Zeitgeist CALENDAR
The Following events will be in our new theater & lounge @ 6621 St. Claude Ave (in Arabi):
Friday, July 19:
Films:
3:30 pm - THE ACCOUNTANT OF AUSCHWITZ, Seventy years after WWII, Oskar Gröning, one of the last surviving members of the SS, goes on trial as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz concentration camp. CANADA NOW 2019
5:00 pm - RAY & LIZ, Turner Prize winning Photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz. “This was my favorite film from the 2018 Toronto Int. Film Festival”.
7:00 pm - ECHO IN THE CANYON, celebrates the explosion of popular music that came out of LA’s Laurel Canyon in the mid-60s as folk went electric and The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield and The Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the California Sound.
8:30 pm - THE QUIET ONE, Throughout his three-decade career as a founding member of and bassist for The Rolling Stones, Bill Wyman was known to the world as the “quiet one” in the band. Now, the famously private music legend speaks out about his extraordinary life and experiences as part of “the greatest rock and roll band in the world.”
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART:
No one scheduled.
___________________
Saturday, July 20:
Films:
5:00 pm - RAY & LIZ, Turner Prize winning Photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz. “This was my favorite film from the 2018 Toronto Int. Film Festival”.
7:00 pm - ECHO IN THE CANYON, celebrates the explosion of popular music that came out of LA’s Laurel Canyon in the mid-60s as folk went electric and The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield and The Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the California Sound.
8:30 pm - THE QUIET ONE, Throughout his three-decade career as a founding member of and bassist for The Rolling Stones, Bill Wyman was known to the world as the “quiet one” in the band. Now, the famously private music legend speaks out about his extraordinary life and experiences as part of “the greatest rock and roll band in the world.”
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART:
3:00 to 5:00 pm - NOLA JAZZ REVIVAL: NEW ORLEANS IN STRIDE
a family concert series featuring popular children's songs from films, television, etc. Featuring Faith Wilson-vocals, Matt Lemmler-Piano/vocals, Calvin Morin-Martin-bass, Dan Caro-drums.
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Sunday, July 21:
Films:
3:30 pm - THE ACCOUNTANT OF AUSCHWITZ, Seventy years after WWII, Oskar Gröning, one of the last surviving members of the SS, goes on trial as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz concentration camp. CANADA NOW 2019
5:00 pm - RAY & LIZ, Turner Prize winning Photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz. “This was my favorite film from the 2018 Toronto Int. Film Festival”.
7:00 pm - ECHO IN THE CANYON, celebrates the explosion of popular music that came out of LA’s Laurel Canyon in the mid-60s as folk went electric and The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield and The Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the California Sound.
8:30 pm - THE QUIET ONE, Throughout his three-decade career as a founding member of and bassist for The Rolling Stones, Bill Wyman was known to the world as the “quiet one” in the band. Now, the famously private music legend speaks out about his extraordinary life and experiences as part of “the greatest rock and roll band in the world.”
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART:
no one scheduled
___________________
Monday, July 22:
Films:
3:30 pm - THE ACCOUNTANT OF AUSCHWITZ, Seventy years after WWII, Oskar Gröning, one of the last surviving members of the SS, goes on trial as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz concentration camp. CANADA NOW 2019
5:00 pm - RAY & LIZ, Turner Prize winning Photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz. “This was my favorite film from the 2018 Toronto Int. Film Festival”.
7:00 pm - ABSENCE LIKE SUN a video poem presented by visiting Baton Rouge filmmaker Zack Godshall (Low And Behold, Lord Byron) featuring poetry presented by Vincent A. Cellucci. An Unlikely Salon.
9:00 pm - THE QUIET ONE, Throughout his three-decade career as a founding member of and bassist for The Rolling Stones, Bill Wyman was known to the world as the “quiet one” in the band. Now, the famously private music legend speaks out about his extraordinary life and experiences as part of “the greatest rock and roll band in the world.”
