Party Monster / Raw Images from the Optic Cross

Friday | July 16, 1999 7:00 pm

Saturday | July 17, 1999 8:00 pm

Sunday | July 18, 1999 9:00 pm

Party Monster

Directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato

Raw Images from the Optic Cross

Directed by Karl Nussbaum

Screening on Film

Party Monster

Directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato.
US, 1998, 16mm, color, 60 min.

When Warhol died, a snotty, charismatic Velvet Goldmine type (once from Indiana) took over the downtown New York party scene, and made it wilder, sexier, more decadent, and definitely more dangerous, with cocaine and heroin everywhere. This is the mind-boggling, true-life story of Michael Alig, leader of the "Club Kids" scene, who ended up in jail for murdering his drug dealer, putting the body in a suitcase, and sailing it out to sea. An official selection of the Sundance Film Festival.

Raw Images from the Optic Cross

Directed by Karl Nussbaum.
US, 1998, video, color, 25 min.

An almost Space Odyssey-like trip inside the head of the filmmaker, the bitter son of a Holocaust survivor, a vivid, eerie, Caballic journey of horrifying, volcanic, freak-show imagery, and with a magnificent score by Joe Arcidiacono, melting European carnival music, shrieks of musical horror, and one piece described as "Neil Young Playing a Bar Mitzvah."

June 4 – July 31, 1999

The Cutting Edge

August 21–October 19

The Cold Heart is More Precious than Diamonds. The Cinema of Graham Greene

September 11–October 30

João César Monteiro, Poet-Provocateur

September 12

Marathon '77 All-Night Movie Marathon

September 18–November 15

Marie Antoinette and Friends, Three Films by Sofia Coppola

September 27–28

The Adventures of Lotte Reiniger

October 2–18

The Human Condition

October 23–November 20

Party Monster

Raw Images from the Optic Cross

Party Monster

Raw Images from the Optic Cross