Electronic Body Music is the dance floor evolution of Industrial music, with deep roots into Post Punk and Neue Deutsche Welle. It all started in Germany and Belgium in the early 1980s, when seminal bands such as Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Front 242 and Liaisons Dangereuses laid the foundations for this new music style, marked out by thumping beats, aggressive vocals and sequenced synth bass lines. Adrenaline-filled live shows, controversial lyrics and provocative looks shocked the music press and fueled the audience imagination, leaving a burning mark on the hearts and minds of their followers.
Electronic Body Movie is the first documentary film ever made about E.B.M. history and rediscovery. Hear from the voice of the E.B.M. pioneers and prime movers how they shaped and developed their music. Meet some of today’s most cutting edge DJs and producers still inspired and influenced by them. A visual journey into E.B.M. iconic sound, filled with rare archive videos, unreleased live footage and exclusive interviews which will reveal the secrets behind its longevity and show the impact it still has
on contemporary electronic music.
Starring: Wes Miller, David Weldon, Mary Wascavage, Dave Bonavita
From the creator of the legendary Suburban Sasquatch!
Deep within a tranquil forest, five strangers meet at a secluded bed and breakfast. But one of these guests happens to be a mad scientist, who uses his vacation to accidentally create an army of killer mushrooms. Now unleashed on the other guests, and with the body count quickly piling up, it’s up to the survivors to arm themselves and fight back against these slaughtering shrooms in hopes of stopping them from world domination!
From Dave Wascavage, the writer/ director of Rifftrax and Red Letter Media favorite Suburban Sasquatch comes a film that somehow manages to outdo and out-WTF that movie in almost every department, with jaw-dropping mushroom samurai fighting, puppet karate decapitations and near interdimensional level CGI alchemy that will have viewers believing they have actually ingested mushrooms, the good kind.
Starring: Tao Zhao, Fan Liao, Zheng Xu, Casper Liang
Qiao (Zhao Tao) is in love with her boyfriend Bin (Liao Fan), a small-time gangster. During a fight between rival gangs, she fires a gun to protect him. Qiao gets five years in prison for this act of loyalty. Upon her release, she goes looking for Bin to pick up where they left off.
Starring: Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, William Tubbs, Véra Clouzot, Folco Lulli
4K restoration
In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men (Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Folco Lulli, and Peter van Eyck) sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry their explosive cargo to a faraway oil fire, each bump and jolt tests their courage, their friendship, and their nerves. The result is one of the greatest thrillers ever committed to celluloid, a white-knuckle ride from France’s legendary master of suspense, Henri-Georges Clouzot.
Starring: Libe Barer, Ariela Barer, Chelsea Alden, Dylan Arnold, Travis Tope, Kimiko Singer, Molly Hagan, Ricky Wayne, Diana DeLaCruz, Wayne David Parker
Followed by a Q&A with writer/director Anna Baumgarten and actors Libe Barer, Ariela Barer, Dylan Arnold, and Chelsea Alden. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.
To everyone’s surprise, “Jane the Brain” flunks her final college class and retreats to her Michigan hometown by the lake. Her parents, sister, townie friends, and an old high school crush soften the burden of failure, and it’s long before this misstep feels more like an opportunity at one last care-free summer vacation. She rekindles a friendship with her neighbor Amber, a single mother with a difficult toddler, and utilizes her skills as a linguistics student–including American Sign Language–to help Amber connect with her son. Despite her best efforts, however, Jane can’t keep the real reason that caused her academic disruption bottled up. She struggles with imposter syndrome, and her PTSD boils over. With the support of those around her, Jane unravels herself and starts the never-ending process of healing.
Starring: Elizabeth Yu, Emma Raimi, Maya Schnake, Taylor Kinkead, Billy Chengary, Ryder McDaniel
The Future of Film is Female presents the New York premiere of Lauren Loesberg’s YEAR ONE. To make a $10 donation to the Red Cross, in support of those affected by the LA fires, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.
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Ruby’s freshman year of college doesn’t go as planned. Despite her best efforts, she struggles to make friends other than her complicated roommate, Selene, and experiences both academic and social rejection. But Selene bears problems of her own when her severe anxiety and inability to care for herself seep into Ruby’s everyday life. Soon, Ruby finds herself in a downward spiral, marked by dreams and the appearance of her glamorous alter ego, Ruby II, who begins to live the life that Ruby thinks she is expected to have.
For the first screening of 2025, The Future of Film is Female presents an essential documentary about motherhood, witches, and mental health by Elizabeth Sankey. To make a $10 donation to Baby2Baby, supporting children and families affected by the LA fires, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.
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Witches are figures of solace in this intimate documentary, which unravels the social stigmas that women have endured across centuries. Between affecting interviews and vividly illustrative film clips, Elizabeth Sankey concocts a potion that brims with courage, compassion, and healing insight.
