Zeitgeist CALENDAR
The Following events will be in our new theater & lounge @ 6621 St. Claude Ave (in Arabi):
August 23 through 29:
Friday, August 23:
Films:
4:00 pm daily - THE QUEEN, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag.
5:30 pm daily - SIDNEY & FRIENDS, When his family in Kenya tries to kill him, Sidney, who is intersex, flees to Nairobi where he meets a group of transgender friends.
7:15 pm nightly - WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD IS ON FIRE? weaves four strands together, comprising different voices within the African-American communities of New Orleans.
9:30 pm nightly - LEAVING HOME, COMING HOME: A PORTRAIT OF ROBERT FRANK, the renown photographer recalls his collaborations with the Beat generation, including his film Pull my Daisy, narrated by Jack Kerouac, as well as his infamous Cocksucker Blues with The Rolling Stones.
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART:
3:00 to 6:00 pm - TEACHER’S HAPPY HOUR
7:30 pm - DOUG DUFFEY AND BADD
Doug Duffey was inducted into the National Blues Hall of Fame in 2009. With his Blues Hall of Fame induction he was also named as a “Louisiana Ambassador of the Blues”. He is the real thing! Born in Monroe, Louisiana he has written songs for & or recorded with George Clinton, Funkadelic, Rare Earth, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, Keith Richards, Herbie Hancock, David Byrne, Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley, Anders Osborne, Little Queenie, Marcia Ball, Zakiya Hooker, etc. $10.
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Saturday, August 24:
Films:
4:00 pm daily - THE QUEEN, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag.
5:30 pm daily - SIDNEY & FRIENDS, When his family in Kenya tries to kill him, Sidney, who is intersex, flees to Nairobi where he meets a group of transgender friends.
7:15 pm nightly - WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD IS ON FIRE? weaves four strands together, comprising different voices within the African-American communities of New Orleans.
9:30 pm nightly - LEAVING HOME, COMING HOME: A PORTRAIT OF ROBERT FRANK, the renown photographer recalls his collaborations with the Beat generation, including his film Pull my Daisy, narrated by Jack Kerouac, as well as his infamous Cocksucker Blues with The Rolling Stones.
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART:
2:00 pm - UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP viewing Party - Little League World Series. Free.
6:00 pm - SAINTS VS JETS viewing party with complimentary snacks and drink specials. Free.
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Sunday, August 25:
Films:
4:00 pm daily - THE QUEEN, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag.
5:30 pm daily - SIDNEY & FRIENDS, When his family in Kenya tries to kill him, Sidney, who is intersex, flees to Nairobi where he meets a group of transgender friends.
7:15 pm nightly - WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD IS ON FIRE? weaves four strands together, comprising different voices within the African-American communities of New Orleans.
9:30 pm nightly - LEAVING HOME, COMING HOME: A PORTRAIT OF ROBERT FRANK, the renown photographer recalls his collaborations with the Beat generation, including his film Pull my Daisy, narrated by Jack Kerouac, as well as his infamous Cocksucker Blues with The Rolling Stones.
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART:
2:00 pm - WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP viewing party - Little League World Series. Free.
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Monday, August 26:
Films:
4:00 pm daily - THE QUEEN, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag.
5:30 pm daily - SIDNEY & FRIENDS, When his family in Kenya tries to kill him, Sidney, who is intersex, flees to Nairobi where he meets a group of transgender friends.
7:15 pm nightly - WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD IS ON FIRE? weaves four strands together, comprising different voices within the African-American communities of New Orleans.
9:30 pm nightly - LEAVING HOME, COMING HOME: A PORTRAIT OF ROBERT FRANK, the renown photographer recalls his collaborations with the Beat generation, including his film Pull my Daisy, narrated by Jack Kerouac, as well as his infamous Cocksucker Blues with The Rolling Stones.
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART:
7:00 to 9:00 pm - VINYL NIGHT, an improv dance party. bring your own vinyl, spin on our turntable. drink specials. Free.
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Tuesday, August 27:
Films:
4:00 pm daily - THE QUEEN, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag.
5:30 pm daily - SIDNEY & FRIENDS, When his family in Kenya tries to kill him, Sidney, who is intersex, flees to Nairobi where he meets a group of transgender friends.
7:15 pm nightly - WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD IS ON FIRE? weaves four strands together, comprising different voices within the African-American communities of New Orleans.
