2019 JULY / AUGUST / SEPTEMBER Program Guide BACK PORCH TABLE OF CONTENTS

BEER GARDEN SHIMMERING SYNTHS: 3-4 THE FILM MUSIC OF TANGERINE DREAM

THROUGH THE EYES OF ABBAS KIAROSTAMI 5-6

LOUIS BLUVER’S ARTHOUSE REVISITED 7

SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS 9 Lightbox is thrilled to bring back our popular Back Porch Beer Garden series this summer, alongside some of our most exciting film screenings.

On select Fridays this summer, we welcome audience members to enjoy a CZECH THAT FILM 10 pre-screening reception with beer, refreshments, live DJs, and conversation in a breezy, sunny spot overlooking Innovation Plaza in University City.

Beer Gardens are from 6-7pm prior to the screening. FAMILY MATINEES 11 Admission and drinks are free with your film ticket.

Friday, June 21 Friday, July 26 IN COLLABORATION 13 QUEERING THE LENS SHIMMERING SYNTHS: NITRATE KISSES THE FILM MUSIC OF Barbara Hammer, US, 1992, 16mm, 67 min. TANGERINE DREAM DJ Rana Ransom THREE O’CLOCK HIGH Phil Joanou, US, 1987, 101 min. SUPPORT LIGHTBOX FILM CENTER 14 Friday, July 12 DJ Sam Robinson of WKDU 91.7FM SHIMMERING SYNTHS: THE FILM MUSIC OF Friday, August 9 TANGERINE DREAM SPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS CALENDAR 15-16 THIEF CHULAS FRONTERAS Michael Mann, US, 1981, 124 min. Les Blank, US, 1976, 58 min. DJ Sam Robinson of WKDU 91.7FM DJ Losamatic (Carlos Bonilla) LIGHTBOX INFORMATION 17-18 Friday, August 23 LOUIS BLUVER’S ARTHOUSE REVISITED TRUST Hal Hartley, UK, 1991, 35mm, 107 min. DJ John Morrison

1 2 lightboxfilmcenter.org/beergardens www.lightboxfilmcenter.org • 215.387.5125 SHIMMERING SYNTHS: THE FILM MUSIC OF TANGERINE DREAM The German electronic music group Tangerine Dream has spent more than five decades creating dreamy, minimalist soundscapes that hover somewhere between “kosmische musik” and New Age. Emerging from the same fertile Krautrock ground Saturday, July 20 at 7pm Saturday, July 27 at 7pm that gave the world Kraftwerk, Can, and Popol Vuh, Tangerine Dream was among STRANGE BEHAVIOR DOUBLE FEATURE! the original pioneers of spaced-out, analog synthesizer-based music. Beginning Michael Laughlin, US/New Zealand, 1981, FIRESTARTER in the late 1970s, the group began composing atmospheric scores for films, 94 min. Mark Lester, US, 1984, 114 min. predominantly of the horror/thriller genre, and in some cases the soundtracks A series of murders in a small Illinois Adapted from the Stephen King novel, were more memorable than the films themselves. This month Lightbox resurrects town leads a local police officer to dig Firestarter stars Drew Barrymore as some of the finest and most thrilling moments in Tangerine Dream’s film score deeper, uncovering a sinister scientific “Charlie,” a young girl who develops discography. experiment at the university. Alternately pyrokinesis, the psychic ability to start titled Dead Kids, Strange Behavior is fires with the mind. When a shady Saturday, July 6 at 7pm Friday, July 12 at 7pm an homage to the low budget, campy government agency known as “The SORCERER THIEF horror movies of the 1950s (think Bela Shop” abducts Charlie and tries to William Friedkin, US, 1977, 121 min., French, Michael Mann, US, 1981, 124 min. Lugosi as the mad scientist). Ironically, use her as a weapon, she flees to save German, Spanish w/ English subtitles The contemporary American auteur the film is now part of the subgenre of herself and expose the nefarious plot. William Friedkin followed up his wildly Michael Mann’s bold artistic sensibility horror thrillers from the 1980s that have Though it hasn’t had the impact of other successful filmThe Exorcist with a taut was already fully formed when he burst inspired the hit show Stranger Things. Stephen King screen adaptations, it thriller, a remake of the Henri-Georges out of the gate with Thief, his debut Join us for Lightbox’s Record Fair from ranks as one of Tangerine Dream’s most Clouzot filmWages of Fear. Sorcerer feature. James Caan stars in one of his 1-7pm prior to this screening. memorable soundtracks and is worth follows four criminal outcasts holed most riveting performances as a no- revisiting for that reason alone. up in a remote Latin American jungle nonsense, ex-con safecracker planning Friday, July 26 at 7pm Followed by: as they are enlisted in a dangerous to leave the criminal world behind THREE O’CLOCK HIGH NEAR DARK mission involving the dirty business of after one final diamond heist—but he Phil Joanou, US, 1987, 101 min. Kathryn Bigelow, US, 1987, 95 min. the oil industry. The multilingual, globe- discovers that escape is not as simple High School student Jerry Mitchell This stylish horror-western is Kathryn trotting production was eclipsed by as he’d hoped. Finding hypnotic beauty is having “one of those days,” and Bigelow’s second feature film as director. the box office success ofStar Wars in in neon and rain-slick streets, sparks, it only gets worse when he crosses A roving group of vampires wreak havoc the summer of 1977 and was deemed and steel, Thief effortlessly established paths with new student Buddy Revell. on an unsuspecting family in a genre a failure for a director whose previous the moody stylishness and tactile Buddy challenges Jerry to a fight after film mashup that has become one of film had contributed to the rise of the approach to action that would also school, and Jerry spends the rest of the most enduring vampire films of the Hollywood blockbuster. Decades later, define such later iconic entertainments the day desperately trying to avoid the 1980s. With its oblique commentary on Sorcerer has earned cult status along from Mann as Miami Vice, Manhunter, looming confrontation. Each attempt to race and gender in America, Near Dark with its mesmerizing soundtrack by and Heat. Tangerine Dream. escape the showdown leads to a more is a powerful exploration of the darker Join us prior to this screening at 6pm outlandish episode. Three O’Clock High impulses of human behavior. for Lightbox’s Back Porch Beer Garden! takes the high school bully scenario and ups the ante with spirit guides from beyond the grave, an explosive burglary, and a book report that verges on the pornographic. Join us prior to this screening at 6pm for Lightbox’s Back Porch Beer Garden!

