been taken to set up a field of resonances between this storyline, Vesaas’ writing, and the Norwegian landscapes invoked by the poems and shot on location in splendid 35mm. Counterpoints between Vesaas’ words and Neuer’s situation invoke the core problems involved in all sorts of translations. (The title, “Gavagai,” was the philosopher Willard van Orman Quine’s famous term for a word in an imaginary language that, perhaps like life itself, can be interpreted in multiple ways.) This film does not feel like an intellectual game, but rather a slow-burning odyssey in the face of death. Through its subtle treatment of the twists and turns of individual loss, Gavagai stands as both a remarkable homage to an important figure in Scandinavian literature and a humor-tinged journey into the underworld of grief.
SUMMER ’03
Becca Gleason (Indie Comedy)
October 19 through 25 @ 7:00 pm nightly
[TRAILER] [TICKETS]
An imaginative teenage girl, living in a mystical and dangerous community built on a deserted drive-in movie lot along the Texas/Oklahoma border, struggles to realize her potential, and escape the world she was born into. Inspired by true events, "Summer '03 "centers on Jamie, a 16-year-old girl and her extended family who are left reeling after her calculating grandmother unveils an array of family secrets on her deathbed. Jamie is left to navigate her nascent love life and maintain her closest friendships in the midst of this family crisis. Starring June Squibb, Joey King, Jack Kilmer, Andrea Savage, Erin Darke, etc.
Becca Gleason (Indie Comedy)
October 19 through 25 @ 7:00 pm nightly
[TRAILER] [TICKETS]
An imaginative teenage girl, living in a mystical and dangerous community built on a deserted drive-in movie lot along the Texas/Oklahoma border, struggles to realize her potential, and escape the world she was born into. Inspired by true events, "Summer '03 "centers on Jamie, a 16-year-old girl and her extended family who are left reeling after her calculating grandmother unveils an array of family secrets on her deathbed. Jamie is left to navigate her nascent love life and maintain her closest friendships in the midst of this family crisis. Starring June Squibb, Joey King, Jack Kilmer, Andrea Savage, Erin Darke, etc.
Opens October 19:
FIVE FINGERS FOR MARSEILLES
Michael Matthews (French/S. African western)
October 19 through 25 @ 8:45 pm nightly (except Sunday @ 3:00 pm)
[TRAILER] [TICKETS]
Twenty years after fleeing from the brutal police aggression in colonial Marseilles, a member of the Five Fingers returns seeking peace, but with the town under new threat, he must reluctantly fight to free it, in this thriller from South African filmmaker Michael Matthews.
FIVE FINGERS FOR MARSEILLES
Michael Matthews (French/S. African western)
October 19 through 25 @ 8:45 pm nightly (except Sunday @ 3:00 pm)
[TRAILER] [TICKETS]
Twenty years after fleeing from the brutal police aggression in colonial Marseilles, a member of the Five Fingers returns seeking peace, but with the town under new threat, he must reluctantly fight to free it, in this thriller from South African filmmaker Michael Matthews.
Sunday, October 21 @ 9:00 pm
SPLIT THE FIRST ATOM
Legendary Storytelling & Transcendental Music. A storytelling event that breaks as many spells as it casts. Follow our heroine, Lu, on a roller coaster ride of a story as she travels beyond the Sun to locate the greatest love story ever told and bring it back to our world. These powerful stories combined with a live, dark-pop soundtrack will have you hanging on every word. This epic tale delivers the audience to the heart of interconnectedness. The show will also include the release of a new music video for Split The First Atom directed by Adam Sekuler.
SPLIT THE FIRST ATOM
Legendary Storytelling & Transcendental Music. A storytelling event that breaks as many spells as it casts. Follow our heroine, Lu, on a roller coaster ride of a story as she travels beyond the Sun to locate the greatest love story ever told and bring it back to our world. These powerful stories combined with a live, dark-pop soundtrack will have you hanging on every word. This epic tale delivers the audience to the heart of interconnectedness. The show will also include the release of a new music video for Split The First Atom directed by Adam Sekuler.
