Nitehawk Cinema’s series on New York filmmakers LOCAL COLOR and Tribeca Film Festival present a special preview screening of MA. Q&A with director CELIA ROWLSON HALL.
In this modern-day vision of Mother Mary’s pilgrimage, a woman crosses the scorched landscape of the American Southwest. Reinvented and told entirely through movement, the film playfully deconstructs the role of this woman, who encounters a world full of bold characters that are alternately terrifying and sublime. MA is a journey into the visceral and the surreal, interweaving ritual, performance, and the body as sculpture. The absence of dialogue stirs the senses, and leads us to imagine a new ending to this familiar journey. The virgin mother gives birth to our savior, but is also challenged to save herself.
Celia Rowlson Hall is a New York based Director, Choreographer and Bessie award winning performer. Celia has choreographed for film and television, working with directors such as Gaspar Noe and Lena Dunham as well as VMA award winning music videos for bands such as MGMT, Chromeo, and Sleigh Bells and for fashion publications Vogue, Vanity Fair and Glamour. She has written and directed over fifty short films and videos that have garnered several awards including an Emmy nomination and have been screened at festivals such as SXSW, SFIFF, MFF, Rooftop Films, Glasgow, Dance on Camera at Lincoln Center, and art fairs such as the Armory Show, Performa, and the New Museum. She was named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine, 2015. MA is her debut feature.
A video variety show that will leave you sore in the morning. (From laughing.)
Comedian Kevin Maher welcomes his wife and co-host (romance novelist Rebecca Rogers Maher) for a two-hour video variety show looking at pop culture’s most memorable sex scenes. From teen sex comedies to serious art-house films, they’ll watch all kinds of encounters: the good, the bad, the vulnerable, the gratuitous, and more! The one-night-only event includes G-rated innuendos and X-rated surprises.
With special guests:
Tanya Smith (co-host “Read It and Weep” podcast)
R. Sikoryak (cartoonist, Masterpiece Comics and iTunes Terms & Conditions: The Graphic Novel)
Doug Sakmann (AVN-award-winning director of The XXXorcist, Evil Head, Re-Penetrator)
Kristen Korvette (Editrix, Slutist.com)
Professor Geoff Klock (author, The Future of Comics, the Future of Men)
Steve Flack (Editor, Trivia Champion)
Spend the opening weekend of COMEDIANS IN FILM with Sarah Silverman and a host of other comics in SARAH SILVERMAN: JESUS IN MAGIC.
My sister was with two men in one night. She could hardly walk after that. Can you imagine? Two dinners! – Sarah Silverman
Comedian Sarah Silverman brings her patent, no-holds-barred humor to the stage in this performance film. Based almost entirely on Silverman’s successful show of the same name which appeared on Broadway and generated considerable buzz, the movie blends stand-up with prerecorded sketches and even some musical performances. For Silverman, seemingly no topic is off-limits, as she squeezes jokes out of subjects including rape, Sept. 11 and the Holocaust.
Kickstarter presents BROOKLYN COMEDY FESTIVAL: SHORTS for a weekend of hilarity at Nitehawk!
The Brooklyn Comedy Festival and Kickstarter present Shorts, a weekend brunch and booze cruise through the best comedy short films of Brooklyn and beyond. Hidden behind the world of laugh tracks and blockbuster mediocrities there hums and buzzes a new class of surreal experiments in comedic cinema. The Brooklyn Comedy Festival and Kickstarter have partnered to curate and exhibit the best of them right here at Nitehawk Cinema!
SATURDAY PROGRAM
AN EXCERPT OF SNOWY BING BONGS ACROSS THE NORTH STAR COMBAT ZONE | Rachel Wolther & Alex H. Fischer | 4 minutes
TOND | Josh Ruben + Vince Peone | 20 minutes
AFFECTIONS | Bridey Elliott | 16 minutes, 8 seconds
DOOR ON THE LEFT | Kati Skelton and Harrison Atkins | 5 minutes, 27 seconds
VISITOR INFORMATION | Alan Resnick | 4 minutes, 30 seconds
GREENER GRASS | Paul Briganti | 15 minutes
LATINER | Ines Gowland | 8 minutes, 50 seconds
UNABLE ARE THE LOVED TO DIE | Adam Sacks | 11 minutes, 46 seconds
JANA & SHASTA | Tynan Delong | 9 minutes, 21 seconds
PINEAPPLE | Micah Phillips | 6 minutes, 43 seconds
I AM A TALK SHOW HOST | David Bluvband & Riley Soloner | 3 minutes
FOXMOUTH | Nate Fernald | 11 seconds
SUNDAY PROGRAM
SNOWY BING BONGS ACROSS THE NORTH STAR COMBAT ZONE | Rachel Wolther and Alex Fischer | 4 minutes
TOND | Josh + Vince | 20 minutes
AFFECTIONS | Bridey Elliott | 16 minutes, 8 seconds
DOOR ON THE LEFT | Kati Skelton and Harrison Atkins | 5 minutes, 27 seconds
VISITOR INFORMATION | Alan Resnick | 4 minutes, 30 seconds
GREENER GRASS | Paul Briganti | 15 minutes
FOR MAYA | Alex H. Fischer | 14 minutes, 52 seconds
MD MEMORIES | Matt Braunsdorf | 11 minutes, 5 seconds
THREE BUSY DEBRAS PRESENT “BRUNCH” | Sandy Honig & Jake Honig | 4 minutes, 21 seconds
SLURP | Grace Naw | 3 minutes, 39 seconds
SLURP 2 | Grace Naw | 3 minutes, 30 seconds
I AM A TALK SHOW HOST | David Bluvband & Riley Soloner | 3 minutes
FOXMOUTH | Nate Fernald | 11 seconds
For complete shorts description and images visit Kickstarter. But buy tickets here!