3 4 www.lightboxfilmcenter.org • 215.387.5125 THROUGH THE EYES OF ABBAS KIAROSTAMI The late Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami made films that on the surface may Thursday, September 12 at 7pm Thursday, September 19 at 7pm appear simple. A boy does almost anything to attend an important soccer match. LIFE AND NOTHING SHIRIN A filmmaker searches for actors from his previous film in an earthquake-damaged Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 2008, 92 min., Persian MORE… w/ English subtitles village. A man seeks assistance to help him end his life. But Kiarostami’s deliberate Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1992, 95 min., Persian blend of fiction and reality delve into the deeper aspects of the human condition. w/ English subtitles Shirin features 113 close-ups of mostly His background as a painter, poet, and photographer provides a richly sensual After the earthquake that devastated Iranian actresses as they watch a film foundation for his work and garnered him accolades as he rose to prominence in Northern Iran in 1990, a filmmaker and version of Khosrow and Shirin, a 12th the early 1990s with films likeWhere is the Friend’s Home? and Taste of Cherry. his son try to drive to the village of century Persian romantic poem. Though This survey covers the celebrated director’s earliest films to his final, posthumously Koker, located in the heart of the region. the film being watched is never shown, released work, including the newly restored Koker Trilogy. Searching for the two young actors who nor does it even exist as an actual played in his filmWhere is the Friend’s separate film, the soundtrack conveys Friday, September 6 at 7pm Followed by: Home?, the Kiarostami surrogate runs the narrative while each of the women’s THE TRAVELER into all sorts of difficulties as he shows faces expresses a multitude of emotions. Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1974, 71 min., Persian SUIT FOR A WEDDING Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1976, 57 min., Persian still pictures from the film to passersby At once playful and deeply conceptual, w/ English subtitles w/ English subtitles in the hope of locating the lost boys. At Kiarostami’s film deconstructs the act of This early feature by Kiarostami is A woman orders a suit from a tailor for last, the artist comes to understand that spectating in a compelling experiment steeped in neorealism and hews her young son to wear to her sister’s life, even in the shadow of disaster, reels with strong feminist overtones. closely to some of his short films where wedding. The tailor’s apprentice, splendidly on. children are the protagonists. Qassem together with two other teenage boys Friday, September 20 at 7pm is a troubled boy living in small city of who work in the same building, devise Friday, September 13 at 7pm 24 FRAMES Malayer in northwest Iran, and he is a plan to try on the suit at night to see THROUGH THE OLIVE Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 2017, 114 min., Persian obsessed with soccer. When his favorite what it feels like. Things get a little w/ English subtitles soccer player is scheduled to play in TREES complicated, but in the morning, at the Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1994, 103 min., Persian For what would prove to be his Tehran, he devises an elaborate scheme last possible minute, they manage to w/ English subtitles final film, Iranian director Abbas to attend the game. As mischievous and return the suit to its proper place. The two young stars of Where Is Kiarostami gave himself a challenge: deceitful as Qassem is, we sympathize the Friend’s Home? have grown into to create a dialogue between his with the boy who is so devoted to the Saturday, September 7 at 8pm work as a filmmaker and his work as sport. The Traveler at times employs adolescence in Through the Olive Trees, WHERE IS THE FRIEND’S which tells the story of a director trying a photographer, bridging the two art a documentary style of filmmaking, forms to which he had dedicated his lending it an extra degree of emotional HOME? to make a film calledLife and Nothing Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1987, 83 min., Persian life. Setting out to reconstruct the resonance. More…. Casting is complicated when w/ English subtitles a stonemason-turned-actor becomes moments immediately before and Followed by a members-only reception! Kiarostami first rose to international smitten with the lead actress, who in after a photograph is taken, Kiarostami prominence with a modernist, humane turn refuses to look at him, disrupting selected twenty-four still images and Saturday, September 7 at 5pm trilogy of films set in and around the an already comically dysfunctional set. digitally animated them into subtly THE EXPERIENCE Iranian village of Koker, before and Introducing questions of authenticity, evolving four-and-a-half-minute Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1973, 60 min., Persian after a devastating earthquake there. class, and gender, Kiarostami’s unblinking vignettes, creating a series of poignant w/ English subtitles Reflecting the director’s multilayered interrogation of reality demonstrates his studies in movement, perception, and An orphaned adolescent boy Mamad engagement with cinema—and the rich sense of whimsy and uncanny eye time. A sustained meditation on the works (and occasionally sleeps) at a audience—the trilogy begins with this for the beautiful. process of image making, 24 Frames is photo studio. On an errand, he spies lyrical tale of a schoolboy’s journey to a graceful and elegiac farewell from one of the giants of world cinema. a slightly older and more affluent girl return a notebook belonging to his best Saturday, September 14 at 7pm who becomes the object of his desire. friend. Where is the Friend’s Home? is TASTE OF CHERRY He decides to find a way to gain drawn from a poem by poet-philosopher Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1997, 99 min., Persian employment as a servant at the girl’s Sohrab Sepehri, whose subject w/ English subtitles house. When his proposal is offered, encounters places and moments of great Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1997 he finds himself anxiously awaiting the beauty and wonder. Cannes Film Festival, Iranian auteur answer. Kiarostami’s debut feature, Abbas Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry is though barely an hour long, finds the an emotionally complex meditation on director reimagining the trope of “poor life and death. Middle-aged Mr. Badii boy falls for rich girl” in a way that (Homayoun Ershadi) drives through the foreshadows stark reality of his later hilly outskirts of Tehran—searching for works. someone to rescue or bury him. All films courtesy of Janus Films