9:30 pm nightly - LEAVING HOME, COMING HOME: A PORTRAIT OF ROBERT FRANK, the renown photographer recalls his collaborations with the Beat generation, including his film Pull my Daisy, narrated by Jack Kerouac, as well as his infamous Cocksucker Blues with The Rolling Stones.
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART:
7:00 pm - SHORT STREET BAND, (Diana Nadas, Chris Polacheck, Larry LaHoste, Jeff "Doc" Watson). Rock from N.O. $10
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Wednesday, August 28:
Films:
4:00 pm daily - THE QUEEN, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag.
5:30 pm daily - SIDNEY & FRIENDS, When his family in Kenya tries to kill him, Sidney, who is intersex, flees to Nairobi where he meets a group of transgender friends.
7:15 pm nightly - WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD IS ON FIRE? weaves four strands together, comprising different voices within the African-American communities of New Orleans.
9:30 pm nightly - LEAVING HOME, COMING HOME: A PORTRAIT OF ROBERT FRANK, the renown photographer recalls his collaborations with the Beat generation, including his film Pull my Daisy, narrated by Jack Kerouac, as well as his infamous Cocksucker Blues with The Rolling Stones.
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART:
noting scheduled
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Thursday, Aug 29:
Films:
4:00 pm daily - THE QUEEN, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag.
5:30 pm daily - SIDNEY & FRIENDS, When his family in Kenya tries to kill him, Sidney, who is intersex, flees to Nairobi where he meets a group of transgender friends.
7:15 pm nightly - WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD IS ON FIRE? weaves four strands together, comprising different voices within the African-American communities of New Orleans.
9:30 pm nightly - LEAVING HOME, COMING HOME: A PORTRAIT OF ROBERT FRANK, the renown photographer recalls his collaborations with the Beat generation, including his film Pull my Daisy, narrated by Jack Kerouac, as well as his infamous Cocksucker Blues with The Rolling Stones.
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART:
7:00 to 9:00 pm
OPENING RECEPTION - FLOATING CITIES featuring live music by RAINEY VEXEN.
9:00 pm - ALBEY’S FUNK REPORT featuring Marcello Benetti (drums),William Thomson (piano). Jane Spokenword and Albey on bass. $10
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COMING SOON:
Opens August 30:
5:30 pm daily - THREE PEAKS, German Aaron (Alexander Fehling, Homeland) has found the woman of his life in his French girlfriend Lea (Bérénice Bejo, The Artist) but her young son Tristan still imagines his mother reconciling with his American father. On what should be an idyllic vacation in the soaring Italian Dolomites, Aaron fights to win over Tristan and cement his place in this family, yet when Tristan disappears into the mountains, it’s unclear who is in the most danger. Complex, deceptive and gripping to the last second.
Opens August 30:
7:15 pm nightly - SAUVAGE / WILD, Leo is 22 and sells his body on the street for a bit of cash. The men come and go, and he stays right here — longing for love. He doesn’t know what the future will bring. He hits the road. His heart is pounding. A powerful portrait of a gay male prostitute in free fall. Screens as part of WILDFIRE.
Friday, August 30 @ 9:00 pm - MANIFESTO! IMPROVISATIONAL COMEDY TROUPE plus special guests.
Opens August 31:
9:00 pm nightly - 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.
7:00 pm - SHORT STREET BAND, (Diana Nadas, Chris Polacheck, Larry LaHoste, Jeff "Doc" Watson). Rock from N.O. $10
Wednesdays in September @ 7:00 pm - BIG DUMMIES (Jazz trio featuring Rob Wagner, Dave Sobel & Chris Senac). $10
Wednesdays in September - MARTIN KRUSCHE PRESENTS (Jazz series) $10.
Thursdays in September @ 7:00 pm - JASON MARSALIS ONE MAN DRUMS SHOW. $10
Opens September 6:
HONEYLAND, Hatidze lives with her ailing mother in the mountains of Macedonia, making a living cultivating honey using ancient beekeeping traditions. When an unruly family moves in next door, what at first seems like a balm for her solitude becomes a source of tension as they, too, want to practice beekeeping, while disregarding her advice. The most awarded film out of this year's Sundance Film Festival, HONEYLAND is an epic, visually stunning portrait of the delicate balance between nature and humanity that has something sweet for everyone.