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART:
7:00 pm - ABSENCE LIKE SUN a video poem presented by visiting Baton Rouge filmmaker Zack Godshall (Low And Behold, Lord Byron) featuring poetry presented by Vincent A. Cellucci. An Unlikely Salon.
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Tuesday, July 23:
Films:
3:30 pm - THE ACCOUNTANT OF AUSCHWITZ, Seventy years after WWII, Oskar Gröning, one of the last surviving members of the SS, goes on trial as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz concentration camp. CANADA NOW 2019
5:00 pm - RAY & LIZ, Turner Prize winning Photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz. “This was my favorite film from the 2018 Toronto Int. Film Festival”.
7:00 pm - PHOENIX, OREGON - an indie comedy starring James LeGros, Jesse Borrego, Lisa Edelstein, Reynaldo Gallegos, Diedrich Bader and Kevin Corrigan, This special "Film Tour" screening will be followed by a Q&A with Writer, Director & Editor Gary Lundgren and Producers Annie Lundgren and Luis Rodriguez.
9:00 pm - THE QUIET ONE, Throughout his three-decade career as a founding member of and bassist for The Rolling Stones, Bill Wyman was known to the world as the “quiet one” in the band. Now, the famously private music legend speaks out about his extraordinary life and experiences as part of “the greatest rock and roll band in the world.”
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART:
no one scheduled
______________
Wednesday, July 24:
Films:
3:30 pm - THE ACCOUNTANT OF AUSCHWITZ, Seventy years after WWII, Oskar Gröning, one of the last surviving members of the SS, goes on trial as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz concentration camp. CANADA NOW 2019
5:00 pm - RAY & LIZ, Turner Prize winning Photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz. “This was my favorite film from the 2018 Toronto Int. Film Festival”.
7:00 pm - ECHO IN THE CANYON, celebrates the explosion of popular music that came out of LA’s Laurel Canyon in the mid-60s as folk went electric and The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield and The Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the California Sound.
8:30 pm - THE QUIET ONE, Throughout his three-decade career as a founding member of and bassist for The Rolling Stones, Bill Wyman was known to the world as the “quiet one” in the band. Now, the famously private music legend speaks out about his extraordinary life and experiences as part of “the greatest rock and roll band in the world.”
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART:
7:00 pm - BIG DUMMIES (Rob Wagner’s jazz trio)
9:00 pm - MARTIN KRUSCHE PRESENTS
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Thursday, July 25:
Films:
3:30 pm - THE ACCOUNTANT OF AUSCHWITZ, Seventy years after WWII, Oskar Gröning, one of the last surviving members of the SS, goes on trial as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz concentration camp. CANADA NOW 2019
5:00 pm - RAY & LIZ, Turner Prize winning Photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz. “This was my favorite film from the 2018 Toronto Int. Film Festival”.
7:00 pm - ECHO IN THE CANYON, celebrates the explosion of popular music that came out of LA’s Laurel Canyon in the mid-60s as folk went electric and The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield and The Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the California Sound.
8:30 pm - THE QUIET ONE, Throughout his three-decade career as a founding member of and bassist for The Rolling Stones, Bill Wyman was known to the world as the “quiet one” in the band. Now, the famously private music legend speaks out about his extraordinary life and experiences as part of “the greatest rock and roll band in the world.”
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART:
no one scheduled
_____________________
COMING SOON:
Opens July 26:
5:15 pm daily - THE REFLECTING SKIN (1990) by Philip Ridley. Newly restored and re-released, this is simply one of my all-time favorite films! Growing up in the 1950s in small-town Idaho, 8-year-old Seth and his friends play a prank on the town recluse, a mysterious English widow named Dolphin Blue (Tony winner Lindsay Duncan). Seth becomes convinced Dolphin is a vampire, stealing the souls of his friends who go missing one by one. When his older brother Cameron (Oscar winner Viggo Mortensen in his first starring role) takes a liking to Dolphin, Seth feels it's up to him to save Cameron from his friends' fate.
