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Saturday, June 23:
5:15 pm - IZZY GETS THE F*CK ACROSS TOWN A woman at rock bottom must find her way across Los Angeles in order to crash her ex-boyfriend's engagement party in this indie comedy starring Mackenzie Davis, Haley Joel Osment, Sarah Goldberg, Annie Potts, etc. 7:00 pm - CROSS MY HEART a coming of age drama set in Montreal in 1970 during the 'October Crisis’ when the radical left-wing nationalist group, 'Front de libération du Québec' (FLQ), forced the province into a state of emergency with kidnappings, bombings, and assassination. CANADA NOW 9:00 pm - CONSTRUCTING ALBERT deeply engaging documentary about the ground-breaking chef Albert Adria whom Time Magazine called “one of the most influential people in the world of food” and is trying to step out of the shadow of his big brother Ferran Adria (elBulli). __________________________________ Sundays are only $6 for Teachers Mondays are only $6 per film 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
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Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center a.k.a. Zeitgeist Theatre Experiments, inc November 2017 was Zeitgeist's 31st Anniversary
and we are aging well! Zeitgeist has created a GoFundMe Campaign to make some much needed renovations and improvements to our space. DONATE
Zeitgeist is ready to begin work on PHASE TWO of our improvements to the space, but we need your help. We are currently trying to raise funds and find volunteers to make Zeitgeist a more comfortable and attractive space. We have world class programming and we want our venue and the quality of our presentations to reflect that as well. Here is a list of the improvements we are hoping to make before the end of the Summer. 1. purchase 6 new couches and 4 to 6 lounge chairs 2. purchase and install 3 low hanging ceiling fans from center beam 3. Purchase and hang sound and light baffling curtains hung beneath the fans from metal plumbing pipes from the center wooden beam 4. Dark black or grey curtains/Masking for screen 5. install dimmers on the house lights 6. renovate our 2nd bathroom 7. purchase 8 cabaret tables for back area 8. custom build shelves on back wooden divider to open a video rental store 9. build a small DJ/projection booth, organize all chords and equipment 10. purchase a new sound system (2 Bose Towers) 11. improve the lighting for our outdoor sign and poster case 12. hang small industrial lampshades hanging over concessions, video rental area 13. create a DJ booth for after screenings, happy hour, receptions, etc This could be really great. Please help make it a reality. |
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Zeitgeist film schedule for June 22 through 28
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IZZIE GETS THE FU*K ACROSS TOWN
Christian Paplerniak (US indie comedy)
June 22 through 28 @ 5:15 pm nightly
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Riot grrrl rocker and shameless hot mess Izzy wakes up hungover AF to find out that her ex-boyfriend is celebrating his engagement to her ex-best friend tonight at a bougie party across town. Enraged and desperate, Izzy embarks on a frenetic quest across Los Angeles to break up the party in order to fulfill what she believes to be her destiny ... before it’s too late. This outrageous indie comedy stars Mackenzie Davis, Alex Russell, Carrie Coon, Haley Joel Osment, Alia Shawkat, Keith Stanfield, Annie Potts, Rob Huebel, Brandon T. Jackson, Sarah Goldberg, Dolly Wells, Luka Jones, Sheldon Bailey and Kyle Kinane. Winner Best Narrative Feature - Tacoma Film Festival, Best Performance (Mackenzie Davis) & Best Narrative Feature - Tacoma Film Festival, Best Breakout Performance (Mackenzie Davis) - Napa Valley Film Festival.
Christian Paplerniak (US indie comedy)
June 22 through 28 @ 5:15 pm nightly
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Riot grrrl rocker and shameless hot mess Izzy wakes up hungover AF to find out that her ex-boyfriend is celebrating his engagement to her ex-best friend tonight at a bougie party across town. Enraged and desperate, Izzy embarks on a frenetic quest across Los Angeles to break up the party in order to fulfill what she believes to be her destiny ... before it’s too late. This outrageous indie comedy stars Mackenzie Davis, Alex Russell, Carrie Coon, Haley Joel Osment, Alia Shawkat, Keith Stanfield, Annie Potts, Rob Huebel, Brandon T. Jackson, Sarah Goldberg, Dolly Wells, Luka Jones, Sheldon Bailey and Kyle Kinane. Winner Best Narrative Feature - Tacoma Film Festival, Best Performance (Mackenzie Davis) & Best Narrative Feature - Tacoma Film Festival, Best Breakout Performance (Mackenzie Davis) - Napa Valley Film Festival.
May 18 through July 19
Canada Now 2018 showcases impressive new works by veteran filmmakers and rookie directors alike that celebrate the independent spirit that has always been a hallmark of Canadian cinema. This acclaimed annual film tour is presented in the United States by TeleFilm Canada and Dada Films. The films in this series also screen as part of Zeitgeist’s ongoing series CANADA IS BIGGER THAN THE U.S. and in several cases as indicated with our AN INDIGENOUS FILM series.
see details below
Friday through Thursday, June 22 through 28 @ 7:00 pm
CROSS MY HEART, LES ROIS MONGOLS | 104 minutes | Trailer Link
Director: Luc Picard
Luc Picard's engaging family drama is set in Montreal in 1970 during an actual historical period known as the 'October Crisis'. The radical left-wing nationalist group, 'Front de libération du Québec' (FLQ), forced the province into a state of emergency with kidnappings, bombings, and assassination. This means very little to twelve-year-old Manon, though, because she is watching a more immediate crisis happening in her own family, watching helplessly it falls apart. With her father dying of cancer and her depressive mother unable to cope, Manon and her younger brother Michel are to be sent to separate foster families. Manon, however, has sworn to her brother that she will never leave him alone. In desperation, she hatches a daring plan. Inspired by the political fervour in the city, she forms a 'revolutionary' group of her own with her older cousins. They plot to kidnap their elderly neighbour and take off to a cabin the country. Struggling to manufacture a normal childhood in very abnormal circumstances, they spend the initial days enjoying their newfound freedom far from the influence of the grown-up world. Meanwhile, that adult world is actively on the hunt for them. Superbly crafted and very moving, the film was a hit the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival.
"With deft direction for his young actors, a feel for gentle comedy and an almost-too-precise eye for period detailing, Picard polishes the film to a fine gleam, enhanced by the control of François Dutil’s warm, chocolate, mustard and claret-colored images." -Variety
CROSS MY HEART, LES ROIS MONGOLS | 104 minutes | Trailer Link
Director: Luc Picard
Luc Picard's engaging family drama is set in Montreal in 1970 during an actual historical period known as the 'October Crisis'. The radical left-wing nationalist group, 'Front de libération du Québec' (FLQ), forced the province into a state of emergency with kidnappings, bombings, and assassination. This means very little to twelve-year-old Manon, though, because she is watching a more immediate crisis happening in her own family, watching helplessly it falls apart. With her father dying of cancer and her depressive mother unable to cope, Manon and her younger brother Michel are to be sent to separate foster families. Manon, however, has sworn to her brother that she will never leave him alone. In desperation, she hatches a daring plan. Inspired by the political fervour in the city, she forms a 'revolutionary' group of her own with her older cousins. They plot to kidnap their elderly neighbour and take off to a cabin the country. Struggling to manufacture a normal childhood in very abnormal circumstances, they spend the initial days enjoying their newfound freedom far from the influence of the grown-up world. Meanwhile, that adult world is actively on the hunt for them. Superbly crafted and very moving, the film was a hit the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival.