Friday, September 6 @ 7:30 pm & Saturday, September 7 @ 6:30 pm - NOLA EDGE FILM FESTIVAL
Thursday, September 12 @ 9:00 pm - ALBEY ON BASS presents his newest project
Opens September 13:
6:30 pm nightly - MILES DAVIS: BIRTH OF COOL, The central theme of Miles Davis's life was his restless determination to break boundaries and live life on his own terms. It made him a star. For the people who loved him most, it also made him incredibly difficult to live with. Again and again, in music and in life, Miles broke with convention—and when he thought his work came to represent a new convention, he changed it again. Miles's bold disregard for tradition, his clarity of vision, his relentless drive, and constant thirst for new experiences made him an inspiring collaborator to fellow musicians and a cultural icon to generations of listeners. It made him an innovator in music—from bebop to “cool jazz,” modern quintets, orchestral music, jazz fusion, rock ’n’ roll, and even hip-hop.
Opens September 13:
RIOT GIRLS, In an alternate 1995, a mysterious disease has wiped out all of the adults. In this new age, two gangs are pitted against each other in a brutal war for territory, resources and survival.
Friday & Saturday, September 13 & 14 @ 9:00 pm
MUTZIE, 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. You've seen him on Six Seasons of BET'S Comic View and MUTZIE was named " New Orleans Entertainer of The Year TWICE. Watching Mutzie on stage is like watching a very likable class clown, you don't know whats coming next, but you know it's coming. Mutzie is one of the Funniest clean comedians working today. Mutzie perfoms over 300 shows every year including Cruise ships, comedy clubs, churches and Corporate events around the globe. $20
Monday, September 16 @ 6:30 pm - MILES DAVIS: BIRTH OF COOL film & concert - NEW ORLEANS JAZZ LEGENDS TRIBUTE organized by Matt Lemmler and the New Orleans Jazz Revival. $25
Tuesday, September 17 @ 10:00 pm - Special “One Night Of The Dead” coordinated world-wide advanced screening of the acclaimed cult Japanese zombie comedy ONE CUT OF THE DEAD. Audience Award and Best Director at Fantastic Fest plus over 14 Audience Awards worldwide. The most acclaimed zombie movie since Train To Busan.
Wednesday, September 18 @ TBA - Zeitgeist celebrates ARTHOUSE THEATER DAY with a special screening of TBA.
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.
Monday, September 23 @ 7:00 pm - STORY CIRCLE, Calling all writers: If you have an original short story* to share, email your name and the plot summary to shortstoriesarabi@gmail.com DEADLINE for getting a spot on the program is Monday, 9 September 2019, midnight. Story must take less than 15 minutes to tell/read. Free. Donations greatly appreciated.
Wednesday, 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.
Saturday, September 28 @ 7:00 pm - DR. CALIGARI, the classic 1920 silent German Expressionist horror film by Robert Wiene screens with an original live score by THE INVINCIBLE CZARS (from Austin, TX). $15
Opens October 4:
THE HARVESTERS, South Africa, Free State region, isolated stronghold to the Afrikaans white ethnic minority culture. In this conservative farming territory obsessed with strength and masculinity, Janno is different, secretive, emotionally frail. One day his mother, fiercely religious, brings home Pieter, a hardened street orphan she wants to save, and asks Janno to makes this stranger into his brother. The two boys start a fight for power, heritage and parental love. An official selection of Cannes Un Certain Regard, Etienne Kallos' debut feature film explores teenage angst and family dynamics set against a harsh yet stunning South African backdrop.
Opens October 4:
MEMORY: THE ORIGINS OF ALIEN, In the spirit of Room 237, MEMORY: THE ORIGINS OF ALIEN doesn't just unearth the largely untold origin story behind Ridley Scott's masterpiece, it takes a fascinating look at why Alien was so effective in a genre previously known for camp and silliness. With a treasure trove of never-before-seen materials from the archives of writer Dan O'Bannon and artist H.R. Giger, this one is a must for cinephiles.
Saturday, October 5 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm
Opening Reception - LIVING LIGHT: Photographs by Light of Bioluminescent Bacteria. This unique solo show from artist and scientist Hunter Cole features photographs of human figures (portraits; dancers; installations) illuminated by a glowing blue light created by bioluminescent bacteria. Cole creates liquid cultures of bacteria, then draws the bacteria into different shapes on Petri dishes using a paintbrush. Finally, she photographs the glowing petri dishes alongside her subjects to create modern works of provocative symbolism. On view in the Zeitgeist Lounge Oct 5 thru Nov 28.
