Zeitgeist CALENDAR
[BUY TICKETS]
The Following events will be in the Zeitgeist Theatre & lounge @ 6621 St. Claude Ave (in Arabi):
June 24 through 30, 2022
Friday, June 24 - 1:00 to 6:00 pm
ART CAMP 504 - FILM SHOWCASE
Opens June 24:
7:00 pm nightly
ROCIO by Dario Guerrero
As a young woman, Rocío and her husband risked everything to raise their children in the U.S. Years later, she becomes ill and her son Darío takes a leave of absence from his studies at Harvard to care for her. But despite of his status as a DACA recipient, leaving the U.S. will throw Darío's immigration status and education into doubt. His fight for temporary humanitarian parole garners national media attention. Can he come home again? Darío Guerrero is an undocumented Harvard graduate. His story first received national attention in September 2014 when he published an essay in the Washington Post titled “I told Harvard I was an undocumented immigrant. They gave me a full scholarship.” Following up on his story years later, a Telemundo crew found him living in his grandmother’s home, some 3,000 miles away from school in the crime-ridden, massive slums of Nezahualcoyotl outside Mexico City. His story again made national news, this time under the headline “Harvard student took his dying mom to Mexico, now he’s not allowed to leave.” This is the story of Rocío.
Friday, June 24 @ 8:00 pm
GOLD ROOM READING
Opens June 24:
8:15 pm nightly
1982 by Oualid Mouaness
In June of 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon, which was already reeling from its ongoing civil war. In his feature debut, director Oualid Mouaness revisits this cataclysmic moment in Lebanese history through a different lens. At a private school on the outskirts of Beirut, as the geopolitical conflict inches closer and closer, 11-year-old Wissam (Mohamad Dalli) is more intent on finding the courage to tell his classmate he loves her. For a dreamer like Wissam, who is more likely to be drawing than playing football, it's hard to comprehend the gravity of the impending violence. But for his teachers, Yesmine (Nadine Labaki) and Joseph (Rodrique Sleiman), the jets in the sky signal something greater. As they try to mask their growing fears for the sake of the students, they also attempt to hide the fractures in their relationship, as they fall on different sides of the political divide. Mouaness, who also wrote the script, splits the film between these two perspectives; that of the adults and that of the children, to explore the complexities of love and war. Winner - Cannes Film Festival’s youth sidebar Cannes Cinéphiles prize PRIX CANNES ECRANS JUNIORS 2021, the Toronto International Film Festival’s NETPAC AWARD, a FIPRESCI International Critics Prize at El-Gouna International Film Festival, and the UNICEF 2021 Prize among numerous others. It was also Lebanon’s official submission to the 92nd Academy Awards and holds the Murex D’Or, Lebanon’s Best Feature Film honor.
Held Over - 5:30 pm Saturday & Sunday, June 25 & 26
SOUTH: Ernest Shackleton And The Endurance Expedition
Back in the public eye thanks to a pioneering expedition that has rediscovered HMS Endurance - 107 years after it sank -South is the extraordinary account of one of exploration's greatest survival stories. When Sir Ernest Shackleton set sail on The Endurance on August 8, 1914, he was already an internationally renowned Antarctic explorer and national hero.
He planned a brave attempt to cross the continent of Antarctica via the Pole. Raising money for the Imperial Trans-Antarctic (ITA) expedition was a huge struggle. With an eye toward profiting from their adventures, Shackleton hired experienced cameraman Frank Hurley, whose films and photographs would hopefully pay for part of the expedition. But within a day’s travel (80 miles) of land, the Endurance was trapped in unusually heavy pack ice. Completely stuck, Shackleton and his crew drifted helplessly northward during the long Antarctic winter night while listening to the shrieks and moans of the Endurance slowly being crushed by the mounting pressure. What followed is one of the greatest adventure stories ever and an unbelievable tale of courage and survival. The crew drifted on ice floes for months before landing on the completely deserted Elephant Island. Though his crew was safe for now, there was no chance for rescue. So Ernest Shackleton and five of his men made a 850-mile journey in an open boat with only a sextent to guide them across the roughest seas in the world to miraculously reach Georgia Island. Even then, they had to become the first people ever to climb over the island's forbidding mountain to reach civilization on the other side. One of the greatest epics in the history of exploration, this is the original 1919 film produced by Shackleton and Frank Hurley. This landmark documentary has been remastered in 2K by the BFI National Archive and features a newly commissioned score by Neil Brand. 1919 Silent with English Intertitles | 88 min.
Screened as a fundraiser for the St. Bernard-Arabi Kiwanis Club. All tickets for SOUTH will be $8 or $6 for children 12 and under.
COMING SOON:
Opens July 1:
7:00 pm nightly through Wednesday
A MAN OF INTEGRITY by Mohammad Rasoulof.
