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Friday 5/16
2:15 PM, 4:45 PM, 7:15 PM, 9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Friendship – Andrew DeYoung – 2025 – 100 min
New 35mm print from A24
7:00 PM
Elastic Arts: Grin and Bear It – Cinema of the Dark Clown
Mr. Wonderful – Luther Price – 1988 – 10 min
Song for Rent – Jack Smith – 1969 – 4 min
Hot Air Specialists – Jack Smith – 1980 – 7 min
Clown – Luther Price – 1990-2002 – 13 min
The Circus – Jean Sousa – 1977 – 6 min
The Clown – Donna Cameron – 1998 – 13 min
Throbs – Fred Worden – 1972 – 7 min
16mm
Programmed by Tone Glow
Midnight
Music Box Theatre: Sapphopalooza
Desperate Living – John Waters – 1977 – 90 min
35mm from Park Circus
Saturday 5/17
11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Sapphopalooza
Pictures 4 Barbara – Barbara Hammer – 1981 – 8 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema
Screens before “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” – DCP
2:15 PM, 4:45 PM, 7:15 PM, 9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre
Friendship – Andrew DeYoung – 2025 – 100 min
New 35mm print from A24
3:00 PM
Doc Films: Entering the Image – Jean-Claude Rousseau’s Super 8 Films
La Vallée Close – Jean-Claude Rousseau – 1995 – 144 min
16mm
6:00 PM
Chicago Filmmakers: Rapid Eye Movements – Picture Restart 16mm Series
Filmmaker – Barry J Hershey – 1986 – 2 min
Shorelines – Al Jarnow – 1977 – 3 min
Accidents Will Happen – Cucumber Studios – 1979 – 3 min
Object Conversation – Paul Glabicki – 1985 – 10 min
Rapid Eye Movements – Mary Lambert & Jeff Carpenter – 1977 – 12 min
Xfilm – John Luther Schofill – 1968 – 14 min
16mm from Chicago Filmmakers
6:00 PM
Doc Films: The History Lessons of Straub and Huillet
Sicilia! – Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub – 1999 – 66 min
35mm
7:30
Doc Films
The Tango Lesson – Sally Potter – 1997 – 100 min
35mm
Followed by Q&A with Marya E. Gates, author of “Cinema Her Way“
Midnight
Music Box Theatre
The Room — Tommy Wiseau — 2003 — 99 min
35mm from Wiseau-Films
Sunday 5/18
11:30 AM
Music Box Theatre: Sapphopalooza
Saving Face – Alice Wu – 2004 – 97 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Classics
7:00 PM
Doc Films: Encounters in the Cinema
D’est – Chantal Akerman – 1993 – 107 min
16mm
2:00 PM, 4:30 PM, 9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Friendship – Andrew DeYoung – 2025 – 100 min
New 35mm print from A24
Monday 5/19
4:30 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Friendship – Andrew DeYoung – 2025 – 100 min
New 35mm print from A24
7:00 PM
Doc Films: State and Revolution – Film Under the Boot
The Turin Horse – Bela Tarr – 2011 – 155 min
35mm
Tuesday 5/20
4:30 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Friendship – Andrew DeYoung – 2025 – 100 min
New 35mm print from A24
Wednesday 5/21
4:30 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:30 PM
Music Box Theatre
Friendship – Andrew DeYoung – 2025 – 100 min
New 35mm print from A24
7:00 PM
Doc Films: The History Lessons of Straub and Huillet
These Encounters of Theirs – Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub – 2006 – 68 min
35mm
Thursday 4/22
4:30 PM, 7:00 PM
Music Box Theatre
Friendship – Andrew DeYoung – 2025 – 100 min
New 35mm print from A24
7:00 PM
Block Cinema: Endless Reveries – Water in Experimental Film with Greta Snider
MOODS OF THE SEA – Slavko Vorkapich & John Hoffman – 1940-42 – 10 min
LA PLAGE – Patrick Bokanowski – 1991 – 13 min
POND AND WATERFALL – Barbara Hammer – 1982 – 15 min
SALT OF THE SEA – Saul Levine – 1965 – 4 min
QUARRY MOVIE – Greta Snider – 1999 – 10 min
CASTAIC LAKE – Brigid McCaffrey – 2010 – 29 min
SKY BLUE WATER LIGHT SIGN – J.J. Murphy – 1972 – 8 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema
7:00 PM
Doc Films: Early Meet Cutes
Gone with the Wind – Victor Fleming – 1939 – 233 min
35mm
9:45 PM
Music Box Theatre: Sapphopalooza
D.E.B.S – Angela Robinson – 2004 – 91 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Repertory
Preshow drag performances
Friday 5/23
7:00 PM
Public Works Gallery (2141 W North Ave)
Little Histories: The Films of Greta Snider
Hard Core Home Movie – 1989 – 5 min
Portland – 1996 – 12 min
Our Gay Brothers – 1993 – 9 min
Blood Story – 1990 – 3 min
Futility – 1989 – 9 min
Mute – 1991 – 13 min
Flight – 1996 – 5 min
16mm from Canyon Cinema and the filmmaker
Presented by Tone Glow
8:30 PM
Public Works Gallery (2141 W North Ave)
Little Histories: The Films of Greta Snider
No-Zone – 1993 – 19 min
In the Maritime Frequencies – 2025 – 15 min
Cult of Compliance – 2019 – 10 min – Dual Projector Stereoscopic 3D
Instructions from Ancestors – 2022 – 15 min – Dual Projector Stereoscopic 3D
16mm from Canyon Cinema and the filmmaker
Presented by Tone Glow
9:30 PM
Doc Films: The History Lessons of Straub and Huillet
These Encounters of Theirs – Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub – 2006 – 68 min
35mm
Showtimes TBA
Music Box Theatre
Friendship – Andrew DeYoung – 2025 – 100 min
New 35mm print from A24