Opens July 26:
7:00 pm nightly - YOMEDDINE, A Coptic leper and his orphaned apprentice leave the confines of the leper colony for the first time and embark on a journey across Egypt to search for what is left of their families in this acclaimed film by A.B. Shawky.
Friday, July 26 @ 9:00 pm - MANIFESTO! IMPROVISATIONAL COMEDY TROUPE plus special guests.
Opens August 2:
5:00 pm daily - ANGELS ARE MADE OF LIGHT, A stirring and beautiful documentary from Academy Award-nominated director James Longley (Iraq in Fragments, Gaza Strip), Angels Are Made of Light traces the lives of young students and their teachers at a school in the old city of Kabul. Interweaving the modern history of Afghanistan with present-day portraits, the film offers an intimate and nuanced vision of a society living in the shadow of war.
Opens August 2:
7:15 pm nightly - SWORD OF TRUST, Marc Maron, Jon Bass, Michaela Watkins, Jillian Bell star in Lynn Shelton’s (Humpday, Laggies) new indie comedy about Cynthia and Mary show up to collect Cynthia's inheritance from her deceased grandfather, but the only item she receives is an antique sword that was believed by her grandfather to be proof that the South won the Civil War.
Opens August 2:
PASOLINI by Abel Ferrara. A kaleidoscopic look at the events of the last day leading up to the brutal murder of the great Italian filmmaker, writer and gay activist Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975, brilliantly portrayed by Academy Award nominated actor Willem Dafoe. Screens as part of WILDFIRE.
Opens August 9:
7:00 pm nightly - SOCRATES, In this Independent Spirit Award winning gay coming of age film from Brazil, after his mother's sudden death, Socrates, a 15-year-old living on the margins of São Paulo's coast, must survive on his own while coming to terms with his grief and his sexuality. Screens as part of WILDFIRE.
Opens August 9:
8:30 pm nightly - CASSANDRO, THE EXOTICO! After 26 years of spinning dives and flying uppercuts in the ring, Cassandro, the star of the gender-bending cross-dressing Mexican wrestlers known as the Exoticos, is far from retiring. But with dozens of broken bones and metal pins in his body, he must now reinvent himself. Screens as part of WILDFIRE.
Opens August 16:
5:30 pm daily - LOS REYES, Chola and Football are a couple of street dogs that live in the Los Reyes skatepark. From their point of view, we see a microcosm composed of things, animals and the young adolescents in conflict and rebelling with an adult world that they reject but are required to enter.
Opens August 16:
7:00 pm daily - FIREFLIES, Ramin flees from gay persecution in Iran and ends up living in the limbo of exile, far from everything he knows, in the tropical port town of Vera Cruz, Mexico. Screens as part of WILDFIRE.
Opens August 16:
8:45 pm nightly - THE QUEEN, More than 40 years before RuPaul's Drag Race, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag. The film takes us backstage to kiki with the contestants as they rehearse, throw shade, and transform into their drag personas in the lead-up to the big event. Screens as part of WILDFIRE.
Opens August 23:
5:30 pm daily - JULES OF LIGHT AND DARK, Two young lovers, Maya and Jules, are found wrecked on the side of the road after a party by a loner roughneck, Freddy. During rehab, their relationship falls apart, and Maya forms an unlikely friendship with Freddy. Screens as part of WILDFIRE.
Opens August 23:
WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD IS ON FIRE? Italian director Roberto Minervini (Low Tide, The Other Side) weaves four strands together, comprising different voices within the African-American communities of New Orleans featuring stirring performances by Judy Hill, Dorothy Hill, Michael Nelson, Ronaldo King, Titus Turner, etc.
Opens August 30:
7:15 pm nightly - 1985, A closeted young man goes home for the holidays and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family starring Cory Michael Smith, Virginia Madsen and Michael Chiklis. Screens as part of WILDFIRE.