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Saturday, July 13 at 7pm Friday, August 23 at 7pm THE GARDEN TRUST Derek Jarman, UK, 1990, 95 min. Hal Hartley, UK, 1991, 35mm, 107 min. NEW 2K RESTORATION If Frank Borzage had survived to see the Derek Jarman, the great British end of the Reagan Era, hated television, filmmaker, artist, and provocateur, and took the gruff-but-gentle romance passed away 25 years ago on February of Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young 19, 1994 at the age of 52. His late in Man’s Castle and set it in suburban, masterpiece The Garden was made in blue collar Long Island in 1990, he might 1990 as Jarman was struggling with have made a movie like Trust. Adrienne AIDS. Shot on Super 8, 16mm, and HI8 Shelly stars as a high school senior video, starring a young Tilda Swinton, whose mother accuses her of killing and featuring a sublime score by her father. When she meets Martin Simon Fisher Turner, The Garden is a Donovan, an electronics whiz who can’t visually stunning, deeply personal film hold down a job and lives alone with his about homosexuality, Christianity, and abusive father, she’s looking for a place persecution filmed at Jarman’s coastal to stay, and the two heroes quickly find home in the shadow of a nuclear power they have something the other one station. needs. Trust is as moving, subversive, and funny as it was in 1990, simply the Friday, July 19 at 7pm kind of movie we have to show to you. HYENAS New 35mm Print Courtesy of the Djibril Diop Mambéty, Senegal, 1992, 110 min., Chicago Film Society. Wolof w/ English subtitles Join us prior to this screening at 6pm One of the treasures of African cinema, for Lightbox’s Back Porch Beer Garden! Senegalese master Mambéty’s long- delayed follow-up to his canonical Saturday, September 28 at 7pm Touki Bouki is a hallucinatory comic adaptation of Swiss avant-garde writer OLIVIA Jacqueline Audry, France, 1950, 96 min., Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play The Visit. French w/ English subtitles, b&w Mambéty’s imagining follows a now-rich woman returning to her poor desert Neglected for almost 70 years, Olivia is hometown to propose a deal to the a remarkable work by one of France’s populace: her fortune, in exchange for ground-breaking female filmmakers, the death of the man who years earlier Jacqueline Audry. Set in a gothic abandoned her and left her with his (somewhat reminiscent of Hitchcock’s child. Per its title, Hyenas is a film of Rebecca) 19th century boarding sinister, mocking laughter, and a biting school for young girls, and while not OFFICIAL HOTEL PARTNER satire of a contemporary Senegal whose addressing lesbianism directly, it is post-colonial dreams are faced with the story of the two mistresses of erosion by western materialism. the house, their competition for the OF LIGHTBOX FILM CENTER affections of their students, and the Restored in 2018 by Thelma Film AG students’ discovery of the dangerous with the support of Cinémathèque game of love and attraction. suisse, at Eclair Cinema, from the original negative. 3549 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA A Metrograph Pictures release. SHERATONUNIVERSITYCITY.COM

