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Oct 25
,
7:00 pm

Failed State

Dale spends the majority of his time transporting various goods to people while attempting to carve out a social life in-between. Filmmakers in-person. Free!
Oct 25
,
5:00 pm

Local Filmmaker Showcase: Shorts

Celebrating new work by Rockaway-based filmmakers. Filmmakers in-person. Free!
Oct 11
,
5:00 pm

Drinking Brecht: An automated laboratory performance

After stealing a hat from the costume collection of famous communist playwright Bertolt Brecht, multimedia artist sister sylvester embarks on a forensic quest to trace the hat’s possible past wearers.
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Sep 28
,
7:00 pm

The Scout

Over the course of one day, a location scout connects with a handful of NYC residents as she struggles to lock down shooting locations for a TV show. Filmmaker Paula González-Nasser in-person.
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Sep 20
,
8:00 pm

Paying For It

A revelatory indie comedy based on cartoonist Chester Brown's divisive graphic memoir, from the perspective of his ex-partner Sook-Yin Lee. New York premiere. Co-presented by PictoBeach.
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Sep 14
,
7:30 pm

Yi-Wo

A decade in the making, California-based artist Thomas Campbell's latest film is a stunning 16mm study of surfing that celebrates wave riding as a spiritual practice.
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Aug 24
,
9:00 pm

Paul Clipson: Vibrations of Light

Two rarely screened works by the visionary San Francisco filmmaker and live music by his close collaborator Jefre Cantu-Ledesma.
Aug 24
,
6:00 pm

Under Construction

Advance screening for a soon-to-be-released feature satire by New York-based filmmaker and artist James N. Kienitz Wilkins.
Aug 24
,
3:00 pm

New Kingston

Artist and polymath Kevin Bewerstorf's filmmaking debut patiently documents the rhythms of his work building and repairing houses in upstate New York.
Aug 24
,
12:30 pm

In Excess

One city's trash is traced through its streets, waterways, and social infrastructures to reveal the hidden ecosystems of waste management and the inevitable ways that garbage resurfaces long after we’ve tossed it out of our minds.
Aug 24
,
10:00 am

Children’s Cinema: William Wegman

A collection of the American artist's brilliant short films staring his beloved Weimaraner dogs. Free!
Aug 23
,
7:00 pm

Atropia

Hailey Gates' bold Sundance-winning feature debut is an utterly original screwball comedy inspired by real U.S. military training camps. Live music performance by Cassandra Jenkins.
Aug 23
,
4:00 pm

Shorts: Landlocked

Making use of inherited archives and reclaimed footage, these personal portraits of distant homes interrogate how cinema and representation shape memory amid global politics.
Aug 23
,
1:00 pm

Shorts: Dizzy Adolescence

Insecurities spin into absurdities in these off-kilter new narrative shorts.
Aug 23
,
10:00 am

Bionico’s Bachata

Dominican filmmaker Yoel Morales’s hyperkinetic urban love story follows a hopeless romantic trying to make ends meet and kick his drug habit so he can marry the love of his life.
Aug 22
,
7:00 pm

The Python Hunt

Xander Robin’s debut documentary feature is an epic nocturnal quest following a crew of eccentric amateur snake hunters over ten days in the Everglades. Live music performance by Lael Neale.
Aug 22
,
4:00 pm

Shorts: Game Coast

Erecting custom-built environments and synthetic realms, these boundary-pushing shorts envision the erosion and reconstruction of our changing world.
Aug 21
,
7:00 pm

In the White City

Swiss master Alain Tanner's underseen César-winning gem is an ode to drifting dreamers and a revelatory roadmap across Lisbon. Live music performance by Erev.
Aug 21
,
4:00 pm

Freight

An intimate glimpse at the teenaged sailors growing up in the vast and unseen world of transnational transport. 
Aug 21
,
1:00 pm

Shorts: Look into the Light

Through personal lenses come private euphorias. These shorts delight in micro and macro visions of nature that widen our eyes and rekindle our senses of wonder.
Aug 20
,
7:00 pm

Paper Trails, Chain Reactions

A collection of tactile animated films created on paper, using the constraints and tooth of the page. Guest curated by Lilli Carré. Live music performance by Blk.wav feat. Frae-Frae & Shelley Nicole.
Aug 20
,
4:00 pm

Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

A young man boards a train that carries him into a world suspended in time in this bewitching animation by the legendary Quay Brothers.
Jul 26
,
8:30 pm

