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BRAND UPON THE BRAIN!

(dir. Guy Maddin, 95 mins, 2006)

Weds Aug 1 7pm - buy tix
Weds Aug 8 6:30pm - buy tix
Fri Aug 10 9:15pm - buy tix
Sat Aug 11 9pm - buy tix
Tues Aug 14 9pm - buy tix
Fri Aug 24 7pm - buy tix
Sun Aug 26 7pm - buy tix
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"Demented . . . no situation is too bizarre for this brilliant visualist."
- Lou Lumenick, NY POST

"Delirious, ingenious, often very funny and strangely touching!"
- Manohla Dargis, NY TIMES

A bizarre yet compelling spectacle, BRAND UPON THE BRAIN! is a unique cinematic experience.

Guy Maddin (THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD) directs this moving silent satire about several families and the secrets they possess. Infused with surrealist touches, the film offers a somewhat horrific and original view on the experience of growing up.

OUT OF STATUS

(dirs. Sanjna Singh & Pia Sawhney, 65 mins, 2006)

Weds Aug 1 9pm - buy tix
Thurs Aug 2 9pm - buy tix
Fri Aug 3 7pm - buy tix
Fri Aug 3 9pm - buy tix
Sat Aug 4 4pm - buy tix
Sat Aug 4 9pm - buy tix
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Mon Aug 6 9pm - buy tix
Tues Aug 7 9pm - buy tix

Presented with special thanks to Anais Clanet of Wide Management, Prerana Reddy and Third I NY.

"We applaud you...[i]t remains a testament to the difference that visionary individuals and artists can make in the advancement of justice and human dignity."
- William F. Schultz, Executive Director, Amnesty International USA

"The power of OUT OF STATUS is its sober and original design and the great personal commitment of the makers to their subject. The meticulous research into the legal and political implications of the new laws and resulting registration obligations is also a strong point of the film. A j'accuse in the very best tradition. Committed and sharp."
- Rotterdam Film Festival

"You can say you're sorry, you can apologize, but you can't give back the hours, the minutes, the months a family has been broken up." - Carma Said, Wife of Akram - an Egyptian national who was deported and separated from her and his 2 children for over 3 years.

In post 9/11 America, the curtailment of civil liberties in the name of national security has had a direct and enduring impact on individuals of Muslim background. This community, collateral damage in the war on terror, is further alienated by selective enforcement of new and existing immigration policy. Families are separated and communities were uprooted.

We followed four families whose lives were dramatically changed after 9/11. Carma, an American citizen, saw her husband Akram arrested from their home and deported to Egypt. Akram lived in Pennsylvania, worked legally to support his family and waited to adjust his status. Two days after 9/11, Salem, an American citizen, was detained for 40 days and held in solitary confinement for allegedly stealing a rental car. Hakim, an Algerian, has permanent residency papers pending with the INS. After 9/11 he was placed in deportation proceedings, despite being married to a US legal resident. Hakim has a one-year old son who was born in Brooklyn. The Rahmans, also from Brooklyn, fled to a refugee shelter in Buffalo, New York to seek asylum in Canada. They face persecution in their native Bangladesh, but were afraid of enforcement measures in the US. Along with 15,000 others from Brooklyn, they left their homes and lives rather than face the prospect of being deported by authorities.

In a country that treasures freedom and democracy, these trying times have brought anguish to those who came and continue to come here in search of a homeland.

The project has been supported by grants from the New York State Council for the Arts, Experimental Television, and prominent advocates and filmmakers who have nourished and encouraged the work throughout.

THE MINORITY

(dir. Dwayne Buckle, 84 mins, 2007)

Thurs Aug 2 7pm - buy tix

Outgoing, hardworking citizen Jake Jackson (Billoah Greene), is suddenly one day subjected to many racial biases. Being quite passive and naive to these circumstances, Jake writes it all off as just a matter of coincidence, but is it? Faced with a never ending struggle for dignity and respect, Jake finds himself quickly traveling down a path to madness, until he single handedly captures a wanted Serial Killer then his luck changes.