C O M I N G S O O N !
Opens October 26:
BISBEE ’17
Robert Greene (social justice documentary)
Friday through Thursday, October 26 through November 1 @ 7:00 pm nightly (except Wednesday)
[TRAILER] [TCKETS]
An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past.
BISBEE ’17
Robert Greene (social justice documentary)
Friday through Thursday, October 26 through November 1 @ 7:00 pm nightly (except Wednesday)
[TRAILER] [TCKETS]
An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past.
Opens October 26:
CANIBA
Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Serena Paravel (Japanese/Russian Celebrity Canibalism doc)
Friday through Thursday, October 26 through November 1 @ 9:00 pm nightly (except Wednesday)
a doc about Issei Sagawa, a student at the Sorbonne in Paris who killed and ate his Dutch classmate Renée Hartevelt. Declared legally insane, he returned to Japan. He has been a free man ever since. Ostracized from society, he has made his living off his crime by writing novels, drawing manga, appearing in innumerable documentaries and sexploitation films in which he reenacts his crime, and even becoming a food critic.
CANIBA
Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Serena Paravel (Japanese/Russian Celebrity Canibalism doc)
Friday through Thursday, October 26 through November 1 @ 9:00 pm nightly (except Wednesday)
a doc about Issei Sagawa, a student at the Sorbonne in Paris who killed and ate his Dutch classmate Renée Hartevelt. Declared legally insane, he returned to Japan. He has been a free man ever since. Ostracized from society, he has made his living off his crime by writing novels, drawing manga, appearing in innumerable documentaries and sexploitation films in which he reenacts his crime, and even becoming a food critic.
Opens November 2:
THUNDER ROAD, SXSW & Deauville Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner written, directed by and starring New Orleans own Jim Cummings as a wayward police officer whose life unravels while giving the eulogy at his mother’s funeral.
Opens November 2:
ALL ABOUT NINA, Nina Geld (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is an up-and-coming comedian in New York City. She’s funny, smart and has worked hard to build a career for herself in the male-dominated world of stand-up. But when it comes to romantic relationships, Nina’s life is a mess. Co-starring Chase Crawford, Common, Camryn Manheim, Jay Mohr, Mindy Sterling, Beau Bridges, Angelique Cabral, etc.
Saturday, November 3 @ 9:00 pm - SEVEN SINS: AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE curated by Love Madrid. Doors @ 8:00 pm. $10.
Opens November 9:
RIVER RUNS RED, The son of an African-American Judge is killed by police officers on the day he was set to begin the law enforcement academy. When the courts clear the officers of wrongdoing, the Judge must decide whether the courts are the only arbitrators of justice in this indie drama starring Tay Diggs, George Lopez, John Cusack and Luke Hemsworth.
Opens November 9:
DISTANT CONSTELLATION, introduces us to the colorful residents of a Turkish retirement home, a community made up of pranksters, historians, artists and would-be Casanovas.
Opens November 16:
WEIGHTLESS, Alessandro Nivola, Julianne Nicholson, and Johnny Knoxville star in this haunting drama of a man, living on the margins of society, who suddenly finds himself responsible for a ten-year-old son whom he hasn’t seen since infancy.
Opens November 16:
TEAM KHAN, As an amateur boxer, Amir Khan won a silver medal in the lightweight division at the 2004 Olympics, becoming Britain's youngest boxing Olympic medallist at the age of seventeen. He is also one of the youngest ever British professional world champions, winning the WBA title at the age of twenty-two. Since turning pro, Amir has been a two-time world champion, going from lightweight to welterweight and now up to middleweight he’s confident he can become a world champion once again.
