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The Following events will be in the Zeitgeist Theatre & lounge @ 6621 St. Claude Ave (in Arabi):
September 24 through 30, 2021
5:15 pm Friday through Sunday
MOGUL MOWGLI
MOGUL MOWGLI is the debut narrative feature from award-winning documentary filmmaker Bassam Tariq (These Birds Walk, Ghosts Of Sugar Land). It follows the story of a British Pakistani rapper (Riz Ahmed, The Sound Of Metal) who, on the cusp of his first world tour, is struck down by an illness that forces him to face his past, his family, and the uncertainty of his legacy. Actor Riz Ahmed won a British Independent Film Award for Best Debut Sceenwriter and the London Critics Circle Film Award for British Actor of the Year.
7:00 pm nightly
THE YEAR OF THE EVERLASTING STORM
an omnibus film by Jafar Panâhi (3 Faces; Taxi; Offside), Anthony Chen (Ilo, ILO; Wet Season), Malik Vitthal (Imperial Dreams), Laura Poitras (The Oath; Citizenfour), Dominga Sotomayor (Too Late To Die Young), David Lowery (A Ghost Story), and Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Tropical Malody; Uncle Boonme Who Can Recall His Past Lives). Featuring seven stories from seven auteurs from around the world, the film chronicles this unprecedented moment in time, and is a true love letter to the power of cinema and its storytellers. Shot across the US, Iran, Chile, China and Thailand, by seven of today's most vital filmmakers. New life in the old house. A breakaway, a reunion. Surveillance and reconciliation. An unrecognizable world, in the year of the everlasting storm.
9:30 pm nightly
MA BELLE, MY BEAUTY by New Orleans filmmaker Marion Hill
Lane, Bertie and Fred once shared a polyamorous relationship in New Orleans. Lane loved Bertie, Fred loved Bertie, they had a balance that worked... until it didn't, and Lane vanished from their lives. Two years later, Bertie and Fred have gotten married and are living at Fred's family home in the countryside of southern France. When Lane unexpectedly shows up in Bertie's seemingly idyllic new life, she finds her former lover much different than she remembers. Bertie is disillusioned in her jazz career, still grieving the loss of her mother, and clearly alienated in this small, white, European town. Lane attempts to recreate their old, carefree dynamic, hoping that her return might lighten Bertie's mood -- but Bertie isn't having it. It seems time hasn't healed all wounds... so Lane shifts her strategy when she meets Noa, a young artist and former soldier, quickly reigniting dormant jealousies. This first feature from New Orleans’ Marion Hill won the Audience Award - Next Innovator Award - Sundance 2021. Please Note: Filmmakers and cast will be here Saturday night for a brief introduction and Q & A after the film.
COMING SOON
October 1 through 3:
4:30 pm daily
CLEANIN’ UP THE TOWN: REMEMBERING GHOSTBUSTERS
The definitive retrospective documentary, charting the making of Ghostbusters, featuring Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, Sigourney Weaver, Ivan Reitman, etc. The documentary hallmarks the extraordinary achievements made by the filmmakers working in the photo-chemical era. It reveals a story of ingenuity, innovation and emphasises just how ambitious an undertaking the making of Ghostbusters really was. 46 insightful, entertaining and heartfelt cast and crew interviews accompany a wealth of never before seen archive material. The documentary demonstrates how the filmmakers collectively defied adverse time constraints and all manner of technical challenges to make Ghostbusters, the movie that inadvertently changed the film industry forever. [Three Days Only!]
Opening October 1:
7:00 pm nightly
WIFE OF A SPY
Master filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa won the Silver Lion (Best Director) at the Venice Film Festival for this riveting, gorgeously crafted Hitchockian thriller shot in glorious 8K. The year is 1940 in Kobe, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. Local merchant and amateur filmmaker Yusaku (Issey Takahashi, Kill Bill) senses that things are headed in an unsettling direction. Following a trip to Manchuria, he becomes determined to bring to light the things he witnessed there, and secretly filmed. Meanwhile, his wife Satoko (Yû Ao) receives a visit from her childhood friend, now a military policeman. He warns her about Yusaku’s seditious ways and reveals that a woman her husband brought back from his trip has died. Satoko confronts Yusaku, but when she discovers his true intentions, she is torn between loyalty to her husband, the life they have built, and the country they call home.