PAPRIKA

(dir. Satoshi Kon, 90 mins, 2006)

Fri Aug 3 11pm - buy tix
Fri Aug 10 11pm - buy tix
Mon Aug 13 9pm - buy tix
Fri Aug 17 11pm - buy tix
Fri Aug 24 10:30pm - buy tix
Sat Aug 25 7pm - buy tix
Sat Aug 31 10:30pm - buy tix

This is your brain on anime


"Whatever it is you're looking for -- comedy, horror, parades of singing frogs and dancing kitchen appliances -- you'll find it in Satoshi Kon's anime adventure, a jaw-dropping feat of imagination." - NY DAILY NEWS

"Mind-blowing . . ." - NY POST

With PAPRIKA, Satoshi Kon (TOKYO GODFATHERS, MILLENNIUM ACTRESS) unleashes another eye-popping anime adventure. The visually striking thriller is set in the not-too-distant future, where doctors are developing a groundbreaking new psychotherapy treatment called PT. This coincides with the invention of a device called the "DC Mini," which enables researchers to enter the dreams of a subject and explore matters of the unconscious mind. But one day, a "DC Mini" prototype goes missing, and the doctors are thrown into a world of confusion. They realize how dangerous a turn of events this could be, and to ensure that things don’t spiral out of control, they embark on a mad quest to track down the missing prototype. The pretty but timid Dr. Atsuko Chiba teams up with the food-loving Dr. Tokita to find his assistant, Himuro, who has disappeared. Unfortunately, it is at this time that Atsuko’s boss, Torataro Shima, tries to commit suicide. Dr. Tokita calls in an old friend, Detective Konakawa, to help the team find an answer to the rapidly devolving problem. As the characters use their dreamworld alter egos to enter the dreams of troubled patients, the line between reality and unreality begins to blur, until no one knows for sure what is real and what isn’t. An adaptation of a story by the acclaimed Japanese writer Yasutaka Tsutsui, PAPRIKA tells a tough-to-decipher, but spellbinding, tale. Kon’s thought-provoking film features an absurdly catchy J-pop score and an unforgettable visual landscape.

Chicago City Limits First Sundays Comedy Films

First Sundays

Sun Aug 5 7pm - buy tix

filmmakers & special guests will attend!

This is a Sunday Shorts program. Early evenings on many Sundays, the Pioneer presents programs of short films.

Part stand-up comedy act, part film festival, part party, 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.

Hosted by the illustrious Jay Stern and Victor Varnado.

Visit the First Sundays website

Camera Wars

Clayton Patterson's

TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK POLICE RIOT TAPE

(dir. Clayton Patterson, approx one hour)

Sun Aug 5 3:15pm - buy tix
Five Bucks.

On the 19th Anniversary of the Tompkins Square Park Police Riot ---

And in the context of New York City's ongoing Camera Wars ---

Join Clayton Patterson for a rare screening of his footage from the Tompkins Square Park Police Riot of August 6 and 7, 1988. One of the two major video documents of the riot - the other was made by Paul Garrin - Clayton's tape depicts the Lower East Side in a state of open civil war, as the police and the Avenue A Block Association attempted to close the park that was at the time was a homeless encampment.

Street punks, the homeless, and many other community members did not accept the park's closing. So the Police forced them to.

In addition to commemmorating the riot's anniversary, we present this screening within the ongoing "camera wars" taking place in New York City. The police announce a "web of surveillance" for downtown, the MTA plans to survey everything, and the city imposes insurance and tripod regulations on amateur as well as professional photographers. Also, laws attempting to prevent "piracy" extend into movie theater situations where piracy is impossible. Meanwhile, activists make their case and counterattack.

Join Clayton Patterson for this rare screening, and for a discussion of how his experiences then are relevant now.

Monster Monday!
Fangoria presents

THE SIGNAL

(dir. David Bruckner, Dan Bush, and Jacob Gentry; 99 mins; 2006)

Mon Aug 6 6:30pm

Showing from 35mm.

This will be a free showing; to obtain tickets, send an e-mail to fangoscreening @ starloggroup . com. You must list "THE SIGNAL" as your subject line. Offer is good for one ticket per e-mail. Plus tell us your full name and whether you want to be added to the FANGORIA newsletter list so we can tell you about future Fango screenings and events. Names will be checked at the door. Offer is first come, first served, and we will confirm your RSVP.