Thurs., Oct., 10, 6 - 10 pm - GLOW: an Illuminated Living Art Experience
One night event. Get your photograph taken by artist / scientist Hunter Cole with living light Interact with people adorned in living light. Experience a theatre filled with living light See living drawings created with living bioluminescent bacteria. Free.
Opens October 11:
36 HOURS
Last spring we presented screenings of Adam Sekuler’s documentary TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS, which explored – with great frankness and bravery – end-of-life issues via the story of a married couple dealing with the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease. Now Sekuler returns with his most recent work, which serves as a poetic counterpoint to the earlier film insofar as it depicts the process – and challenging decisions involved in – giving birth. Angelle – the protagonist of 36 HOURS – rides the waves of emotion and physical pain without pharmaceutical intervention as she, along with her partner Nathan and her mother, try to follow a natural birth plan. As her contractions get heavier, though, Angelle gets caught in the undertow of time. Her birth is taking much longer than expected. Her preconceived notions of birth shattered, Angelle must make difficult decisions, bringing into focus the true work of motherhood and womanhood. Weaving together immersive vérité filmmaking and expressionistically-captured movement sequences, 36 HOURS is an intimate and visceral journey through one of our most universal experiences; the process of giving birth.
“Considering that Adam Sekuler’s 2017 documentary TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS so expertly broaches the topic of death, it’s no surprise that his follow-up documentary feature, 36 HOURS, takes a similarly exceptional approach to the subject of birth, specifically as it’s happening in real time to one woman. […] As in TOMORROW, Sekuler’s camera becomes a tool for empathy, illuminating the most fraught moments in life – the act of dying, previously, and here the giving of birth – oftentimes in highly graphic ways. The film concludes with the delivery in all its hemic glory, but unlike some other films that use the emergence of a baby from the womb to either shock or amuse, 36 HOURS revels in the process as the miracle it truly is.” –Kathleen Sachs, CINE-FILE
Opens October 11:
DESOLATION CENTER, the story of a series of ground-breaking early 80s music concerts in the desert outside Los Angeles that were the inspiration for modern day behemoths Coachella, Burning Man and Lollapalooza. The film weaves interviews and rare performance footage of Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Swans, Perry Farrell, Swans, Redd Kross, Savage Republic, Survival Research Laboratories, Einsturzende Neubauten and more.
Opens October 18:
FANTASTIC FUNGHI, a brilliant shift in consciousness film that takes the audience on a journey into the Fungi Kingdom, a wondrous, harmonious, interconnected world beneath our feet which serves as the ultimate life blueprint to improve our world above ground. Can plastic eating mushrooms save our planet?
Opens October 18:
MONOS, This Sundance World Cinema Jury Award Winner from Columbia is a thriller set on a faraway mountaintop where eight kids with guns are tasked with watching over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow. This debut feature by rising star Alejandro Landes has been hailed as a “Masterpiece” “on scale with Apocalypse Now”.
Saturday, October 19 @ 9:00 pm - OOGUM BOOGUM, legendary New Orleans blues group featuring George Felton (vocals & guitar), Chris Polacek (vocals & guitar), Donna Schlaudecker (vocals & bass) and Tom Woodin (djembe). $10
Opens October 25:
ALWAYS IN SEASON presented by visiting filmmaker Jackie Olive. Special Jury Award for Moral Urgency at Sundance this documentary explores the lingering impact of more than a century of lynching African Americans and connects this form of historic racial terrorism to racial violence today. The film centers on the case of Lennon Lacy, an African American teen who was found hanging from a swing set in Bladenboro, North Carolina, on August 29, 2014.
Saturday, October 26 @ 9:00 pm - MULTIMEDIA HALLOWEEN GRATEFUL DEAD DANCE PARTY featuring HALLELUJAH HAT RACK, New Orleans only full time tribute band to all things Graseful Dead, Jerry Garcia & Bobby Weir. Wear your best Graseful Dead costumes and enjoy the music and light show. Cover Charge TBA.
Opens November 2:
GIFT, Inspired by Lewis Hyde’s beloved classic "The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World", GIFT is a richly cinematic verite-style film, interweaving character‐driven stories exploring real-life gift economies.
Monday, November 11 @ 7:00 pm - HOMEMADE, the Documentary follows a brave soldier Adam Sorensen and his partner Victoria, upon his return home from active duty. Over 6 years we see the emotional, physical and psychological impact on everyone, from PTSD, depression, pain, suicide and addiction. Panel Discussion to follow.
