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The Following events will be in the Zeitgeist Theatre & lounge @ 6621 St. Claude Ave (one block East of Orleans Parish in Arabi):

June 20 through 26:

Fri, June 20 & Sat, June 21, 2025- 7:00 p.m. nightly
UNDERGROUND ORANGE
Film Screening(s) and Drag Cabaret Show. Screening(s) followed by a live Q&A with writer/director/star Michael Taylor Jackson both nights and a drag performance by Laveau Contraire and Debbie With a D. Friday only.
A self-identified "genre-fluid" film, in Underground Orange, Michael Taylor Jackson plays a Californian backpacker who becomes entangled in a polyamorous relationship with a gang of young actors who plot to kidnap the US Ambassador to Argentina. Underground Orange explores dichotomies as they appear in politics, identity, and queerness, blending tones, mashing up genre beats, and infusing the every day with imagination, balancing thoughtfulness and humor with a cheeky cleverness all its own.  The film is directed, written by, and stars Michael Taylor Jackson. It is produced by James Lefkowitz, Joel Pincosy, Florencia Franco, Jimena Monteoliva, and Manuela Alewaerts, with Godfrey Reggio as Executive Producer. 


Opens Sunday, June 22:

7:00 pm nightly
BLUE SUN PALACE by Constance Tsang
Winner: French Touch Prize - Cairo Intl. Film Festival - Winner: Best Actor (Lee Kang-sheng)
Within the confines of a massage parlor in Flushing, Queens, Amy (Ke-Xi Wu, Nina Wu) and Didi (Haipeng Xu, Where Echoes Never End) navigate romance, happiness, and the obligations of family thousands of miles from home. Despite the physical and emotional toll their work demands, the women have fortified an impenetrable sisterhood, which tragically collapses when disaster strikes on Lunar New Year. Co-starring Lee Kang-sheng (Stray Dogs, The Wayward Cloud).



COMING SOON:


Opens Tuesday, July 1:
7:00 pm nightly
TELEVISION EVENT by Jeff Daniels.
“TV’S NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE” a fall 1983 Newsweek cover screamed, as American viewers awaited the long-publicized premiere of a made-for-TV movie depicting an all-out nuclear exchange with the Soviets. The threat of nuclear annihilation loomed, and THE DAY AFTER played on these fears to a staggering 100 million viewers (the largest TV movie audience in history at that point). TELEVISION EVENT tracks the unlikely evolution of this audacious project after it is greenlit by the ABC Network. Director Nicholas Meyer (STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN) combatively, hilariously details a succession of clashes with network executives and censors. THE DAY AFTER so disturbed President Ronald Reagan, it prompted his reversal on the country’s nuclear weapons policy.


Sunday, August 24 @ 7:30 pm
ROB MAGILL (sax from California) & CHRIS ALFORD








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6621 St. Claude Ave. Arabi, LA 70032   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 celebrated its 31st anniversary this November. 

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