Opens November 23:
NARCISSISTER ORGAN PLAYER, One of the contemporary art world’s most acclaimed mixed-media & “avant-porn” performance artists, the masked and merkin-clad Narcissister is the subject of this smart, sassy documentary that showcases her spectacle-rich approach to explorations of gender, racial identity, and sexuality. Screens with the locally produced short film REVOLUTIONARY REBIRTH by Monique Porter.
Opens November 23:
INFINITE FOOTBALL, Romanian New Wave master Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest, The Treasure) has crafted a hilarious, typically incisive documentary about former Romanian soccer star and current bureaucrat Laurențiu Ginghină.
Opens November 23:
EL ANGEL, Carlitos is a 17 year-old youth with movie star swagger, blond curls and a baby face. As a young boy, he coveted other people's things, but it wasn't until his early adolescence that his true calling as a serial killer known as “The Angel Of Death”.
Friday, November 30 @ 7:00 pm - A STRIKE AND AN UPRISING, a doc about two events: The San Antonio pecan shellers’ strike of 1938 and the Jobs With Justice march led by Nacogdoches cafeteria workers, groundskeepers and hourekeepers in 1987. Presented by Democratic Socialists of America, New Orleans Chapter. Free. Donations appreciated.
Saturday, December 1 @ 9:00 pm - SEVEN SINS: AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE curated by Love Madrid. Doors @ 8:00 pm. $10.
December 7 thru 9, 14 thru 16, 21 thru 23 @ 8:00 pm
Tennessee Williams Theatre Company Of New Orleans
presents
MUTILATED
a play by Tenneesee Williams
Opens January 18:
THE SAINT BERNARD CONNECTION, Subversive satirist Mads Brugger's latest is an odd-couple comedy about the pitfalls of striking out into the economic frontier; it charts two hapless Danes' scheme to sell Saint Bernards to China's middle class.
Opens March 8:
SMALLER AND SMALLER CIRCLES, Two Jesuit priests perform forensic work to solve the mystery revolving around the murders of young boys in Payatas, one of Metro Manilla's biggest slum areas. The pursuit of a brutal serial killer begins....
THUNDER ROAD, SXSW & Deauville Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner written, directed by and starring New Orleans own Jim Cummings as a wayward police officer whose life unravels while giving the eulogy at his mother’s funeral.
Opens November 2:
ALL ABOUT NINA, Nina Geld (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is an up-and-coming comedian in New York City. She’s funny, smart and has worked hard to build a career for herself in the male-dominated world of stand-up. But when it comes to romantic relationships, Nina’s life is a mess. Co-starring Chase Crawford, Common, Camryn Manheim, Jay Mohr, Mindy Sterling, Beau Bridges, Angelique Cabral, etc.
Saturday, November 3 @ 9:00 pm - SEVEN SINS: AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE curated by Love Madrid. Doors @ 8:00 pm. $10.
Opens November 9:
RIVER RUNS RED, The son of an African-American Judge is killed by police officers on the day he was set to begin the law enforcement academy. When the courts clear the officers of wrongdoing, the Judge must decide whether the courts are the only arbitrators of justice in this indie drama starring Tay Diggs, George Lopez, John Cusack and Luke Hemsworth.
Opens November 9:
DISTANT CONSTELLATION, introduces us to the colorful residents of a Turkish retirement home, a community made up of pranksters, historians, artists and would-be Casanovas.
Opens November 16:
WEIGHTLESS, Alessandro Nivola, Julianne Nicholson, and Johnny Knoxville star in this haunting drama of a man, living on the margins of society, who suddenly finds himself responsible for a ten-year-old son whom he hasn’t seen since infancy.
Opens November 16:
TEAM KHAN, As an amateur boxer, Amir Khan won a silver medal in the lightweight division at the 2004 Olympics, becoming Britain's youngest boxing Olympic medallist at the age of seventeen. He is also one of the youngest ever British professional world champions, winning the WBA title at the age of twenty-two. Since turning pro, Amir has been a two-time world champion, going from lightweight to welterweight and now up to middleweight he’s confident he can become a world champion once again.