"With deft direction for his young actors, a feel for gentle comedy and an almost-too-precise eye for period detailing, Picard polishes the film to a fine gleam, enhanced by the control of François Dutil’s warm, chocolate, mustard and claret-colored images." -Variety
CONSTRUCTING ALBERT
Laura Collado, Jim Loomis, Screenwriter: Laura Collado (Spanish culinary documentary)
June 22 through 28 @ 9:00 pm nightly
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The most important revolution in culinary history took place in a remote cove on the Catalan coast. The Big Bang of creative discovery that was elBulli sparked from the minds of two brothers from a poor suburb of Barcelona, and gave birth to a new gastronomic universe. Since then the name Adrià has become synonymous of creativity. Ferran is the famous maestro people know, however, with 29 years of a brilliant career behind him, the only recognition Albert Adria has achieved is that of being the most underrated chef in the world. At just fifteen, without vocation or aspiration, Albert reluctantly started working with his brother. He soon found in cuisine a blank canvas on which to experiment and express his previously untapped creativity. A character full of contradiction, Albert’s career progressed far from the media spotlight that shone on Ferran during the rise of elBulli. A self-proclaimed outsider, Albert has never sought fame and fortune. He concentrated in fighting the monsters of pure creativity, leading elBarri Taller, the R&D department that came up with the innovations and techniques which lead elBulli to the pinacle of global cuisine. Two years after elBulli closed its doors, Albert is in the midst of a herculean creative adventure. In Parallel, Barcelona’s crumbling theatre district, Albert is building a gastronomic mile. At the heart of this growing empire is Tickets, a restaurant in which nothing is impossible, elevating the humble tapas to haute-cuisine. Next door 41° shines with a special light. Conceived as a mini elBulli seating just sixteen fortunate dinners, it explores the heights of culinary creativity. Albert’s fertile vision does not stop there: Pakta, japanese-peruvian fusion with the Adrià stamp; Bodega1900, a homage to Catalan vermouth culture; Hoja Santa, an immersion into the depths of traditional mexican cuisine; and Enigma, his most ambitious project, and the one he hopes to turn into one of the best restaurants in the world. Each very different from the other, they all bear his personal signature. This is Albert’s proclamation of self-assurance, his attempt to escape the shadow of the now legendary elBulli and enter the Pantheon of great chefs. This is Albert constructing himself.
Laura Collado, Jim Loomis, Screenwriter: Laura Collado (Spanish culinary documentary)
June 22 through 28 @ 9:00 pm nightly
[TRAILER] [TICKETS]
The most important revolution in culinary history took place in a remote cove on the Catalan coast. The Big Bang of creative discovery that was elBulli sparked from the minds of two brothers from a poor suburb of Barcelona, and gave birth to a new gastronomic universe. Since then the name Adrià has become synonymous of creativity. Ferran is the famous maestro people know, however, with 29 years of a brilliant career behind him, the only recognition Albert Adria has achieved is that of being the most underrated chef in the world. At just fifteen, without vocation or aspiration, Albert reluctantly started working with his brother. He soon found in cuisine a blank canvas on which to experiment and express his previously untapped creativity. A character full of contradiction, Albert’s career progressed far from the media spotlight that shone on Ferran during the rise of elBulli. A self-proclaimed outsider, Albert has never sought fame and fortune. He concentrated in fighting the monsters of pure creativity, leading elBarri Taller, the R&D department that came up with the innovations and techniques which lead elBulli to the pinacle of global cuisine. Two years after elBulli closed its doors, Albert is in the midst of a herculean creative adventure. In Parallel, Barcelona’s crumbling theatre district, Albert is building a gastronomic mile. At the heart of this growing empire is Tickets, a restaurant in which nothing is impossible, elevating the humble tapas to haute-cuisine. Next door 41° shines with a special light. Conceived as a mini elBulli seating just sixteen fortunate dinners, it explores the heights of culinary creativity. Albert’s fertile vision does not stop there: Pakta, japanese-peruvian fusion with the Adrià stamp; Bodega1900, a homage to Catalan vermouth culture; Hoja Santa, an immersion into the depths of traditional mexican cuisine; and Enigma, his most ambitious project, and the one he hopes to turn into one of the best restaurants in the world. Each very different from the other, they all bear his personal signature. This is Albert’s proclamation of self-assurance, his attempt to escape the shadow of the now legendary elBulli and enter the Pantheon of great chefs. This is Albert constructing himself.
C O M I N G S O O N !
IDEAL HOME
Andrew Fleming (indie gay comedy)
June 29 through July 5 @ 5:15 pm nightly (except Sunday @ 2:30 pm)
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Kings of comedy Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd star as a bickering couple who have to deal with a serious reality check, when a long lost grandson shows up looking for his family. Flamboyant TV chef Erasmus Brumble (Coogan) along with his director and long-term partner Paul (Rudd), are happy going through life playing as hard as they work. But suddenly they have to decide whether to grow-up or continue down their well-trodden path, when Erasmus's estranged grandson, Bill (played by Jack Gore), unexpectedly turns up at their door, after his father is taken away to serve time in prison. Having another mouth to feed can always come with its strains, but the couple's fears that they are not yet cut out to be devoted parents become apparent very quickly, with their lavish social lifestyle (and an extensive erotic film collection) getting in the way of their duties as responsible guardians. As unsuited as this small family may initially seem, the loving bond they eventually form is threatened to be broken when Bill's father warns he'll take him away upon his release from jail. This acclaimed indie comedy also stars Kate Walsh, Alison Pil, Jake McDorman, etc.
Andrew Fleming (indie gay comedy)
June 29 through July 5 @ 5:15 pm nightly (except Sunday @ 2:30 pm)
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Kings of comedy Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd star as a bickering couple who have to deal with a serious reality check, when a long lost grandson shows up looking for his family. Flamboyant TV chef Erasmus Brumble (Coogan) along with his director and long-term partner Paul (Rudd), are happy going through life playing as hard as they work. But suddenly they have to decide whether to grow-up or continue down their well-trodden path, when Erasmus's estranged grandson, Bill (played by Jack Gore), unexpectedly turns up at their door, after his father is taken away to serve time in prison. Having another mouth to feed can always come with its strains, but the couple's fears that they are not yet cut out to be devoted parents become apparent very quickly, with their lavish social lifestyle (and an extensive erotic film collection) getting in the way of their duties as responsible guardians. As unsuited as this small family may initially seem, the loving bond they eventually form is threatened to be broken when Bill's father warns he'll take him away upon his release from jail. This acclaimed indie comedy also stars Kate Walsh, Alison Pil, Jake McDorman, etc.
Friday through Thursday, June 29 through July 5 @ 7:00 pm
plus Sunday, July 1 also @ 4:30 pm - Special Pay What You can CANADA DAY screening!
HOCHELAGA, LAND OF SOULS | 99 minutes | Trailer Link [TICKETS]
Director: François Girard
The latest from internationally acclaimed director François Girard (Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, The Red Violin), Hochelaga, Land of Souls is a mesmerizing time travel drama spanning eight centuries of layered indigenous, colonial, and contemporary histories. When a sinkhole suddenly opens up on the field of a downtown Montreal football stadium during a game, the city’s past and present begin to intersect. As part of the investigation of the event, an archaeological dig is set up on the site, believed to have been at one time the Iroquois village of Hochelaga. Uncovering artifacts and clues to Montreal’s extraordinary past, Baptiste Asigny, a young archaeologist of Mohawk heritage, embarks on an incredible journey of discovery through the tangled history of his at once modern and ancient city. Girard’s film moves seamlessly between pre-European times, the age of the French explorer Jacques Cartier and his first contact with the Iroquois people, as well as the subsequent convulsive political and social events that occurred in this very space over the centuries right up to Asigny’s own contemporary Montreal. It is an imaginative cinematic weave, a stunning tapestry of time and space, memory and identity. Screens as part of AN INDIGENOUS FILM series. The Official Academy Award Entry from Canada screens with a special "Pay What You Can" CANADA DAY matinee screening Sunday, June 1 @ 4:30 pm.
"Hochelaga, Land of Souls proves a worthy return to the strengths and ambitions of Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould and The Red Violin. Like those two earlier art-house successes, Hochelaga … rewards with a rich cinematic banquet." –Variety
plus Sunday, July 1 also @ 4:30 pm - Special Pay What You can CANADA DAY screening!
