Zeitgeist CALENDAR
Opens September 21:
7:30 pm nightly - BEL CANTO, thriller based on the best-selling book about a famous opera singer held hostage in South America by a guerrilla rebel group after performing at a Japanese businessman’s lavish birthday party. Starring Julianne Moore, Ken Watanabe, Christopher Lambert, etc.
9:30 pm nightly - VENUS OBSCURA by Christophe Karabache. A theater director leads his two actors to an isolated cottage in the countryside to rehearse for Heiner Müller's « Hamlet-machine ». Once on sight, the small troupe faces not only the dullness of daily routine, but eventually strange occurrences that turn out to be extraordinary and extreme in nature in this multi-award winning French experimental drama.
Opens September 28:
7:30 pm nightly (except Saturday @ 9:30 pm) - CIELO, A visual tone poem about humankind’s relationship with the night sky, a philosophical exploration of the heavens above the Andes Mountains and the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. Over the course of the movie, the filmmakers meet and spend time with professional astronomers and local residents, giving equal weight to the observations and musings of each.
Opens September 28:
9:00 pm nightly (except Saturday @ 4:00 pm) - LOST CHILD, a thriller about a young army veteran suffering from PTSD who returns home to the Ozarks to look for her estranged brother and finds an abandoned young boy in the woods. She discovers a mysterious world of folklore, clan rules and lies, ultimately putting her own life in jeopardy to protect the young boy and find out the truth.
Saturday, September 29 @ 7:00 pm - PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (the silent classic from 1925 starring Lon Chaney) with a live original score performed by THE INVINCIBLE CZARS (from Austin, TX). $10.
Friday & Sunday, October 5 & 7 @ 7:30 pm - THE ICARUS LINE MUST DIE, set against the backdrop of the current LA music scene. The film tracks Joe Cardamone, front man of The Icarus Line, as he navigates his way through the ups and downs of the modern music landscape.
Saturday October 6 @ 6:00 pm and Sunday, October 7 @ 4:00 pm - Lumpy Grits Artistry (from Shreveport, LA) presents LYSISTRATA, An Ancient Afro-Greek Comedy. Lysistrata is an ancient anti-war comedy that was originally written by Aristophanes, in 411 BC
Tuesday through Thursday, October 9 thru 11 @ 7:00 pm - ZYDECO BREAKFAST presented by director Thomas Uhl and writer Michael Tisserand. One man’s inspiring journey into a world of rich musical culture in Southwestern Louisiana. It begins in a small cafe on the banks of the Bayou Teche and dives deep into the world of Zydeco music; telling the stories of some of this cultures most influential musicians, dancers and innovators featuring Donna Angelle, Geno Delafose, Corey Ledet, Cedric Watson, etc.
Opens October 9:
THE THIRD MURDER by Hirokazu Kore-eda. From the internationally-acclaimed director comes this courtroom mystery about a lawyer struggling to find the truth behind the enigmatic testimony of a murder suspect while questioning his own faith in the law. Winner of 6 Japanese Academy Awards!
Opens October 12:
QUEERCORE: HOW TO PUNK A REVOLUTION presented by visiting filmmakers Yony Leyser is an award-winning documentary on the queer punk movement focusing on homophobia, gender, feminism, AIDS, assimilation, sex, and, of course, art. The extensive participant list includes Bruce LaBruce, G.B. Jones, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, John Waters, Justin Vivian Bond, Lynn Breedlove, Silas Howard, Pansy Division, Penny Arcade, Kathleen Hanna, Kim Gordon, Deke Elash, Tom Jennings, Team Dresch, and many more.
Saturday, October 13 @ 9:00 pm - SEVEN SINS PRESENTS: A NEW ORLEANS HAUNTED HISTORY STRIP SHOW. Doors @ 9:00 pm. $15.
Thursday, October 18 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm - THE STORY OF NEW ORLEANS CREOLE COOKING: THE BLACK HAND IN THE POT, a student produced documentary followed by a panel discussion presented by the Dillard University Ray Charles Program. Free.
Opens October 19:
SUMMER ’03, A 16-year-old girl and her extended family are left reeling after her calculating grandmother unveils an array of secrets on her deathbed starring June Squibb, Joey King, Jack Kilmer, Andrea Savage, Erin Darke, etc.
Opens October 19:
GAVAGAI, a beautiful, melancholy journey through loss and its aftermath. Andreas Lust (Revanche) plays Carsten Neuer, a grieving husband whose wife had been translating Norwegian poet Tarjei Vesaas' poems into Chinese before her death. Neuer travels to Telemark, Norway, Vesaas’ home in the hopes of finding a fitting resting place, and partly in an attempt to come to terms with his grief.
