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Film

Chained for Life

 
World Premiere
 
Sun, Jul 1, 2018
  • 7PM
 
 
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RUN TIME: 92min
GENERAL ADMISSION: $20
MEMBERS & PATRONS: $15
+  Sun, Jul 1: Q&A with Aaron Schimberg
 
 
 
 
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Directed by Aaron Schimberg | 2018

With Jess Weixler, Adam Pearson, Stephen Plunkett

Building on the promise of his hallucinogenic debut Go Down Death, Brooklyn filmmaker Aaron Schimberg delivers another brilliantly oddball, acerbically funny foray into gonzo surrealism. In a deft tragicomic performance, Jess Weixler (Teeth) plays Mabel, a movie star “slumming it” in an outré art-horror film being shot in a semi-abandoned hospital. Cast opposite her is Rosenthal (Under the Skin’s Adam Pearson), a gentle-natured young man with a severe facial deformity. As their relationship evolves both on and offscreen, Schimberg raises provocative questions about cinematic notions of beauty, representation, and exploitation. Tod Browning crossed with Robert Altman crossed with David Lynch only begins to describe something this startlingly original and deeply felt.

Sun, Jun 24: Q&A with Aaron Schimberg, Jess Weixler, and Adam Pearson
Sun, