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Satsuki drifts through love and rebellion in a rigid world. Desert of Namibia is sharp, restless, and defiantly hard to pin down.
Free Screening Funded by Science on Screen:
A Screening of Last Things by Deborah Stratman with a presentation to follow by Astrobiologist/Spectroscopist Claire Marshall
The Film: The project originated from two novellas of J.-H. Rosny, the joint pseudonym of the Belgian brothers Boex who wrote on natural, prehistoric and speculative subjects—sci fi before it was a genre. The film takes up their pluralist vision of evolution, where imagining prehistory is inseparable from envisioning the future. Also central are Roger Caillois’ writing on stones, Robert Hazen's theory of Mineral Evolution, Clarice Lispector’s Hour of the Star, the Symbiosis theory of Lynn Margulis, multi-species scenarios of Donna Haraway, Hazel Barton’s research on cave microbes and Marcia Bjørnerud’s thoughts on time literacy. In one way or another, these thinkers have all sought to displace humankind and human reason from the center of evolutionary processes. Passages from Rosny and interviews with Bjørnerud form the film's science-fictional / science-factual spine. Stones are its anchor. To touch stone is to meet alien duration. We trust stone as archive, but we may as well write on water. In the end, it’s particles that remain.
Claire Marshall: Claire Marshall (B.App.Sc (Hons) Materials Chemistry, Ph.D), Associate Professor of Geospectroscopy, is a solid-state Raman spectroscopist, and astrobiologist. She has been involved in Raman spectroscopy of crystalline solids, and the application of Raman spectroscopy in astrobiology and planetary science research since 2002. Her interests are in Raman spectroscopy, astrobiology, and exploring the potential of Raman spectroscopy as a life detection technique, and design, fabrication, and development of spectroscopic instrumentation for life detection. She has been awarded and managed over $4 million in grants throughout her career.
This screening is in partnership with 100,000,000 and their exhibition The Rock Show.
The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man is a bizarre, paranoid crime spree in Toronto. It’s weird, wild, and unsettling—a journey into a mind unraveling.
THE ENCAMPMENTS offers an urgent, intimate portrait of America’s student movement, ignited at Columbia University as students protested their universities’ ties to the war on Gaza. Their actions sparked a nationwide uprising, with encampments spreading across hundreds of campuses. Featuring detained activist Mahmoud Khalil, alongside professors, whistleblowers, and organizers, the film captures the deeper stakes of a historic moment that continues to reverberate across the globe.
ANDREW’S VIDEO VOID is a monthly gathering of found footage freaks and AV geeks where art, archivism, and having a great time collide in the greater Kansas City Area. For the low, low price of $0 (or a suggested donation of a VHS tape or DVD) your eyes can feast on the strangest mix of video oddities!
This Month: Because everything is goinng great right now. Andrew's been thinking a lot about Canada. It's like America, but with better health care stable leadership, and poutine. So Andrew's compiled some fun bits of media from our friends to the North that honestly deserve better neighbors than they have right now. Rockin' Curling, Canadian BBQ sauce Children's TV and other assorted clips that seem familiar except for everything thatr's in them.
Plus: It's May the Fourth so that means one thing: We're celebrating STAR TREK with some Star Trek slop for everyone!
Also filmmaker Janice.Click will be here with some dvds and VHS tapes for everyone!
Plus: Dominatrixes sing, Jean-Luc Godard sells Nikes, and much more!
One of the most beloved films of all time, this sizzling masterpiece by Billy Wilder set a new standard for Hollywood comedy. After witnessing a mob hit, Chicago musicians Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, in landmark performances) skip town by donning drag and joining an all-female band en route to Miami. The charm of the group’s singer, Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe, at the height of her bombshell powers), leads them ever further into extravagant lies, as Joe assumes the persona of a millionaire to woo her and Jerry’s female alter ego winds up engaged to a tycoon. With a whip-smart script by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, and sparking chemistry among its finely tuned cast, Some Like It Hot is as deliriously funny and fresh today as it was when it first knocked audiences out several decades ago.
Out of the galactic void emerges Lucifer, guiding and manipulating Adam and Eve in all their incarnations throughout history. One brutal age dissolves into another and another as they search for the purpose of human existence - if there is one at all. Unfolding over 15 acts, each with their own distinct visual style, Jankovics’ sprawling animated masterpiece weaves world art, cultures, symbols, and rituals into a seemingly-endless cosmic scroll of “human progress”.
Plot: A convicted felon must convince his basketball star son to attend state college in exchange for a shorter prison sentence.