"This film will explode. Mark my words. It has cult classic written all over it." - Aint it Cool News

"THE SIGNAL is an unholy Trinity of tales that will leave you breathless. As in dead." - Wes Craven

Starring: Justin Welborn, A.J. Bowen, Scott Poythress and Anessa Ramsey

It's New Year's Eve in the city of Terminus and chaos is this year's resolution. All forms of communication have been jammed by an enigmatic transmission that preys on fear and desire driving everyone in the city to murder and madness. In a place once marked by conformity but now sent into complete anarchy, the rebellious Ben must save the woman he loves from the bedlam in the streets as well as her crazed sadistic husband. But the only way he can tell who to trust or who has given in to violence is by uncovering the true nature of The Signal.

Told in three parts from three unique perspectives by three visionary directors, THE SIGNAL was originally conceived as an experimental film project called Exquisite Corpse where one filmmaker would begin a story then hand it off to another filmmaker to continue and then to another and so on until the movie was complete. The story eventually took shape and evolved into a scifi/horror/thriller that imagines a world where everyday anxieties become the catalyst for inhuman terror. THE SIGNAL is a horrific journey towards discovering that the most brutal monster might actually be within all of us.

THE WORLD OF
VIJA VETRA

Tues Aug 7 7pm - buy tix

This is a Tuesdays@7 program. Every Tuesday at 7pm features special guests presenting their film, and is followed by a beer and pizza reception for ticket holders.

This is a documentary about life, told through a fascinating 84 year old world renowned dancer Vija Vetra. As a great spirit Vija Vetra is a life story, full of symbols that every artist in the modern world is able to relate to. Her devotion to the art and art of dance is her celebration of life, but it is also a life that is often lonely and full of sacrifice.

Vija Vetra, the dancer, choreographer, teacher, native of Riga, Latvia, has performed solo dance all over the world. She introduced sacred dances that have become a part of church services. She had her own TV shows in Europe, Australia, India, Mexico, the US (Mister Rodger show) and Canada. She received a lifetime achievement award from the Latvian government.

A "spirit in human form," Vija Vetra has been called "the bridge between east and west".

METROPOLIS

(dir. Fritz Lang, 124 mins, 1927)

Weds Aug 8 8:30pm - buy tix
Fri Aug 10 6:45pm - buy tix
Sun Aug 12 2:30pm - buy tix

"If you you've never seen the grandaddy of sci-fi robotlove, a new print is calling. Last days!"
- TIME OUT NEW YORK

"A MASTERPIECE OF VISIONARY SILENT CINEMA... one of the strangest, most fascinating films ever made, a futuristic nightmare that is both sublime in its grandeur and remarkably intimate in its emotions."
- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES

"Easily trouncing the recent Hollywood heat rash of over-extended superheroes and Hasbro infomercials, THIS SUMMER'S MOST SATISFYING SCI-FI BLOCKBUSTER is a crypto-Marxist, proto-Fascist spectacle first released 80 years ago!... Metropolis now seems both quaintly steampunk and disjunctively contemporary."
- Ed Halter, VILLAGE VOICE

"The greatest of all pulp fantasies! Lang’s profligate hallucination of a future city is a movie whose every detail is subsumed to the overall effect."
- J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE

"The plutonium template for sci-fi moviemaking... Remains one of the most inspirational and influential movies of any genre."
- John Anderson, NEWSDAY