HOCHELAGA, LAND OF SOULS | 99 minutes | Trailer Link [TICKETS]
Director: François Girard
The latest from internationally acclaimed director François Girard (Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, The Red Violin), Hochelaga, Land of Souls is a mesmerizing time travel drama spanning eight centuries of layered indigenous, colonial, and contemporary histories. When a sinkhole suddenly opens up on the field of a downtown Montreal football stadium during a game, the city’s past and present begin to intersect. As part of the investigation of the event, an archaeological dig is set up on the site, believed to have been at one time the Iroquois village of Hochelaga. Uncovering artifacts and clues to Montreal’s extraordinary past, Baptiste Asigny, a young archaeologist of Mohawk heritage, embarks on an incredible journey of discovery through the tangled history of his at once modern and ancient city. Girard’s film moves seamlessly between pre-European times, the age of the French explorer Jacques Cartier and his first contact with the Iroquois people, as well as the subsequent convulsive political and social events that occurred in this very space over the centuries right up to Asigny’s own contemporary Montreal. It is an imaginative cinematic weave, a stunning tapestry of time and space, memory and identity. Screens as part of AN INDIGENOUS FILM series. The Official Academy Award Entry from Canada screens with a special "Pay What You Can" CANADA DAY matinee screening Sunday, June 1 @ 4:30 pm.
"Hochelaga, Land of Souls proves a worthy return to the strengths and ambitions of Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould and The Red Violin. Like those two earlier art-house successes, Hochelaga … rewards with a rich cinematic banquet." –Variety
THE CONSTITUTION
Rajko Grlic (Croatian gay drama)
June 29 through July 5 @ 9:00 pm nightly
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Rajko Grlic's exquisite Croatian portrait of a gay professor who, after being viciously attacked, is cared for by a neighbor and her husband. Four very different people live in the same building but avoid each other because of differences in how they live their lives, what they believe in, and where they come from. They would probably never exchange a word, but misfortune pushes them towards each other. Their lives entangle in ways that profoundly challenge deep-held beliefs and prejudices surrounding material status, sexual orientation, nationality and religion. Slowly, and even painfully, they begin to open up to each other and recognize the essential humanity each of them possesses. Grand Prize at Montreal Film Festival.
Rajko Grlic (Croatian gay drama)
June 29 through July 5 @ 9:00 pm nightly
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Rajko Grlic's exquisite Croatian portrait of a gay professor who, after being viciously attacked, is cared for by a neighbor and her husband. Four very different people live in the same building but avoid each other because of differences in how they live their lives, what they believe in, and where they come from. They would probably never exchange a word, but misfortune pushes them towards each other. Their lives entangle in ways that profoundly challenge deep-held beliefs and prejudices surrounding material status, sexual orientation, nationality and religion. Slowly, and even painfully, they begin to open up to each other and recognize the essential humanity each of them possesses. Grand Prize at Montreal Film Festival.
EN EL SEPTIMO DIA (ON THE SEVENTH DAY)
Jim McKay (US indie doc)
July 6 through 12 @ 5:15 pm nightly
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This acclaimed doc from Jim McKay (Treme) follows a group of undocumented immigrants living in Sunset Park, Brooklyn over the course of seven days. Bicycle delivery guys, construction workers, dishwashers, deli workers, and cotton candy vendors, they work long hours six days a week and then savor their day of rest on Sundays on the soccer fields of Sunset Park. Although shot in Brooklyn it could easily be a doc about the Islenos league at Pan Am Stadium here in N.O.
Jim McKay (US indie doc)
July 6 through 12 @ 5:15 pm nightly
[TRAILERS]
This acclaimed doc from Jim McKay (Treme) follows a group of undocumented immigrants living in Sunset Park, Brooklyn over the course of seven days. Bicycle delivery guys, construction workers, dishwashers, deli workers, and cotton candy vendors, they work long hours six days a week and then savor their day of rest on Sundays on the soccer fields of Sunset Park. Although shot in Brooklyn it could easily be a doc about the Islenos league at Pan Am Stadium here in N.O.
Friday through Thursday, July 6 through 12 @ 7:00 pm
MARY GOES ROUND | 86 minutes | Trailer Link
Director: Molly McGlynn
Thoughtful and self-assured, Mary is an intelligent and compassionate substance abuse counsellor. Trouble is, she has a serious drinking problem that she struggles mightily to conceal. She’s also got a tangled family history and her romantic life is, well, not very romantic at all these days. After getting charged for drunk driving and subsequently leaving her job, Mary finds herself alone and adrift. Returning to her hometown of Niagara Falls in order to attempt to rebuild her shattered life, she instead discovers that her estranged father Walt is dying of cancer and that she has a teenage half-sister she's never met. Needless to say, these are not the best of times for Mary. Or are they? With its finely calibrated blend of humour and pathos, McGlynn’s semi-autobiographical first feature is a surprising, insightful exploration of addiction, sisterhood, and the possibilities of redemption.
“Mary Goes Round handles its story beats with a canny mixture of rueful humor, warmth and realism.” –Variety
MARY GOES ROUND | 86 minutes | Trailer Link
Director: Molly McGlynn
Thoughtful and self-assured, Mary is an intelligent and compassionate substance abuse counsellor. Trouble is, she has a serious drinking problem that she struggles mightily to conceal. She’s also got a tangled family history and her romantic life is, well, not very romantic at all these days. After getting charged for drunk driving and subsequently leaving her job, Mary finds herself alone and adrift. Returning to her hometown of Niagara Falls in order to attempt to rebuild her shattered life, she instead discovers that her estranged father Walt is dying of cancer and that she has a teenage half-sister she's never met. Needless to say, these are not the best of times for Mary. Or are they? With its finely calibrated blend of humour and pathos, McGlynn’s semi-autobiographical first feature is a surprising, insightful exploration of addiction, sisterhood, and the possibilities of redemption.
“Mary Goes Round handles its story beats with a canny mixture of rueful humor, warmth and realism.” –Variety
Friday & Sunday, July 6 & 8 @ 8:45 pm
GUILTY MEN
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Columbia’s Academy Award Entry is a Neo-western about a series of violent deaths that are reminders of a fearful past. Quiet, reserved truck driver and part-time DJ, Willington is trying to win back his beautiful ex-girlfriend before she marries his hotheaded cousin. But after witnessing the murder of a paramilitary thug, Willington finds himself in the cross-hairs of both cops and criminals in this thrilling debut feature.
GUILTY MEN
[TRAILER]
Columbia’s Academy Award Entry is a Neo-western about a series of violent deaths that are reminders of a fearful past. Quiet, reserved truck driver and part-time DJ, Willington is trying to win back his beautiful ex-girlfriend before she marries his hotheaded cousin. But after witnessing the murder of a paramilitary thug, Willington finds himself in the cross-hairs of both cops and criminals in this thrilling debut feature.
July 9 thru 12 @ 8:45 pm
DON’T BREAK DOWN: A FILM ABOUT JAWBREAKER.
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In 2007, 11 years after one of the most influential American punk bands, Jawbreaker, called it quits the three members, Blake Schwarzenbach, Chris Bauermeister, and Adam Pfahler reconnected in a San Francisco recording studio to listen back to their albums, reminisce and even perform together. Follow the band as they retell their “rags to riches to rags” story writhe with inner band turmoil, health issues, and the aftermath of signing to a major label. Featuring interviews with Billie Joe Armstrong, Steve Albini, Jessica Hopper, Graham Elliot, Chris Shifflet, Josh Caterer and more.
DON’T BREAK DOWN: A FILM ABOUT JAWBREAKER.
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In 2007, 11 years after one of the most influential American punk bands, Jawbreaker, called it quits the three members, Blake Schwarzenbach, Chris Bauermeister, and Adam Pfahler reconnected in a San Francisco recording studio to listen back to their albums, reminisce and even perform together. Follow the band as they retell their “rags to riches to rags” story writhe with inner band turmoil, health issues, and the aftermath of signing to a major label. Featuring interviews with Billie Joe Armstrong, Steve Albini, Jessica Hopper, Graham Elliot, Chris Shifflet, Josh Caterer and more.
Opens July 13:
5:15 pm nightly - THE SWAN
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In this unique coming of age story from Iceland, a wayward nine-year-old girl is sent to the countryside to work and mature, but finds herself instead deeply engaged in a family drama she is unequipped to fully grasp.
5:15 pm nightly - THE SWAN
[TRAILER]
In this unique coming of age story from Iceland, a wayward nine-year-old girl is sent to the countryside to work and mature, but finds herself instead deeply engaged in a family drama she is unequipped to fully grasp.