Featuring an, as usual, brilliant Denzel Washington performance; HE GOT GAME is an incredibly stylish sports drama from director Spike Lee! TIX ARE PAY WHAT YOU CAN!
Stray Cat is hosting KC Underground Film Festival as they sample what they're showing this year with last year's award winning Hiding Henry!
In an effort to protect their three children from the corrupting influence of the outside world, a Greek couple transforms their home into a gated compound of cultural deprivation and strict rules of behavior. Soon, the family’s engineered reality begins to crumble, with devastating consequences. Before THE FAVOURITE and POOR THINGS, Yorgos Lanthimos kick-started the Greek Weird Wave with this absurdist, rollercoaster of a film!
A milestone of the Czech New Wave, Milos Forman’s first color film The Firemen’s Ball (Horí, má panenko) is both a dazzling comedy and a provocative political satire. A hilarious saga of good intentions confounded, the story chronicles a firemen’s ball where nothing goes right—from a beauty pageant whose reluctant participants embarrass the organizers to a lottery from which nearly all the prizes are pilfered. Presumed to be a commentary on the floundering Czech leadership, the film was “banned forever” in Czechoslovakia following the Russian invasion and prompted Forman’s move to America.
FM (FM Einheit of Einstürzende Neubauten) has discovered something incredible in the monotonous 'muzak' played through the fast food restaurant H Burger’s speaker system: the tracks are laced with subliminal messages designed to ensure complacency and consumerism.
The coolest movie ever made. Only Lovers Left Alive is Jim Jarmusch’s dreamy, undead glide through music, love, and eternal boredom.
Director Toshio Matsumoto’s shattering, kaleidoscopic masterpiece is one of the most subversive and intoxicating films of the late 1960s: a headlong dive into a dazzling, unseen Tokyo night-world of drag queen bars and fabulous divas, fueled by booze, drugs, fuzz guitars, performance art and black mascara. No less than Stanley Kubrick cited the film as a direct influence on his own dystopian classic A Clockwork Orange.
It’s that time again, Kansas City! Magnetic Magic is stoked to return to our annual SOV Summer series and things are gonna get weird! This month we hit play on Jeff Leroy’s SOV horror send-up of Scientology, complete with cheap gore and claymation, as Analog Sunday presents: The Screaming!
Marina is an awkward, emotionally stunted 23-year-old who lives with her terminally ill architect father, binges Attenborough documentaries, listens to the proto-punk songs of Suicide, and doesn’t understand sex. With the help of her friend Bella and a mysterious stranger, she embarks on an unusual journey of sexual discovery. The strangest coming-of-age story you’ll ever see!
In an effort to protect their three children from the corrupting influence of the outside world, a Greek couple transforms their home into a gated compound of cultural deprivation and strict rules of behavior. Soon, the family’s engineered reality begins to crumble, with devastating consequences. Before THE FAVOURITE and POOR THINGS, Yorgos Lanthimos kick-started the Greek Weird Wave with this absurdist, rollercoaster of a film!
In late 1980s Los Angeles, Jacki (Gina Gershon) and her all-girl punk rock band, Clam Dandy, are trying to make it big. Along with bandmates played by Drea de Matteo (The Sopranos), Lori Petty (Tank Girl, A League of Their Own), and Shelly Cole (Gilmore Girls), she has spent years struggling playing gigs up and down the Sunset Strip. After several failed attempts to get signed and on the verge of turning 40, Jacki decides that if the band’s one last shot at the big time is unsuccessful, she will give up her dreams of stardom.
Magnetic Magic are proud to welcome David Dawson back to Kansas City, as he serves up two new offerings of demented Midwest found footage! Get ready for a night of lolcows and juggalos as Analog Sunday presents: Leech & Fam-illi!
Tim’s Vermeer follows a man’s obsessive attempt to replicate genius with mirrors and math. It’s fascinating and a little unsettling.
Gathered here are five short films from around the globe, all by trans filmmakers.
Before Quatermass and the Pit, before Horror of Dracula or Curse of Frankenstein, the soon-to-be-legendary Hammer Films dipped their toes in the icy waters of horror with some early sci-fi thrillers, including this absolute banger from the pen of podcast favorite Nigel Kneale. Join Orrin and Tyler for a FREE screening of this sci-fi classic, then stick around afterward as we discuss body horror, gross monsters, how much Nigel Kneale disliked this movie, and much more!
A landmark of American cinema and key work in the LA Black Rebellion movement, Burnett’s Killer of Sheep offers one of the first authentic representations of working-class African Americans in a feature film. Set and shot in Watts in the mid-1970s, the drama follows Stan (Henry G. Sanders), a father trying to support his family and enjoy the simple pleasures they afford him while coping with psychic stress of laboring in a slaughterhouse.
