CALL ME MALCOLM

(dir. Joseph Parlagreco, 90 mins, 2004)

Weds Aug 31 5pm - buy tix
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One man's struggle with love, faith, and gender identity

CALL ME MALCOLM is a documentary about a 25 year-old transgender seminary student, and his struggle with faith, love and gender identity.

As the film begins, so does Malcolm’s final summer vacation from seminary. He is unemployed, uncertain about his future as a minister, unrecognized as Malcolm by his parents and without a “love” in his life.

Malcolm sits at the edge of the Grand Canyon, just as he sits at the precipice of his future. With what identity will he serve his parishioners? How will the world perceive him? Can his family learn to accept him? Who will love him?

And so begins a journey of faith. A road trip across America. An effort to connect, to understand, to witness.

FOREVER

(dir. Justin Michael Morales, 77 mins, 2005)

Thurs Sept 1 7pm - buy tix

9/11/03

A Day in the Life of New York

(dir. Richard Karz, 96 mins, 2005)

Thur Sept 1 9pm - buy tix
Fri Sept 2 9pm - buy tix
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Sun Sept 11 6:30pm - buy tix

It was two years since the attack, just another ordinary day in New York, only normal, ordinary life was not what it used to be. Featuring hip-hop media mogul Russell Simmons, Yankees Manager Joe Torre, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, Reverend Al Sharpton, and Salman Rushdie.

“9/11/03” documents the lives of New Yorkers on Thursday, September 11, 2003, the second anniversary of 9/11, as a portrait of New York City and the nation in the post-9/11 era. It is about how the daily struggles of New Yorkers mirror the conflicts and tensions of an increasingly harsh, competitive, and violent world. And it is about how 9/11 served to reaffirm the core humanistic values of normal civilized life in a free society and to reinvigorate New York City as a model of multicultural coexistence. It is also about how the unique circumstances of the second 9/11 anniversary provided rare insight into the lessons of 9/11 and how America has been changing.

DEEP THROAT

(dir. Gerard Damiano, 61 mins, 1972)

Fri Sept 2 10:45pm - buy tix
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Fri Sept 30 10:45pm - buy tix

The movie that changed the film industry (probably for the worse)

How far does a girl have to go to untangle her tingle?

Linda, frustrated that her hugely energetic sex life leaves her unsatisfied, seeks medical help. The doctor informs her that the reason for her problem is that her clitoris is mistakenly located at the back of her throat - but there is a very simple remedy, which the doctor, and various other men, proceed to demonstrate. . .

NIGHT OF THE DAY OF THE DAWN OF THE SON OF THE BRIDE OF THE RETURN OF THE REVENGE OF THE TERROR OF THE ATTACK OF THE EVIL, MUTANT, ALIEN, FLESH-EATING, HELLBOUND, ZOMBIFIED LIVING DEAD PART 2: IN SHOCKING 2-D

(dir. Jim Riffel, etc., 90 mins, 1991, etc.)

Sat Sept 3 10pm - buy tix

KUNG FU HUSTLE

(dir. Stephen Chow, 95 mins, 2004)

Sat Sept 3 midnight - buy tix
Sat Sept 10 midnight - buy tix
Sat Sept 24 10:45pm - buy tix

a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious "Axe Gang.”
See it again and master the kung fu way!

Chicago City Limits presents

FIRST SUNDAYS
Comedy Film Festival

Sun Sept 4 7pm - buy tix

First Sundays is a monthly festival featuring the best in short comedy films from around the world. Each screening features new films, audience and judges awards, and an after party sponsored by Stella Artois.

Visit the First Sundays website

Bizarro Monday

CARNIVAL OF SOULS

(dir. Herk Harvey, 78 mins, 1962)

Mon Sept 5 7pm - buy tix

Is there death after life?

absolutely beautiful recently discovered 35mm print

Mary Henry is enjoying the day by riding around in a car with two friends. When challenged to a drag, the women accept, but are forced off of a bridge. It appears that all are drowned, until Mary, quite some time later, amazingly emerges from the river. After recovering, Mary accepts a job in a new town as a church organist, only to be dogged by a mysterious phantom figure that seems to reside in an old run-down pavilion. It is here that Mary must confront the personal demons of her spiritual insouciance.

