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MY DINNER WITH WERNER from Maverick Moore on Vimeo.

Werner wants love, but Klaus has other plans.

Inspired by the real-life, totally bonkers "friendship" between legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog and controversial actor Klaus Kinski, and set during the finale of their notorious creative partnership in 1987, MY DINNER WITH WERNER is a wildly bizarre comedy about a dinner date with a murder plot as the main dish.

Festival Highlights: HollyShorts Film Festival (Oscar-Qualifying) Austin Film Festival (Oscar-Qualifying) Nashville Film Festival (Oscar-Qualifying) St. Louis International Film Festival (Oscar-Qualifying) Fantasia Film Festival FilmQuest - Winner: Best Comedy Short Chattanooga Film Festival - Winner: Audience Award - Best Short Film SF IndieFest - Winner: Audience Award - Best Comedy Albuquerque Film & Music Experience - Winner: Best Actor (Matthew Sanders), Best Actress (Chynna Walker), Best Director Sydney Underground Film Festival - Winner: Audience Choice Award Manhattan Film Festival - Winner: Best Dark Comedy Nightmares Film Festival – Best Director, Short Film Kansas City Film Fest International - Winner: Best Ensemble Arizona International Film Festival - Winner: Jury Award for Creative Achievement (Comedy) Queens World Film Festival - Nominee: Best Narrative Short, Best Comedy Short, Best Screenplay, Best Actor (Matthew Sanders) Ashland Film Festival - Screened together with Werner Herzog's AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD deadCenter Film Festival BendFilm Festival Sarasota Film Festival Manchester Film Festival Oxford Film Festival Omaha Film Festival Woods Hole Film Festival Indy Film Fest Bushwick Film Festival Lighthouse International Film Festival Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival San Jose International Short Film Festival Byron Bay International Film Festival Winner of 40+ Awards / Official Selection of 100+ Film Festivals

Currently seeking producers to help develop MY DINNER WITH WERNER as a feature film.

Sexoína from Gastón Hache Almada on Vimeo.

Nadie me la chupa como yo.

3 SHORTS BY CHRIS KRAUS from Spectacle Theater on Vimeo.

3 SHORTS BY CHRIS KRAUS

TRT: 58 min. USA.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5TH - 7:30PM TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH - 7:30PM

“A film is meant to be something provocative, something hurled in the culture.” - Chris Kraus

Following our January screenings of Chris Kraus's feature-length work Gravity & Grace, we present three short films by the acclaimed underground writer and filmmaker.

THE GOLDEN BOWL OR REPRESSION Dir: Chris Kraus. 1984-88. 12 min. USA.

Inspired partly by the Henry James’ novel. Empty rooms and well kept gardens. Noted by photographer Nan Goldin for its dissections of “romance, mystification and the inability to connect.”

HOW TO SHOOT A CRIME Dir: Chris Kraus. 1987. 28 min. USA.

Crime photographer Johnny Santiago gives a real tour of urban homicide scenes, and French theorist Sylvere Lotringer interview dominatrixes Mam’selle Victoire and Terence Sellars.

Warning: How to Shoot a Crime contains actual crime-scene footage which may be disturbing to some viewers.

"How to Shoot a Crime was about gentrification, urban rootlessness, and the possibility that the only way of memorializing the anonymous thread of a city is through crime scene investigation.” – Chris Kraus

FOOLPROOF ILLUSION Dir. Chris Kraus. 1986. 18 min. USA.

Musings on Antonin Artaud from a feminist point of view. The late poet David Rattray reads from his translations of Artaud. Kraus in disguise tells a disturbing story while building something in the snow. Also stars Suzan Cooper as an Artaud clone.

3 SHORTS BY CHRIS KRAUS: spectacletheater.com/3-shorts-by-chris-kraus

GRAVITY & GRACE (Chris Kraus, 1996) from Spectacle Theater on Vimeo.

GRAVITY & GRACE Dir: Chris Kraus, 1996. 90 min. USA.

Special thanks to Chris Kraus

THURSDAY, JANUARY 3RD – 10PM FRIDAY, JANUARY 18TH – 7:30PM

Gravity & Grace may be writer and critic Chris Kraus’ final and exuberant attempt at an artists’ career. Kraus is best known for her novels, (I Love Dick, Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor and most recently Summer of Hate), her art criticism (Video Green, Where Art Belongs), and her work in publishing subjective narratives through Semiotext(e)'s Native Agents Series, which she founded. Prior to writing, Kraus was an artist, actress and filmmaker. She made short, experimental, low-budget films, and one feature, Gravity & Grace; its failure on the market is chronicled in detail in her book Aliens & Anorexia.

This screening of the film, preceded by a short film she made ten years prior, Terrorists in Love (1985), will be the beginning of a retrospective of Kraus’ films. Gravity & Grace, named after Simone Weil's posthumous book, tells the story of two young women in New Zealand. The film follows Grace as she finds a connection to a cult predicting doomsday and the arrival of a spaceship, and Gravity, who flees New Zealand to try her luck as an artist in New York City.

Kys + k.m present... from Kunstverein München on Vimeo.

Friday 19 April, 9.00pm Kyselina TM and Kunstverein München present M.E.S.H NLC

W.R. MISTERIJE ORGANIZMA [directed by Dušan Makavejev 1971] from guranjeslitice on Vimeo.