"A superspectacle... ESSENTIAL."
- Joshua Rothkopf, TIME OUT NEW YORK

Amid the gleaming towers of a gigantic city of the future, Gustav Fröhlich, pampered son of the Big Boss himself, is smitten by a young woman (Brigitte Helm, in a sensational film debut) ushering workers’ children on a topside field trip, and follows her back to the depths — where he discovers what really makes Metropolis run. And as slavishly regimented workers with numbers instead of names toil amid smoke-belching machinery, he has a vision of slaves lining up for sacrifice at the flaming mouth of the idol Moloch. But, anticipating unrest, the Boss makes plans to defuse it, inciting eccentric inventor Rudolph Klein-Rogge to fashion an agent provocateur, the "robot-Maria" (Helm again!). Inspired (or so the legend says) by his first glimpse of the Manhattan skyline, Fritz Lang’s visionary work of science fiction redefined the term "super-production" — in the process nearly bankrupting the Ufa studios — with its thousands of extras; already monstrous sets inflated to the gargantuan by cutting-edge camera trickery (including the first use of the legendary Schüfftan process, whereby miniatures and live action are filmed simultaneously); and eye-popping special effects extravaganzas, including the explosion of the "heart machine;" the Frankenstein-like genesis of the robot girl; and a cataclysmic, multitude-engulfing flood. A legend and a byword almost from first release, Metropolis was seen as Lang conceived it only by the earliest Berlin audiences ("positively overwhelming" raved the Variety critic after the premiere) — and then the cutting began, by the U.S. distributor Paramount, by Ufa itself, and so on, down to a 1984 "restoration" that ran only 87 minutes. This version collates the seven existing source copies, with 1,257 scenes restored via a laborious multi-step digital process. The result, generated back to a pristine 35mm print, is probably the most complete, integral version of Lang’s work that will ever be seen — complete with the original orchestral score recorded in stereo: the definitive version of Lang’s masterpiece.

Internet Video in Person

Blip.TV presents

Vlog Deathmatch:
Drunk Underwear Karaoke

Sat August 11 4:30pm - buy tix

filmmakers & special guests will attend!

The illustrious Adam Quirk and Maestro Charles Hope bring you the newest deathmatch! From Quirk's post on the Yahoo! Videobloggers Group:

Drunk Underwear Karaoke.

You can choose to use any or all of those 3 words as a basis for your video.

For example, you could:
1. Get drunk
2. Put on some underwear
3. Sing a song

Or you could:
1. Get drunk

Or just:
1. Put on some underwear

Or even:
1. Sing a song

On Saturday, August 11 at 4pm there will be a screening of all the Drunk Underwear Karaoke entries, followed by a Q&A discussion with any vloggers in attendance, followed by Vloggercue in Brooklyn: an evening of grilled meats and vegetables, great local beer, and possibly some friendly banter if we're lucky.

Submission procedure will be listed shortly.

Learn about it here and here.

This challenge was designed (by several high-ranking Blip staffers, the curator of the theater, and Steve Woolf) to attract non-vloggers. We figured those three things in any combination would be enough to entice any sane person into a theater.

And to start things off, we have the awesome Paul Dateh of Pixelodeon fame with an original composition, perhaps the official Vlog Deathmatch: Drunk Underwear Karaoke theme song? Get it here.

Classics

MY FRIEND IVAN LAPSHIN

(dir. Alexei Gherman [Sr.], 100 mins, Soviet Union, 1971/1985)

Sat Aug 11 6:30pm - buy tix

We join film institutions across the city in saluting Kino International upon their 30th Anniversary.

This great distribution company, headed by Don Krim and Gary Palmucci, has brought scores of classics to North American screens, including the late Soviet classic MY FRIEND IVAN LAPSHIN, which we are very proud to present in a rare screening.

Set in provincial Russia in 1935, MY FRIEND IVAN LAPSHIN was banned for fourteen years for its evocative dramatization of one of the darkest periods in Soviet history. A police investigator relentlessly and mercilessly pursues a gang of criminals, but in the process comes to realize the distance between the idealism of the revolutionaries and the grim, frightening reality of the Stalinist era.

FANTASTIC PLANET

(dir. Rene Laloux, 72 mins, 1973)

Sun Aug 12 5pm - buy tix
Fri Aug 17 7:15pm - buy tix
Sat Aug 18 4:30pm - buy tix

Grand Prix * Cannes Film Festival

"a theremin-toned time capsule from the trippier precincts of toontown and science fiction. If you've never caught it during a cable-TV binge, it should still provide the giddy buzz of arty weirdness that has long made it an object of cult veneration, a sci-fi starter drug that turned many a budding fan on to Stanislaw Lem, Tarkovsky flicks, and old-school Heavy Metal comics."
- Gary Dauphin, VILLAGE VOICE