Friday, August 30 @ 9:00 pm - MANIFESTO! IMPROVISATIONAL COMEDY TROUPE plus special guests.
Opens August 31:
DEREK JARMAN’S THE GARDEN (1990), Newly restored and re-released, this is simply one of my all-time favorite films! Half waking dream and half fiery polemic, The Garden was born of director Jarman’s rage over continued anti-gay discrimination and the sluggardly response to the AIDS crisis—he had been diagnosed HIV positive in 1988. Starring Tilda Swinton, this uniquely kaleidoscopic film shows the filmmaker’s genius at its most coruscating, making space in its breadth of vision for an over-the-top Hollywood-style musical number, nightmare images of tar-and-feather queer persecution, and footage of the particularly menacing-looking nuclear power plant that overlooks Jarman’s own garden, the point from which his film begins, and a cherished spot which he must keep to tending even as his body begins to betray him. Writhing with sorrow and anger, and yet so vividly alive to the loveliness of being, The Garden is a baleful and beautiful epistle from the brink of the beyond. Screens as part of WILDFIRE.
Friday, September 6 @ 7:30 pm & Saturday, September 7 @ 6:30 pm - NOLA EDGE FILM FESTIVAL
Friday & Saturday, September 13 & 14 @ 9:00 pm
MUTZI, a Chalmette native who has performed comedy around the world returns to St. Bernard to records his first Stand Up Comedy Special live from the Zeitgeist Theatre with special guest Mike Strecker opening. $20
Opens September 20:
ISLAND OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS, Set on Christmas Island, this visceral, highly cinematic work zooms in on two singular, intersecting aspects of its location: the massive migration of crabs across the land, and a high-security Australian detention center for asylum seekers, where a trauma therapist tries to bring compassion and understanding to lives trapped in a painful limbo. Screens world-wide as part of the UN International Day Of Peace.
Saturday, September 25 @ 5:00 pm - ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH, Filmmakers travel to six continents and 20 countries to document the impact humans have made on the planet. Narrated by Alicia Vikander.
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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 celebrates its 31st anniversary this November.
Come join us!
Friday, July 19:
Films:
3:30 pm - THE ACCOUNTANT OF AUSCHWITZ, Seventy years after WWII, Oskar Gröning, one of the last surviving members of the SS, goes on trial as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz concentration camp. CANADA NOW 2019
5:00 pm - RAY & LIZ, Turner Prize winning Photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz. “This was my favorite film from the 2018 Toronto Int. Film Festival”.
7:00 pm - ECHO IN THE CANYON, celebrates the explosion of popular music that came out of LA’s Laurel Canyon in the mid-60s as folk went electric and The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield and The Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the California Sound.
8:30 pm - THE QUIET ONE, Throughout his three-decade career as a founding member of and bassist for The Rolling Stones, Bill Wyman was known to the world as the “quiet one” in the band. Now, the famously private music legend speaks out about his extraordinary life and experiences as part of “the greatest rock and roll band in the world.”
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART:
No one scheduled.
___________________
Saturday, July 20:
Films:
5:00 pm - RAY & LIZ, Turner Prize winning Photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz. “This was my favorite film from the 2018 Toronto Int. Film Festival”.
7:00 pm - ECHO IN THE CANYON, celebrates the explosion of popular music that came out of LA’s Laurel Canyon in the mid-60s as folk went electric and The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield and The Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the California Sound.
8:30 pm - THE QUIET ONE, Throughout his three-decade career as a founding member of and bassist for The Rolling Stones, Bill Wyman was known to the world as the “quiet one” in the band. Now, the famously private music legend speaks out about his extraordinary life and experiences as part of “the greatest rock and roll band in the world.”
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART:
3:00 to 5:00 pm - NOLA JAZZ REVIVAL: NEW ORLEANS IN STRIDE
a family concert series featuring popular children's songs from films, television, etc. Featuring Faith Wilson-vocals, Matt Lemmler-Piano/vocals, Calvin Morin-Martin-bass, Dan Caro-drums.