Friday through Thursday, July 13 through 19 @ 7:00 pm
UNARMED VERSES | 86 minutes | Trailer Link
Director: Charles Officer
Winner of the Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award (Hot Docs 2017), Unarmed Verses follows the precociously talented Francine Valentine, a 12-year-old girl who is, along with her family and community, facing eviction from their low-income housing block in Toronto. ‘Armed’ with a luminous, undaunted creative spirit and a restless, generous intelligence, Francine turns to artistic expression, as she and her friends prepare to record music and poetry together. Meanwhile, as the community struggles to come to terms with the threat to its cultural richness and very real human wealth, the wrecking ball looms and the City’s plans for relocation are issued. Officer’s is a striking, sensitive, and incisive film about the actual human costs of such high-minded notions of ‘progress,’ ‘development,’ and ‘gentrification.’
“A poignant, blossoming 86-minute experience about the power of art … “
–Globe and Mail
UNARMED VERSES | 86 minutes | Trailer Link
Director: Charles Officer
Winner of the Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award (Hot Docs 2017), Unarmed Verses follows the precociously talented Francine Valentine, a 12-year-old girl who is, along with her family and community, facing eviction from their low-income housing block in Toronto. ‘Armed’ with a luminous, undaunted creative spirit and a restless, generous intelligence, Francine turns to artistic expression, as she and her friends prepare to record music and poetry together. Meanwhile, as the community struggles to come to terms with the threat to its cultural richness and very real human wealth, the wrecking ball looms and the City’s plans for relocation are issued. Officer’s is a striking, sensitive, and incisive film about the actual human costs of such high-minded notions of ‘progress,’ ‘development,’ and ‘gentrification.’
“A poignant, blossoming 86-minute experience about the power of art … “
–Globe and Mail
Opens July 13:
8:45 pm nightly - RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: CODA
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doc about musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, an Oscar-winning film composer and musician best known in the US for his work in The Last Emperor, The Revenant, and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, as well as for his non-film work both solo and with Yellow Magic Orchestra. It follows Sakamoto at work while also battling a stage 3 cancer diagnosis.
8:45 pm nightly - RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: CODA
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doc about musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, an Oscar-winning film composer and musician best known in the US for his work in The Last Emperor, The Revenant, and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, as well as for his non-film work both solo and with Yellow Magic Orchestra. It follows Sakamoto at work while also battling a stage 3 cancer diagnosis.
Opens July 20:
7:00 pm nightly - PATH OF BLOOD
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Exposing the dark side of the human soul, Path of Blood reveals Al Qaeda as you've never seen it before. This haunting documentary film shows how brainwashed idealism and the youthful pursuit of adventure can descend into madness and carnage.
7:00 pm nightly - PATH OF BLOOD
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Exposing the dark side of the human soul, Path of Blood reveals Al Qaeda as you've never seen it before. This haunting documentary film shows how brainwashed idealism and the youthful pursuit of adventure can descend into madness and carnage.
Opens July 20:
8:45 pm nightly - THE NIGHT EATS THE WORLD
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Sam (Anders Danielson Lie, PERSONAL SHOPPER) wakes to find that Paris has been transformed by the living dead overnight. The Hollywood Reporter calls NIGHT EATS THE WORLD “engaging, emotional, scary, and simply a masterpiece.” and Indiewire the “most innovative Zombie Movie since SHAUN OF THE DEAD.”
8:45 pm nightly - THE NIGHT EATS THE WORLD
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Sam (Anders Danielson Lie, PERSONAL SHOPPER) wakes to find that Paris has been transformed by the living dead overnight. The Hollywood Reporter calls NIGHT EATS THE WORLD “engaging, emotional, scary, and simply a masterpiece.” and Indiewire the “most innovative Zombie Movie since SHAUN OF THE DEAD.”
Opens July 27:
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ANDRE
Kate Novack (Fashion doc)
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André Leon Talley has been a fixture in the world of fashion for so long that it’s difficult to imagine a time when he wasn’t defining the boundaries of great style. Kate Novack’s intimate portrait, The Gospel According to André takes viewers on an emotional journey from André’s roots growing up in the segregated Jim Crow South to become one of the most influential tastemakers and fashion curators of our times.
Novack’s film draws fascinating, heretofore unexplored connections, between the elegance of André’s beloved grandmother and the Black Church of his youth and his later iconic, barrier-breaking work at publications like Women’s Wear Daily, W and Vogue. Weaving together a wealth of archival footage from the most glamorous moments in fashion history with André’s poignant reflections on his life and career, The Gospel According to André is a cinematic monument to one of the most unique figures of 20th Century American culture. Featuring commentary from fashion luminaries including Anna Wintour, Marc Jacobs and Tom Ford, The Gospel According to André is an indispensable addition to the growing canon of fashion documentary.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ANDRE
Kate Novack (Fashion doc)
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André Leon Talley has been a fixture in the world of fashion for so long that it’s difficult to imagine a time when he wasn’t defining the boundaries of great style. Kate Novack’s intimate portrait, The Gospel According to André takes viewers on an emotional journey from André’s roots growing up in the segregated Jim Crow South to become one of the most influential tastemakers and fashion curators of our times.
Novack’s film draws fascinating, heretofore unexplored connections, between the elegance of André’s beloved grandmother and the Black Church of his youth and his later iconic, barrier-breaking work at publications like Women’s Wear Daily, W and Vogue. Weaving together a wealth of archival footage from the most glamorous moments in fashion history with André’s poignant reflections on his life and career, The Gospel According to André is a cinematic monument to one of the most unique figures of 20th Century American culture. Featuring commentary from fashion luminaries including Anna Wintour, Marc Jacobs and Tom Ford, The Gospel According to André is an indispensable addition to the growing canon of fashion documentary.
Opens July 27:
GREGOIRE
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Four friends in Fort McMurray, AB navigate the complex threshold between childhood and adulthood—realizing that their actions have rippling and powerful consequences. Screens as part of our ongoing series CANADA IS BIGGER THAN THE U.S.
Opens August 3:
VENUS, the witty tale of Sid, a transitioning woman whose life takes a surprising turn when a 14-year-old boy named Ralph arrives at her door with the surprising announcement that he is her son. It seems before Sid’s gender identity was clear to him, he and his girlfriend…
Opens August 3:
A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM, Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night starring Rachel Leigh Cook, Paz de la Huerta, Avan Jogla, Fran Kranz, Ted Levine, Hamish Linklater, Lily Rabe, Saul Williams, Finn Wittrock, Bob Bancroft, etc.
Opens August 10:
ARABY, Andre is a young boy that lives in an industrial neighborhood in Ouro Preto, Brazil, near an old aluminum factory. One day he finds a notebook from one of the factory workers. As Andre reads from the journal entries, we are plunged into Cristiano’s life, into stories of his wanderings, adventures, and loves.
Friday thru Sunday, August 10 thru 12 @ 6:00 pm - SICK TO DEATH presented by Maggie Hadleigh-West. A documentary film seeking to understand and change corrupt medical practices around thyroid disease. There will be a Q & A after the film on Saturday. $10.
Monday, August 13 @ 6:00 pm - ZANZIBAR, DANCE, TRANCE AND DEVOTION presented by filmmaker Tamalyn Dallal. This documentary is an anthology of 26 traditional dances from Zanzibar, Tanzania.
Opens August 17:
COCOTE, A rapturous crime fable set in the Dominican Republic follows Alberto, a kind-hearted gardener returns home when a powerful local figure is responsible for his father’s death, Alberto realizes he’s been summoned by his family to avenge the murder.
Opens August 17:
NICO 1988, The film centers on the final two years of Nico’s life, approaching 50 her manager convinces her to hit the road again and tour Europe to promote her new album. She longs to rebuild a relationship with her son, whose custody she lost long ago.
Friday & Saturdays, August 17, 18, 24 & 25 @ 9:30 pm - SUMMER OF ’84, After suspecting that their police officer neighbor is a serial killer, a group of teenage friends spend their summer spying on him and gathering evidence, but as they get closer to discovering the truth, things get dangerous in this Canadian cult thriller.
Opens August 24:
6:00 & 8:00 pm nightly - RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE presented by co-filmmakers Quinn Costello, Chris Metzler & Jeff Springer. The Nutria film. A story about giant swamp rats invading coastal Louisiana and the defiant people on the edge of the world, who are defending their communities, culture, and livelihoods from the onslaught of this curious and unexpected invasive species.