Slamdance presents

MALL COP

(dir. David Greenspan, 97 mins, 2004)

Tues Sept 6 7pm - buy tix

Followed by beer and pizza reception.

The Slamdance Film Festival presents a highlight from their 2005 festival.

Frank likes working as a night watchman at the Town Center Mall. He enjoys the long peaceful hours he spends on his own. But his world is shattered one day when a robber breaks into the mall. While trying to catch the thief, Frank loses his right arm in a freak accident as a piece of glass falls from a broken display case window. Six months later Frank has lost the only job he’s ever known and he can’t seem to find a new one because of his handicap. Filled with nostalgia for his old place of work, Frank goes back to the mall. There he meets his replacement, an ex-punk, named Donna with whom he strikes up a relationship. While Donna’s strange partner, White Wedding, sleeps through their night shift, Frank and Donna hang out inside the shops of the mall. Frank is more hopeful and tells Donna about his plan to buy a new prosthetic arm. Things get complicated, however, when the young, spunky girl who works in the mall record store develops a crush on Donna. And things get even more complicated when Frank, fed up with his hopeless job search, decides he might want to rob the mall himself.

The director and Slamdance staff will attend the screening.

NewFest presents

HATE CRIME

(dir. Tommy Stovall, 106 mins, 2004)

Weds Sept 7 7pm - buy tix

NewFest presents a highlight from their LGBT film festival.

Tommy Stovall’s accomplished first feature is an intelligent dramatic thriller exploring religious compassion and intolerance, familial bonds, and how these can foster love, hate, and vengeance. Engaged couple Robbie and Trey live happily in a quiet neighborhood when trouble moves in next door in the form of Chris, the son of a scripture-spewing, homophobic fundamentalist preacher. When Trey is attacked one night while walking his dog, all fingers point toward the outwardly hostile Chris. Distrustful of the police, Robbie enlists his anti-establishment neighbor and Trey’s mother in an investigation, trial, and conviction by his own hands. Hate Crime smartly and thoughtfully contrasts people driven by vastly different motivations toward similar violent acts, twisting and turning its way toward a provocative conclusion worthy of serious debate.

Evil City Film Festival presents

POPAGANDA:

The Art & Subversion of Ron English

(dir. Pedro Carvajal, 78 mins, 2004)

Thurs Sept 8 7pm - buy tix

Featuring the art of Ron English. Also featuring art by Shepard Fairey, and Cicada
Music by: The Dandy Warhols, Daniel Johnston, Tripping Daisy, and much more

"A colorful and riveting look at a subversive and his art"
- Bilge Ebiri, NEW YORK MAGAZINE

POPaganda: The Art & Subversion of Ron English is a film about the culture-jamming and billboard-liberation antics of Ron English. The modern day Robin Hood of Madison Avenue, Ron paints, perverts, infiltrates, reinvents and satirizes modern culture on canvas, in songs, and directly on hundreds of pirated billboards. Shot entirely guerilla-style, the film chronicles the evolution of an artist who offers an alternative universe where nothing is sacred, everything is subverted and there's always room for a little good-natured fun.

Edge Codes.com

The Art of Motion Picture Editing

(Directed and edited by Alex Shuper, 75 mins, 2004)

Thur Sept 8 9pm - buy tix
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Sat Sept 17 5:15pm - buy tix
Sun Sept 18 4pm - buy tix
Sun Sept 25 5:15pm
Sun Oct 2 5:15pm - buy tix

Featuring George Lucas, Thelma Schoonmaker, Norman Jewison, Sarah Flack, Zach Staenberg, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Andrew Mondshein, Dody Dorn, Michael Ondaatje, David Wu, Christopher Tellefsen, Ron Sanders, Susan Shipton, and many more.

Edge Codes.com is a radical journey through the history of film editing. Led by visionaries of the art and contemporary masters of the craft, Edge Codes.com goes beyond the cutting edge, unlocking the future of montage and exploring editing as a system profoundly shaping our perceptions of the world around us.

