6621 ST. Claude ave. arabi, la 70032
(504) 352-1150 rene@zeitgeistnola.org
"Something for and against everybody"
Zeitgeist Theatre Experiments inc is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization classified as a 509 (a) (2) public charity. We are an art house cinema and multi-disciplinary arts center that was founded in New Orleans, LA in November 1986.
We currently have 80 seats in our theatre and 50 seats in our lounge. Yes, we are available for private screenings and events.
We installed 3 UV air-scrubbers in our ventilation system for your safety. Check out our new Dolby sound system.
Our theatre is located just one block East of New Orleans past Jackson Barracks in Arabi, LA
(currently the 6th fastest growing neighborhood in America)
Memberships and donations may be made at the Zeitgeist Box Office, through the "Support Us" Page at the top of this website or through PayPal to rene@zeitgeistnola.org or Zelle to (504) 352-1150 or our venmo
Zeitgeist Theatre Experiments inc is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization classified as a 509 (a) (2) public charity. We are an art house cinema and multi-disciplinary arts center that was founded in New Orleans, LA in November 1986.
We currently have 80 seats in our theatre and 50 seats in our lounge. Yes, we are available for private screenings and events.
We installed 3 UV air-scrubbers in our ventilation system for your safety. Check out our new Dolby sound system.
Our theatre is located just one block East of New Orleans past Jackson Barracks in Arabi, LA
(currently the 6th fastest growing neighborhood in America)
Memberships and donations may be made at the Zeitgeist Box Office, through the "Support Us" Page at the top of this website or through PayPal to rene@zeitgeistnola.org or Zelle to (504) 352-1150 or our venmo
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-\
Thursday, October 6th:
7:00 pm - CASABLANCA BEATS by Nail Ayouch Director Nabil Ayouch (Razzia, Horses of God) drew on his own experience opening a youth cultural center in Casablanca for this story of a former rapper named Anas who takes a job teaching hip hop in an underprivileged neighborhood. Despite differences in identity, religion, and politics, Anas encourages his students to bond together and break free from the weight of restrictive traditions in order to follow their passion and express themselves through the arts. Featuring a dynamic ensemble of first-time actors, many of them students of the real-life cultural center where the film was shot, Casablanca Beats is a vibrant and inspiring coming-of-age hip hop musical with a decidedly feminist edge. Mixing intimate yet high stakes drama with infectious musical sequences, the film transports audiences to a lively and contemporary Casablanca, far from the clichés about the Arab world. Morocco’s official submission to the 94th Academy Awards® offers a refreshing dose of youthful inspiration alongside a powerful message about the liberating power of self-expression 
In the Zeitgeist Lounge: 
Friday, October 14 @ 8:00 pm
GOLD ROOM READING SERIES presented by the U.N.O. Creative Writing Workshop 
Tuesday, October 18 @ 8:00 pm
MIKE DILLON, JAMES SINGLETON, JONATHAN FREILICH & BRIAN HAAS 
Friday, October 21 @ 7:30 pm
HELEN GILLET a special outdoor performance to officially unveil the new ST CLAUDE ARTS PARK Helen Gillet is a singer-songwriter and surrealist-archeologist exploring synthesized sounds, texture, and rhythm using an acoustic cello. For someone with her varied background, New Orleans, with its mix of cultures and musics, seemed like a natural place to call home. She was born in Belgium, raised in Singapore from the ages of 2 to 11, and routinely shuttled between the homelands of her Belgian father and American mother. Over the years — working in New Orleans with musicians of all stripes, from avant-garde jazz and classical to pop and funk — Gillet has developed a singular polyglot style. The core of her work is solo performance with live looping, layering cello parts and vocal lines. Rhythmic figures emerge with bowed or plucked ostinatos or a variety of rubbing and slapping on the body of the cello, then enhanced with melodies played or sung in her haunting alto. Her mixed musical vocabulary is commensurate with her disparate travels — French chanson of the 1940s, Belgian folk tunes sung in Walloon, a mix of rock and punk from the likes of PJ Harvey and X-Ray Spex, and her own affecting originals, like audience favorite “Julien,” sung in a mix of French and English. Gillet’s solo performance is known for its enigmatic quality as she fabricates each song with innovative use of the cello and true mastery of live looping technology. 
Saturday, October 22 @ 7:00 pm
THE NAKED ORCHESTRA a special outdoor performance to unveil the new ST CLAUDE ARTS PARK A creative music orchestra comprised of 12- 24 members comprised by an All-Star New Orleans improv jazz musicians under the direction of Jonathan Freilich. This is an ongoing project started in 1996, conducted by Dr Jimbo Walsh. 