Opens September 7:
WILD BOYS, a trippy take on William Burroughs novel of the same name where five 'Wild Boys' all played by actresses(!!!) take on a captain bent on taming their ferocious appetites for mischief in this subversive and playfully gender bending maritime adventure.
Friday, September 21 @ 7:00 pm - TIGERS JAW, indie-pop-emo-punk band from Scranton, PA featuring Ben Walsh and Brianna Collins.
Saturday October 6 @ 6:00 pm and Sunday, October 7 @ 4:00 pm - Lumpy Grits Artistry (from Shreveport, LA) presents LYSISTRATA, An Ancient Afro-Greek Comedy. Lysistrata is an ancient anti-war comedy that was originally written by Aristophanes, in 411 BC
Opens October 12:
QUEERCORE: HOW TO PUNK A REVOLUTION is an award-winning documentary on the queer punk movement focusing on homophobia, gender, feminism, AIDS, assimilation, sex, and, of course, art. The extensive participant list includes Bruce LaBruce, G.B. Jones, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, John Waters, Justin Vivian Bond, Lynn Breedlove, Silas Howard, Pansy Division, Penny Arcade, Kathleen Hanna, Kim Gordon, Deke Elash, Tom Jennings, Team Dresch, and many more.
GREGOIRE
[TRAILER]
Four friends in Fort McMurray, AB navigate the complex threshold between childhood and adulthood—realizing that their actions have rippling and powerful consequences. Screens as part of our ongoing series CANADA IS BIGGER THAN THE U.S.
Opens August 3:
VENUS, the witty tale of Sid, a transitioning woman whose life takes a surprising turn when a 14-year-old boy named Ralph arrives at her door with the surprising announcement that he is her son. It seems before Sid’s gender identity was clear to him, he and his girlfriend…
Opens August 3:
A MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM, Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night starring Rachel Leigh Cook, Paz de la Huerta, Avan Jogla, Fran Kranz, Ted Levine, Hamish Linklater, Lily Rabe, Saul Williams, Finn Wittrock, Bob Bancroft, etc.
Opens August 10:
ARABY, Andre is a young boy that lives in an industrial neighborhood in Ouro Preto, Brazil, near an old aluminum factory. One day he finds a notebook from one of the factory workers. As Andre reads from the journal entries, we are plunged into Cristiano’s life, into stories of his wanderings, adventures, and loves.
Friday thru Sunday, August 10 thru 12 @ 6:00 pm - SICK TO DEATH presented by Maggie Hadleigh-West. A documentary film seeking to understand and change corrupt medical practices around thyroid disease. There will be a Q & A after the film on Saturday. $10.
Monday, August 13 @ 6:00 pm - ZANZIBAR, DANCE, TRANCE AND DEVOTION presented by filmmaker Tamalyn Dallal. This documentary is an anthology of 26 traditional dances from Zanzibar, Tanzania.
Opens August 17:
COCOTE, A rapturous crime fable set in the Dominican Republic follows Alberto, a kind-hearted gardener returns home when a powerful local figure is responsible for his father’s death, Alberto realizes he’s been summoned by his family to avenge the murder.
Opens August 17:
NICO 1988, The film centers on the final two years of Nico’s life, approaching 50 her manager convinces her to hit the road again and tour Europe to promote her new album. She longs to rebuild a relationship with her son, whose custody she lost long ago.
Friday & Saturdays, August 17, 18, 24 & 25 @ 9:30 pm - SUMMER OF ’84, After suspecting that their police officer neighbor is a serial killer, a group of teenage friends spend their summer spying on him and gathering evidence, but as they get closer to discovering the truth, things get dangerous in this Canadian cult thriller.
Opens August 24:
6:00 & 8:00 pm nightly - RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE presented by co-filmmakers Quinn Costello, Chris Metzler & Jeff Springer. The Nutria film. A story about giant swamp rats invading coastal Louisiana and the defiant people on the edge of the world, who are defending their communities, culture, and livelihoods from the onslaught of this curious and unexpected invasive species.
Opens September 7:
WILD BOYS, a trippy take on William Burroughs novel of the same name where five 'Wild Boys' all played by actresses(!!!) take on a captain bent on taming their ferocious appetites for mischief in this subversive and playfully gender bending maritime adventure.
Friday, September 21 @ 7:00 pm - TIGERS JAW, indie-pop-emo-punk band from Scranton, PA featuring Ben Walsh and Brianna Collins.
Saturday October 6 @ 6:00 pm and Sunday, October 7 @ 4:00 pm - Lumpy Grits Artistry (from Shreveport, LA) presents LYSISTRATA, An Ancient Afro-Greek Comedy. Lysistrata is an ancient anti-war comedy that was originally written by Aristophanes, in 411 BC
Opens October 12:
QUEERCORE: HOW TO PUNK A REVOLUTION is an award-winning documentary on the queer punk movement focusing on homophobia, gender, feminism, AIDS, assimilation, sex, and, of course, art. The extensive participant list includes Bruce LaBruce, G.B. Jones, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, John Waters, Justin Vivian Bond, Lynn Breedlove, Silas Howard, Pansy Division, Penny Arcade, Kathleen Hanna, Kim Gordon, Deke Elash, Tom Jennings, Team Dresch, and many more.
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, 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, 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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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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Canada Now: New Films From Canada
May 18 through July 26, 2018
Zeitgeist is proud to once again bring this diverse, engaging, decidedly entertaining selection of the best in contemporary Canadian cinema to New Orleans. From time-travel adventure to comedy to psychological drama to politically charged personal cinema, this Canadian cinematic octet reveals the seismic shifts underway in Canada (and globally) in relation to such potent, urgently relevant issues as the history of indigenous peoples, the immigrant experience, race relations, and gender politics.
Canada Now 2018 showcases impressive new works by veteran filmmakers and rookie directors alike that celebrate the independent spirit that has always been a hallmark of Canadian cinema. This acclaimed annual film tour is presented in the United States by TeleFilm Canada and Dada Films.
The films in this series also screen as part of Zeitgeist’s ongoing series CANADA IS BIGGER THAN THE U.S. and in several cases as indicated with our AN INDIGENOUS FILM series.
Friday through Thursday, May 18 through 24 @ 7:00 pm (except Monday @ 4:00 pm)
INDIAN HORSE I 101 minutes I Trailer Link
An adaptation of Richard Wagamese’s award-winning novel, this moving and important drama sheds light on the dark history of Canada’s Residential Schools and the indomitable spirit of Indigenous people. INDIAN HORSE stars newcomers Sladen Peltier, Ajuawak Kapashesit and Edna Manitowabi as well as Forrest Goodluck (THE REVENANT), Michael Murphy (AWAY FROM HER), Michael Lawrenchuk (TOKYO COWBOY), Johnny Issaluk (TWO LOVERS AND A BEAR) and Michiel Huisman (THE AGE OF ADELINE). In late 1950s Ontario, eight-year old Saul Indian Horse is torn from his Ojibway (Anishnaabe) family and committed to one of Canada’s notorious Catholic Residential Schools. In this oppressive environment, Saul is denied the freedom to speak his language or embrace his Indigenous heritage while he witnesses horrendous abuse at the hands of the very people entrusted with his care. Despite this, Saul finds salvation in the unlikeliest of places and favourite Canadian pastime — hockey. Fascinated by the game, he secretly teaches himself to play, developing a unique and rare skill. He seems to see the game in a way no other player can. His talent leads him away from the misery of the school, eventually to the Pros. But the ghosts of Saul’s past are always present, and threaten to derail his promising career and future. Forced to confront his painful past, Saul draws on the spirit of his ancestors and the understanding of his friends to begin the process of healing. Winner Audience Awards - Vancouver Int Film Festival, Edmonton Int Film Festival, Available Light Film Festival, Victoria Film Festival; Best Supporting Actor - Sladen Peltier - Academy Of Canadian Cinema and Television; Best Narrative Feature - Calgary Int Film Festival.
“This was my favorite Canadian Film at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. I was hoping it would be included in the Canada Now tour. Since It wasn’t I have worked with the film’s producers to bring it to Zeitgeist as a special addition to the CANADA NOW series as well as our AN INDIGENOUS FILM SERIES. Please come and see this remarkably powerful film.” - Rene Broussard, Zeitgeist Founder / Director.