VITO AFTER

(dir. Maria Pusateri, 47 mins, 2005)

Sat Sept 10 7pm - buy tix

fundraiser screening

Vito Friscia is a tough Brooklyn homicide detective who is used to ignoring his own needs. He survived the rescue efforts of 9/11 to spend months sifting through toxic rubble, searching for remnants of those who perished. An intimate portrait of a family man who was just doing his job, VITO AFTER is about mourning, coping, living with the WTC cough and overcoming denial.

Pioneer Late Nights

PRIMER

(dir. Shane Carruth, 78 mins, 2004)

Sat Sept 10 10:30pm - buy tix

"PRIMER is the headiest, most singular science-fiction movie since Kubrick made 2001."
(ESQUIRE)

"An ingenious movie about the perils of ingenuity. . .Invigorating. . .Like PI or MEMENTO, PRIMER is the kind of movie likely to inspire both imitators and cultists. . .Carruth has invented something fascinating."
(A.O. Scott, NY TIMES)

* Grand Jury Prize - Sundance Film Festival *

PRIMER is set in the industrial park/suburban tract-home fringes of an unnamed contemporary city where two young engineers, Abe and Aaron, are members of a small group of men who work by day for a large corporation while conducting extracurricular experiments on their own time in a garage. While tweaking their current project, a device that reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it by blocking gravitational pull, they accidentally discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities--ones that could enable them to do and to have seemingly anything they want. Taking advantage of this unique opportunity is the first challenge they face. Dealing with the consequences is the next.

A ThinkFilm release.

Monster Monday!

Fangoria presents

PLAGA ZOMBIE: ZONA MUTANTE

(dir. Pablo Parés and Hernán Sáez, 100 mins, 2001)

Mon Sept 12 7pm - buy tix

Fangoria Magazine & Fangoria TV summon a ghoulish film program to the Pioneer.

Zombies from Argentina!

PLAGA ZOMBIE: ZONA MUTANTE concerns a trio of unlikely heroes (played by Parés, Sáez and co-producer Berta Muñiz as skull-cracking wrestler John West), who battle hordes of the undead in their besieged suburban burg. The ghouls have been infected by an alien virus by the FBI, who cordon off the entire town where the trio is trapped. The three stooges must outwit the zombies and feds in their bid for survival.

IFP
BUZZCUTS

presented by SKYY Vodka

Tues Sept 13 7pm - buy tix

Followed by beer and pizza reception.

This “Life and Art” program looks at the sometimes surprising, shocking, ironic or humorous intersections of art and real life.

Terezin, 1944
(2003, 7 minutes)
Written & directed by Raquel Stern
Children at the concentration camp Terezin experience a moment of bittersweet creative freedom.

Lifelike
(2005, 17 minutes)
Written & directed by John Besmer
A story about life, death, and taxidermy. Small and simple, it revolves around an aging taxidermist who befriends a young writer in a small Wisconsin town.

The Artist
(2004, 6 minutes)
Written & directed by Shukree Hassan
In 1991, with the help of his longtime assistant, H. Maxwell Friese, acclaimed American painter, completed his final, greatest, and most controversial work.

29 Polegadas (29 Inches)
(2004, 21 minutes)
Directed by Bernard Attal & Joselito Crispim
Written by Bernard Attal
In a small community along the coast of Brazil, life goes on quietly and happily. The nearby ocean and the tune of the local musician form the backdrop of the adulterous romance between Marieta and Orlando, her neighbor. That is until the day Adolito, the husband, makes the acquisition of a 29-inch television.

A Higher Agency
(2005, 29 minutes)
Written and directed by Oliver Cheetham
Cast: Antony Sher, Jack Davenport, Allan Corduner
La Dolce Carne: an ordinary high street Italian restaurant. John Samson: an average, unsuccessful screenwriter. But when the two of them come together, something out of the ordinary happens.

NewFest presents

FISH CAN'T FLY

(dir. Tom Murray, 83 mins, 2005)

Weds Sept 14 7pm - buy tix

NewFest presents a highlight from their LGBT film festival

This timely documentary explores the lives of religious gay men and lesbians as they recall the often difficult journeys they have taken to unify their sexuality and spirituality. Focusing on their experiences with “ex-gay” ministries, the subjects relate how the “cure” these programs offered did not work, and how they learned to accept all aspects of their lives without turning their backs on their faith. At times poignant and humorous, FISH CAN'T FLY is ultimately inspiring and enlightening.