Wednesday, November 2 @ 8:00 pm
SHAKING SOULS Album Release Concert featuring HELEN GILLET (cello, vocals from New Orleans via Belgium) and SIMON BERZ (electronics & percussions from Zurich, Switzerland). 
Thursday, November 10
Scatterjazz presents LUKE MARTIN (“no input mixer” from Minneapolis) & DEREK BARON (piano from NYC) 
Friday, November 11 @ 8:00 pm
GOLD ROOM READING SERIES presented by the U.N.O. Creative Writing Workshop Friday, December 9 @ 8:00 pm GOLD ROOM READING SERIES presented by the U.N.O. Creative Writing Workshop Friday,January 20 @ 8:00 pm GOLD ROOM READING SERIES presented by the U.N.O. Creative Writing Workshop Friday,February 10 @ 8:00 pm GOLD ROOM READING SERIES presented by the U.N.O. Creative Writing Workshop Friday, March 10 @ 8:00 pm GOLD ROOM READING SERIES presented by the U.N.O. Creative Writing Workshop Friday, April 14 @ 8:00 pm GOLD ROOM READING SERIES presented by the U.N.O. Creative Writing Workshop Friday, May 12 @ 8:00 pm GOLD ROOM READING SERIES presented by the U.N.O. Creative Writing Workshop
Schedule is subject to change as films are held over – please check the website for updates nightly.
Zeitgeist is ALL- AGES & SMOKE-FREE
Zeitgeist has received a "Performing Arts Exception" which means we can operate as an ALL-AGES venue and still serve alcohol. Children and minors may attend Zeitgeist films, concerts and events, but can not sit at or approach the bar. They may not also consume alcohol. To purchase and consume alcohol you must have a valid ID.
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In the Zeitgeist Theatre
All films are in the Zeitgeist Theatre.
Opens September 30:
7:00 pm nightly CASABLANCA BEATS by Nail Ayouch Director Nabil Ayouch (Razzia, Horses of God) drew on his own experience opening a youth cultural center in Casablanca for this story of a former rapper named Anas who takes a job teaching hip hop in an underprivileged neighborhood. Despite differences in identity, religion, and politics, Anas encourages his students to bond together and break free from the weight of restrictive traditions in order to follow their passion and express themselves through the arts. Featuring a dynamic ensemble of first-time actors, many of them students of the real-life cultural center where the film was shot, Casablanca Beats is a vibrant and inspiring coming-of-age hip hop musical with a decidedly feminist edge. Mixing intimate yet high stakes drama with infectious musical sequences, the film transports audiences to a lively and contemporary Casablanca, far from the clichés about the Arab world. Morocco’s official submission to the 94th Academy Awards® offers a refreshing dose of youthful inspiration alongside a powerful message about the liberating power of self-expression. [TRAILER] 
Opens October 7:
7:00 pm nightly THE STORIED LIFE OF A.J. FIKRY by Hans Canosa Based on the New York Times best-selling novel by Gabrielle Zevin, bookstore owner A.J. Fikry's (Kunal Nayyar) life is not turning out as he expected as he struggles both emotionally and financially. After his wife's tragic death, he feels lost and left behind in the rapidly evolving world of today. As he tries to keep his store afloat, he begins to drink his sorrows away ultimately hitting rock bottom when his most prized possession, a series of Edgar Allen Poe poems, are stolen. But when a mysterious package appears at the bookstore, the unexpected arrival gives Fikry a new lease on life, and love, that are greater than he ever imagined. Also starring Christina Hendricks, Lucy Hale, David Arquette, Scott Foley, Lauren Stamile, etc. [TRAILER] 
Opens October 7:
9:00 pm nightly ONE MAN DIES A MILLION TIMES presented by visiting filmmaker Jessica Oreck Alyssa (Alyssa Lozovskaya, of Russian tv's Shameless) and Maksim (Maksim Blinov of Masterskaya Theater in St. Petersburg) both work at the Institute of Plant Genetic Resources in the center of the city. The Institute houses the world's first seed bank—an irreplaceable trove of living genetic diversity which holds the potential to transform modern agriculture. The two young botanists fall in love as the world wages war around them. A record-breaking, desperate winter sets in and the city slowly, painfully, begins to starve to death. Savagery transplants civility. Maksim and Alyssa defend the seed bank and its priceless collection of edible specimens from the starving masses of the city, the enemy, hordes of rats, and each other. Part documentary, part legend, One Man Dies a Million Times is the true story of the seed bank and the botanists who worked there throughout the Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944). Though the characters portrayed in this film actually lived, and the events they experienced actually happened, this is not a reenactment. Director Jessica Oreck (Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo, The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga) and cinematographer Sean Price Williams (Good Time, Her Smell, Frownland) artfully transplant their narrative from 1940’s Leningrad to a science fiction-inflected modern day. Director Jessica Oreck will be here Friday night to introduce the film and do a brief Q & A afterwards. [TRAILER] 
