Zeitgeist CALENDAR
Thursday, November 15:
7:00 pm nightly - DISTANT CONSTELLATION, introduces us to the colorful residents of a Turkish retirement home, a community made up of pranksters, historians, artists and would-be Casanovas.
8:30 pm nightly - RIVER RUNS RED, The son of an African-American Judge is killed by police officers on the day he was set to begin the law enforcement academy. When the courts clear the officers of wrongdoing, the Judge must decide whether the courts are the only arbitrators of justice in this indie drama starring Tay Diggs, George Lopez, John Cusack and Luke Hemsworth
7:00 pm nightly - DISTANT CONSTELLATION, introduces us to the colorful residents of a Turkish retirement home, a community made up of pranksters, historians, artists and would-be Casanovas.
8:30 pm nightly - RIVER RUNS RED, The son of an African-American Judge is killed by police officers on the day he was set to begin the law enforcement academy. When the courts clear the officers of wrongdoing, the Judge must decide whether the courts are the only arbitrators of justice in this indie drama starring Tay Diggs, George Lopez, John Cusack and Luke Hemsworth
Opens November 16:
7:00 pm nightly through Wednesday - TEAM KHAN, As an amateur boxer, Amir Khan won a silver medal in the lightweight division at the 2004 Olympics, becoming Britain's youngest boxing Olympic medallist at the age of seventeen. He is also one of the youngest ever British professional world champions, winning the WBA title at the age of twenty-two. Since turning pro, Amir has been a two-time world champion, going from lightweight to welterweight and now up to middleweight he’s confident he can become a world champion once again.
Opens November 16:
8:45 pm nightly through Wednesday - WEIGHTLESS, Alessandro Nivola, Julianne Nicholson, and Johnny Knoxville star in this haunting drama of a man, living on the margins of society, who suddenly finds himself responsible for a ten-year-old son whom he hasn’t seen since infancy.
Thursday, November 22 - CLOSED FOR THANKSGIVING
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Opens November 23:
5:30 pm nightly - INFINITE FOOTBALL, Romanian New Wave master Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest, The Treasure) has crafted a hilarious, typically incisive documentary about former Romanian soccer star and current bureaucrat Laurențiu Ginghină.
7:00 pm nightly - NARCISSISTER ORGAN PLAYER, One of the contemporary art world’s most acclaimed mixed-media & “avant-porn” performance artists, the masked and merkin-clad Narcissister is the subject of this smart, sassy documentary that showcases her spectacle-rich approach to explorations of gender, racial identity, and sexuality. Screens with the locally produced short film REVOLUTIONARY REBIRTH by Monique Porter.
9:00 pm nightly - EL ANGEL, Carlitos is a 17 year-old youth with movie star swagger, blond curls and a baby face. As a young boy, he coveted other people's things, but it wasn't until his early adolescence that his true calling as a serial killer known as “The Angel Of Death”.
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Friday, November 30 @ 7:00 pm - A STRIKE AND AN UPRISING, a doc about two events: The San Antonio pecan shellers’ strike of 1938 and the Jobs With Justice march led by Nacogdoches cafeteria workers, groundskeepers and hourekeepers in 1987. Presented by Democratic Socialists of America, New Orleans Chapter. Free. Donations appreciated.
Saturday, December 1 @ 9:00 pm - SEVEN SINS: AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE curated by Love Madrid. Doors @ 8:00 pm. $10.
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Sunday through Wednesday, December 2 through 6
Zeitgeist is closed for rehearsals
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December 7 thru 9, 14 thru 16, 21 thru 23 @ 8:00 pm
A Tennessee Williams Xmas Spectacular!
Tennessee Williams Theatre Company Of New Orleans presents THE MUTILATED
Christmas is for cat fights—and this one’s a bona-fide Tennessee Williams musical comedy! Trinket and Celeste are at sixes and sevens with each other, but by the time the bells of St. Louis Cathedral toll twelve on Christmas Eve, will they reconcile, or will they end up in Touro Infirmary with battle wounds? Complete with warped Christmas carols from a chorus of Quarter rats, this is Tennessee Williams in his holiday best! This hilarious production will feature an original score by New Orleans based composer Michael Gillette!
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Mondays through Wednesday, December 10 thru 13 & 17 thru 20:
SWIMMING WITH MEN, A British comedy about a man suffering a mid-life crisis who finds new meaning in his life as part of an all-male, middle-aged, amateur synchronised swimming team starring Rob Brydon, Rupert Graves, Thomas Turgoose, Daniel Mays, Jim Carter, etc.
Thursday, December 13 @ 7:00 pm - JOHN SCOTT (Oakland, California), COLORBLOCK (indie psychedelic new wave experimental band from outer space, via NOLA), CARDBOARD COWBOY (Cosmic American Cowboy Music from New Orleans) in concert. $5.
Opens January 4:
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: async AT THE PARK AVENUE ARMORY, The film captures an intimate concert in New York City, where the legendary musician first publicly unveiled his new opus async hailed as one of the best albums of 2017 by esteemed publications such as Rolling Stone and Pitchfork. Zeitgeist screened the documentary RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: coda this year.
Opens January 11:
THE ORGANIZER, a portrait of Wade Rathke (who will be here to present the film the opening weekend), the controversial founder of ACORN, and explores the much maligned and misunderstood occupation of community organizing. Before it's infamous demise following several highly publicized scandals, ACORN had been the largest community organization in the US.