Opens November 23:
NARCISSISTER ORGAN PLAYER, One of the contemporary art world’s most acclaimed mixed-media & “avant-porn” performance artists, the masked and merkin-clad Narcissister is the subject of this smart, sassy documentary that showcases her spectacle-rich approach to explorations of gender, racial identity, and sexuality. Screens with the locally produced short film REVOLUTIONARY REBIRTH by Monique Porter.
Opens November 23:
INFINITE FOOTBALL, Romanian New Wave master Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest, The Treasure) has crafted a hilarious, typically incisive documentary about former Romanian soccer star and current bureaucrat Laurențiu Ginghină.
Opens November 23:
EL ANGEL, Carlitos is a 17 year-old youth with movie star swagger, blond curls and a baby face. As a young boy, he coveted other people's things, but it wasn't until his early adolescence that his true calling as a serial killer known as “The Angel Of Death”.
Friday, November 30 @ 7:00 pm - A STRIKE AND AN UPRISING, a doc about two events: The San Antonio pecan shellers’ strike of 1938 and the Jobs With Justice march led by Nacogdoches cafeteria workers, groundskeepers and hourekeepers in 1987. Presented by Democratic Socialists of America, New Orleans Chapter. Free. Donations appreciated.
Saturday, December 1 @ 9:00 pm - SEVEN SINS: AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE curated by Love Madrid. Doors @ 8:00 pm. $10.
December 7 thru 9, 14 thru 16, 21 thru 23 @ 8:00 pm
Tennessee Williams Theatre Company Of New Orleans
presents
MUTILATED
a play by Tenneesee Williams
Opens January 18:
THE SAINT BERNARD CONNECTION, Subversive satirist Mads Brugger's latest is an odd-couple comedy about the pitfalls of striking out into the economic frontier; it charts two hapless Danes' scheme to sell Saint Bernards to China's middle class.
Opens March 8:
SMALLER AND SMALLER CIRCLES, Two Jesuit priests perform forensic work to solve the mystery revolving around the murders of young boys in Payatas, one of Metro Manilla's biggest slum areas. The pursuit of a brutal serial killer begins....
INDIGENOUS FILM SERIES
Tricentennial…Tri Again!
Do you know what it means to dismiss 1300 years of New Orleans history? colonialism, racism...
The City forgot to invite indigenous people to their history, so we are celebrating them all year long
Throughout the year, 2018 is being celebrated as both the 300th Anniversary of the City of New Orleans and the 100th Anniversary of the First Film to be shot in Louisiana.
But for over 1300 years before the French “Founded” New Orleans, Native Americans lived in thatched huts along Bayouk Choupique in a village called Bulbancha, later renamed Bayou St. Jean by the French and even later “Old Spanish Fort”. New Orleans was “officially founded” in 1718 by the French as Nouvelle-Orléans, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, but Bienville selected the site of an abandoned Quinipissa village for his "new city".
Like all of American history, it seems New Orleans history only began when Europeans “Found” or “Discovered” it. That seems more than a bit dismissive. So while organizations and the city pays tribute to the French, Spanish, American and even Creole history of the city, Zeitgeist will be celebrating 2018 with a year long series of INDIGENOUS FILMS, which celebrates and explores Indigenous, Native, First Nation and tribal peoples from throughout the world.
Tricentennial…Tri Again!
Do you know what it means to dismiss 1300 years of New Orleans history? colonialism, racism...
The City forgot to invite indigenous people to their history, so we are celebrating them all year long
Throughout the year, 2018 is being celebrated as both the 300th Anniversary of the City of New Orleans and the 100th Anniversary of the First Film to be shot in Louisiana.