Rec teams Adler’s Paint and the Riverdogs face off one last time before Soldier Field is demolished and their town loses its ballfield.
Considered by many the definitive screen adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel, Samuel Goldwyn’s 1939 prestige production stands out in a year renowned for prestige productions, marrying the doomy sturm und drang of the source material with a Dream Factory sheen. Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon are ideally cast as the dashing, tormented Heathcliff and the beautiful, fickle Cathy, lovers whose obsessive passion leads to tragedy on the Yorkshire moors. The poetic art direction; Gregg Toland’s evocative, Oscar-winning cinematography; and William Wyler’s sensitive direction come together in what remains a paragon of classic Hollywood craftsmanship.
A landmark of American cinema and key work in the LA Black Rebellion movement, Burnett’s Killer of Sheep offers one of the first authentic representations of working-class African Americans in a feature film. Set and shot in Watts in the mid-1970s, the drama follows Stan (Henry G. Sanders), a father trying to support his family and enjoy the simple pleasures they afford him while coping with psychic stress of laboring in a slaughterhouse.
A sinister fertility experiment has created a generation of twisted children. A relentless woman has made it her business to destroy these mutant babies before they destroy the world! A new mother, Catherine, and her friend, John, are torn between love and repulsion of this deformed being and are ready to fight for its survival. But this baby doesn’t need love – it’s been programmed to survive at any cost.
Lola, a true-crime podcaster, returns home for Christmas only to face a vengeful ghost reenacting the murders of a historical killer. With her community at risk, she must confront the town's buried secrets to stop the slaughter.
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018) is RaMell Ross’s stunning debut—an impressionistic portrait of Black life in Alabama.
Mitamura Yuka is a normal, shy high school student. Except for the fact that she has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers begins to show her skills, creating a force of psychic Nazi student enforcers, Yuka and her friends vow to stop her. One part Shojo Manga and one part SCANNERS at a highschool Nobuhiko Obayashi brings his visual madness from HOUSE with an emotional core of adolescence, finding oneself, and fighting authoritarianism.
Claire’s Camera (2017) pairs Isabelle Huppert and Kim Min-hee in a breezy, sunlit Hong Sang-soo film full of chance and quiet humor.
A detailed chronicle of The Rolling Stones’ 1960s tour of the United States, which culminated in the disastrous and chaotic concert held on December 6th at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival. Transpiring four months after Woodstock, The Altamont Free Concert notably marked the end of an era: the generation of peace and love of the 1960s suddenly became the generation of disillusionment.
Join @dicarlotomboy for another edition of Soviet Animation on Wednesday, May 7th, 2025. This month we’ll be screening a 1982 Bulgarian science fiction film, the very first feature length animation released in the country. The film is distinct in its herky-jerky animation and synth score by the Bulgarian band Tangra. Released twenty years before a Walt Disney film of a similar concept, this is nothing like you’ve seen before!
ANDREW’S VIDEO VOID is a monthly gathering of found footage freaks and AV geeks where art, archivism, and having a great time collide in the greater Kansas City Area. For the low, low price of $0 (or a suggested donation of a VHS tape or DVD) your eyes can feast on the strangest mix of video oddities!
This Month: Because everything is goinng great right now. Andrew's been thinking a lot about Canada. It's like America, but with better health care stable leadership, and poutine. So Andrew's compiled some fun bits of media from our friends to the North that honestly deserve better neighbors than they have right now. Rockin' Curling, Canadian BBQ sauce Children's TV and other assorted clips that seem familiar except for everything thatr's in them.
Plus: It's May the Fourth so that means one thing: We're celebrating STAR TREK with some Star Trek slop for everyone!
Also filmmaker Janice.Click will be here with some dvds and VHS tapes for everyone!
Plus: Dominatrixes sing, Jean-Luc Godard sells Nikes, and much more!
Plot: A manga artist and his friends uncover a plot by his employers at an amusement park to lure monsters to Earth and it’s up to Godzilla to defeat the invaders!
One of the G-Man’s most fun outings, GODZILLA VS GIGAN presents some of the best kaiju action of the Showa era! Screening on ‘REEL’ 16MM FILM!
Jay and Aria are at a low point. Max, Jay's boyfriend and Aria's brother, was brutally murdered by a cult. The hate crime was not taken seriously. Now the duo must travel through rural Australia to kill the demons behind it and avenge Max.
Plot: Derek takes a job at a tech firm, developing an AI pleasure doll. As he explores the boundaries of pain and desire, he confronts profound questions about humanity in an uncertain future.