Opens January 18:
THE SAINT BERNARD CONNECTION, Subversive satirist Mads Brugger's latest is an odd-couple comedy about the pitfalls of striking out into the economic frontier; it charts two hapless Danes' scheme to sell Saint Bernards to China's middle class.
Opens March 8:
SMALLER AND SMALLER CIRCLES, Two Jesuit priests perform forensic work to solve the mystery revolving around the murders of young boys in Payatas, one of Metro Manilla's biggest slum areas. The pursuit of a brutal serial killer begins....
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1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. NOLA 70113 www.zeitgeistnola.org (504) 352-1150
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!
7:00 pm nightly through Wednesday - TEAM KHAN, As an amateur boxer, Amir Khan won a silver medal in the lightweight division at the 2004 Olympics, becoming Britain's youngest boxing Olympic medallist at the age of seventeen. He is also one of the youngest ever British professional world champions, winning the WBA title at the age of twenty-two. Since turning pro, Amir has been a two-time world champion, going from lightweight to welterweight and now up to middleweight he’s confident he can become a world champion once again.
Opens November 16:
8:45 pm nightly through Wednesday - WEIGHTLESS, Alessandro Nivola, Julianne Nicholson, and Johnny Knoxville star in this haunting drama of a man, living on the margins of society, who suddenly finds himself responsible for a ten-year-old son whom he hasn’t seen since infancy.
Thursday, November 22 - CLOSED FOR THANKSGIVING
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Opens November 23:
5:30 pm nightly - INFINITE FOOTBALL, Romanian New Wave master Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest, The Treasure) has crafted a hilarious, typically incisive documentary about former Romanian soccer star and current bureaucrat Laurențiu Ginghină.
7:00 pm nightly - NARCISSISTER ORGAN PLAYER, One of the contemporary art world’s most acclaimed mixed-media & “avant-porn” performance artists, the masked and merkin-clad Narcissister is the subject of this smart, sassy documentary that showcases her spectacle-rich approach to explorations of gender, racial identity, and sexuality. Screens with the locally produced short film REVOLUTIONARY REBIRTH by Monique Porter.
9:00 pm nightly - EL ANGEL, Carlitos is a 17 year-old youth with movie star swagger, blond curls and a baby face. As a young boy, he coveted other people's things, but it wasn't until his early adolescence that his true calling as a serial killer known as “The Angel Of Death”.
___________
Friday, November 30 @ 7:00 pm - A STRIKE AND AN UPRISING, a doc about two events: The San Antonio pecan shellers’ strike of 1938 and the Jobs With Justice march led by Nacogdoches cafeteria workers, groundskeepers and hourekeepers in 1987. Presented by Democratic Socialists of America, New Orleans Chapter. Free. Donations appreciated.
Saturday, December 1 @ 9:00 pm - SEVEN SINS: AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE curated by Love Madrid. Doors @ 8:00 pm. $10.
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Sunday through Wednesday, December 2 through 6
Zeitgeist is closed for rehearsals
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December 7 thru 9, 14 thru 16, 21 thru 23 @ 8:00 pm
A Tennessee Williams Xmas Spectacular!
Tennessee Williams Theatre Company Of New Orleans presents THE MUTILATED
Christmas is for cat fights—and this one’s a bona-fide Tennessee Williams musical comedy! Trinket and Celeste are at sixes and sevens with each other, but by the time the bells of St. Louis Cathedral toll twelve on Christmas Eve, will they reconcile, or will they end up in Touro Infirmary with battle wounds? Complete with warped Christmas carols from a chorus of Quarter rats, this is Tennessee Williams in his holiday best! This hilarious production will feature an original score by New Orleans based composer Michael Gillette!
_________
Mondays through Wednesday, December 10 thru 13 & 17 thru 20:
SWIMMING WITH MEN, A British comedy about a man suffering a mid-life crisis who finds new meaning in his life as part of an all-male, middle-aged, amateur synchronised swimming team starring Rob Brydon, Rupert Graves, Thomas Turgoose, Daniel Mays, Jim Carter, etc.
Thursday, December 13 @ 7:00 pm - JOHN SCOTT (Oakland, California), COLORBLOCK (indie psychedelic new wave experimental band from outer space, via NOLA), CARDBOARD COWBOY (Cosmic American Cowboy Music from New Orleans) in concert. $5.
Opens January 4:
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: async AT THE PARK AVENUE ARMORY, The film captures an intimate concert in New York City, where the legendary musician first publicly unveiled his new opus async hailed as one of the best albums of 2017 by esteemed publications such as Rolling Stone and Pitchfork. Zeitgeist screened the documentary RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: coda this year.
Opens January 11:
THE ORGANIZER, a portrait of Wade Rathke (who will be here to present the film the opening weekend), the controversial founder of ACORN, and explores the much maligned and misunderstood occupation of community organizing. Before it's infamous demise following several highly publicized scandals, ACORN had been the largest community organization in the US.
Opens January 18:
THE SAINT BERNARD CONNECTION, Subversive satirist Mads Brugger's latest is an odd-couple comedy about the pitfalls of striking out into the economic frontier; it charts two hapless Danes' scheme to sell Saint Bernards to China's middle class.
Opens March 8:
SMALLER AND SMALLER CIRCLES, Two Jesuit priests perform forensic work to solve the mystery revolving around the murders of young boys in Payatas, one of Metro Manilla's biggest slum areas. The pursuit of a brutal serial killer begins....
__________________________________________________________________________________________
1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. NOLA 70113 www.zeitgeistnola.org (504) 352-1150
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!