Friday through Thursday, May 25 through 31 @ 7:00 pm
THE LITTLE GIRL WHO WAS TOO FOND OF MATCHES (LA PETITE FILLE QUI AIME TROP LES ALLUMETTES I 111 minutes I Trailer Link
Based on Quebec author Gaétan Soucy's critically acclaimed novel, Simon Lavoie’s stylish, black and white coming-of-age film charts the disintegration of a strange and haunted family in a remote rural region of Quebec in the 1930s. This gothic noir psychodrama unfolds within the troubled, isolated, and motherless Soisson family. The solitary alcoholic Soisson patriarch drinks every night and delivers intense, perplexing sermons to his teenaged son and daughter in a ramshackle chapel in their house. He also forbids them any contact with the outside world. After his sudden death, however, the children have to fend for themselves and, as the outside world begins to encroach, they begin to doubt their father's teachings and soon uncover disturbing family secrets. Revolving principally around the daughter (enigmatically named ‘Brother by Son’), Little Girl’s unique, claustrophobic drama explores the tensions between sexuality and religion, tradition and modernity, as well as examining the dark, murky consequences of repression.
Friday through Thursday, June 1 through 7 @ 7:00 pm
ALL YOU CAN EAT BUDDHA | 84 minutes | Trailer Link
Director: Ian Lagarde
At the Palacio, a rather forlorn all-inclusive resort somewhere in the Caribbean, there arrives an unusual guest, a gentle French-Canadian behemoth named Mike (Ludovic Berthillot). After his arrival, unexpected and unusual events begin to take place in this quiet, shabby, sundrenched sanctuary. His voracious appetite, mysterious magnetism, and otherworldly talents (one of which is as an ‘octopus whisperer’), combine to attract resort staff and tourists alike. Regarded as some kind of spiritual healer, Mike soon finds himself receiving the many and varied affections of those staying at the peculiar resort. His strange, saintly status will eventually complicate not only the operations of the resort itself, but also the intimate personal lives of its staff and guests. Absurdist in some places, magic realist in others, and reminiscent of the deadpan drollery of Aki Kaurismaki and Ulrich Seidl, Ian Lagarde’s arresting debut feature gives new meaning to north-south relations. Enigmatic, eccentric, unforgettable.
“…Lagarde's talent for crafting arresting and macabre visual imagery is undeniable.”
–Screen International
Friday through Thursday, June 8 through 14 @ 7:00 pm
BLACK COP | 91 minutes | Trailer Link
Director: Cory Bowles
An explosive examination of race relations in Canada, Nova Scotia director Cory Bowles’ incendiary debut feature film follows an African-Canadian cop who is racially profiled (by his own police force!) while off duty in his home city of Halifax. His growing frustration and indignation with Canadian society’s racial divide soon leads him to take justice into his own hands. Despite his justifiable and intense frustrations, what will be the consequences of his actions? Moreover, can he himself justify them ‘by any means necessary’? Bowles’ film combines a gritty street realism with more stylish passages filled with a startling poetry of anguish and anger, and features a powerful performance by Ronnie Rowe Jr. Black Cop’s bold confrontation with some not too appealing truths about today’s society makes for hard-hitting drama. A multiple award-winner (Best Film, Best Director at the 2017 Atlantic Film Festival; Best Canadian Feature, 2017 Vancouver International Film Festival), Black Cop announces the arrival of a potent, provocative new voice in contemporary Canadian cinema.
“A nervy, queasy combination of jet-black satire and stylized psychodrama, Black Cop lands smack in the middle of the Black Lives Matter debate. The timing couldn’t be more opportune – and better still, the movie genuinely engages with the issue of racial profiling and police violence.” –Now Magazine
Friday through Thursday, June 15 through 21 @ 7:00 pm
CARDINALS | 84 minutes | Trailer Link
Director: Grayson Moore, Aiden Shipley
When Valerie Walker (portrayed in a towering performance by I’ve Heard The Mermaids Singing’s Sheila McCarthy) returns from prison after serving her sentence for killing her neighbour in an apparent drunk driving accident, she wants nothing more than to move on, reconnect with her daughters, and reconstruct her life. When the deceased man’s son Mark shows up at her door, however, it becomes clear that the past will not easily be forgotten. Despite being given her version of the tragic events, Mark wants to push further into what he believes really happened, whatever the consequences. An austere and tautly constructed psychological drama, as well as a thoughtful exploration of the challenges of both surviving and living with the many-sided after effects of trauma, Cardinals is an assured directorial debut for Moore and Shipley.
“From its opening scenes, Cardinals sets a standard of no-holds-barred storytelling.” –Cinemascope
Friday through Thursday, June 22 through 28 @ 7:00 pm
CROSS MY HEART, LES ROIS MONGOLS | 104 minutes | Trailer Link
Director: Luc Picard
Luc Picard's engaging family drama is set in Montreal in 1970 during an actual historical period known as the 'October Crisis'. The radical left-wing nationalist group, 'Front de libération du Québec' (FLQ), forced the province into a state of emergency with kidnappings, bombings, and assassination. This means very little to twelve-year-old Manon, though, because she is watching a more immediate crisis happening in her own family, watching helplessly it falls apart. With her father dying of cancer and her depressive mother unable to cope, Manon and her younger brother Michel are to be sent to separate foster families. Manon, however, has sworn to her brother that she will never leave him alone. In desperation, she hatches a daring plan. Inspired by the political fervour in the city, she forms a 'revolutionary' group of her own with her older cousins. They plot to kidnap their elderly neighbour and take off to a cabin the country. Struggling to manufacture a normal childhood in very abnormal circumstances, they spend the initial days enjoying their newfound freedom far from the influence of the grown-up world. Meanwhile, that adult world is actively on the hunt for them. Superbly crafted and very moving, the film was a hit the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival.
"With deft direction for his young actors, a feel for gentle comedy and an almost-too-precise eye for period detailing, Picard polishes the film to a fine gleam, enhanced by the control of François Dutil’s warm, chocolate, mustard and claret-colored images." -Variety
Friday through Thursday, June 29 through July 5 @ 7:00 pm
plus Sunday, July 1 also @ 4:30 pm - Special Pay What You can CANADA DAY screening!
HOCHELAGA, LAND OF SOULS | 99 minutes | Trailer Link
Director: François Girard
The latest from internationally acclaimed director François Girard (Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, The Red Violin), Hochelaga, Land of Souls is a mesmerizing time travel drama spanning eight centuries of layered indigenous, colonial, and contemporary histories. When a sinkhole suddenly opens up on the field of a downtown Montreal football stadium during a game, the city’s past and present begin to intersect. As part of the investigation of the event, an archaeological dig is set up on the site, believed to have been at one time the Iroquois village of Hochelaga. Uncovering artifacts and clues to Montreal’s extraordinary past, Baptiste Asigny, a young archaeologist of Mohawk heritage, embarks on an incredible journey of discovery through the tangled history of his at once modern and ancient city. Girard’s film moves seamlessly between pre-European times, the age of the French explorer Jacques Cartier and his first contact with the Iroquois people, as well as the subsequent convulsive political and social events that occurred in this very space over the centuries right up to Asigny’s own contemporary Montreal. It is an imaginative cinematic weave, a stunning tapestry of time and space, memory and identity. Screens as part of AN INDIGENOUS FILM series. The Official Academy Award Entry from Canada screens with a special "Pay What You Can" CANADA DAY matinee screening Sunday, June 1 @ 4:30 pm.
"Hochelaga, Land of Souls proves a worthy return to the strengths and ambitions of Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould and The Red Violin. Like those two earlier art-house successes, Hochelaga … rewards with a rich cinematic banquet." –Variety
Friday through Thursday, July 6 through 12 @ 7:00 pm
MARY GOES ROUND | 86 minutes | Trailer Link
Director: Molly McGlynn
Thoughtful and self-assured, Mary is an intelligent and compassionate substance abuse counsellor. Trouble is, she has a serious drinking problem that she struggles mightily to conceal. She’s also got a tangled family history and her romantic life is, well, not very romantic at all these days. After getting charged for drunk driving and subsequently leaving her job, Mary finds herself alone and adrift. Returning to her hometown of Niagara Falls in order to attempt to rebuild her shattered life, she instead discovers that her estranged father Walt is dying of cancer and that she has a teenage half-sister she's never met. Needless to say, these are not the best of times for Mary. Or are they? With its finely calibrated blend of humour and pathos, McGlynn’s semi-autobiographical first feature is a surprising, insightful exploration of addiction, sisterhood, and the possibilities of redemption.