A triumphant return for Scooter McCrae, and featuring a fearless performance from Yvonne Emilie Thälker, BLACK EYED SUSAN is one of the most thought provoking indie films in recent memory!
The director will join us for a post-screening Q&A via Zoom!
Come out for a FREE screening of the film that led studio director John Brahm to be compared favorably to Hitchcock - and led its brilliant but troubled star to his death. The movie starts at 7pm on April 23, and then stick around afterward as Tyler and Orrin talk about music, the tragic career of Laird Cregar, the collapse of the studio system, and how to use convenient holidays to dispose of your victims' bodies.
When John Jaspers’ girlfriend is brutally murdered, he vows to avenge her any way he can. When the mysterious ‘M’ appears and offers a solution, John signs the deal in blood, transforming him into a vicious demon with violent urges beyond his control. But after learning of M’s plan to unleash Hell on Earth, John uses this curse to fight back.
dir. Leslie Harris
1992 // 1 hr 32 mins // Digital Projection
Staring: Ariyana A. Johnson, Kevin Thigpen, Karen Robinson
Written & Directed by Leslie Harris. Black girlhood coming-of-age drama in 1990's Brooklyn.
Chantel is a hip, articulate, black high-school girl in Brooklyn who dreams of medical school, a family, and an escape from the generational poverty and street-corner life her friends seem to have accepted. Chantel gets sidetracked when her new boyfriend gets her pregnant in Leslie Harris’s pioneering independent film.
Purposefully rejecting the violent “street” films of the early 1990s- Instead, we get a film in which the main character is a flawed, good-hearted Black woman whose dreams are potentially derailed by real, adult decisions. Avoiding horrific clichés, Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. addresses key social issues of the 1990s like abortion, HIV/AIDS, racism, and sex education via outspoken, vibrant characters.
SID 6.7 is a program modeled after history’s most vicious serial killers, used in police training. When he escapes his digital chains, there’s only one man who can stop him.
In this Oscar-winning farce, Cary Grant and Irene Dunne exude charm, cunning, and artless affection as an urbane couple who, fed up with each other’s infidelities, resolve to file for divorce. But try as they might to move on, they realize they may be saying goodbye to the only dance partner capable of following each other’s lead. Directed by the versatile Leo McCarey, The Awful Truth is a warm but unsparing comedy about two people whose flaws only make them more irresistible.
Slacker actress Jane (Anna Faris, in one of her finest comedic performances), is having a bad day that keeps getting worse. After a feasting on some magic cupcakes left unattended by her psycho roommate. Jane's plan for the day sprials out of control as she must face baking mishaps, creepy friends, casting directors, drug dealers, and an original copy of Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto. Full of the smart comedy even when it's really stupid. SMILEY FACE is a stoner noir of epic proportions and Gregg Araki's most political film since DOOM GENERATION.
Stray Cat Film Center and BLK+BRWN are joining forces to once again screen an underratred slice of black cinema!
Millions in cash has been stolen by a drug lord, and it’s up to a smooth talking private detective (dir: Keenen Ivory Wayans) to track it down! A LOW DOWN DIRTY SHAME is a shockingly fun entry in the 90s black film canon and one of the most underrated action films from the genre’s bombastic heyday!
dir. Alex Sichel
1997 // 1 hr 30 mins // Digital Projection
Staring: Allison Foland, Tara Subkoff, Wilson Cruz
Directed by Alex Sichel & Written by Sylvia Sichel. Queer Riot GRRL coming of age drama in 1990's Hell’s Kitchen.
Teenage best friends Claude (Alison Folland) and Ellen (Tara Subkoff) spend their days idly dreaming of starting a band. Their friendship gets tested when Ellen explores drugs, sex, and dating bad men; while Claude gets a glimpse of what life could be like when she starts exploring her sexuality as she falls for a bubbly pink-haired musician (Leisha Hailey, nearly 10 years before becoming The L Word’s Alice). All Over Me is an endearing, low-budget slice of Riot-Grrl teen lesbian life in the 1990s.
About Elly is a suspenseful gem, compared to L’Avventura for its unique approach to tension, keeping viewers on edge throughout.
It’s Manchester, 1976. Local TV news reporter Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan) is one of forty-two people to witness “the gig that changed the world”, the life-changing Sex Pistols concert that drove Wilson and friends to create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club. Blending real and staged concert footage, comedic asides, and unreliable narration, this fictionalized account of a very real musical revolution chronicles the rise and fall of Joy Division (and beginning of New Order), the dysfunction of Happy Mondays, and the birth of rave culture in the UK.