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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!
August 23 through 29:
Friday, August 23:
Films:
4:00 pm daily - THE QUEEN, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag.
5:30 pm daily - SIDNEY & FRIENDS, When his family in Kenya tries to kill him, Sidney, who is intersex, flees to Nairobi where he meets a group of transgender friends.
7:15 pm nightly - WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD IS ON FIRE? weaves four strands together, comprising different voices within the African-American communities of New Orleans.
9:30 pm nightly - LEAVING HOME, COMING HOME: A PORTRAIT OF ROBERT FRANK, the renown photographer recalls his collaborations with the Beat generation, including his film Pull my Daisy, narrated by Jack Kerouac, as well as his infamous Cocksucker Blues with The Rolling Stones.
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART:
3:00 to 6:00 pm - TEACHER’S HAPPY HOUR
7:30 pm - DOUG DUFFEY AND BADD
Doug Duffey was inducted into the National Blues Hall of Fame in 2009. With his Blues Hall of Fame induction he was also named as a “Louisiana Ambassador of the Blues”. He is the real thing! Born in Monroe, Louisiana he has written songs for & or recorded with George Clinton, Funkadelic, Rare Earth, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, Keith Richards, Herbie Hancock, David Byrne, Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley, Anders Osborne, Little Queenie, Marcia Ball, Zakiya Hooker, etc. $10.
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Saturday, August 24:
Films:
4:00 pm daily - THE QUEEN, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag.
5:30 pm daily - SIDNEY & FRIENDS, When his family in Kenya tries to kill him, Sidney, who is intersex, flees to Nairobi where he meets a group of transgender friends.
7:15 pm nightly - WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD IS ON FIRE? weaves four strands together, comprising different voices within the African-American communities of New Orleans.
9:30 pm nightly - LEAVING HOME, COMING HOME: A PORTRAIT OF ROBERT FRANK, the renown photographer recalls his collaborations with the Beat generation, including his film Pull my Daisy, narrated by Jack Kerouac, as well as his infamous Cocksucker Blues with The Rolling Stones.
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART:
2:00 pm - UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP viewing Party - Little League World Series. Free.
6:00 pm - SAINTS VS JETS viewing party with complimentary snacks and drink specials. Free.
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Sunday, August 25:
Films:
4:00 pm daily - THE QUEEN, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag.
5:30 pm daily - SIDNEY & FRIENDS, When his family in Kenya tries to kill him, Sidney, who is intersex, flees to Nairobi where he meets a group of transgender friends.
7:15 pm nightly - WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD IS ON FIRE? weaves four strands together, comprising different voices within the African-American communities of New Orleans.
9:30 pm nightly - LEAVING HOME, COMING HOME: A PORTRAIT OF ROBERT FRANK, the renown photographer recalls his collaborations with the Beat generation, including his film Pull my Daisy, narrated by Jack Kerouac, as well as his infamous Cocksucker Blues with The Rolling Stones.
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART:
2:00 pm - WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP viewing party - Little League World Series. Free.
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Monday, August 26:
Films:
4:00 pm daily - THE QUEEN, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag.
5:30 pm daily - SIDNEY & FRIENDS, When his family in Kenya tries to kill him, Sidney, who is intersex, flees to Nairobi where he meets a group of transgender friends.
7:15 pm nightly - WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD IS ON FIRE? weaves four strands together, comprising different voices within the African-American communities of New Orleans.
9:30 pm nightly - LEAVING HOME, COMING HOME: A PORTRAIT OF ROBERT FRANK, the renown photographer recalls his collaborations with the Beat generation, including his film Pull my Daisy, narrated by Jack Kerouac, as well as his infamous Cocksucker Blues with The Rolling Stones.
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART:
7:00 to 9:00 pm - VINYL NIGHT, an improv dance party. bring your own vinyl, spin on our turntable. drink specials. Free.
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Tuesday, August 27:
Films:
4:00 pm daily - THE QUEEN, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag.
5:30 pm daily - SIDNEY & FRIENDS, When his family in Kenya tries to kill him, Sidney, who is intersex, flees to Nairobi where he meets a group of transgender friends.
7:15 pm nightly - WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD IS ON FIRE? weaves four strands together, comprising different voices within the African-American communities of New Orleans.