Reza, having distanced himself from the urban quagmire, leads a simple life along with his wife and young son, somewhere in a remote village in Northern Iran. He spends his days working on his goldfish farm. Nearby, a private company with close links to the government and local authorities, has taken control of nearly every aspect of regional life. Its shareholders, accumulating wealth, power and economic influence, have been pushing local farmers and small owners to sell off their belongings, farms and estates, to the benefit of the Company’s influential network and its monopoly. It is under their pressure that many villagers have themselves become local links in the larger network of corruption.
Iran’s Mohammad Rasoulof, whose latest feature THERE IS NO EVIL won the Golden Bear at last year’s Berlinale, has been making scathing social commentary of the Iranian regime for over a decade, but he remains relatively unknown and underappreciated in the US—despite winning numerous prizes at such top world film festivals as Cannes and Berlin. A MAN OF INTEGRITY reveals the corruption and state cronyism at the heart of one of the most powerful and influential regimes in the Middle East. Banned in Iran!
Thursday, July 7 @ 6:30 pm
TEXAS JUSTICE: THE BRANDON WOODRUFF CASE
Texas Justice: Brandon Woodruff tells the story of the unimaginable injustice inflicted upon a young gay college student. Imagine it’s 2005. You’re 19 years old in the process of coming out when your parents are brutally murdered in rural East Texas. Despite no evidence putting you at the murder scene, you are immediately the prime suspect. This happened to Brandon Woodruff. He was tried by a jury panel of twelve, eight of whom stated in pre-trial questioning that gay people are morally inferior. The Innocence Project of Texas is now working to free Brandon Woodruff, noting that “homophobia was evident in his trial," with the prosecution repeatedly stating, “If he could lie about being gay, he could lie about killing his parents.” Many in the LGBTQ community can relate to the struggle of coming out. During that process, many of us keep our sexual orientation hidden from certain people while sorting out whom to tell and when. Brandon was doing exactly that at the time of his parents' murders. But the jury interpreted this natural coming-out process as Brandon leading a sinister double life that drove him to murder. This is a chilling story for all of us, especially for the LGBTQ community. Filmmakers Richard Ray & Scott Poggensee will be here for a Q & A after the film.
Opening September 2:
MEMORIA by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
From the extraordinary mind of Palme D'or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and starring Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton, comes a bewildering drama about a Scottish woman, who, after hearing a loud 'bang' at daybreak, begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia.
__________________________________________________________________________________________
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.
Come join us!
The Following events will be in the Zeitgeist Theatre & lounge @ 6621 St. Claude Ave (in Arabi):
June 24 through 30, 2022
Friday, June 24 - 1:00 to 6:00 pm
ART CAMP 504 - FILM SHOWCASE
Opens June 24:
7:00 pm nightly
ROCIO by Dario Guerrero
As a young woman, Rocío and her husband risked everything to raise their children in the U.S. Years later, she becomes ill and her son Darío takes a leave of absence from his studies at Harvard to care for her. But despite of his status as a DACA recipient, leaving the U.S. will throw Darío's immigration status and education into doubt. His fight for temporary humanitarian parole garners national media attention. Can he come home again? Darío Guerrero is an undocumented Harvard graduate. His story first received national attention in September 2014 when he published an essay in the Washington Post titled “I told Harvard I was an undocumented immigrant. They gave me a full scholarship.” Following up on his story years later, a Telemundo crew found him living in his grandmother’s home, some 3,000 miles away from school in the crime-ridden, massive slums of Nezahualcoyotl outside Mexico City. His story again made national news, this time under the headline “Harvard student took his dying mom to Mexico, now he’s not allowed to leave.” This is the story of Rocío.
Friday, June 24 @ 8:00 pm
GOLD ROOM READING
Opens June 24:
8:15 pm nightly
1982 by Oualid Mouaness
In June of 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon, which was already reeling from its ongoing civil war. In his feature debut, director Oualid Mouaness revisits this cataclysmic moment in Lebanese history through a different lens. At a private school on the outskirts of Beirut, as the geopolitical conflict inches closer and closer, 11-year-old Wissam (Mohamad Dalli) is more intent on finding the courage to tell his classmate he loves her. For a dreamer like Wissam, who is more likely to be drawing than playing football, it's hard to comprehend the gravity of the impending violence. But for his teachers, Yesmine (Nadine Labaki) and Joseph (Rodrique Sleiman), the jets in the sky signal something greater. As they try to mask their growing fears for the sake of the students, they also attempt to hide the fractures in their relationship, as they fall on different sides of the political divide. Mouaness, who also wrote the script, splits the film between these two perspectives; that of the adults and that of the children, to explore the complexities of love and war. Winner - Cannes Film Festival’s youth sidebar Cannes Cinéphiles prize PRIX CANNES ECRANS JUNIORS 2021, the Toronto International Film Festival’s NETPAC AWARD, a FIPRESCI International Critics Prize at El-Gouna International Film Festival, and the UNICEF 2021 Prize among numerous others. It was also Lebanon’s official submission to the 92nd Academy Awards and holds the Murex D’Or, Lebanon’s Best Feature Film honor.