Opens October 14:
MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE: THE DEATH OF MERIWETHER LEWIS by Clark Richey. In 1809, famed American explorer Meriwether Lewis (Evan Williams) died of gunshot wounds at Grinder's Stand on the Natchez Trace, an isolated wilderness road connecting Nashville, Tennessee, to Natchez, Mississippi. Did the Governor of Upper Louisiana commit suicide as history reports or was his end far more sinister? In this mystery/thriller from writer/director Clark Richey, competing versions of Lewis's death are imagined by ornithologist Alexander Wilson (Billy Slaughter), an agent of Thomas Jefferson and a friend to Lewis, during an interview with Priscilla Grinder (Amye Gousset), the only supposed witness to the explorer's final night alive, and a tense encounter with her husband Robert (Sonny Marinelli). The locally shot period piece having it’s New Orleans Premiere at Zeitgeist also features John Schneider, Sonny Marinelli, Lance E. Nichols and Marcus Dupree. Winner - Audience Award - Best Feature - Gasparilla Int Film Festival, Best Feature - Julien Buuque Int Film Festival, Best Western - Best Feature - Best First Time Director & Best Actress (Amy Goesset) - Los Angeles Film Awards, Best Cinematography - Montreal Independent Film Festival, Best Actresss (Amye Gousset) - Best Director - Best Supporting Actor (John Schneider & Sonny Marinelli) - Best Actor (Evan Williams) - Best Editing -& Best Cinematography - Best Historical Film - Oniros Film Awards, Best Historical / Period Piece - Worldfest Houston. [TRAILER] There will be a special cast and crew Q & A on Friday, October 14th after the film. 
Opens October 21:
BROTHER’S KEEPER by Ferit Karahan Yusuf and his best friend Memo are pupils at a boarding school for Kurdish boys, secluded in the mountains of Eastern Anatolia. When Memo falls mysteriously ill, Yusuf is forced to struggle through the bureaucratic obstacles put up by the school's repressive authorities to try to help his friend. But by the time the adults in charge finally understand the seriousness of Memo’s condition and try to get him to the hospital, the school has been buried under a sudden, heavy snowfall. With no way out and now desperate to reach help, teachers and pupils engage in a blame game where grudges, feelings of guilt and hidden secrets emerge, as time ticks mercilessly on and threatens to run out. This acclaimed new Turkish film has won 26 awards on the International Film Festival circuit. [TRAILER] 
Opening October 28:
VOODOO MACBETH Well before Citizen Kane and War of the Worlds, with FDR’s New Deal provided funding for the Federal Theatre Project’s Negro Unit, director and acclaimed Broadway actor Rose McClendon, with the help of a young John Houseman, convinced 21-year old Orson Welles to direct Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” for the Harlem community with an all-Black cast. It came to be known as “Voodoo Macbeth.” However, in this acclaimed new drama it quickly becomes clear that the road to opening night will not be a smooth one. Orson and Rose — who is to play Lady Macbeth — clash over everything from scene blocking to crew hires, while Houseman contends with a congressman hell-bent on shutting down what he deems “communist propaganda.” To realize their vision, Welles and McClendon must overcome political pressure, personal demons and protests fueled by the skepticism of the Black community. VOODOO MACBETH revisits a major moment in Black theater and a foundational early chapter in the career of Orson Welles - generally considered to be among the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. [TRAILER] 
Opens November 4
TALES FROM THE GIMLI HOSPITAL REDUX by Guy Maddin While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told a tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the Lonely (Kyle McCulloch), his friend Gunnar (the late-great Michael Gottli), and the angelic Snjofridur (Angela Heck) in a Gimli of old. Set during a smallpox epidemic in the village of Gimli, Manitoba near the turn of the century, Tales From The Gimli Hospital Redux is a dreamlike, elliptical film which explores the jealousy and madness instilled in two men who share a hospital room. The new 4K digital remaster was supervised by Guy Maddin using original printing elements provided by the TIFF Cinematheque Library. “Tales From The Gimli Hospital is one of my all-time favorite films and Guy Maddin is my favorite living filmmaker.” - Rene Broussard, Zeitgeist founder/Director. [TRAILER] 
Opens November 4:
SOFT & QUIET by Beth de Araujo Playing out in real time, SOFT & QUIET is a runaway train that follows a single afternoon in the life of Emily, a female white supremacist and elementary school teacher. Emily organizes the inaugural club meeting of 'Daughters for Aryan Unity', and she indoctrinates a group of alt-right women. When they all decide to move the meeting to Emily's house, they stop at the local store to pick up refreshments, where an altercation breaks out between two mixed-race Asian sisters and the club spirals into a volatile, horrific chain of events. [TRAILER] 
Wednesday, November 9 @ 7:30 pm
MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA by Dziga Vertov with a Live, Original Score by MONTOPOLIS (Austin, Tx) Revered as a visual masterpiece and one of the greatest documentaries ever made, the film gives historical context to the current Russian invasion and lays bare the costs of the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe. The 1929 silent was filmed in the cities of Odesa and Kyiv, Ukraine and is considered one of the greatest documentaries ever made. Experimenting with a wide array of diverse cinematic techniques, the indefatigable director, Dziga Vertov, incorporates jump cuts; odd angles; split screens; double exposures; extreme close-ups, and a rapid-fire montage to document the interaction of the ordinary Soviet citizen with the hectic rhythm of life. Throughout the course of a single day--from dusk till dawn, and always accompanied by the rhythmic hum of the machinery--Vertov offers a grand tour of Moscow, Odessa, and Kiev at breakneck speed, describing what the main character, the unknown masses, see. This iconic film is more relevant than ever and will be screened with a live, original score by Montopolis. Montopolis is an indie chamber music group from Austin, Texas that performs the works of composer Justin Sherburn. Their music folds country and folk idioms into modern classical arrangements with inventive instrumentation to create "stunning and transcendent" (Austin Chronicle) concerts. Composer Justin Sherburn’s joyful original score celebrates the beauty and resilience of Ukraine’s people and aims to inspire American audiences to support the country in its time of need. The Montopolis musicians include members of the Austin Symphony, Okkervil River, Tosca String Quartet, and the Polyphonic Spree. [TRAILER] 
Opens November 11
THE OTHER TOM by Rodrigo Pia & Laura Santullo Elena is a single mother in El Paso, Texas who relies on Social Services. Her son Tom has behavioral issues and is stigmatized at school as a “problem child.” An absent father further complicates their difficult relationship. Tom is diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and prescribed psychiatric medication, but a strange accident alerts his mother as to its side effects. When Elena refuses to continue administering the drugs to Tom, Social Services threaten to remove him from her custody. Winner - Best Film -Huelva Latin American Film Festival; Best Director - Morelia Int Film Festival; Best Actress (Julia Chavez) - Tokyo Int Film Festival; Best Film & Director - Warsaw Int Film Festival. [TRAILER] 
Opens November 18:
BAD AXE a documentary by David Siev A real-time portrait of 2020 unfolds as a Cambodian-American family in Trump's rural America, Bad Axe, Michigan fights to keep their restaurant and American dream alive in the face of a pandemic, Neo-Nazis, and generational scars from the Killing Fields. Winner - Audience Award - SXSW 2022 Film Festival; Audience Award - Traverse City Film Festival; Best Documentary - DeadCenter Film Festival; etc. [TRAILER] |
V I S U A L A R T E X H I B I T I O N S
LOOK ANYWHERE
Paintings by Andrew Huot
printed by Leona Strassberg Steiner
on view in the Zeitgeist Lounge -August 20 through October 9
Opening Reception - Saturday, August 20 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm
Paintings by Andrew Huot
printed by Leona Strassberg Steiner
on view in the Zeitgeist Lounge -August 20 through October 9
Opening Reception - Saturday, August 20 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm
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Calling all Artists:
I JUST WANNA GIVE YOU THE CREEPS
A group art exhibition
in the Zeitgeist Theatre & Lounge
Send up to 5 images to 504creeps@gmail.com
tis the season to be creepy! Open call. Submit your creepiest work.
Submissions due October 7. Notifications will be announced on October 10th.
Accepted work due by October 19th.
Opening Reception October 21 on view in the Zeitgeist Lounge through November 27.
I JUST WANNA GIVE YOU THE CREEPS
A group art exhibition
in the Zeitgeist Theatre & Lounge
Send up to 5 images to 504creeps@gmail.com
tis the season to be creepy! Open call. Submit your creepiest work.
Submissions due October 7. Notifications will be announced on October 10th.
Accepted work due by October 19th.
Opening Reception October 21 on view in the Zeitgeist Lounge through November 27.