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Sunday, July 21:
Films:
3:30 pm - THE ACCOUNTANT OF AUSCHWITZ, Seventy years after WWII, Oskar Gröning, one of the last surviving members of the SS, goes on trial as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz concentration camp. CANADA NOW 2019
5:00 pm - RAY & LIZ, Turner Prize winning Photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz. “This was my favorite film from the 2018 Toronto Int. Film Festival”.
7:00 pm - ECHO IN THE CANYON, celebrates the explosion of popular music that came out of LA’s Laurel Canyon in the mid-60s as folk went electric and The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield and The Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the California Sound.
8:30 pm - THE QUIET ONE, Throughout his three-decade career as a founding member of and bassist for The Rolling Stones, Bill Wyman was known to the world as the “quiet one” in the band. Now, the famously private music legend speaks out about his extraordinary life and experiences as part of “the greatest rock and roll band in the world.”
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART:
no one scheduled
___________________
Monday, July 22:
Films:
3:30 pm - THE ACCOUNTANT OF AUSCHWITZ, Seventy years after WWII, Oskar Gröning, one of the last surviving members of the SS, goes on trial as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz concentration camp. CANADA NOW 2019
5:00 pm - RAY & LIZ, Turner Prize winning Photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz. “This was my favorite film from the 2018 Toronto Int. Film Festival”.
7:00 pm - ABSENCE LIKE SUN a video poem presented by visiting Baton Rouge filmmaker Zack Godshall (Low And Behold, Lord Byron) featuring poetry presented by Vincent A. Cellucci. An Unlikely Salon.
9:00 pm - THE QUIET ONE, Throughout his three-decade career as a founding member of and bassist for The Rolling Stones, Bill Wyman was known to the world as the “quiet one” in the band. Now, the famously private music legend speaks out about his extraordinary life and experiences as part of “the greatest rock and roll band in the world.”
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART:
7:00 pm - ABSENCE LIKE SUN a video poem presented by visiting Baton Rouge filmmaker Zack Godshall (Low And Behold, Lord Byron) featuring poetry presented by Vincent A. Cellucci. An Unlikely Salon.
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Tuesday, July 23:
Films:
3:30 pm - THE ACCOUNTANT OF AUSCHWITZ, Seventy years after WWII, Oskar Gröning, one of the last surviving members of the SS, goes on trial as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz concentration camp. CANADA NOW 2019
5:00 pm - RAY & LIZ, Turner Prize winning Photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz. “This was my favorite film from the 2018 Toronto Int. Film Festival”.
7:00 pm - PHOENIX, OREGON - an indie comedy starring James LeGros, Jesse Borrego, Lisa Edelstein, Reynaldo Gallegos, Diedrich Bader and Kevin Corrigan, This special "Film Tour" screening will be followed by a Q&A with Writer, Director & Editor Gary Lundgren and Producers Annie Lundgren and Luis Rodriguez.
9:00 pm - THE QUIET ONE, Throughout his three-decade career as a founding member of and bassist for The Rolling Stones, Bill Wyman was known to the world as the “quiet one” in the band. Now, the famously private music legend speaks out about his extraordinary life and experiences as part of “the greatest rock and roll band in the world.”
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART:
no one scheduled
______________
Wednesday, July 24:
Films:
3:30 pm - THE ACCOUNTANT OF AUSCHWITZ, Seventy years after WWII, Oskar Gröning, one of the last surviving members of the SS, goes on trial as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz concentration camp. CANADA NOW 2019
5:00 pm - RAY & LIZ, Turner Prize winning Photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz. “This was my favorite film from the 2018 Toronto Int. Film Festival”.
7:00 pm - ECHO IN THE CANYON, celebrates the explosion of popular music that came out of LA’s Laurel Canyon in the mid-60s as folk went electric and The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield and The Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the California Sound.
