Starring: Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Arno Jürging, Dalila Di Lazzaro

In Serbia, Baron Frankenstein lives with the Baroness and their two children. He dreams of a super-race, returning Serbia to its grand connections to ancient Greece. In his laboratory, assisted by Otto, he builds a desirable female body, but needs a male who will be super-body and super-lover. He thinks he has found just the right brain to go with a body he’s built, but he’s made an error, taking the head of an asexual ascetic. Meanwhile, the Baroness has her lusts, and she fastens on Nicholas, a friend of the dead lad. Can the Baron pull off his grand plan? He brings the two zombies together to mate. Meanwhile, Nicholas tries to free his dead friend. What about the Baron’s children?

Starring: Ben Dickey, Alia Shawkat, Josh Hamilton, Charlie Sexton

BLAZE is inspired by the life of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas outlaw music movement that spawned the likes of Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. The film weaves together three different periods of time, braiding re-imagined versions of Blaze’s past, present and future. The different strands explore his love affair with Sybil Rosen; his last, dark night on earth; and the impact of his songs and his death had on his fans, friends, and foes. The braided storyline terminates in a bittersweet ending that acknowledges Blaze’s profound highs and lows, as well as the impressions he made on the people who shared his journey.

Starring: Chris Elliott, Ritch Brinkley, James Gammon

A foul-mouthed finishing school graduate mistakenly winds up on an ill-fated fishing boat and faces the wrath of a crew that considers him bad luck.

WHAT IT IS: EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA | NET ART | VIDEO ART | OUTSIDER ART | PSYCHOTRONIC VISUALS | WEIRDO SKETCHES | MEDITATIVE CGI | BIZARRE REMIXES | DIGITAL FOSSILS | VIDEOS YOU WERE NEVER MEANT TO SEE

This month’s D E E P focuses on the body, bringing you contorted fleshy textures, corporeal pleasures and terrors, and a mutable sense of self in this era of digital dissociation.

FILMS
Faceshopping
Dirs. SOPHIE & Aaron Chan | 4 minutes
“I’m real when I shop my face.” This eyepopping visual for electronic musician SOPHIE’s single “Faceshopping” contorts, inflates, destroys, and rebuilds the artist’s face in a million different ways as a oddly gorgeous representation of body dysmorphia and limitless (digital) alteration.

U U
Dir. Yu Yu | 5 minutes
A man enters a bathroom and finds a lot of pairs from his own body. This discovery makes him thinking he is a sum of two. The thought leads him becoming two. ‘Wow, look at this’ He says to his double.

My Expanded View
Dir. Corey Hughes | 8 minutes
A YouTube Yoga tutorial. A collapsed body. An expanded view. Shot using multiple methods, including drone, iPhone, Osmo, and thermal camera, Hughes’ newest piece is a funny and deft exploration of modern imagemaking as transcendental experience.
Director Present

HORSE
Dir. Shen Jie | 4 minutes
Five chapters about horse are cut up. A haunting, gorgeous deconstruction of time and movement through animation.

Vera
Dir. Karen Yasinsky | 7 minutes
A character created over the time of animating the cobweb.

The Body Heals
Dir. Annelise Ogaard | 7 minutes
A nonfiction dispatch from a plastic surgery slumber party in South Beach.
Director Present

The Double Feeling
Dir. Nikias Chryssos | 10 minutes
A Mini-DV shot documentary set inside a Las Vegas factory where the world’s best-selling male adult toy is produced: the Fleshlight.

Pleasure
Dir. David Delafuente | 6 minutes
The process of letting go. Delafuente’s kinetic, melancholy abstractions explore queer love in all its multitudes through vibrant color and sound.
Director Present

Please step out of the frame.
Dir. Karissa Hahn | 4 minutes
Using Super 8, a desk, and a laptop, Karissa Hahn creates a playful choreography of body and screen.

국민체조 “National Gymnastics”
Dir. Gyuri Cloe Lee | 4 minutes
Take a journey through the nostalgic, yet bizarre visual landscape of the artist’s memories and imagination. “National Gymnastics (국민체조)” is the name of the Korean national morning exercise routine invented by the government and practiced in schools since the 70’s until the early 2000’s.

Gunge Buddies
Dir. Meredith Moore | 12 minutes
Equal parts documentary and fiction, Moore’s experimental short explores what happens when a group of friends from an online community get together for the first time to participate in one of the most innocuously beautiful and messy fetishes around: gunging.
Director Present

Coordinated Movement
Dir. Mike Pelletier | 3 minutes
Bodies float, morph, ripple, and twist in Pelletier’s experimental CG piece, which is by turns unsettling and deeply soothing.

Playing at Nitehawk for one night only! Stay after the credits for exclusive Joan Jett performance footage that can only be seen in theaters.

It’s true, Joan Jett became mega-famous from the number-one hit “I Love Rock n Roll,” but thats only part of the story. That fame intensified with the music video’s endless play on MTV, world tours and many hits to follow like “I Hate Myself for Loving You,” but that staple of popularity can’t properly define a musician.

Jett put her hard work in long before the fame, ripping it up onstage as the backbone of the hard-rock legends The Runaways, starting her record label out of the trunk of a car after being rejected by 23 labels, and influencing many musicians—both her cohort of punk rockers and generations of younger bands—with her no-bullshit style. Bad Reputation gives you a wild ride as Jett and her close friends tell you how it really was in the burgeoning ’70s punk scene and the rocky road to rock stardom decades on. Their interviews are laced with amazing archival footage. The theme is clear: Even though people tried to define Jett, she never compromised. She will kick your ass, and you’ll love her all the more for it.

Starring: Michael Rowe, Matt Wells, Natalie Brown

James Downey (Michael Rowe) lives a disciplined and straight edge lifestyle as a result of growing up with an abusive alcoholic father. His estranged cousin Danny (Matt Wells) is drowning his own trauma with drugs and booze. When their lives are forced to intersect once more, they each begin to unravel as the past returns with violent and tragic consequences. Featuring a blistering punk/hardcore soundtrack, Crown and Anchor is a slow-burn drama delivered with the intensity of a punch to the gut.

Starring: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton

All screenings in our CLASS OF ’08 series include an optional donation ticket price with proceeds going to the Entertainment Community Fund, who work to support film and TV workers during the work stoppage. Choose the “Reserved + Donation” ticket option to donate.

“The Russians? Are you sure?”

Starring: Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache, Bill Duke, Richard Brake

Part of our recipe book series NITEHAWK CINEMA PRESENTS. Show your ticket at the bar after the movie to buy a copy of the book for only $20!

Pacific Northwest. 1983 AD. Outsiders Red Miller and Mandy Bloom lead a loving and peaceful existence. When their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed by a cult led by the sadistic Jeremiah Sand, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.