9:30 pm nightly - LEAVING HOME, COMING HOME: A PORTRAIT OF ROBERT FRANK, the renown photographer recalls his collaborations with the Beat generation, including his film Pull my Daisy, narrated by Jack Kerouac, as well as his infamous Cocksucker Blues with The Rolling Stones.
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART:
7:00 pm - SHORT STREET BAND, (Diana Nadas, Chris Polacheck, Larry LaHoste, Jeff "Doc" Watson). Rock from N.O. $10
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Wednesday, August 28:
Films:
4:00 pm daily - THE QUEEN, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag.
5:30 pm daily - SIDNEY & FRIENDS, When his family in Kenya tries to kill him, Sidney, who is intersex, flees to Nairobi where he meets a group of transgender friends.
7:15 pm nightly - WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD IS ON FIRE? weaves four strands together, comprising different voices within the African-American communities of New Orleans.
9:30 pm nightly - LEAVING HOME, COMING HOME: A PORTRAIT OF ROBERT FRANK, the renown photographer recalls his collaborations with the Beat generation, including his film Pull my Daisy, narrated by Jack Kerouac, as well as his infamous Cocksucker Blues with The Rolling Stones.
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART:
noting scheduled
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Thursday, Aug 29:
Films:
4:00 pm daily - THE QUEEN, this ground-breaking documentary about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant introduced audiences to the world of competitive drag.
5:30 pm daily - SIDNEY & FRIENDS, When his family in Kenya tries to kill him, Sidney, who is intersex, flees to Nairobi where he meets a group of transgender friends.
7:15 pm nightly - WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD IS ON FIRE? weaves four strands together, comprising different voices within the African-American communities of New Orleans.
9:30 pm nightly - LEAVING HOME, COMING HOME: A PORTRAIT OF ROBERT FRANK, the renown photographer recalls his collaborations with the Beat generation, including his film Pull my Daisy, narrated by Jack Kerouac, as well as his infamous Cocksucker Blues with The Rolling Stones.
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / VISUAL ART:
7:00 to 9:00 pm
OPENING RECEPTION - FLOATING CITIES featuring live music by RAINEY VEXEN.
9:00 pm - ALBEY’S FUNK REPORT featuring Marcello Benetti (drums),William Thomson (piano). Jane Spokenword and Albey on bass. $10
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COMING SOON:
Opens August 30:
5:30 pm daily - THREE PEAKS, German Aaron (Alexander Fehling, Homeland) has found the woman of his life in his French girlfriend Lea (Bérénice Bejo, The Artist) but her young son Tristan still imagines his mother reconciling with his American father. On what should be an idyllic vacation in the soaring Italian Dolomites, Aaron fights to win over Tristan and cement his place in this family, yet when Tristan disappears into the mountains, it’s unclear who is in the most danger. Complex, deceptive and gripping to the last second.
Opens August 30:
7:15 pm nightly - SAUVAGE / WILD, Leo is 22 and sells his body on the street for a bit of cash. The men come and go, and he stays right here — longing for love. He doesn’t know what the future will bring. He hits the road. His heart is pounding. A powerful portrait of a gay male prostitute in free fall. Screens as part of WILDFIRE.
Friday, August 30 @ 9:00 pm - MANIFESTO! IMPROVISATIONAL COMEDY TROUPE plus special guests.
Opens August 31:
9:00 pm nightly - 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.
7:00 pm - SHORT STREET BAND, (Diana Nadas, Chris Polacheck, Larry LaHoste, Jeff "Doc" Watson). Rock from N.O. $10
Wednesdays in September @ 7:00 pm - BIG DUMMIES (Jazz trio featuring Rob Wagner, Dave Sobel & Chris Senac). $10
Wednesdays in September - MARTIN KRUSCHE PRESENTS (Jazz series) $10.
Thursdays in September @ 7:00 pm - JASON MARSALIS ONE MAN DRUMS SHOW. $10
Opens September 6:
HONEYLAND, Hatidze lives with her ailing mother in the mountains of Macedonia, making a living cultivating honey using ancient beekeeping traditions. When an unruly family moves in next door, what at first seems like a balm for her solitude becomes a source of tension as they, too, want to practice beekeeping, while disregarding her advice. The most awarded film out of this year's Sundance Film Festival, HONEYLAND is an epic, visually stunning portrait of the delicate balance between nature and humanity that has something sweet for everyone.