“Ushering her own long-standing obsession with movies to the fore, Sankey draws on a wealth of footage spanning the entirety of film history- with clips as far ranging as THE WIZARD OF OZ , GIRL, INTERRUPTED, and ROSEMARY’S BABY – to make that point that our shared cultural representation of witches says a lot more about how we view women, motherhood, and mental health. Sankey places her own personal experiences alongside interviews with academics and other women with shared experiences within a larger historical context that relates back to the witch hunts of past centuries and up to the way contemporary cultural norms continue to fail women. Witches functions simultaneously as stirring personal testimony, critical ode to cinephilia, and a vital feminist history lesson” .––Cara Cusumano, Tribeca Festival
Before Witches, we’ll screen a short written and directed by FOFIF filmmaker Richa Rudola:
COW HEAVY AND FLORAL (2024)
A postpartum writer struggles to make a deadline as she experiences an identity crisis between her various personas. (15 min)
Starring: Kyle Gallner, Emily Skeggs, Pat Healy, Griffin Gluck, Mary Lynn Rajskub
An on-the-lam punk rocker and a young woman obsessed with his band embark on a series of misadventures through the decaying suburbs of the American Midwest.
Starring: Edward Connell, Barbara Hewitt, Frank Boers Jr., Jack Woods, with the voice of Forrest J. Ackerman
Check that date twice Deuce-denizens : this month we’re coming in late, as the chill of Winter (hopefully) thaws… The Deuce is ushering you into Spring on the EQUINOX! On the very night of the astrological event that is its namesake! But this home-made horror/fantasy hullabaloo hodge-podge of hands-on movie-making-magic, stop-motion special-effects, clay-mation monsters, and back-yard dramatics – aka The Equinox… A Journey Into The Supernatural – may just chill you to the core!
Four good-natured college kids hit the hills in search of a missing Geology prof… they also have a picnic… they also meet a park ranger named Asmodeus (?!!?) and discover a creepy castle… they also meet an ol’ coot in a cave who gives them a big-ol’ book that – uh-oh – happens to be the key that will unlock “THE OCCULT BARRIER BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL”! – after which – having read aloud from said big-ol’ book… all kinds of craziness ensues!!
“SEE FOUR TEENAGERS FIGHT A DEVIL CULT”!
“SEE THE RING THAT ENSLAVES AND DESTROYS”!
“SEE THE SYMBOL THAT DEFIES THE HOSTS OF HELL”!
“SEE THE UNLEASHED POWER OF THE 1,000 YEAR OLD BOOK”! (told ya it was old!)
Who wouldn’t wanna see all those things?? And then… it’s monsters monsters everywhere as the demon Asmodeous (not really a park ranger after all) and his minions battle said good-natured picnic-loving friends over said big-ol’ book!
Originally completed in 1967, shot and edited over a period of two-plus years on weekends and school vacations under the helming of four good-natured under-21 creature-feature movie and Famous Monsters magazine fans – all of whom (Dennis Muran, Mark McGee, David Allen, Jim Danforth) would go on to take the art of special effects to unknown horizons (Google them!) – and who’s labor of love film they’d thought could mayyybe end up as late-night TV horror-show fare… Instead they find it being scooped-up by THE BLOB producer Jack H. Harris and souped-up by the Harris-hired Jack Woods, directing/shooting additional hair-raising and head-scratching shenanigans with the recast now-years-older leads – as well as giving himself the part of not-really-a-park-ranger Asmodeous! The result being a longer film with a shorter title… one that retains the youthful filmmakers’ fantastical (and fantastic!) monster-loving fanaticism, creative ingenuity, and home-movie sappiness and wroughts it large on the big screen… Where like-minded weirdos as such at Time Square’s Empire Theatre – not to mention all the nimrods in hot-rods who honked it up when it played drive-ins all across the South (except we did just mention it) – could marvel in its particularly puzzling mind-bending weirdness!!
And… as an extra special bonus side-trip for this trippy feature – The Deuce will be visiting with those movie-mavens of The Mahoning Drive-In for some off-Deuce discussion and fun!
Starring: Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam
The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut.
Centering on two roommates who also work together in a city hospital–head nurse Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and recent hire Anu (Divya Prabha)–plus their coworker, cook Parvaty (Chhaya Kadam), Kapadia’s film alights on moments of connection and heartache, hope and disappointment. Prabha, her husband from an arranged marriage living in faraway Germany, is courted by a doctor at her hospital; Anu carries on a romance with a Muslim man, which she must keep a secret from her strict Hindu family; Parvaty finds herself dealing with a sudden eviction from her apartment.
Kapadia captures the bustle of the metropolis and the open-air tranquility of a seaside village with equal radiance, articulated by her superb actresses and by the camera with a lyrical naturalism that occasionally drifts into dreamlike incandescence. All We Imagine as Light is a soulful study of the transformative power of friendship and sisterhood, in all its complexities and richness.