WHISPERING SANDS

(dir. Nan Triveni Achnas, 106 mins, 2001)

Thurs Sept 15 6:30pm - buy tix

When there is little food, little water, and little evidence of legal authority, these bonds and demands tend to suffer, as do the people who live under these circumstances.

PIGGIE

(dir. Alison Bagnall, 98 mins, 2003)

Thur Sept 15 9pm - buy tix
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Mon Sept 19 9pm - buy tix
Tues Sept 20 9pm - buy tix
Weds Sept 21 9pm - buy tix
Sun Sept 25 3:30pm

Stars Dean Wareham (frontman from bands Luna and Galaxie 500), Savannah Haske and Robert John Burke

"Luna/Galaxie 500 frontman Dean Wareham delivers a terrifically eccentric performance as the cranky object of desire." - Dennis Lim, VILLAGE VOICE

“. . . a film that’s extremely natural and lifelike. PIGGIE is a major accomplishment.” - Eric Campos, FILM THREAT

Savannah Haske delivers a fearless performance as Fannie Pogue in writer/director Alison Bagnall's feature debut - a film by turns bittersweet and nakedly raw. Bagnall (who co-wrote "Buffalo '66") captures Fannie’s singularly fierce pursuit of the most unsuitable of suitors - Nile, played with laconic charm by Dean Wareham (of Luna and Galaxie 500 fame). Hilarious and excrutiating.

STAY UNTIL TOMORROW

(dir. Laura Colella, 92 mins, 2004)

Fri Sept 16 7pm - buy tix

visit the website

“A wildly inventive and unabashedly sweet comedy. . .Gorgeously shot and subtly acted, this playful and bold feature builds with a slow charm that ultimately pays off big, in a chaotic finale that draws from a passion for the limitless possibilities of cinema."
– Minnesota Film Arts

“Funny and sexy, this is a feel-good movie for the irreverent. . .This unpredictable comedy is a refreshingly real look at a young woman seeking exotic and erotic possibilities.”
- Brattleboro Film Festival

“(STAY UNTIL TOMORROW) boasts a splendid performance from Eleanor Hutchins, as the onetime soap star who descends on her librarian buddy and proceeds to dismantle his ordered existence.”
- BBC

STAY UNTIL TOMORROW is a funny and kaleidoscopic film-within-a-film that centers on Nina, a former teenage soap star who dropped out of college to travel the world, and then never stopped. In the several years since, she has remained attached to the adventurous lifestyle of a transcontinental drifter. Back home for a visit, she drops in unannounced on her childhood friend Jim, and asks if she can crash with him for a few days. . .which turns into a few weeks. . .

"On the one hand, STAY UNTIL TOMORROW is a road movie about an old love; on the other hand, it's about traveling between America and Europe. It's also a musical delicacy."
- 030 (Berlin, Germany)

3rd I NY presents

Sat Sept 17 7pm - buy tix

A program of South Asian Independent Films presented in association with the 3rd I New York group.

HOTTIES 1&2: Double Bill

(dir. Lee Sobel, 72 + 65 mins, 2005)

Sat Sept 17 11pm - buy tix

Wild Wanton Women On A Rampage Against Men-Kind!

Three hot chicks bust out of the nut house to get revenge on the men who drove them insane!

In HOTTIES, Muffy, Gyna and LaQueefa escape from a mental institution and carjack a ’65 Chevy Malibu convertible by telling the nerdy driver that if he gets in the trunk he can have sex with all three of them. Pursued by a dimwitted bounty hunter hired by the shrink who did sexperiments on the girls in the loony bin, our heroines hole up in a suburban home that turns out to be an escort service where they don gaudy outfits they find in a closet. Watching TV, they see the men that drove them to the nut house saying the most salacious things about them and set out to seek their revenge. Along the way they become avenging angels who humiliate men exploiting women.

In HOTTIES II: THE HOT, THE BAD, & THE UGLY, the girls are on their way to Hollywood to become famous when they discover that three of the men humiliated by them in episode one are dressing in drag to convince the public that they are the real hotties. Meanwhile The Doc who had performed experiments on the hotties and was arrested, escapes from prison to create a sex drone army from lipstick lesbian go-go dancers to frame the hotties for murders they didn’t commit.