FANTASTIC PLANET is Rene Laloux's bizarre, enthralling adaptation of Stefan Wul's allegorical science-fiction novel. The eye-popping underground sensation was also a critical success, winning awards at several prestigious film festivals (most notably, the Grand Prix in 1973 at Cannes). Set on the planet Ygam, the film depicts a world in which Draags--a gigantic race of blue alien beings--run the show. Their pets are human beings--or, as they are known in Laloux's world, Oms--who are mistreated by their devious owners. Fed up with the abuse, one Om organizes his brethren and stages a mutiny that will forever change life on Ygam. Laloux's film blends 1960s ideologies with 1970s technology to create a work that profoundly impacted animators all over the world. In creating a troubled universe dominated by the soulless, conformist Draags, FANTASTIC PLANET rejects that notion and embraces the concept of individuality. A troubled political climate forced Laloux and fellow collaborator Roland Torpor (screenwriter of Roman Polanski's 1976 thriller THE TENANT) to relocate to Paris from Prague in order to finish the film. Fortunately, they were able to do so, leaving audiences with this startling animated achievement.

RICH FROM WITHIN

(dir. Kenya Cagle, 90 mins, 2007)

Sun Aug 12 6:30pm - buy tix
Sun Aug 19 6:30pm - buy tix

The story of a man who would never give up.

directed by Kenya Cagle, the Oscar Micheaux of the 21st century

An aspiring hip hop artist finds himself homeless after he loses his job and his woman leaves him. Once homeless he decides to form a band and continues to follow his dream.

UNHOLY

(dir. Daryl Goldberg, 87 mins, 2007)

Mon Aug 13 6:30pm - SOLD OUT
Weds Aug 15 6:30pm - buy tix

This is a "Bizarro Monday" program. Every Monday, the Pioneer presents the finest (and trashiest) in horror, sci-fi, freakshow, exploitation, martial arts, genre, b-movies, z-movies, and just plain weird stuff.

Starring genre icon Adrienne Barbeau (SWAMP THING, THE FOG, Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN) and BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER legend Nicholas "Xander" Brendon.

Adrienne Barbeau and Nicholas Brendon star in this provocative shocker about a mother's investigation into the grisly suicide of her daughter. But what begins as a family tragedy will soon lead to a conspiracy of bizarre crimes, occult carnage, and a necromancer who may control a dark new trinity of warfare. How far would our government go to harness a Nazi legacy of paranormal power? Has the U.S. military secretly attempted to develop time travel, invisibility, and mind control as weapons? Answers await in a mind-blowing journey that will take one woman from the trauma of the unimaginable to the ultimate horror of the UNHOLY.

Cinekink's

TAWDRY SUMMER TRYST

cinekink.com

Tues Aug 14 7pm - buy tix

(total running time: 74 minutes)

Admission: 18+ only

This is a Tuesdays@7 program. Every Tuesday at 7pm features special guests presenting their film, and is followed by a beer and pizza reception for ticket holders.

Cozy up to a new best friend, sink back into air-conditioned comfort and heat up with CineKink's anniversary revisit to a few of their favorite hook-ups!

SULLIVAN'S LAST CALL
Directed by Francesca Rizzo, USA, 18 minutes
A sexy little film about...celibacy.

UNTITLED FIRST PORNO
Directed by Kirby Ferguson, 2006, Canada, 6 minutes.
A boy, a girl and a bed.

HAIRCUT
Directed by Bryan Jackson, 2004, USA, 8 minutes.
John gets more than he bargains for during a routine haircut appointment.

HARIGATA: THE ALIEN DILDO THAT TURNED WOMEN INTO SEX-HUNGRY LESBOS
Directed by Szu Burgess, 2003, USA, 9 minutes.
The invasion of Harigata - the dildo in Japanese culture - may be America's worst nightmare come true.

HITCHCOCKED
Directed by David Young, 2006, USA, 8 minutes.
A hot casual-sex encounter stirs up some surprising truths about love, life, online-dating...and danger.

HEADSHOT
Directed by Jennifer Lyon Bell, 2006, The Netherlands, 9 minutes.
In a nod to Andy Warhol, depicts an actual sexual encounter via the facial expressions of only one participant, a leather-jacketed young man.

A&O DEPARTMENT: SUPPLY NURSE
Directed by Anna Span, 2004, UK, 25 minutes.
Hot from the UK! - just one of many naughty tales from the "A&O Department," a rather unique British hospital where women call all the shots.