Untitled Pizza Movie

In the early '90s, two friends set out on a quest to find New York City’s perfect slice of pizza. Co-presented by Filmmaker Magazine.
Part of:
Pizza Movies
Jul 26
,
5:30 pm

Family Business

As much a sweet slice of 1970s America as it is a look into the freedoms and hazards of keeping a small business in the family.
Part of:
Pizza Movies
Jul 26
,
2:30 pm

Mystic Pizza

This coming-of-age classic follows three best friends who work at a pizzeria in the seaside town of Mystic, Connecticut.
Part of:
Pizza Movies
Jul 19
,
8:30 pm

Little, Big, and Far

Reevaluating his life and work, an Austrian astronomer ascends a Greek mountaintop in search of a sky dark enough to reconnect with the stars. Filmmaker Jem Cohen in person.
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Jul 13
,
8:30 pm

Brighton Beach

Delighting in the daily rhythms of life alongside the Coney Island boardwalk, this newly restored vérité documentary explores Brighton Beach during the early '80s
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Jul 13
,
7:00 pm

Rockaway Chamber Music

A bass and string quartet performing music by Giochino Rossini, Gabriella Smith, Ethel Smyth, and Shelley Washington.
Jun 28
,
8:30 pm

Network

Sidney Lumet's razor-sharp satire-turned-prophesy of media and political culture. Co-presented by Hell Gate.
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Jun 21
,
8:30 pm

The Devil Queen

A provocative jewel of 1970s Brazilian cinema. Co-presented with Alfreda's Cinema in celebration of Juneteenth and Pride Month.
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Jun 15
,
8:30 pm

The Shooting

A brilliant and twisted mirage of the American West by visionary filmmaker Monte Hellman.
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Jun 15
,
7:00 pm

Rockaway Chamber Music

An evening of bassoon and strings.
Jun 13
,
8:00 pm

His Three Daughters

Azazel Jacobs' powerful family drama about three estranged sisters who come together to care for their ailing father during his final days.
Jun 13
,
5:00 pm

The Chocolate War

A moody, anti-authoritarian coming-of-age story and a cautionary tale about the abuses committed by those in power. Guest selected by Azazel Jacobs.
Jun 7
,
8:30 pm

His Motorbike, Her Island

by Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1986, 90 min.
Jun 7
,
6:30 pm

Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss

The first of five Stray Cat Rock films stars pop singer Akiko Wada and action icon Meiko Kaji as leaders of a girl gang.
Jun 7
,
4:30 pm

God Speed You! Black Emperor

by Mitsuo Yanagimachi, 1976, 91 min.
Jun 1
,
8:30 pm

The Dells

a beautiful and bizarre snapshot of the international students working summer jobs in Wisconsin Dells, “The Waterpark Capital of the World.” Director Nellie Kluz in person.
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Jun 1
,
7:00 pm

Wildwood, NJ

A time capsule of the South Jersey shore in the ‘90s, this dreamy Super 8 documentary captures the rush of summer freedom on the boardwalk.
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May 17
,
7:00 pm

The Camerman

Buster Keaton is at the height of his slapstick mastery in this love letter to movie-making. Live scored by Order of the Illusive.
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May 9
,
8:00 pm

Newlyweeds

A love triangle between a repo man, his wanderlusting girlfriend and marijuana. Director Shaka King in person.
May 9
,
5:00 pm

Friday

Two friends in L.A. have one day to pay the local bully the money he’s owed, or they’re in trouble. This iconic comedy is guest presented by Shaka King in person.
Apr 25
,
8:00 pm

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

An intimate and deeply moving chronicle of a teenager’s struggle to get an abortion. Director Eliza Hittman in person.
Apr 25
,
5:00 pm

Trust

A deadpan love story between two misfits from the Long Island suburbs. Guest presented by Eliza Hittman.
Apr 19
,
7:00 pm

Earth Day Celebration: Last Things

A shoreline cleanup, cyanotype workshop & free screening of Deborah Stratman's LAST THINGS, a glittering view of life on Earth from the perspective of rocks.
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Mar 22
,
8:00 pm

Geologist + Sleepy Doug Shaw

performing two back-to-back solo sets.
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Mar 1
,
7:00 pm

Observation Center of the Universe

A sensory experience that navigates the cosmos through live music and liquid light.
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