Horror Boobs and Nitehawk present midnite screenings of AMERICA’S DEADLIEST HOME VIDEO.
The story of Doug (Danny Bonaduce), a home video enthusiast who hits the road with his video camera after catching his wife having an affair. While making a video journal of his travels, he inadvertently records the Clint Dryer gang – three felons on the lam – pushing their getaway car over a cliff. The gang abducts him and forces him to videotape their crime spree as they rob and murder their way from town to town. The gang’s leader, Clint (Mick Wynhoff), becomes more daring and sadistic for the camera, and a dangerous relationship forms between his girlfriend, Gloria (Melora Walters) and Doug. Seen entirely through the eyes of Doug’s video camera, America’s Deadliest Home Video draws the viewer into a dark world of violence and terror.
Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?
Then join comedian Kevin Maher as he explores some of the strangest depictions of pop culture’s greatest villain: Lucifer. It’s a two-hour video variety show filled with Satanic Panic, Deals with the Devil and Satanimation in 80’s cartoons.
Co-hosted by returning favorites:
Tenebrous Kate (writer & illustrator, HERETICAL SEXTS, SLUTIST and HEATHEN HARVEST)
Paul Murphy (filmmaker, RED OBSESSION)
Plus special guests:
Lucien Greaves (co-founder of The Satanic Temple)
Landis Darling (burlesque performer)
A London reporter has the scoop on the end of the world in the British science-fiction classic THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE.
Peter Stenning is a depressed British reporter who gets by with the help of his friend, veteran journalist Bill Maguire. Along with weather forecaster Jeannie Craig, they discover that the simultaneous nuclear explosions set off by the United States and Russia have drastically altered the earth’s rotation. Fires and earthquakes ravage cities all over the world, and chaos and sickness descend upon the frightened survivors as they try to put the planet back on its axis. Directed and co-written by Val Guest (The Quatermass Experiment), The Day the Earth Caught Fire is a clever work of speculative fiction that, like the other films in our series, reveals a terrifyingly real post-apocalyptic existence.
Part of Nitehawk’s May THE WASTE LAND brunch and midnite series.
Nitehawk presents a special screening of FAULTS featuring an introduction by director Riley Stearns and a Q&A with Stearns and lead actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
Claire (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is under the grip of a mysterious cult called Faults. Desperate to be reunited with their daughter, Claire’s parents set out to recruit Ansel Roth (Leland Orser), one of the world’s foremost authorities on cults and mind control. But Ansel’s specialty, deprogramming cult members and returning them to their families, is not an exact science, and a series of financial setbacks has left him in debt to his manager. Ansel warns Claire’s parents that his deprogramming methods are risky and expensive, but they agree to hire him to kidnap and deprogram their daughter. Claire quickly reveals herself to be a formidable challenge. Her belief is unshakeable and her logic is undeniable. A battle of wits develops between the two as they delve deeper and deeper into each other’s minds.
MUSIC DRIVEN presents THE NEW BREED COMPILATION documentary.
Wednesday, March 30: Q&A with Djinji Brown, Freddy Alva, Orlando Arce, & John Woods. Moderated by Tony Rettman.
Saturday, April 2: Q&A with Chaka Malik, Freddy Alva, Orlando Arce, & John Woods. Moderated by Tony Rettman.
Saturday, April 3: Q&A with Freddy Alva, John Woods, Orlando Arce & Joe Songco (Outburst). Moderated by author Anthony Pappalardo
The New Breed Documentary chronicles a cassette compilation put out by Freddy Alva and Chaka Malik in 1989. New York Hardcore was undergoing a transition at the end of the 80s and this generational shift was exemplified by the bands that were featured on the compilation. The story of the tape is at heart the story of NYC and kids that grew up in its five boroughs as well as related outposts in Long Island/Yonkers. A unique set of social/economic circumstances during the 70s and 80s forged the individuals that went on to make up the New York Hardcore scene. This full length documentary profiles band members/fanzine editors/record label heads and fans that made up this vibrant scene with narration by NYHC book author Tony Rettman. It’s unheard of for a feature film to focus on an outdated analog format like a cassette compilation but it is through the eyes of these individuals that a spotlight is shined onto those tumultuous times and what is ultimately a tribute to a bygone era.
Nitehawk’s LIVE SOUND CINEMA and ART SEEN time travel with Jean Cocteau’s TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS and a live original score by PARLOR WALLS.
In his last film, legendary writer/artist/filmmaker Jean Cocteau portrays an 18th-century poet who travels through time on a quest for divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he meets several symbolic phantoms that bring about his death and resurrection. With an eclectic cast that includes Pablo Picasso, Jean-Pierre Leáud, Jean Marais and Yul Brynner, Testament of Orpheus (Le Testament de Orphée) brings full circle the journey Cocteau began in The Blood of a Poet, an exploration of the torturous relationship between the artist and his creations. – Criterion
Parlor Walls is an experimental group featuring Alyse Lamb (guitar/sounds), Chris Mulligan (drums/keys), Kate Mohanty (sax), and Jason Shelton (clarinet).