Opens October 19:
FIVE FINGERS FOR MARSEILLES, Twenty years after fleeing from the brutal police aggression in colonial Marseilles, a member of the Five Fingers returns seeking peace, but with the town under new threat, he must reluctantly fight to free it, in this thriller from South African filmmaker Michael Matthews.
Saturday, October 20 @ 9:00 pm - SPLIT THE FIRST ATOM Legendary Storytelling & Transcendental Music. A storytelling event that breaks as many spells as it casts. Follow our heroine, Lu, on a roller coaster ride of a story as she travels beyond the Sun to locate the greatest love story ever told and bring it back to our world. These powerful stories combined with a live, dark-pop soundtrack will have you hanging on every word. This epic tale delivers the audience to the heart of interconnectedness. The show will also include the release of a new music video for Split The First Atom.
Opens October 26:
BISBEE ’17, An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past.
Saturday, November 3 @ 9:00 pm - SEVEN SINS: AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE curated by Love Madrid. Doors @ 8:00 pm. $10.
Friday, November 30 @ 7:00 pm - A STRIKE AND AN UPRISING, a doc about two events: The San Antonio pecan shellers’ strike of 1938 and the Jobs With Justice march led by Nacogdoches cafeteria workers, groundskeepers and hourekeepers in 1987. Presented by Democratic Socialists of America, New Orleans Chapter. Free. Donations appreciated.
Saturday, December 1 @ 9:00 pm - SEVEN SINS: AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE curated by Love Madrid. Doors @ 8:00 pm. $10.
December 7 thru 9, 14 thru 16, 21 thru 23 @ 8:00 pm
Tennessee Williams Theatre Company Of New Orleans presents MUTILATED
Opens January 18:
THE SAINT BERNARD CONNECTION, Subversive satirist Mads Brugger's latest is an odd-couple comedy about the pitfalls of striking out into the economic frontier; it charts two hapless Danes' scheme to sell Saint Bernards to China's middle class.
Opens March 8:
SMALLER AND SMALLER CIRCLES, Two Jesuit priests perform forensic work to solve the mystery revolving around the murders of young boys in Payatas, one of Metro Manilla's biggest slum areas. The pursuit of a brutal serial killer begins....
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1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. NOLA 70113 www.zeitgeistnola.org (504) 352-1150
Schedule is subject to change as films are held over – please check the website for updates nightly.
Zeitgeist is a non-profit, artist run media arts center that celebrates its 31st anniversary this November.
Come join us!
7:30 pm nightly - BEL CANTO, thriller based on the best-selling book about a famous opera singer held hostage in South America by a guerrilla rebel group after performing at a Japanese businessman’s lavish birthday party. Starring Julianne Moore, Ken Watanabe, Christopher Lambert, etc.
9:30 pm nightly - VENUS OBSCURA by Christophe Karabache. A theater director leads his two actors to an isolated cottage in the countryside to rehearse for Heiner Müller's « Hamlet-machine ». Once on sight, the small troupe faces not only the dullness of daily routine, but eventually strange occurrences that turn out to be extraordinary and extreme in nature in this multi-award winning French experimental drama.
Opens September 28:
7:30 pm nightly (except Saturday @ 9:30 pm) - CIELO, A visual tone poem about humankind’s relationship with the night sky, a philosophical exploration of the heavens above the Andes Mountains and the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. Over the course of the movie, the filmmakers meet and spend time with professional astronomers and local residents, giving equal weight to the observations and musings of each.
Opens September 28:
9:00 pm nightly (except Saturday @ 4:00 pm) - LOST CHILD, a thriller about a young army veteran suffering from PTSD who returns home to the Ozarks to look for her estranged brother and finds an abandoned young boy in the woods. She discovers a mysterious world of folklore, clan rules and lies, ultimately putting her own life in jeopardy to protect the young boy and find out the truth.
Saturday, September 29 @ 7:00 pm - PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (the silent classic from 1925 starring Lon Chaney) with a live original score performed by THE INVINCIBLE CZARS (from Austin, TX). $10.
Friday & Sunday, October 5 & 7 @ 7:30 pm - THE ICARUS LINE MUST DIE, set against the backdrop of the current LA music scene. The film tracks Joe Cardamone, front man of The Icarus Line, as he navigates his way through the ups and downs of the modern music landscape.
Saturday October 6 @ 6:00 pm and Sunday, October 7 @ 4:00 pm - Lumpy Grits Artistry (from Shreveport, LA) presents LYSISTRATA, An Ancient Afro-Greek Comedy. Lysistrata is an ancient anti-war comedy that was originally written by Aristophanes, in 411 BC
Tuesday through Thursday, October 9 thru 11 @ 7:00 pm - ZYDECO BREAKFAST presented by director Thomas Uhl and writer Michael Tisserand. One man’s inspiring journey into a world of rich musical culture in Southwestern Louisiana. It begins in a small cafe on the banks of the Bayou Teche and dives deep into the world of Zydeco music; telling the stories of some of this cultures most influential musicians, dancers and innovators featuring Donna Angelle, Geno Delafose, Corey Ledet, Cedric Watson, etc.