But for over 1300 years before the French “Founded” New Orleans, Native Americans lived in thatched huts along Bayouk Choupique in a village called Bulbancha, later renamed Bayou St. Jean by the French and even later “Old Spanish Fort”. New Orleans was “officially founded” in 1718 by the French as Nouvelle-Orléans, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, but Bienville selected the site of an abandoned Quinipissa village for his "new city".
Like all of American history, it seems New Orleans history only began when Europeans “Found” or “Discovered” it. That seems more than a bit dismissive. So while organizations and the city pays tribute to the French, Spanish, American and even Creole history of the city, Zeitgeist will be celebrating 2018 with a year long series of INDIGENOUS FILMS, which celebrates and explores Indigenous, Native, First Nation and tribal peoples from throughout the world.
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BULBANCHA IS STILL A PLACE
the debut Zine by writer, historian, activist Jeffery U. Darensbourg, which chronicles the 1600 year indigenous history of what is now the New Orleans area is proudly on sale at Zeitgeist for only $5.
the debut Zine by writer, historian, activist Jeffery U. Darensbourg, which chronicles the 1600 year indigenous history of what is now the New Orleans area is proudly on sale at Zeitgeist for only $5.
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CANADA IS BIGGER THAN THE U.S. Since 1993, Zeitgeist's ongoing SERIES OF FILMS, MUSIC, PERFORMANCES AND VISUAL ART celebrating the innovative, utterly bizarre and extremely vast body of work from our neighbors to the north. Their films may be smaller, but at least their country is bigger! Size does matter. |
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Schedule is subject to change as films are held over – please check the website for updates nightly.
Zeitgeist is a non-profit, artist run media arts center that celebrates its 32nd anniversary this November.
Come join us!
Zeitgeist is a non-profit, artist run media arts center that celebrates its 32nd anniversary this November.
Come join us!
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This is our new logo design, made for us by our good friend Dublin / New York experimental Irish filmmaker / artist
Moira Tierney. We now have, t-shirts and canvas messenger bags (as shown on your left). They are available at the Zeitgeist Box Office or through our online store. Messenger Bags are $30.00 T-shirts are $15.00 (sizes are Small to 5XL) |
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ALSO HAPPENING @ 1618 OCH
ORLEANS COFFEE HOUSE
(in Zeitgeist's lobby) is now open!
Their Hours of Operation will be: 8:00 am to 3:00 pm Mondays through Fridays and 8:00 am to 2:00 pm on Saturdays.
https://www.facebook.com/orleanscoffeecafe/
Serving breakfast and lunch daily
(in Zeitgeist's lobby) is now open!
Their Hours of Operation will be: 8:00 am to 3:00 pm Mondays through Fridays and 8:00 am to 2:00 pm on Saturdays.
https://www.facebook.com/orleanscoffeecafe/
Serving breakfast and lunch daily
DINNER, DRINKS AND A MOVIE
There are several great lunch or dinner options just within a block or two from the theatre on Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.
Across the street are Cafe Reconcile and Casa Borrega. One block to our left is Cafe Roma followed by the outdoor food court Roux Carre (featuring Trinidadian soul food from Queen Trini, Honduran cuisine from Alma, homemade deserts from KD NOLA and fusion cuisine from LOCAL MENU NOLA plus drinks from the Roux Bar) and to our right there is Toup South at the Southern Food and Beverage Museum.
There are several great lunch or dinner options just within a block or two from the theatre on Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.
Across the street are Cafe Reconcile and Casa Borrega. One block to our left is Cafe Roma followed by the outdoor food court Roux Carre (featuring Trinidadian soul food from Queen Trini, Honduran cuisine from Alma, homemade deserts from KD NOLA and fusion cuisine from LOCAL MENU NOLA plus drinks from the Roux Bar) and to our right there is Toup South at the Southern Food and Beverage Museum.
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Zeitgeist would like to welcome
BLUE BIKE NOLA ride share service to OCH BLVD (just a 1/2 a block from the theatre). |
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