8:30 pm - THE QUIET ONE, Throughout his three-decade career as a founding member of and bassist for The Rolling Stones, Bill Wyman was known to the world as the “quiet one” in the band. Now, the famously private music legend speaks out about his extraordinary life and experiences as part of “the greatest rock and roll band in the world.”
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART:
7:00 pm - BIG DUMMIES (Rob Wagner’s jazz trio)
9:00 pm - MARTIN KRUSCHE PRESENTS
____________________
Thursday, July 25:
Films:
3:30 pm - THE ACCOUNTANT OF AUSCHWITZ, Seventy years after WWII, Oskar Gröning, one of the last surviving members of the SS, goes on trial as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz concentration camp. CANADA NOW 2019
5:00 pm - RAY & LIZ, Turner Prize winning Photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz. “This was my favorite film from the 2018 Toronto Int. Film Festival”.
7:00 pm - ECHO IN THE CANYON, celebrates the explosion of popular music that came out of LA’s Laurel Canyon in the mid-60s as folk went electric and The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield and The Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the California Sound.
8:30 pm - THE QUIET ONE, Throughout his three-decade career as a founding member of and bassist for The Rolling Stones, Bill Wyman was known to the world as the “quiet one” in the band. Now, the famously private music legend speaks out about his extraordinary life and experiences as part of “the greatest rock and roll band in the world.”
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART:
no one scheduled
_____________________
COMING SOON:
Opens July 26:
5:15 pm daily - THE REFLECTING SKIN (1990) by Philip Ridley. Newly restored and re-released, this is simply one of my all-time favorite films! Growing up in the 1950s in small-town Idaho, 8-year-old Seth and his friends play a prank on the town recluse, a mysterious English widow named Dolphin Blue (Tony winner Lindsay Duncan). Seth becomes convinced Dolphin is a vampire, stealing the souls of his friends who go missing one by one. When his older brother Cameron (Oscar winner Viggo Mortensen in his first starring role) takes a liking to Dolphin, Seth feels it's up to him to save Cameron from his friends' fate.
Opens July 26:
7:00 pm nightly - YOMEDDINE, A Coptic leper and his orphaned apprentice leave the confines of the leper colony for the first time and embark on a journey across Egypt to search for what is left of their families in this acclaimed film by A.B. Shawky.
Friday, July 26 @ 9:00 pm - MANIFESTO! IMPROVISATIONAL COMEDY TROUPE plus special guests.
Opens August 2:
5:00 pm daily - ANGELS ARE MADE OF LIGHT, A stirring and beautiful documentary from Academy Award-nominated director James Longley (Iraq in Fragments, Gaza Strip), Angels Are Made of Light traces the lives of young students and their teachers at a school in the old city of Kabul. Interweaving the modern history of Afghanistan with present-day portraits, the film offers an intimate and nuanced vision of a society living in the shadow of war.
Opens August 2:
7:15 pm nightly - SWORD OF TRUST, Marc Maron, Jon Bass, Michaela Watkins, Jillian Bell star in Lynn Shelton’s (Humpday, Laggies) new indie comedy about Cynthia and Mary show up to collect Cynthia's inheritance from her deceased grandfather, but the only item she receives is an antique sword that was believed by her grandfather to be proof that the South won the Civil War.
Opens August 2:
PASOLINI by Abel Ferrara. A kaleidoscopic look at the events of the last day leading up to the brutal murder of the great Italian filmmaker, writer and gay activist Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975, brilliantly portrayed by Academy Award nominated actor Willem Dafoe. Screens as part of WILDFIRE.
Opens August 9:
7:00 pm nightly - SOCRATES, In this Independent Spirit Award winning gay coming of age film from Brazil, after his mother's sudden death, Socrates, a 15-year-old living on the margins of São Paulo's coast, must survive on his own while coming to terms with his grief and his sexuality. Screens as part of WILDFIRE.