Opening October 1:
9:15 pm nightly
SAINT NARCISSE by Bruce La Bruce
The latest from Bruce La Bruce, Canada’s reigning “King of Kink”, follows Dominic, a young man with a fetish… for himself. Nothing turns him on more than his reflection, with much of his time spent taking Polaroid selfies. When his loving grandmother dies, he discovers a deep family secret: his lesbian mother didn’t die in childbirth and he has a twin brother, Daniel, raised in a remote monastery by a depraved priest, held captive against his will! The power of destiny brings together the two beautiful, identical brothers, who, after being reunited with their mother Beatrice, are soon embroiled in a blasphemous web of sex, revenge and redemption.
Opening October 8:
FIRE MUSIC: THE STORY OF FREE JAZZ
FIRE MUSIC is a feature documentary that tells the exciting history behind the free jazz movement. This incredible music documentary focuses on a new form of jazz that began in the late 1950s. This new jazz was separate from the happy sounding commercial jazz music that made jazz a well known music genre all over the world. This free jazz was angrier and more emotional because the music reflected the turbulent times. The musicians behind this free jazz sound were ignored by mainstream media and as a result created their own subculture. Today free jazz has the largest audience in its 50 year plus history. FIRE MUSIC stands as the first serious attempt to capture the sights and sounds of one of the most innovative movements in music history. Featuring John Coltrane, Don Cherry, Dave Burrell, Carla Bley, Albert Ayler, Rashied Ali, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolehy, Gary Giddens, Tristan Hansinger, Sam Rivers, Charlie Parker, Prince Lasha, Ingrid Serto, Sonny Simmons, Milford Graves, Beaver Harris, Henry Grimes, Ed Blackwell, Frank Lowe, Archie Shepp, Pharaoh Sanders, Gato Barbieri, Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, etc.
Opening October 22
13 FANBOY by Deborah Voorhees.
An obsessed fan stalks his favorite actors from the Friday the 13th films and beyond. As a child, Kelsie Voorhees witnesses the murder of her grandmother, Friday the 13th actress Deborah Voorhees, at the hands of a crazed fanboy. As an adult, she discovers her grandmother isn’t the only victim and the killer is still out there searching for his favorite Friday the 13th cast members and iconic scream queens to slaughter, mirroring his idol Jason Voorhees, as he still can't seem to separate the characters in the movies from their real-life personas. The cast includes a myriad of real life actors and actresses from the Friday the 13th films as well as iconic scream queens playing fictionalized versions of themselves including fan favorites Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, Jason X), Corey Feldman (Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, The Goonies, Stand By Me, The Lost Boys, Gremlins), Dee Wallace (The Howling, Cujo, Halloween (2007), Critters, ET) Tracie Savage (Friday the 13th: Part III), Ron Sloan (Friday the 13th: A New Beginning), Judie Aronson (Friday the 13th: Final Chapter), Jennifer Banko (Friday the 13th VII, Texas Chainsaw Massacre III), Vincente DiSanti (Jason Rising, Never Hike Alone), and MANY MORE!
Opening November 5:
BEANS from Indigenous Female Filmmaker Tracey Deer (MOHAWK GIRLS)
Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and delinquent adolescence; forced to grow up fast to become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Indigenous uprising known as The Oka Crisis, which tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990. Winner of Crystal Bear at the Generation Section at Berlinale 2020; Winner of Best Motion Picture and John Dunning Best First Feature at the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television; Canada’s Top 10 films, TIFF Emerging Talent Award, and TIFF's Rising Star. Screens as part of our ongoing series CANADA IS BIGGER THAN THE U.S.
Opening November 5:
LABYRINTH OF CINEMA
The final film by Nobuhiko Obayashi finds the late director returning to the subject of Japan’s history of warfare following the completion of his “War Trilogy,” which ended with Hanagatami. On the last night of its existence, a small movie theater in Onomichi—the seaside town of Obayashi’s youth where he shot nearly a dozen films—screens an all-night marathon of Japanese war films. When lightning strikes the theater, three young men are transported into the world onscreen where they experience the violent battles of several wars leading up to the bombing of Hiroshima. A breathless cinematic journey through Japan’s past, Labyrinth of Cinema finds Obayashi using every trick in his book to create an awe-inspiring, visually resplendent anti-war epic that urges us to consider cinema as a means to change history.
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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.
Come join us!