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Friday, August 9 at 7pm between the years of 1958-1971. CHULAS FRONTERAS Peppered through this collection are Les Blank, US, 1976, 58 min. banned scenes from some of the most Chulas Fronteras is a zesty introduction influential directors in history, including to Norteña music and culture that exists Godard, Polanski, Bergman, Varda, along the Texas-Mexican border. The and Fellini. But censorship extended music is a fusion of traditional Mexican to hundreds of forgotten films—from harmonies, German dancehall rhythms, avant-garde and documentary films and a little something extra. From to Hollywood B-movies. When Sari soulful, lively dance tunes to political Braithwaite gained unprecedented work songs, música Norteña has evolved access to this mysterious collection, she since the turn of the 20th century into created a work stitched entirely from Thursday, August 15 at 7pm Saturday, August 17 at 6pm a unique Mexican-American hybrid. these never-before-seen artefacts of WINTER FLIES THE HASTRMAN Blank links the music’s spirit and vitality censorship. [CENSORED] is the story Olmo Omerzu, Czech Republic, 2018, 85 min., Ondřej Havelka, Czech Republic, 2018, 100 min., to the strong family bonds of Tejanos. of how one filmmaker confronted an Czech w/ English subtitles Czech w/ English subtitles The plight of migrant workers adds a archive to reckon with film, censorship, A rebellious teenager and his dorky, BB A strange nobleman returns after years sobering backbeat to this joyous film. and the power of the gaze. gun-toting sidekick run away through abroad to a small Bohemian village to

Followed by: Preceded by: the Czech countryside in a stolen Audi. revitalize his family’s property at the RELEASE Along the way, they pick up a dog and beginning of the 19th century. Despite DEL MERO CORAZÓN Bill Morrison, US, 2010, 13 min., b&w Maureen Gosling, Les Blank, Guillermo a pretty female hitchhiker as they try to looking like a human, he feels closer to