ZEBRAMAN

(dir. Takashi Miike, 115 mins, 2004, 35mm, Japan)

Weds Aug 15 9pm - buy tix
Thurs Aug 16 9pm - buy tix
Fri Aug 17 9pm - buy tix
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Mon Aug 20 9pm - buy tix
Tues Aug 21 9pm - buy tix
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Thurs Aug 23 9pm - buy tix

A Media Blasters release.

From the director of ICHI THE KILLER, THE GREAT YOKAI WAR, AUDITION

Shinichi is a failure as a teacher and father. He tries to escape his mundane life by dressing up and becoming "Zebraman,", an old TV superhero. Shinichi goes off the deep end starts to dangerously act out his escapist fantasy, getting into more trouble than he ever bargain

WITH YOU!

(dir. Yaniv Dabach, 65 mins, USA, 2006)

Thurs Aug 16 7pm - buy tix

Screening followed by special beer & pizza reception.

A movie about the Gotham Knights, NYC's gay men's rugby team!

WITH YOU! is a documentary that follows New York’s first gay rugby team, The Gotham Knights RFC, as it strives to gain points and respect against the established old time straight rugby clubs. It is the story of how a group of gay men from all walks of life come together and face their personal challenges to become a family of athletes.

Classics

GALILEO

(dir. Joseph Losey, 138 mins, USA, 1974)

After the play by Bertolt Brecht.

Sat Aug 18 6pm - buy tix

We join film institutions across the city in saluting Kino International upon their 30th Anniversary.

Please join us for a rare screening of GALILEO, From the play by Bertolt Brecht, as directed by Joseph Losey.

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF's Topol and a wish-list cast of British theatrical aristocracy, including Sir John Gielgud (ARTHUR, BECKET), Patrick Magee (A CLOCKWORK ORANGE), Edward Fox (THE DAY OF THE JACKAL), and Tom Conti (REUBEN, REUBEN), ground Bertolt Brecht's famous theatrical imagination in a precise, character-rich interpretation of the troubled life and anxious times of 17th century physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei. Under director Joseph Losey (who originated the American stage version of GALILEO in 1947), The American Film Theatre's GALILEO focuses on Brecht's characteristic mosaic of theatricality and immediacy into a personalized and keenly cinematic drama that pits public responsibility against private doubt.

Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the universe. But in a rigid society ruled by an uneasy alliance of aristocracy and clergy already undermined by the Plague and the Reformation, science is a threat and enlightenment is a luxury. Faced with either death at the hands of the Inquisition or recantation to a hypocritical but all-powerful Papacy, Galileo must choose between his own life and the restless scientific curiosity that he has spurned family, friends, and wealth to pursue.

In GALILEO, director Losey (EVA, THE GO-BETWEEN, THE SERVANT), an exile of the Hollywood blacklist himself, creates a uniquely affecting portrait of discovery, heresy, compromise, and exile. Neither coward nor hero, Brecht's Galileo reveals the troubling human side of the struggle between science, government, and religion.

LOST SUBURBIA

(dir. Elizabeth Smith, Terrence Smith, Sean King, Paul Natale, Pete Bune; 101 mins; 2007)

Mon Aug 20 6:30pm - buy tix

This is a "Bizarro Monday" program. Every Monday, the Pioneer presents the finest (and trashiest) in horror, sci-fi, freakshow, exploitation, martial arts, genre, b-movies, z-movies, and just plain weird stuff.

Five Long Island, New York independent filmmakers have come together to produce this labor of love (three years in the making) feature anthology based on local haunted legends that have plagued their childhood nightmares. The four short films are based on the hangings at Sweet Hollow Road (Paul Natale's "Misery Loves"), the lady in white ghost (Sean King's "Don't Go Looking For Mary's Grave"), the abandoned Kings Park psychiatric facility (Terrence and Elizabeth Smith's "The Institute For Mental Hygiene") and the Native American tale of Lake Ronkonkoma (Pete Bune's "Lady/Lake"). The fictional films are preceded by documentary segments that explore the legend's origins and feature interviews with experts on the subject such as paranormal investigator Joe Giaquinto, 'Weird NY' authors Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman, and 'Ghosts of Long Island: Stories of the Paranormal' author Kerriann Flanagan Brosky, along with historical photos, dramatic reenactments, location footage, and testimonials by locals who have been effected by the legends; supernaturally or otherwise. LOST SUBURBIA is a not just for Long Island natives, but a must see for anyone interested in history and the supernatural.

