LIGHTBOX FILM CENTER AT INTERNATIONAL HOUSE PHILADELPHIA TO SCREEN LAURA PARNES’ ‘TOUR WITHOUT END.’ Wednesday, September 12 at 7pm Press Contact:
[email protected] Philadelphia, PA–Lightbox Film Center at International House Philadelphia is pleased to announce the screening of Laura Parnes’ Tour Without End on Wednesday, September 12 at 7pm. This screening is part of Lightbox Film Center’s monthly Subversive Elements series dedicated to experimental film and moving image art. Parnes, a Philadelphia native and notable Tyler School of Art alumni, will be in attendance. The film features members of Gang Gang Dance, Julie Ruin, MEN, Eartheater, MGMT, Light Asylum and more. An official selection of the 2018 Sarasota Film Festival, Tour Without End is an experimental narrative comedy/documentary hybrid film. Casting real-life musicians, artists, and actors as fictional bands on tour, the film evolves into a cross-generational commentary on contemporary culture and politics in the Trump era. Shot over the course of 4 years between 2014-2018, at over 15 DIY music spaces in and around NYC, Tour Without End functions as a time capsule made more apparent by the shuttering of many of the films’ locations due to NYC’s rapid gentrification. The film’s multitude of characters are legendary performers in the downtown NYC arts scene including Wooster Group founder Kate Valk, Jim Fletcher (The NYC Players), musicians Lizzi Bougatsos, (Gang Gang Dance), Kathleen Hanna (The Julie Ruin), Brontez Purnell (The Younger Lovers), Eileen Myles, Alexandra Drewchin (Eartheater), Nicole Eisenman, K8 Hardy, Johanna Fateman (Le Tigre) Shannon Funchess (Light Asylum), JD Samson (MEN), Gary Indiana, Kembra Pfahler, (Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black), Rachel Mason, Tom McGrath, Matthew Asti (MGMT), Becca Blackwell, Christen Clifford, Alessandra Genovese (Crush), Rogelio Ramos (Love Pig), Kenya Robinson (Cheeky LaShae) and Neon Music (Youth Quake).