Hernández & Chris Strachwitz, 1979, 28 min. elude the police. An interrogation of tall animals. He turns out to be the Hastrman, Friday, September 27 at 7pm tales of exploits is contrasted against a water spirit who needs water to sustain Join us prior to this screening at 6pm SUN RA: A JOYFUL awkwardness, innocence, and adulthood. his life and gain superhuman strength. In for Lightbox’s Back Porch Beer Garden! This coming-of-age road movie tells this romantic fantasy, a new love brings NOISE Robert Mugge, US, 1980, 60 min. a story of adolescent friendship and the Hastrman unexpected happiness and Saturday, August 10 at 7pm FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING the irrepressible desire to experience an agonizing dilemma: whether to remain A BIGGER SPLASH something even if one doesn’t know a wild creature or cross the boundaries Jack Hazan, UK, 1974, 106 min. The quintessential document of the exactly what that something is – a sense of intimacy with a human. NEW 4K RESTORATION interplanetary jazz band leader Sun Ra, Robert Mugge’s Sun Ra: A Joyful of unbridled freedom. The film received When David Hockney’s beautiful lover, Noise captures Ra and his Arkestra the Best Director award at the Karlovy Saturday, August 17 at 8pm Peter Schlesinger, breaks up with him, after they had relocated to Philadelphia. Vary International Film Festival. DESERTER it leaves David a complete emotional Portions of the film were shot on the Jan Hřebejk, Czech Republic, 2018, 113 min., Czech w/ English subtitles wreck. An artist, he suddenly finds roof of International House as well as at Friday, August 16 at 7pm himself unable to create anything and is the Penn Museum and other locations JAN PALACH Nazi imprisonment survivor Otto opens awash in depression and loneliness. After and venues in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Robert Sedláček, Czech Republic, 2018, an upscale hair salon in the center of 124 min., Czech w/ English subtitles a time, David is able to find inspiration and Washington D.C. The extended live Prague where his wife and her sisters in his backyard swimming pool, and performances capture the group at its Jan Palach, an uncompromising young work. As his business gets underway, he begins a portrait of it. This unique peak while interviews with Ra and the man, made the ultimate sacrifice in a looming darkness builds with the docudrama presents a semi-fictionalized band members show their commitment the hope of rousing the nation from communists’ rise to power. Soon it account of the story behind one of to a unique vision based on discipline its growing lethargy and of protesting becomes apparent that Otto must Hockney’s most popular paintings. and afro-futurist philosophy that is the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia disappear or risk losing his life. Will he A Metrograph Pictures release. woven into the music. At times noisy in 1968. This biopic describes the last ever find “home” again? A tragicomic and at times joyful, A Joyful Noise is months of Palach’s life, describing his drama of harshly tested love between Wednesday, August 14 at 7pm unlike any music film you may have seen. path from an affectionate son, devoted husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, [CENSORED] friend, and sensitive philosophy student parents and children, Deserter is part of Sari Braithwaite, Australia, 2019, 66 min. Join us at 5:30pm for a Sunset to the “Torch number 1.” director Hřebejk’s Garden Store trilogy, following three families against the Deep in the vaults of the Australian Pre-Party celebrating the Afrofuturist backdrop of the most dramatic periods National Archives lie thousands upon legacy of Sun Ra with DJ and food of the last century. thousands of celluloid scraps: scenes trucks, followed by a pre-screening that were cut by government censors conversation with filmmaker Robert Organized by Lucerna Film, Czech Centres, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of from films imported into the country Mugge, presented by cinéSPEAK. the Czech Republic, and Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences, Inc. 9 10 www.lightboxfilmcenter.org • 215.387.5125 FAMILY MATINEES