KAMP KATRINA

(dir. Ashley Sabin and David Redmon, 74 mins, 2007)

Fri Aug 24 9pm - buy tix
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Trailer:

"Fascinating . . . Achieve[s] potent dramatic and emotional impact...Artful, beautiful visual flourishes."
- Joe Leydon, VARIETY

"Transfixing . . . haunting and colorful."
- AUSTIN CHRONICLE

"Packs an emotional punch!"
- indieWIRE

* South by Southwest * Magnolia Film Festival * IFF Boston *

from the directors of MARDI GRAS: MADE IN CHINA

KAMP KATRINA follows New Orleans native Ms. Pearl, who spontaneously converts her backyard into a tent-village for 14 displaced people for six months in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding of her beloved city. Ms. Pearl explodes off the screen, one of those flamboyantly larger-than-life personalities who, were this a fictional film, would seem too outrageous to be real. KAMP KATRINA delivers a sometimes-shattering verité exploration of the very personal daily struggles imposed by this national tragedy on a small group of troubled survivors.

FLESH FOR THE BEAST

(dir. Terry M. West, 88 mins, 2003)

Mon Aug 27 7pm - buy tix

Presented by Media Blasters.

This is a "Bizarro Monday" program. Every Monday, the Pioneer presents the finest (and trashiest) in horror, sci-fi, freakshow, exploitation, martial arts, genre, b-movies, z-movies, and just plain weird stuff.

"Fans of the genre—or 'gore hounds'. . . will find plenty to enjoy in Mr. West's enthusiastic approach to his work."
- Dave Kehr, NEW YORK TIMES

"It's all gleefully over the top. . . For those who like a little t&a with their blood and gore. . . FLESH FOR THE BEAST serves up ample portions of each."
- Jorge Morales, VILLAGE VOICE

"Joining HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES, WRONG TURN, 28 DAYS LATER, FREDDY VS. JASON, JEEPERS CREEPERS II, CABIN FEVER and THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE as the newest bit of evidence that real horror is back is FLESH FOR THE BEAST."
- FANGORIA Magazine

FLESH FOR THE BEAST is the story of a notorious turn-of-the-century occultist named Alfred Fischer (Aldo Sanbrell) who acquires a mystical medallion from a Gypsy Woman (Caroline Munro) and conjures up a slew of ravishing, female demons or succubi from the depths of hell. The beasts demand a steady diet of fresh human prey that only a mortal human servant like Fischer can provide. To satisfy and control the demons, Fischer turns his stately mansion into a high-class bordello to attract human prey for the demons posing as beautiful prostitutes! Almost a century after Fischer has met his mysterious demise, the new owner, John Stoker (Sergio Jones), hires a crack team of parapsychologists to investigate the haunted manor and rid the house of its evil aura. The psychic team, led by energy field expert Ted Sturgeon (Clark Beasley Jr.), consists of Jack Ketchum (Jim Coope) and Joseph Monks (Victor Flynn), two documentary filmmakers- Martin Shelley (Mike Sinterniklaas) and Douglas Clegg (Aaron Clayton) and the powerful, young psychic, Erin Cooper (Jane Scarlett).

As the team members split up to investigate different levels and wings of the house, Stoker and Erin venture into the dark, dank cellar. Meanwhile upstairs, each male team member experiences a strange, sensual and ultimately fatal encounter with a series of sultry and seductive sirens. There's Pauline (Carol Hoermann), a respectable and proper lady on the surface who startles Ketchum in the bathroom. There's Cassandra (Ruby La Rocca), an immature, reckless and insatiable lass who violently teaches Monks to respect her toys. And there's Irene (Barbara Joyce), an aggressive, animalistic vixen who proves too much for Shelley to handle! During her explorations, Erin is plagued by shocking, violent visions and must face an obstacle course of madmen, rotting zombies and hungry demonic spirits! Soon, Erin realizes she is the lone survivor and that Stoker has a diabolical master plan that involves her and a powerful, supernatural medallion and her as a human sacrifice! A tidal wave of terror crashes upon Erin as she learns the dreaded secret of the medallion and her own doomed, demonic destiny!