“Mary Goes Round handles its story beats with a canny mixture of rueful humor, warmth and realism.” –Variety
Friday through Thursday, July 13 through 19 @ 7:00 pm
UNARMED VERSES | 86 minutes | Trailer Link
Director: Charles Officer
Winner of the Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award (Hot Docs 2017), Unarmed Verses follows the precociously talented Francine Valentine, a 12-year-old girl who is, along with her family and community, facing eviction from their low-income housing block in Toronto. ‘Armed’ with a luminous, undaunted creative spirit and a restless, generous intelligence, Francine turns to artistic expression, as she and her friends prepare to record music and poetry together. Meanwhile, as the community struggles to come to terms with the threat to its cultural richness and very real human wealth, the wrecking ball looms and the City’s plans for relocation are issued. Officer’s is a striking, sensitive, and incisive film about the actual human costs of such high-minded notions of ‘progress,’ ‘development,’ and ‘gentrification.’
“A poignant, blossoming 86-minute experience about the power of art … “
–Globe and Mail
$8 general / $7 students, seniors / $6 Zeitgeist members or Canadians with Passport.
May 18 through July 26, 2018
Zeitgeist is proud to once again bring this diverse, engaging, decidedly entertaining selection of the best in contemporary Canadian cinema to New Orleans. From time-travel adventure to comedy to psychological drama to politically charged personal cinema, this Canadian cinematic octet reveals the seismic shifts underway in Canada (and globally) in relation to such potent, urgently relevant issues as the history of indigenous peoples, the immigrant experience, race relations, and gender politics.
Canada Now 2018 showcases impressive new works by veteran filmmakers and rookie directors alike that celebrate the independent spirit that has always been a hallmark of Canadian cinema. This acclaimed annual film tour is presented in the United States by TeleFilm Canada and Dada Films.
The films in this series also screen as part of Zeitgeist’s ongoing series CANADA IS BIGGER THAN THE U.S. and in several cases as indicated with our AN INDIGENOUS FILM series.
Friday through Thursday, May 18 through 24 @ 7:00 pm (except Monday @ 4:00 pm)
INDIAN HORSE I 101 minutes I Trailer Link
An adaptation of Richard Wagamese’s award-winning novel, this moving and important drama sheds light on the dark history of Canada’s Residential Schools and the indomitable spirit of Indigenous people. INDIAN HORSE stars newcomers Sladen Peltier, Ajuawak Kapashesit and Edna Manitowabi as well as Forrest Goodluck (THE REVENANT), Michael Murphy (AWAY FROM HER), Michael Lawrenchuk (TOKYO COWBOY), Johnny Issaluk (TWO LOVERS AND A BEAR) and Michiel Huisman (THE AGE OF ADELINE). In late 1950s Ontario, eight-year old Saul Indian Horse is torn from his Ojibway (Anishnaabe) family and committed to one of Canada’s notorious Catholic Residential Schools. In this oppressive environment, Saul is denied the freedom to speak his language or embrace his Indigenous heritage while he witnesses horrendous abuse at the hands of the very people entrusted with his care. Despite this, Saul finds salvation in the unlikeliest of places and favourite Canadian pastime — hockey. Fascinated by the game, he secretly teaches himself to play, developing a unique and rare skill. He seems to see the game in a way no other player can. His talent leads him away from the misery of the school, eventually to the Pros. But the ghosts of Saul’s past are always present, and threaten to derail his promising career and future. Forced to confront his painful past, Saul draws on the spirit of his ancestors and the understanding of his friends to begin the process of healing. Winner Audience Awards - Vancouver Int Film Festival, Edmonton Int Film Festival, Available Light Film Festival, Victoria Film Festival; Best Supporting Actor - Sladen Peltier - Academy Of Canadian Cinema and Television; Best Narrative Feature - Calgary Int Film Festival.
“This was my favorite Canadian Film at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. I was hoping it would be included in the Canada Now tour. Since It wasn’t I have worked with the film’s producers to bring it to Zeitgeist as a special addition to the CANADA NOW series as well as our AN INDIGENOUS FILM SERIES. Please come and see this remarkably powerful film.” - Rene Broussard, Zeitgeist Founder / Director.
Friday through Thursday, May 25 through 31 @ 7:00 pm
THE LITTLE GIRL WHO WAS TOO FOND OF MATCHES (LA PETITE FILLE QUI AIME TROP LES ALLUMETTES I 111 minutes I Trailer Link
Based on Quebec author Gaétan Soucy's critically acclaimed novel, Simon Lavoie’s stylish, black and white coming-of-age film charts the disintegration of a strange and haunted family in a remote rural region of Quebec in the 1930s. This gothic noir psychodrama unfolds within the troubled, isolated, and motherless Soisson family. The solitary alcoholic Soisson patriarch drinks every night and delivers intense, perplexing sermons to his teenaged son and daughter in a ramshackle chapel in their house. He also forbids them any contact with the outside world. After his sudden death, however, the children have to fend for themselves and, as the outside world begins to encroach, they begin to doubt their father's teachings and soon uncover disturbing family secrets. Revolving principally around the daughter (enigmatically named ‘Brother by Son’), Little Girl’s unique, claustrophobic drama explores the tensions between sexuality and religion, tradition and modernity, as well as examining the dark, murky consequences of repression.
Friday through Thursday, June 1 through 7 @ 7:00 pm
ALL YOU CAN EAT BUDDHA | 84 minutes | Trailer Link
Director: Ian Lagarde
At the Palacio, a rather forlorn all-inclusive resort somewhere in the Caribbean, there arrives an unusual guest, a gentle French-Canadian behemoth named Mike (Ludovic Berthillot). After his arrival, unexpected and unusual events begin to take place in this quiet, shabby, sundrenched sanctuary. His voracious appetite, mysterious magnetism, and otherworldly talents (one of which is as an ‘octopus whisperer’), combine to attract resort staff and tourists alike. Regarded as some kind of spiritual healer, Mike soon finds himself receiving the many and varied affections of those staying at the peculiar resort. His strange, saintly status will eventually complicate not only the operations of the resort itself, but also the intimate personal lives of its staff and guests. Absurdist in some places, magic realist in others, and reminiscent of the deadpan drollery of Aki Kaurismaki and Ulrich Seidl, Ian Lagarde’s arresting debut feature gives new meaning to north-south relations. Enigmatic, eccentric, unforgettable.
“…Lagarde's talent for crafting arresting and macabre visual imagery is undeniable.”
–Screen International
Friday through Thursday, June 8 through 14 @ 7:00 pm
BLACK COP | 91 minutes | Trailer Link
Director: Cory Bowles
An explosive examination of race relations in Canada, Nova Scotia director Cory Bowles’ incendiary debut feature film follows an African-Canadian cop who is racially profiled (by his own police force!) while off duty in his home city of Halifax. His growing frustration and indignation with Canadian society’s racial divide soon leads him to take justice into his own hands. Despite his justifiable and intense frustrations, what will be the consequences of his actions? Moreover, can he himself justify them ‘by any means necessary’? Bowles’ film combines a gritty street realism with more stylish passages filled with a startling poetry of anguish and anger, and features a powerful performance by Ronnie Rowe Jr. Black Cop’s bold confrontation with some not too appealing truths about today’s society makes for hard-hitting drama. A multiple award-winner (Best Film, Best Director at the 2017 Atlantic Film Festival; Best Canadian Feature, 2017 Vancouver International Film Festival), Black Cop announces the arrival of a potent, provocative new voice in contemporary Canadian cinema.