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1Some limitations or restrictions may apply for businesses. Not available at Bala Cynwyd store. 11 2For Republic Bank customers. 12 www.lightboxfilmcenter.org • 215.387.5125 IN COLLABORATION SUPPORT LIGHTBOX FILM CENTER As the public arts program of a non-profit institution, Lightbox relies THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 – SUNDAY, July 9 – September 20 AUGUST 4 DA VINCI ART on the generous support of its members, donors, and funding partners. BLACKSTAR FILM ALLIANCE FESTIVAL COMPOSITION IN BECOME A MEMBER TODAY The 8th annual BlackStar Film Festival CONCERT When you join our independent, nonprofit theater, you gain access to hundreds of is a unique gathering illuminating the The film score embodies theharmonious global experience of black, brown and events each year, ranging from film screenings and live performances to artist talks and relationship between music and visual receptions. You engage with a passionate community of cinephiles, celebrating the indigenous communities. This year art forms. The interaction between the festival will feature 100+ films, projected image as a framework for diverse ideas and perspectives. And you have the the two has become an integral part reward of knowing that at a challenging moment for arts funding you’ve invested in an independent maker marketplace of art theory and history, especially on Saturday, a pitch session for our innovative programming, making it accessible to audiences now and in the future. since the 20th century. Even when documentary filmmakers, and a special visual art and music do not overtly program for young media artists. To join, visit lightboxfilmcenter.org/become-a-member influence one another, they often share Blackstarfest.org abstract qualities or similar external Thank you to David Haas for supporting Lightbox Film Center at the Avant-Garde influences, such as cultural innovation, membership level. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 AT 7PM political movements, or technological developments. Composition in Concert SCRIBE VIDEO CENTER will accompany Lightbox’s film series BECOME A SUPPORTER FIELD OF VISION: Shimmering Synths: The Film Music DOCUMENTARY SHORTS of Tangerine Dream, as an exhibition Every year Lightbox Film Center curates upwards of 125 film and video art programs, numerous partner series, and many special events. We can’t do it without you. Field of Vision is a filmmaker-driven showcasing visual artwork informed by documentary unit that commissions or in conversation with music. To support Lightbox, visit lightboxfilmcenter.org/donate and creates original short-form Opening Reception: nonfiction films about developing and Tuesday, July 9 at 6pm Thank you to Louis Bluver for his continued support of the Arthouse Revisited series. ongoing stories around the globe. This showcase of short documentaries will inform, inspire, and illustrate the variety ACADEMIC PARTNERS of ways that films can fulfill Field of Vision’s investigative and journalistic Philadelphia-area schools can join our Academic Partnership program, providing an objectives. interactive film education for students across the region. For more information, email Joe Ehrman-Dupre, Programs Development Manager, at [email protected].

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Saturday, July 6 at 7pm Thursday, August 1 – Sunday, August 4 Friday, September 6 at 7pm Sarah Christy Sorcerer BlackStar Film Festival The Traveler Managing Director p. 3 p. 13 p. 5 Jesse Pires Chief Curator July 9 – September 20 Friday, August 9 at 7pm Saturday, September 7 at 5pm Da Vinci Art Alliance Chulas Fronteras & Del Mero Corazón The Experience & Suit for a Wedding Patrick DiGiacomo Composition in Concert p. 9 p. 5 Programs & Membership Manager p. 13 Saturday, August 10 at 2pm Saturday, September 7 at 8pm Robert E. Cargni Friday, July 12 at 7pm Zootopia Where is the Friend’s Home? Theater & Galleries Manager Thief p. 11 p. 5 p. 3 Joseph Ehrman-Dupre Programs Development Manager Saturday, August 10 at 7pm Thursday, September 12 at 7pm Saturday, July 13 at 2pm A Bigger Splash Life and Nothing More… James Fraatz The Goonies p. 9 p. 6 Technical Manager p. 11 Wednesday, August 14 at 7pm Friday, September 13 at 7pm Sarah Mueller Saturday, July 13 at 7pm [Censored] & Release Through the Olive Trees Conference Center & Events The Garden p. 9 p. 6 Manager p. 7 Julio Perez Jr. Thursday, August 15 at 7pm Saturday, September 14 at 2pm Graphic Designer Friday, July 19 at 7pm Winter Flies Who Framed Roger Rabbit Hyenas p. 10 p. 11 Aaron Immediato p. 7 Lightbox Marketing Manager Friday, August 16 at 7pm Saturday, September 14 at 7pm Saturday, July 20 at 7pm Jan Palach Taste of Cherry Strange Behavior p. 10 p. 6 p. 4 Saturday, August 17 at 6pm Thursday, September 19 at 7pm Friday, July 26 at 7pm The Hastrman Shirin Three O’Clock High p. 10 p. 6 p. 4 Saturday, August 17 at 8pm Friday, September 20 at 7pm Saturday, July 27 at 7pm Deserter 24 Frames Firestarter & Near Dark p. 10 p. 6 p. 4 Friday, August 23 at 7pm Tuesday, September 24 at 7pm Trust Scribe Video Center p. 7 Field of Vision: Documentary Shorts p. 13

Friday, September 27 at 7pm Free Outdoor Screening Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise p. 9

Saturday, September 28 at 7pm Olivia p. 7

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