The Following events will be in the Zeitgeist Theatre & lounge @ 6621 St. Claude Ave (in Arabi):
September 24 through 30, 2021
5:15 pm Friday through Sunday
MOGUL MOWGLI
MOGUL MOWGLI is the debut narrative feature from award-winning documentary filmmaker Bassam Tariq (These Birds Walk, Ghosts Of Sugar Land). It follows the story of a British Pakistani rapper (Riz Ahmed, The Sound Of Metal) who, on the cusp of his first world tour, is struck down by an illness that forces him to face his past, his family, and the uncertainty of his legacy. Actor Riz Ahmed won a British Independent Film Award for Best Debut Sceenwriter and the London Critics Circle Film Award for British Actor of the Year.
7:00 pm nightly
THE YEAR OF THE EVERLASTING STORM
an omnibus film by Jafar Panâhi (3 Faces; Taxi; Offside), Anthony Chen (Ilo, ILO; Wet Season), Malik Vitthal (Imperial Dreams), Laura Poitras (The Oath; Citizenfour), Dominga Sotomayor (Too Late To Die Young), David Lowery (A Ghost Story), and Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Tropical Malody; Uncle Boonme Who Can Recall His Past Lives). Featuring seven stories from seven auteurs from around the world, the film chronicles this unprecedented moment in time, and is a true love letter to the power of cinema and its storytellers. Shot across the US, Iran, Chile, China and Thailand, by seven of today's most vital filmmakers. New life in the old house. A breakaway, a reunion. Surveillance and reconciliation. An unrecognizable world, in the year of the everlasting storm.
9:30 pm nightly
MA BELLE, MY BEAUTY by New Orleans filmmaker Marion Hill
Lane, Bertie and Fred once shared a polyamorous relationship in New Orleans. Lane loved Bertie, Fred loved Bertie, they had a balance that worked... until it didn't, and Lane vanished from their lives. Two years later, Bertie and Fred have gotten married and are living at Fred's family home in the countryside of southern France. When Lane unexpectedly shows up in Bertie's seemingly idyllic new life, she finds her former lover much different than she remembers. Bertie is disillusioned in her jazz career, still grieving the loss of her mother, and clearly alienated in this small, white, European town. Lane attempts to recreate their old, carefree dynamic, hoping that her return might lighten Bertie's mood -- but Bertie isn't having it. It seems time hasn't healed all wounds... so Lane shifts her strategy when she meets Noa, a young artist and former soldier, quickly reigniting dormant jealousies. This first feature from New Orleans’ Marion Hill won the Audience Award - Next Innovator Award - Sundance 2021. Please Note: Filmmakers and cast will be here Saturday night for a brief introduction and Q & A after the film.
COMING SOON
October 1 through 3:
4:30 pm daily
CLEANIN’ UP THE TOWN: REMEMBERING GHOSTBUSTERS
The definitive retrospective documentary, charting the making of Ghostbusters, featuring Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, Sigourney Weaver, Ivan Reitman, etc. The documentary hallmarks the extraordinary achievements made by the filmmakers working in the photo-chemical era. It reveals a story of ingenuity, innovation and emphasises just how ambitious an undertaking the making of Ghostbusters really was. 46 insightful, entertaining and heartfelt cast and crew interviews accompany a wealth of never before seen archive material. The documentary demonstrates how the filmmakers collectively defied adverse time constraints and all manner of technical challenges to make Ghostbusters, the movie that inadvertently changed the film industry forever. [Three Days Only!]
Opening October 1:
7:00 pm nightly
WIFE OF A SPY
Master filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa won the Silver Lion (Best Director) at the Venice Film Festival for this riveting, gorgeously crafted Hitchockian thriller shot in glorious 8K. The year is 1940 in Kobe, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. Local merchant and amateur filmmaker Yusaku (Issey Takahashi, Kill Bill) senses that things are headed in an unsettling direction. Following a trip to Manchuria, he becomes determined to bring to light the things he witnessed there, and secretly filmed. Meanwhile, his wife Satoko (Yû Ao) receives a visit from her childhood friend, now a military policeman. He warns her about Yusaku’s seditious ways and reveals that a woman her husband brought back from his trip has died. Satoko confronts Yusaku, but when she discovers his true intentions, she is torn between loyalty to her husband, the life they have built, and the country they call home.
