Thursday | July 8, 1999 9:00 pm

Friday | July 9, 1999 7:00 pm

Saturday | July 10, 1999 8:00 pm

Sunday | July 11, 1999 9:00 pm

Bury Me in Kern County

Screening on Film

Directed by Julien Nitzberg .
With Mary Sheridan, Judson Mills, Mary Lynn Rajskub.
US, 1999, 16mm, color, 90 min.

Countless young filmmakers have tried to shape their works in the risky, anarchic early John Water manner, but they’ve failed in acting, conception, tone, script. Director-writer Julien Nitzberg’s debut is the delightful exception. In this "white trash black comedy." It’s the mid-1980s, and Sandra Winthrop has to figure out a way to raise $660 in one night for the funeral of her speed-dealing boyfriend’s mother. Soon, against her will, she’s the star of a Cops-like TV show, when police and camera raid a motel where she is being bad. Variety: "An impressive debut. . . It’s somehow assuring that original, fiercely committed indie satires like this one are still emerging. . . .with inspired casting choices to fashion a redneck mayhem."