Held Over - 5:30 pm Saturday & Sunday, June 25 & 26
SOUTH: Ernest Shackleton And The Endurance Expedition
Back in the public eye thanks to a pioneering expedition that has rediscovered HMS Endurance - 107 years after it sank -South is the extraordinary account of one of exploration's greatest survival stories. When Sir Ernest Shackleton set sail on The Endurance on August 8, 1914, he was already an internationally renowned Antarctic explorer and national hero.
He planned a brave attempt to cross the continent of Antarctica via the Pole. Raising money for the Imperial Trans-Antarctic (ITA) expedition was a huge struggle. With an eye toward profiting from their adventures, Shackleton hired experienced cameraman Frank Hurley, whose films and photographs would hopefully pay for part of the expedition. But within a day’s travel (80 miles) of land, the Endurance was trapped in unusually heavy pack ice. Completely stuck, Shackleton and his crew drifted helplessly northward during the long Antarctic winter night while listening to the shrieks and moans of the Endurance slowly being crushed by the mounting pressure. What followed is one of the greatest adventure stories ever and an unbelievable tale of courage and survival. The crew drifted on ice floes for months before landing on the completely deserted Elephant Island. Though his crew was safe for now, there was no chance for rescue. So Ernest Shackleton and five of his men made a 850-mile journey in an open boat with only a sextent to guide them across the roughest seas in the world to miraculously reach Georgia Island. Even then, they had to become the first people ever to climb over the island's forbidding mountain to reach civilization on the other side. One of the greatest epics in the history of exploration, this is the original 1919 film produced by Shackleton and Frank Hurley. This landmark documentary has been remastered in 2K by the BFI National Archive and features a newly commissioned score by Neil Brand. 1919 Silent with English Intertitles | 88 min.
Screened as a fundraiser for the St. Bernard-Arabi Kiwanis Club. All tickets for SOUTH will be $8 or $6 for children 12 and under.
COMING SOON:
Opens July 1:
7:00 pm nightly through Wednesday
A MAN OF INTEGRITY by Mohammad Rasoulof.
Reza, having distanced himself from the urban quagmire, leads a simple life along with his wife and young son, somewhere in a remote village in Northern Iran. He spends his days working on his goldfish farm. Nearby, a private company with close links to the government and local authorities, has taken control of nearly every aspect of regional life. Its shareholders, accumulating wealth, power and economic influence, have been pushing local farmers and small owners to sell off their belongings, farms and estates, to the benefit of the Company’s influential network and its monopoly. It is under their pressure that many villagers have themselves become local links in the larger network of corruption.
Iran’s Mohammad Rasoulof, whose latest feature THERE IS NO EVIL won the Golden Bear at last year’s Berlinale, has been making scathing social commentary of the Iranian regime for over a decade, but he remains relatively unknown and underappreciated in the US—despite winning numerous prizes at such top world film festivals as Cannes and Berlin. A MAN OF INTEGRITY reveals the corruption and state cronyism at the heart of one of the most powerful and influential regimes in the Middle East. Banned in Iran!
Thursday, July 7 @ 6:30 pm
TEXAS JUSTICE: THE BRANDON WOODRUFF CASE
Texas Justice: Brandon Woodruff tells the story of the unimaginable injustice inflicted upon a young gay college student. Imagine it’s 2005. You’re 19 years old in the process of coming out when your parents are brutally murdered in rural East Texas. Despite no evidence putting you at the murder scene, you are immediately the prime suspect. This happened to Brandon Woodruff. He was tried by a jury panel of twelve, eight of whom stated in pre-trial questioning that gay people are morally inferior. The Innocence Project of Texas is now working to free Brandon Woodruff, noting that “homophobia was evident in his trial," with the prosecution repeatedly stating, “If he could lie about being gay, he could lie about killing his parents.” Many in the LGBTQ community can relate to the struggle of coming out. During that process, many of us keep our sexual orientation hidden from certain people while sorting out whom to tell and when. Brandon was doing exactly that at the time of his parents' murders. But the jury interpreted this natural coming-out process as Brandon leading a sinister double life that drove him to murder. This is a chilling story for all of us, especially for the LGBTQ community. Filmmakers Richard Ray & Scott Poggensee will be here for a Q & A after the film.
Opening September 2:
MEMORIA by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
From the extraordinary mind of Palme D'or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and starring Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton, comes a bewildering drama about a Scottish woman, who, after hearing a loud 'bang' at daybreak, begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia.
__________________________________________________________________________________________
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.
Come join us!