JOSEPH BEUYS: POSTERS AND PRINTS
on permanent loan and exhibition in the
BEUYS + BEYOND Gallery
(which connects Zeitgeist Theatre and the Lounge)
Joseph Beuys (12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German Fluxus, happening and performance artist as well as a painter, sculptor, medallist, installation artist, graphic artist,art theorist and pedagogue. His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, anthroposophy and the “zeitgeist”. It culminates in his "extended definition of art" and the idea of social sculpture as a gesamtkunstwerk, for which he claimed a creative, participatory role in shaping society and politics. His career was characterized by open public debates on a very wide range of subjects including political, environmental, social and long term cultural trends. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of the second half of the 20th century.
on permanent loan and exhibition in the
BEUYS + BEYOND Gallery
(which connects Zeitgeist Theatre and the Lounge)
Joseph Beuys (12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German Fluxus, happening and performance artist as well as a painter, sculptor, medallist, installation artist, graphic artist,art theorist and pedagogue. His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, anthroposophy and the “zeitgeist”. It culminates in his "extended definition of art" and the idea of social sculpture as a gesamtkunstwerk, for which he claimed a creative, participatory role in shaping society and politics. His career was characterized by open public debates on a very wide range of subjects including political, environmental, social and long term cultural trends. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of the second half of the 20th century.
Z E I T G E I S T ' S O N G O I N G F I L M S E R I E S :
BEUYS AND BEYOND
Contemporary Artists On Film
In 1989, Zeitgeist curated a city-wide film series BEUYS AND BEYOND: CONTEMPORARY GERMAN ARTISTS ON FILM which also featured artist talks and performances by area artists.
For the premiere of Zeitgeist's great new Theatre & Lounge, we have decided to resurrect the series monthly, but this time expand it to include artists beyond just Germany...
Contemporary Artists On Film
In 1989, Zeitgeist curated a city-wide film series BEUYS AND BEYOND: CONTEMPORARY GERMAN ARTISTS ON FILM which also featured artist talks and performances by area artists.
For the premiere of Zeitgeist's great new Theatre & Lounge, we have decided to resurrect the series monthly, but this time expand it to include artists beyond just Germany...
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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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AND COMING SOON!
A state of the art outdoor performance space and year round art market.
A state of the art outdoor performance space and year round art market.
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For the past several months the Meraux Foundation has been constructing a "state of the art" year round Outdoor Art Market and Performance Venue in the lot between the Zeitgeist Theatre & Lounge and Art Conscious (Gallery, Framing, Printing).
There is still a few months to go, but the progress is extremely exciting.
Zeitgeist will be in charge of programming and scheduling the Community Event space.
While the Meraux Foundation are building out the venue, Zeitgeist will be fundraising to buy a large outdoor projection screen, stage lighting and a new sound system.
Memberships and donations may be made at the Zeitgeist Box Office, through the "Support Us" Page at the top of our website; through PayPal to rene@zeitgeistnola.org; Zelle to (504) 352-1150 or our new venmo @zeitgeistnola
There is still a few months to go, but the progress is extremely exciting.
Zeitgeist will be in charge of programming and scheduling the Community Event space.
While the Meraux Foundation are building out the venue, Zeitgeist will be fundraising to buy a large outdoor projection screen, stage lighting and a new sound system.
Memberships and donations may be made at the Zeitgeist Box Office, through the "Support Us" Page at the top of our website; through PayPal to rene@zeitgeistnola.org; Zelle to (504) 352-1150 or our new venmo @zeitgeistnola
Special thanks to the Meraux Foundation, The Old Arabi Neighborhood Association, Councilman Gillis McCloskey, The St. Bernard Chamber Of Commerce, Shotgun Cinema, Ellis Fortinberry & Chalmette Movies, the people of St. Bernard Parish and those who have followed us from New Orleans for all of their support. We couldn't have dreamed of a better venue or neighbors.
Zeitgeist would also like to acknowledge the indigenous history of New Orleans, and more broadly, Louisiana, and recognize the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana, the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, and the Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe of Louisiana. We would also like to acknowledge the state-recognized tribes of Louisiana, which include the Addai Caddo Tribe, the Biloxi-Chitimacha Confederation of Muskogee, Choctaw-Apache Community of Ebarb, Clifton Choctaw, Four Winds Tribe Louisiana Cherokee Confederacy, Grand Caillou/Dulac Band, Isle de Jean Charles Band, Louisiana Choctaw Tribe, Pointe-Au-Chien Indian Tribe, and the United Houma Nation.
Zeitgeist celebrated
it's 35th Anniversary in November!
it's 35th Anniversary in November!
We want to thank all of the artists, volunteers, organizations, members, donors and patrons who have kept us going.
We've come a long way. Let's keep it going!
We've come a long way. Let's keep it going!
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