HOME

(dir. Seóna Ní Bhriain, 25 mins, 2005)

Sun Sept 18 7:30pm - buy tix at door

DEVILS ARE DREAMING

(dir. Michael Sladek, 94 mins, 2003)

Mon Sept 19 7pm - buy tix

". . .filled with real feeling. . ." - Kurt Loder (MTV / Rolling Stone)
3 STARS: ". . .(an) inspired punk score. . ." - Film Threat

Music by Brooklyn punk bands The Sobs and Stupid
Written & Directed by Michael Sladek

DEVILS ARE DREAMING is a bizarrre, no-budget black comedy about a guy who wants to be a great artist but has no talent. Beginning in the world of experimental theatre, careening into the world of professinal pornography, and landing sideways in suburbia, the film combines a disjointed timeline with a light comedic touch, inspired musical atmospheres with striking visuals to tell the story of a wannabe trying to find hiimself through doomed artistic pursuits.

Woodstock Film Festival presents

HARSH BEAUTY

(dir. Alessandra Zeka)

Tues Sept 20 7pm - buy tix

THE AVERAGE AMERICAN

(dir. Kristin Tobiassen, 51 mins, 2004)

Weds Sept 21 7pm - buy tix

By avoiding labels such as liberal, conservative, Republican, or Democrat, the film avoids meaningless political rhetoric and delves beneath the labels to bring to light the ways we are all the same—and also the ways we are different. Understanding and tolerance is now more important than ever as our nation grows more and more politically polarized, often to the point of blind hatred for those on the other side of the political fence.

LOUDMOUTH SOUP

(dir. Adam Watstein, 96 mins, 2005)

Thur Sept 22 9pm - buy tix
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Mon Sept 26 9pm - buy tix
Tues Sept 27 9pm - buy tix
Weds Sept 28 9pm - buy tix

Ever wanted to go to a Hollywood dinner party? Are you sure? Really? Well, now's your chance.

Seven actors, eight cameras, one night - LOUDMOUTH SOUP

An NYC filmmaking couple moves to L.A. after winning Sundance. They have a dinner party to make new friends, only to discover people there are interested in anything but friendship.

visit the movie's website

Jen Bekman Presents

PUBLIC DISCOURSE

(dir. Brad Downey, Tim Hansberry, Quenell Jones, 47 mins)

Thurs Sept 22 7pm - buy tix

PUBLIC DISCOURSE is about passionate artists who want their work to be seen by a wide range of people rather than be confined to the systemic structures of galleries and museums. This non-fiction film presents an in-depth study of the use of subversive messages, mimicking of advertising methods and the presentation of three-dimensional sculptures to the public.

Shot in the classic cinema verité style using compact mini-dv and video 8 cameras, Public Discourse follows the art-making from initial idea through to exhibition, capturing the artists’ private and personal moments of exuberance and regret.

BILL BROWN

Fri Sept 23 7pm - buy tix

NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND

(dir. Lerone Wilson, 56 mins, 2005)

Sun Sept 25 7pm - buy tix

Boondoggle Films Presents a journey through the U.S. Education System through the eyes of politicians, educations, parents, and students.

Additional Invormation at: www.boondogglefilms.com

Bizarro Mondays program

FearsMag presents

One Dark and Stormy Night

Mon Sept 26 7pm - buy tix

This is a "Bizarro Monday" program. Every Monday at 7pm the Pioneer presents the finest (and trashiest) in horror, sci-fi, exploitation, martial arts, genre, b-movies, and z-movies.

CINEWOMEN NY presents

IMAGINATION: A to Z

Tues Sept 27 7pm - buy tix

Cinewomen NY website

Followed by beer and pizza reception.

a program of short films presented by the Cinewomen, NY filmmaker group

El Episodio (3:15)
directed by Caroline Bell
An old gentleman dances his way down a city street. His stylish moves seem to be ignored by the young people and children he passes. Just before the film runs out, he finally finds a dance partner. El Episodio was shot hand-held using one roll of Super 8 film. The music was composed specifically for the film.