Friday, September 6 @ 7:30 pm & Saturday, September 7 @ 6:30 pm - NOLA EDGE FILM FESTIVAL
Thursday, September 12 @ 9:00 pm - ALBEY ON BASS presents his newest project
Opens September 13:
6:30 pm nightly - MILES DAVIS: BIRTH OF COOL, The central theme of Miles Davis's life was his restless determination to break boundaries and live life on his own terms. It made him a star. For the people who loved him most, it also made him incredibly difficult to live with. Again and again, in music and in life, Miles broke with convention—and when he thought his work came to represent a new convention, he changed it again. Miles's bold disregard for tradition, his clarity of vision, his relentless drive, and constant thirst for new experiences made him an inspiring collaborator to fellow musicians and a cultural icon to generations of listeners. It made him an innovator in music—from bebop to “cool jazz,” modern quintets, orchestral music, jazz fusion, rock ’n’ roll, and even hip-hop.
Opens September 13:
RIOT GIRLS, In an alternate 1995, a mysterious disease has wiped out all of the adults. In this new age, two gangs are pitted against each other in a brutal war for territory, resources and survival.
Friday & Saturday, September 13 & 14 @ 9:00 pm
MUTZIE, 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. You've seen him on Six Seasons of BET'S Comic View and MUTZIE was named " New Orleans Entertainer of The Year TWICE. Watching Mutzie on stage is like watching a very likable class clown, you don't know whats coming next, but you know it's coming. Mutzie is one of the Funniest clean comedians working today. Mutzie perfoms over 300 shows every year including Cruise ships, comedy clubs, churches and Corporate events around the globe. $20
Monday, September 16 @ 6:30 pm - MILES DAVIS: BIRTH OF COOL film & concert - NEW ORLEANS JAZZ LEGENDS TRIBUTE organized by Matt Lemmler and the New Orleans Jazz Revival. $25
Tuesday, September 17 @ 10:00 pm - Special “One Night Of The Dead” coordinated world-wide advanced screening of the acclaimed cult Japanese zombie comedy ONE CUT OF THE DEAD. Audience Award and Best Director at Fantastic Fest plus over 14 Audience Awards worldwide. The most acclaimed zombie movie since Train To Busan.
Wednesday, September 18 @ TBA - Zeitgeist celebrates ARTHOUSE THEATER DAY with a special screening of TBA.
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.
Monday, September 23 @ 7:00 pm - STORY CIRCLE, Calling all writers: If you have an original short story* to share, email your name and the plot summary to shortstoriesarabi@gmail.com DEADLINE for getting a spot on the program is Monday, 9 September 2019, midnight. Story must take less than 15 minutes to tell/read. Free. Donations greatly appreciated.
Wednesday, 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.
Saturday, September 28 @ 7:00 pm - DR. CALIGARI, the classic 1920 silent German Expressionist horror film by Robert Wiene screens with an original live score by THE INVINCIBLE CZARS (from Austin, TX). $15
Opens October 4:
THE HARVESTERS, South Africa, Free State region, isolated stronghold to the Afrikaans white ethnic minority culture. In this conservative farming territory obsessed with strength and masculinity, Janno is different, secretive, emotionally frail. One day his mother, fiercely religious, brings home Pieter, a hardened street orphan she wants to save, and asks Janno to makes this stranger into his brother. The two boys start a fight for power, heritage and parental love. An official selection of Cannes Un Certain Regard, Etienne Kallos' debut feature film explores teenage angst and family dynamics set against a harsh yet stunning South African backdrop.
Opens October 4:
MEMORY: THE ORIGINS OF ALIEN, In the spirit of Room 237, MEMORY: THE ORIGINS OF ALIEN doesn't just unearth the largely untold origin story behind Ridley Scott's masterpiece, it takes a fascinating look at why Alien was so effective in a genre previously known for camp and silliness. With a treasure trove of never-before-seen materials from the archives of writer Dan O'Bannon and artist H.R. Giger, this one is a must for cinephiles.
Saturday, October 5 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm
Opening Reception - LIVING LIGHT: Photographs by Light of Bioluminescent Bacteria. This unique solo show from artist and scientist Hunter Cole features photographs of human figures (portraits; dancers; installations) illuminated by a glowing blue light created by bioluminescent bacteria. Cole creates liquid cultures of bacteria, then draws the bacteria into different shapes on Petri dishes using a paintbrush. Finally, she photographs the glowing petri dishes alongside her subjects to create modern works of provocative symbolism. On view in the Zeitgeist Lounge Oct 5 thru Nov 28.
