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RUN, don’t walk to catch the last two screenings of INCOHERENCE MANIFESTO: 4 Films By Bertrand Mandico. Narratives that seem simultaneously more and less porn-y than they actually are play out amid lovingly-created worlds of rich texture and jewel tones, giving the impression of watching highly specific fetish films for something not quite your cup of tea, but fascinating nonetheless.

37 MINUTES OF THE WOLF

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YOURS, MINE, AND HOURS

MIL KDU DES return to Spectacle to lay waste to Summer 2016 with Bergman’s vacation hellscape presented as only we know how.You’ll never eat dinner again! Join us for an evening of wearing nice clothes on probably one of the hottest nights of the year and sweat the fear out.

NAKED KILLER

I cannot recommend this amazing, over-the-top, jewel-toned love triangle (pyramid?) - the characters’ emotional connections keep it from falling into pure camp, but outstanding setpieces and energetic choreography/editing make this a can’t-miss. Read more here.

THE PRACTICE OF LOVE

MONDAY, MAY 9 – 10:00 PM SUNDAY, MAY 15 – 5:00 PM SATURDAY, MAY 28 – 10:00 PM

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE

Social machine – n. An environment comprising humans and technology interacting and producing outputs or action not possible without both parties present.

Robo-human relations get a bad rap in media – if it’s not machines gaining sentience, rising up and brutally enslaving/destroying human oppressors, it’s some human going mad with technologically-enhanced power, with the occasional cyborg killing spree or computer-to-human virus spreading. EPHEMERA: SOCIAL MACHINES aims to correct this dystopian bias by highlighting decades of positive, if goofy and awkward, man-machine interaction.

Join us as we take a journey deep into the Uncanny Valley of good intentions and electronic interactions, with humans and machines working side by side to create a better world for all.

AGARRANDO VERDAD: two documentaries from Luis Ospina

Delirium (Cosmotropia de Xam, 2015)

Showing THIS SATURDAY, March 12 at Spectacle!

This film truly earns its title as it evokes an emotional experience rather than anything close to linear plotline. Serious witchhaus vibes, and what looks like the best video store in Italy.

TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW!

TONIGHT @ 7:30PM - AGARRANDO VERDAD begins with CALI DE GRUPO!

Spectacle kicks off an amazing month of Colombian filmmaker Luis Ospina’s controversial, experimental documentaries with its CALI DE GRUPO shorts program, part of the larger AGARRANDO VERDAD series. Movies screening include OIGA, VEA!, CALI: DE PELICULA, and AGARRANDO PUEBLO.

These are films challenging what documentary can be, mocking what it was (a lot of self-serious works about the 3rd World Other, filmed for and by European audiences...still pretty relevant actually), and capturing the street-level vibrancy of Colombia in the 70s.

THE BURNING CRUCIBLE with LIVE SCORE by DJ Stephanie Neptune

** One night only! **

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27 – 7:30 PM SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27 – 10:00 PM

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE

Too surreal to be straightforward romance, too sweet and sentimental to be anything but, silent oddity LE BRASIER ARDENT combines French amour-fou with Russian mystical melancholy in this tale of a detective who falls in love with the ‘lost wife’ he’s honor-bound to return to her doting husband.

All this takes place on sets far too large for the human scale, amid truly bizarre set pieces including a dance contest literally to the death, a secret society with rooms of disembodied organs, and the swankest bedroom in Paris. Less ‘anti-‘ and more valentine to the bittersweetness of falling in love, LE BRASIER ARDENT’s earnestness is constantly tempered by a hefty dose of surreal humor.

In the same spirit, Spectacle presents the film with live score by DJ Stephanie Neptune (aka SPACE JAM). Having opened for everyone from Kode9 to Laurel Halo to Robert Hood as a resident at TURRBOTAX®, she now runs CLEAR USA, a record label dedicated to releasing subterranean electronic music from between the coasts.