“A nervy, queasy combination of jet-black satire and stylized psychodrama, Black Cop lands smack in the middle of the Black Lives Matter debate. The timing couldn’t be more opportune – and better still, the movie genuinely engages with the issue of racial profiling and police violence.” –Now Magazine
Friday through Thursday, June 15 through 21 @ 7:00 pm
CARDINALS | 84 minutes | Trailer Link
Director: Grayson Moore, Aiden Shipley
When Valerie Walker (portrayed in a towering performance by I’ve Heard The Mermaids Singing’s Sheila McCarthy) returns from prison after serving her sentence for killing her neighbour in an apparent drunk driving accident, she wants nothing more than to move on, reconnect with her daughters, and reconstruct her life. When the deceased man’s son Mark shows up at her door, however, it becomes clear that the past will not easily be forgotten. Despite being given her version of the tragic events, Mark wants to push further into what he believes really happened, whatever the consequences. An austere and tautly constructed psychological drama, as well as a thoughtful exploration of the challenges of both surviving and living with the many-sided after effects of trauma, Cardinals is an assured directorial debut for Moore and Shipley.
“From its opening scenes, Cardinals sets a standard of no-holds-barred storytelling.” –Cinemascope
Friday through Thursday, June 22 through 28 @ 7:00 pm
CROSS MY HEART, LES ROIS MONGOLS | 104 minutes | Trailer Link
Director: Luc Picard
Luc Picard's engaging family drama is set in Montreal in 1970 during an actual historical period known as the 'October Crisis'. The radical left-wing nationalist group, 'Front de libération du Québec' (FLQ), forced the province into a state of emergency with kidnappings, bombings, and assassination. This means very little to twelve-year-old Manon, though, because she is watching a more immediate crisis happening in her own family, watching helplessly it falls apart. With her father dying of cancer and her depressive mother unable to cope, Manon and her younger brother Michel are to be sent to separate foster families. Manon, however, has sworn to her brother that she will never leave him alone. In desperation, she hatches a daring plan. Inspired by the political fervour in the city, she forms a 'revolutionary' group of her own with her older cousins. They plot to kidnap their elderly neighbour and take off to a cabin the country. Struggling to manufacture a normal childhood in very abnormal circumstances, they spend the initial days enjoying their newfound freedom far from the influence of the grown-up world. Meanwhile, that adult world is actively on the hunt for them. Superbly crafted and very moving, the film was a hit the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival.
"With deft direction for his young actors, a feel for gentle comedy and an almost-too-precise eye for period detailing, Picard polishes the film to a fine gleam, enhanced by the control of François Dutil’s warm, chocolate, mustard and claret-colored images." -Variety
Friday through Thursday, June 29 through July 5 @ 7:00 pm
plus Sunday, July 1 also @ 4:30 pm - Special Pay What You can CANADA DAY screening!
HOCHELAGA, LAND OF SOULS | 99 minutes | Trailer Link
Director: François Girard
The latest from internationally acclaimed director François Girard (Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, The Red Violin), Hochelaga, Land of Souls is a mesmerizing time travel drama spanning eight centuries of layered indigenous, colonial, and contemporary histories. When a sinkhole suddenly opens up on the field of a downtown Montreal football stadium during a game, the city’s past and present begin to intersect. As part of the investigation of the event, an archaeological dig is set up on the site, believed to have been at one time the Iroquois village of Hochelaga. Uncovering artifacts and clues to Montreal’s extraordinary past, Baptiste Asigny, a young archaeologist of Mohawk heritage, embarks on an incredible journey of discovery through the tangled history of his at once modern and ancient city. Girard’s film moves seamlessly between pre-European times, the age of the French explorer Jacques Cartier and his first contact with the Iroquois people, as well as the subsequent convulsive political and social events that occurred in this very space over the centuries right up to Asigny’s own contemporary Montreal. It is an imaginative cinematic weave, a stunning tapestry of time and space, memory and identity. Screens as part of AN INDIGENOUS FILM series. The Official Academy Award Entry from Canada screens with a special "Pay What You Can" CANADA DAY matinee screening Sunday, June 1 @ 4:30 pm.
"Hochelaga, Land of Souls proves a worthy return to the strengths and ambitions of Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould and The Red Violin. Like those two earlier art-house successes, Hochelaga … rewards with a rich cinematic banquet." –Variety
Friday through Thursday, July 6 through 12 @ 7:00 pm
MARY GOES ROUND | 86 minutes | Trailer Link
Director: Molly McGlynn
Thoughtful and self-assured, Mary is an intelligent and compassionate substance abuse counsellor. Trouble is, she has a serious drinking problem that she struggles mightily to conceal. She’s also got a tangled family history and her romantic life is, well, not very romantic at all these days. After getting charged for drunk driving and subsequently leaving her job, Mary finds herself alone and adrift. Returning to her hometown of Niagara Falls in order to attempt to rebuild her shattered life, she instead discovers that her estranged father Walt is dying of cancer and that she has a teenage half-sister she's never met. Needless to say, these are not the best of times for Mary. Or are they? With its finely calibrated blend of humour and pathos, McGlynn’s semi-autobiographical first feature is a surprising, insightful exploration of addiction, sisterhood, and the possibilities of redemption.
“Mary Goes Round handles its story beats with a canny mixture of rueful humor, warmth and realism.” –Variety
Friday through Thursday, July 13 through 19 @ 7:00 pm
UNARMED VERSES | 86 minutes | Trailer Link
Director: Charles Officer
Winner of the Best Canadian Feature Documentary Award (Hot Docs 2017), Unarmed Verses follows the precociously talented Francine Valentine, a 12-year-old girl who is, along with her family and community, facing eviction from their low-income housing block in Toronto. ‘Armed’ with a luminous, undaunted creative spirit and a restless, generous intelligence, Francine turns to artistic expression, as she and her friends prepare to record music and poetry together. Meanwhile, as the community struggles to come to terms with the threat to its cultural richness and very real human wealth, the wrecking ball looms and the City’s plans for relocation are issued. Officer’s is a striking, sensitive, and incisive film about the actual human costs of such high-minded notions of ‘progress,’ ‘development,’ and ‘gentrification.’
“A poignant, blossoming 86-minute experience about the power of art … “
–Globe and Mail
$8 general / $7 students, seniors / $6 Zeitgeist members or Canadians with Passport.
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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 31st anniversary this November.
Come join us!
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 31st anniversary this November.
Come join us!
Zeitgeist is a non-profit, artist run media arts center in New Orleans that celebrated its 30th anniversary in November 2016.
Zeitgeist has created a GoFundMe Campaign
to make some much needed renovations and improvements to our space.
We have been working hard all week long and are finally almost finished with "PHASE ONE" of our renovations and improvements. We are finished wallpapering and renovating our main restroom and it looks incredible! We have also remodeled our box office concessions and acquired a wider/bigger projection screen. Take a look. Thanks to everyone who donated or volunteered. "PHASE TWO" requires money for installing the ceiling fans and purchasing new couches and cabaret tables. If you haven't contributed yet, we could really use your help
DONATE
We have an open submission policy. If you would like to exhibit your work or schedule an event at Zeitgeist please contact Rene Broussard at rene@zeitgeistnola.org or (504) 352-1150.
Zeitgeist has created a GoFundMe Campaign
to make some much needed renovations and improvements to our space.
We have been working hard all week long and are finally almost finished with "PHASE ONE" of our renovations and improvements. We are finished wallpapering and renovating our main restroom and it looks incredible! We have also remodeled our box office concessions and acquired a wider/bigger projection screen. Take a look. Thanks to everyone who donated or volunteered. "PHASE TWO" requires money for installing the ceiling fans and purchasing new couches and cabaret tables. If you haven't contributed yet, we could really use your help
DONATE
We have an open submission policy. If you would like to exhibit your work or schedule an event at Zeitgeist please contact Rene Broussard at rene@zeitgeistnola.org or (504) 352-1150.
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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
The OCH Gallery @ Zeitgeist
We are currently between exhibitions.
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 Estralita's Express, Johnny's Jamaican Grill, The Pupusa Lady and Diva Dawg) 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 Estralita's Express, Johnny's Jamaican Grill, The Pupusa Lady and Diva Dawg) 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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Zeitgeist would like to thank
IATSE LOCAL 478 – MOTION PICTURE STUDIO MECHANICS OF LOUISIANA & SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI for their generous sponsorship and on-going support. |
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