Thurs., Oct., 10, 6 - 10 pm - GLOW: an Illuminated Living Art Experience
One night event. Get your photograph taken by artist / scientist Hunter Cole with living light Interact with people adorned in living light. Experience a theatre filled with living light See living drawings created with living bioluminescent bacteria. Free.
Opens October 11:
36 HOURS
Last spring we presented screenings of Adam Sekuler’s documentary TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS, which explored – with great frankness and bravery – end-of-life issues via the story of a married couple dealing with the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease. Now Sekuler returns with his most recent work, which serves as a poetic counterpoint to the earlier film insofar as it depicts the process – and challenging decisions involved in – giving birth. Angelle – the protagonist of 36 HOURS – rides the waves of emotion and physical pain without pharmaceutical intervention as she, along with her partner Nathan and her mother, try to follow a natural birth plan. As her contractions get heavier, though, Angelle gets caught in the undertow of time. Her birth is taking much longer than expected. Her preconceived notions of birth shattered, Angelle must make difficult decisions, bringing into focus the true work of motherhood and womanhood. Weaving together immersive vérité filmmaking and expressionistically-captured movement sequences, 36 HOURS is an intimate and visceral journey through one of our most universal experiences; the process of giving birth.
“Considering that Adam Sekuler’s 2017 documentary TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS so expertly broaches the topic of death, it’s no surprise that his follow-up documentary feature, 36 HOURS, takes a similarly exceptional approach to the subject of birth, specifically as it’s happening in real time to one woman. […] As in TOMORROW, Sekuler’s camera becomes a tool for empathy, illuminating the most fraught moments in life – the act of dying, previously, and here the giving of birth – oftentimes in highly graphic ways. The film concludes with the delivery in all its hemic glory, but unlike some other films that use the emergence of a baby from the womb to either shock or amuse, 36 HOURS revels in the process as the miracle it truly is.” –Kathleen Sachs, CINE-FILE
Opens October 11:
DESOLATION CENTER, the story of a series of ground-breaking early 80s music concerts in the desert outside Los Angeles that were the inspiration for modern day behemoths Coachella, Burning Man and Lollapalooza. The film weaves interviews and rare performance footage of Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Swans, Perry Farrell, Swans, Redd Kross, Savage Republic, Survival Research Laboratories, Einsturzende Neubauten and more.
Opens October 18:
FANTASTIC FUNGHI, a brilliant shift in consciousness film that takes the audience on a journey into the Fungi Kingdom, a wondrous, harmonious, interconnected world beneath our feet which serves as the ultimate life blueprint to improve our world above ground. Can plastic eating mushrooms save our planet?
Opens October 18:
MONOS, This Sundance World Cinema Jury Award Winner from Columbia is a thriller set on a faraway mountaintop where eight kids with guns are tasked with watching over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow. This debut feature by rising star Alejandro Landes has been hailed as a “Masterpiece” “on scale with Apocalypse Now”.
Saturday, October 19 @ 9:00 pm - OOGUM BOOGUM, legendary New Orleans blues group featuring George Felton (vocals & guitar), Chris Polacek (vocals & guitar), Donna Schlaudecker (vocals & bass) and Tom Woodin (djembe). $10
Opens October 25:
ALWAYS IN SEASON presented by visiting filmmaker Jackie Olive. Special Jury Award for Moral Urgency at Sundance this documentary explores the lingering impact of more than a century of lynching African Americans and connects this form of historic racial terrorism to racial violence today. The film centers on the case of Lennon Lacy, an African American teen who was found hanging from a swing set in Bladenboro, North Carolina, on August 29, 2014.
Saturday, October 26 @ 9:00 pm - MULTIMEDIA HALLOWEEN GRATEFUL DEAD DANCE PARTY featuring HALLELUJAH HAT RACK, New Orleans only full time tribute band to all things Graseful Dead, Jerry Garcia & Bobby Weir. Wear your best Graseful Dead costumes and enjoy the music and light show. Cover Charge TBA.
Opens November 2:
GIFT, Inspired by Lewis Hyde’s beloved classic "The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World", GIFT is a richly cinematic verite-style film, interweaving character‐driven stories exploring real-life gift economies.
Monday, November 11 @ 7:00 pm - HOMEMADE, the Documentary follows a brave soldier Adam Sorensen and his partner Victoria, upon his return home from active duty. Over 6 years we see the emotional, physical and psychological impact on everyone, from PTSD, depression, pain, suicide and addiction. Panel Discussion to follow.
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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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