Opens October 9:
THE THIRD MURDER by Hirokazu Kore-eda. From the internationally-acclaimed director comes this courtroom mystery about a lawyer struggling to find the truth behind the enigmatic testimony of a murder suspect while questioning his own faith in the law. Winner of 6 Japanese Academy Awards!
Opens October 12:
QUEERCORE: HOW TO PUNK A REVOLUTION presented by visiting filmmakers Yony Leyser is an award-winning documentary on the queer punk movement focusing on homophobia, gender, feminism, AIDS, assimilation, sex, and, of course, art. The extensive participant list includes Bruce LaBruce, G.B. Jones, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, John Waters, Justin Vivian Bond, Lynn Breedlove, Silas Howard, Pansy Division, Penny Arcade, Kathleen Hanna, Kim Gordon, Deke Elash, Tom Jennings, Team Dresch, and many more.
Saturday, October 13 @ 9:00 pm - SEVEN SINS PRESENTS: A NEW ORLEANS HAUNTED HISTORY STRIP SHOW. Doors @ 9:00 pm. $15.
Thursday, October 18 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm - THE STORY OF NEW ORLEANS CREOLE COOKING: THE BLACK HAND IN THE POT, a student produced documentary followed by a panel discussion presented by the Dillard University Ray Charles Program. Free.
Opens October 19:
SUMMER ’03, A 16-year-old girl and her extended family are left reeling after her calculating grandmother unveils an array of secrets on her deathbed starring June Squibb, Joey King, Jack Kilmer, Andrea Savage, Erin Darke, etc.
Opens October 19:
GAVAGAI, a beautiful, melancholy journey through loss and its aftermath. Andreas Lust (Revanche) plays Carsten Neuer, a grieving husband whose wife had been translating Norwegian poet Tarjei Vesaas' poems into Chinese before her death. Neuer travels to Telemark, Norway, Vesaas’ home in the hopes of finding a fitting resting place, and partly in an attempt to come to terms with his grief.
Opens October 19:
FIVE FINGERS FOR MARSEILLES, Twenty years after fleeing from the brutal police aggression in colonial Marseilles, a member of the Five Fingers returns seeking peace, but with the town under new threat, he must reluctantly fight to free it, in this thriller from South African filmmaker Michael Matthews.
Saturday, October 20 @ 9:00 pm - SPLIT THE FIRST ATOM Legendary Storytelling & Transcendental Music. A storytelling event that breaks as many spells as it casts. Follow our heroine, Lu, on a roller coaster ride of a story as she travels beyond the Sun to locate the greatest love story ever told and bring it back to our world. These powerful stories combined with a live, dark-pop soundtrack will have you hanging on every word. This epic tale delivers the audience to the heart of interconnectedness. The show will also include the release of a new music video for Split The First Atom.
Opens October 26:
BISBEE ’17, An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past.
Saturday, November 3 @ 9:00 pm - SEVEN SINS: AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE curated by Love Madrid. Doors @ 8:00 pm. $10.
Friday, November 30 @ 7:00 pm - A STRIKE AND AN UPRISING, a doc about two events: The San Antonio pecan shellers’ strike of 1938 and the Jobs With Justice march led by Nacogdoches cafeteria workers, groundskeepers and hourekeepers in 1987. Presented by Democratic Socialists of America, New Orleans Chapter. Free. Donations appreciated.
Saturday, December 1 @ 9:00 pm - SEVEN SINS: AN EVENING OF BURLESQUE curated by Love Madrid. Doors @ 8:00 pm. $10.
December 7 thru 9, 14 thru 16, 21 thru 23 @ 8:00 pm
Tennessee Williams Theatre Company Of New Orleans presents MUTILATED
Opens January 18:
THE SAINT BERNARD CONNECTION, Subversive satirist Mads Brugger's latest is an odd-couple comedy about the pitfalls of striking out into the economic frontier; it charts two hapless Danes' scheme to sell Saint Bernards to China's middle class.
Opens March 8:
SMALLER AND SMALLER CIRCLES, Two Jesuit priests perform forensic work to solve the mystery revolving around the murders of young boys in Payatas, one of Metro Manilla's biggest slum areas. The pursuit of a brutal serial killer begins....
__________________________________________________________________________________________
1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. NOLA 70113 www.zeitgeistnola.org (504) 352-1150
Schedule is subject to change as films are held over – please check the website for updates nightly.
Zeitgeist is a non-profit, artist run media arts center that celebrates its 31st anniversary this November.
Come join us!