Zeitgeist CALENDAR
Thursday, July 12 @ 7:00 pm
MARY GOES ROUND, 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 romantic life. CANADA NOW
July 9 thru 12 @ 8:45 pm
DON’T BREAK DOWN: A FILM ABOUT JAWBREAKER. one of the most influential American punk bands, Jawbreaker, featuring Blake Schwarzenbach, Chris Bauermeister, and Adam Pfahler reminisce and even perform together as they retell their “rags to riches to rags” story with interviews with Billy Joe Armstrong, Steve Albini, Jessica Hopper, Graham Elliot, Chris Shiflett, Josh Caterer and more.
Opens July 13:
5:15 pm nightly - EN EL SEPTIMO DIA (ON THE SEVENTH DAY), 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.
Opens July 13:
7:00 pm nightly (except Saturday) - UNARMED VERSES by Charles Officer (Nurse.Fighter.Boy) 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. CANADA NOW
Opens July 13:
8:45 pm nightly (except Saturday @ 3:15 pm) - RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: CODA, 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.
Saturday, July 14 @ 9:00 pm - SEVEN SINS: AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE curated by Love Madrid. Doors @ 8:00 pm. $10.
Opens July 20:
5:15 pm nightly - THE SWAN, 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.
Opens July 20:
7:00 pm nightly - PATH OF BLOOD, 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, 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:
7:00 pm nightly - THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ANDRE, operatic fashion editor André Leon Talley's life and career are on full display, in a poignant portrait that includes appearances by Anna Wintour, Marc Jacobs, Tom Ford, Whoopi Goldberg, Valentino, and Manolo Blahnik.
Opens July 27:
GREGOIRE, Four friends in Fort McMurray, AB navigate the complex threshold between childhood and adulthood—realizing that their actions have rippling and powerful consequences.
Sunday, July 29 @ 4:30 pm - DOMINION, animal rights doc uses drones, hidden and handheld cameras to expose the dark underbelly of modern animal agriculture, questioning the morality and validity of humankind's dominion over the animal kingdom. Donations.
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.
Saturday, August 4 @ 9:00 pm - SEVEN SINS: AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE curated by Love Madrid. Doors @ 8:00 pm. $10.
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 @ 7:00 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.
Saturday, August 11 @ 5:00 pm - WAR ZONE by Maggie Hadleigh-West, this legendary 1998 Feminist doc turns the tables and the cameras on men who ogle, catcall and harass women walkingg on Public streets.
Sunday, August 12 @ 5:00 pm - PLAYER HATING: A LOVE STORY by Maggie Hadleigh-West, 2009 documentary about hip hop artist named Half-a-Mill and his Brooklyn crew as they struggle to escape the poverty and violence of the Albany Housing Projects through music.
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 August 31:
FIVE SEASONS: THE GARDENS OF PIET OUDOLF. Revolutionary landscape designer Pit Oudolf is known for his public gardens like NY’s High Line or the Lurie Garden in Chicago which have redefined our conception of sardines as works of art.
Opens August 31:
EUTHANIZER, In this cult hit from Finland, Veijo Haukka is a 50-year-old mechanic, whose second job is to put sick pets to sleep. But what happens when he decides to save the wrong person’s dog and he runs afoul of a deranged white supremacist?
Saturday, September 1 @ 9:00 pm - SEVEN SINS: AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE curated by Love Madrid. Doors @ 8:00 pm. $10.
Opens September 7:
A SKIN SO SOFT by Denis Cote. A documentary about gladiators of modern times, a profile of six men obsessed with pushing their bodies beyond their limitations as extreme bodybuilders, diets, supplements and all oiled up for their next competitions.
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.
Opens September 14:
PORCUPINE LAKE by Ingrid Veninger. A story of bravery and the secret life of girls set in Northern Ontario during a hot and hazy summertime when adulthood has not yet arrived, but childhood is quickly vanishing.
Friday, September 21 @ 7:00 pm - TIGERS JAW, indie-pop-emo-punk band from Scranton, PA featuring Ben Walsh and Brianna Collins.
Opens September 22:
VENUS OBSCURA by Christophe Karabache. A theater director leads his two actors to an isolated cottage in the countryside to rehearse for Heiner Müller's « Hamlet-machine ». Once on sight, the small troupe faces not only the dullness of daily routine, but eventually strange occurrences that turn out to be extraordinary and extreme in nature in this multi-award winning French experimental drama.
Friday, October 5 @ 6:00 & 8:00 pm - FRANCES XAVIER CABRINI: THE PEOPLE’S SAINT, The film explores the environment and deep spirituality that shaped Mother Cabrini – the Patron Saint of Immigrants and Hospital Administrators -- in honor of the Centenary of her passing. It reintroduces audiences to the first American citizen saint and addresses her relevance today for refugees and immigrants around the world. As an alumni of St. Francis Cabrini Elementary School here in N.O. this film has special significance to me.
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
Saturday, October 6 @ 10:00 pm - SEVEN SINS: AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE curated by Love Madrid. Doors @ 9:00 pm. $10.
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.
Saturday, November 3 @ 9:00 pm - SEVEN SINS: AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE curated by Love Madrid. Doors @ 8:00 pm. $10.
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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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.
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