Opening October 1:
9:15 pm nightly
SAINT NARCISSE by Bruce La Bruce
The latest from Bruce La Bruce, Canada’s reigning “King of Kink”, follows Dominic, a young man with a fetish… for himself. Nothing turns him on more than his reflection, with much of his time spent taking Polaroid selfies. When his loving grandmother dies, he discovers a deep family secret: his lesbian mother didn’t die in childbirth and he has a twin brother, Daniel, raised in a remote monastery by a depraved priest, held captive against his will! The power of destiny brings together the two beautiful, identical brothers, who, after being reunited with their mother Beatrice, are soon embroiled in a blasphemous web of sex, revenge and redemption.
Opening October 8:
FIRE MUSIC: THE STORY OF FREE JAZZ
FIRE MUSIC is a feature documentary that tells the exciting history behind the free jazz movement. This incredible music documentary focuses on a new form of jazz that began in the late 1950s. This new jazz was separate from the happy sounding commercial jazz music that made jazz a well known music genre all over the world. This free jazz was angrier and more emotional because the music reflected the turbulent times. The musicians behind this free jazz sound were ignored by mainstream media and as a result created their own subculture. Today free jazz has the largest audience in its 50 year plus history. FIRE MUSIC stands as the first serious attempt to capture the sights and sounds of one of the most innovative movements in music history. Featuring John Coltrane, Don Cherry, Dave Burrell, Carla Bley, Albert Ayler, Rashied Ali, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolehy, Gary Giddens, Tristan Hansinger, Sam Rivers, Charlie Parker, Prince Lasha, Ingrid Serto, Sonny Simmons, Milford Graves, Beaver Harris, Henry Grimes, Ed Blackwell, Frank Lowe, Archie Shepp, Pharaoh Sanders, Gato Barbieri, Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, etc.
Opening October 22
13 FANBOY by Deborah Voorhees.
An obsessed fan stalks his favorite actors from the Friday the 13th films and beyond. As a child, Kelsie Voorhees witnesses the murder of her grandmother, Friday the 13th actress Deborah Voorhees, at the hands of a crazed fanboy. As an adult, she discovers her grandmother isn’t the only victim and the killer is still out there searching for his favorite Friday the 13th cast members and iconic scream queens to slaughter, mirroring his idol Jason Voorhees, as he still can't seem to separate the characters in the movies from their real-life personas. The cast includes a myriad of real life actors and actresses from the Friday the 13th films as well as iconic scream queens playing fictionalized versions of themselves including fan favorites Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, Jason X), Corey Feldman (Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, The Goonies, Stand By Me, The Lost Boys, Gremlins), Dee Wallace (The Howling, Cujo, Halloween (2007), Critters, ET) Tracie Savage (Friday the 13th: Part III), Ron Sloan (Friday the 13th: A New Beginning), Judie Aronson (Friday the 13th: Final Chapter), Jennifer Banko (Friday the 13th VII, Texas Chainsaw Massacre III), Vincente DiSanti (Jason Rising, Never Hike Alone), and MANY MORE!
Opening November 5:
BEANS from Indigenous Female Filmmaker Tracey Deer (MOHAWK GIRLS)
Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and delinquent adolescence; forced to grow up fast to become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Indigenous uprising known as The Oka Crisis, which tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990. Winner of Crystal Bear at the Generation Section at Berlinale 2020; Winner of Best Motion Picture and John Dunning Best First Feature at the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television; Canada’s Top 10 films, TIFF Emerging Talent Award, and TIFF's Rising Star. Screens as part of our ongoing series CANADA IS BIGGER THAN THE U.S.
Opening November 5:
LABYRINTH OF CINEMA
The final film by Nobuhiko Obayashi finds the late director returning to the subject of Japan’s history of warfare following the completion of his “War Trilogy,” which ended with Hanagatami. On the last night of its existence, a small movie theater in Onomichi—the seaside town of Obayashi’s youth where he shot nearly a dozen films—screens an all-night marathon of Japanese war films. When lightning strikes the theater, three young men are transported into the world onscreen where they experience the violent battles of several wars leading up to the bombing of Hiroshima. A breathless cinematic journey through Japan’s past, Labyrinth of Cinema finds Obayashi using every trick in his book to create an awe-inspiring, visually resplendent anti-war epic that urges us to consider cinema as a means to change history.
__________________________________________________________________________________________
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!