Opens August 9:
8:30 pm nightly - CASSANDRO, THE EXOTICO! After 26 years of spinning dives and flying uppercuts in the ring, Cassandro, the star of the gender-bending cross-dressing Mexican wrestlers known as the Exoticos, is far from retiring. But with dozens of broken bones and metal pins in his body, he must now reinvent himself. Screens as part of WILDFIRE.
Opens August 16:
5:30 pm daily - LOS REYES, Chola and Football are a couple of street dogs that live in the Los Reyes skatepark. From their point of view, we see a microcosm composed of things, animals and the young adolescents in conflict and rebelling with an adult world that they reject but are required to enter.
Opens August 16:
7:00 pm daily - FIREFLIES, Ramin flees from gay persecution in Iran and ends up living in the limbo of exile, far from everything he knows, in the tropical port town of Vera Cruz, Mexico. Screens as part of WILDFIRE.
Opens August 16:
8:45 pm nightly - THE QUEEN, More than 40 years before RuPaul's Drag Race, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag. The film takes us backstage to kiki with the contestants as they rehearse, throw shade, and transform into their drag personas in the lead-up to the big event. Screens as part of WILDFIRE.
Opens August 23:
5:30 pm daily - JULES OF LIGHT AND DARK, Two young lovers, Maya and Jules, are found wrecked on the side of the road after a party by a loner roughneck, Freddy. During rehab, their relationship falls apart, and Maya forms an unlikely friendship with Freddy. Screens as part of WILDFIRE.
Opens August 23:
WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD IS ON FIRE? Italian director Roberto Minervini (Low Tide, The Other Side) weaves four strands together, comprising different voices within the African-American communities of New Orleans featuring stirring performances by Judy Hill, Dorothy Hill, Michael Nelson, Ronaldo King, Titus Turner, etc.
Opens August 30:
7:15 pm nightly - 1985, A closeted young man goes home for the holidays and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family starring Cory Michael Smith, Virginia Madsen and Michael Chiklis. Screens as part of WILDFIRE.
Friday, August 30 @ 9:00 pm - MANIFESTO! IMPROVISATIONAL COMEDY TROUPE plus special guests.
Opens August 31:
DEREK JARMAN’S THE GARDEN (1990), Newly restored and re-released, this is simply one of my all-time favorite films! Half waking dream and half fiery polemic, The Garden was born of director Jarman’s rage over continued anti-gay discrimination and the sluggardly response to the AIDS crisis—he had been diagnosed HIV positive in 1988. Starring Tilda Swinton, this uniquely kaleidoscopic film shows the filmmaker’s genius at its most coruscating, making space in its breadth of vision for an over-the-top Hollywood-style musical number, nightmare images of tar-and-feather queer persecution, and footage of the particularly menacing-looking nuclear power plant that overlooks Jarman’s own garden, the point from which his film begins, and a cherished spot which he must keep to tending even as his body begins to betray him. Writhing with sorrow and anger, and yet so vividly alive to the loveliness of being, The Garden is a baleful and beautiful epistle from the brink of the beyond. Screens as part of WILDFIRE.
Friday, September 6 @ 7:30 pm & Saturday, September 7 @ 6:30 pm - NOLA EDGE FILM FESTIVAL
Friday & Saturday, September 13 & 14 @ 9:00 pm
MUTZI, a Chalmette native who has performed comedy around the world returns to St. Bernard to records his first Stand Up Comedy Special live from the Zeitgeist Theatre with special guest Mike Strecker opening. $20
Opens September 20:
ISLAND OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS, Set on Christmas Island, this visceral, highly cinematic work zooms in on two singular, intersecting aspects of its location: the massive migration of crabs across the land, and a high-security Australian detention center for asylum seekers, where a trauma therapist tries to bring compassion and understanding to lives trapped in a painful limbo. Screens world-wide as part of the UN International Day Of Peace.
Saturday, September 25 @ 5:00 pm - ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH, Filmmakers travel to six continents and 20 countries to document the impact humans have made on the planet. Narrated by Alicia Vikander.
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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 celebrates its 31st anniversary this November.
Come join us!