Little Wishes (17:00)
directed by Patricia Llosa
Throughout the year craftsmen and ordinary citizens of all levels of skill prepare miniatures to be sold in the streets of La Paz, Bolivia during the annual Alasitas festival in January. The miniatures are of food, cars, homes, building tools, computers, diplomas, condoms; they run the gamut of human needs and desires and are purchased for a nominal fee by those who wish to acquire the reality that the miniature represents.

To The Sea (12.30)
directed by Erika Jakubassa
A journey into the emotions and dreams of a woman on the edge. A story told in images and sounds.

Why A Duck (11:00)
directed by Doris Tourmarkine
Several dramas swirl around an otherwise peaceful pond where ducks and swans suggest to an assortment of kids and grown-ups that there are better ways for humans to behave.

Derail (8:00)
directed by Catalina Santamaria
A collage of images and sound reflections of the rhythms, textures and daily choreography of the New York City subway.

152nd Street (10:00)
directed by Sascha Just
This silent film tells the story of Phoebe whose view of life is limited to her block, her stoop on 152nd Street. An attractive stranger interrupts her solitary routine of observing the neighborhood. Phoebe allows herself to be seduced, invests deep feelings in this brief affair and in turn runs the risk to lose a man who has secretly cared for her for a long time. 152nd Street is the third part of the short film trilogy entitled Triangles.

A South Bronx Tale (13:35)
directed Janis Astor del Valle
Ariana lives in one of the most homophobic 'hoods? in the South Bronx, so coming out is not an option. But when she feels her life and reputation are threatened, 15-year old Ariana must choose between honoring herself or her familia.

The Men's Room (5:30)
directed by Gladys Bensimon
An animated history satirizing Hollywood's history of male domination.

I WAS A TEENAGE FEMINIST

(dir. Therese Shechter, 62 mins, 2004)

Weds Sept 28 7pm - buy tix
Fri Sept 30 7pm - SOLD OUT

"If you missed the revolution, 'I Was A Teenage Feminist' is a refresher course in Feminism 101."
- Toronto Star

Lights! Camera! Jews!

presented in association with
the 14th Street Y

Thur Sept 29 7pm - buy tix

followed by beer & pizza reception

The 14th Street Y Presents: Lights! Camera! Jews! A Jewish Film Series

All's Fair in Love and War?

Featuring:
Out for Love. . .Be Back Shortly (Dan Katzir, 1997) 52 minutes
Dan, just out of the Israeli army, searches for a girlfriend with his video camera in tow. What results from his quest is a film that expresses the outcry of a generation as it struggles to find love and privacy amid a reality of fear and hatred.

My Sister, My Bride (Bonnie Burt, 2004) 28 minutes
As the issue of gay marriage grips the country, this film follows two Jewish lesbians as they seek to celebrate their commitment to one another; a testament to the sheer determination of couples and families fighting for their right to love. A Women Make Movies Release.

Nuclear Physicist Gives Son a Haircut (Hanan Harchol, 2003) 6 minutes
In this funny animation, the protagonist "The Nuclear Physicist" discusses his cheating girlfriend, loss of hormones, women, sex, and Viagra with his son as he gives him a haircut.

And more. . .
Curated by Julia Tell.

THE RAMONES

End of the Century

(dir. Jim Fields & Michael Gramaglia, 110 mins, 2003)

Thurs Sept 29 9pm - buy tix

Hey! Ho! Let's go!

In 1974, the New York City music scene was shocked into consciousness by the violently new and raw sound of a band of misfits from Queens, called The Ramones. Playing in a seedy Bowery bar to a small group of fellow struggling musicians, the band struck a chord of disharmony that rocked the foundation of the mid-'70s music scene. This quartet of unlikely rock stars traveled across the country and around the world connecting with the disenfranchised everywhere, while sparking a movement that would resonate with two generations of outcasts across the globe. Although the band never reached the top of the Billboard charts, it managed to endure by maintaining a rigorous touring schedule for 22 years.

CHASING ERECTIONS

(dir. Hedley Turk, 87 mins, 2005)

Fri Sept 30 9pm - buy tix

CHASING ERECTIONS is a gritty realistic film about the state of today’s singles as they try to find everlasting love and happiness. CHASING ERECTIONS provides a poignant and insightful look into the life of one man’s struggles with both external social issues and internal emotional questions. This entertaining film will make you laugh, it will make you think and it will make you feel.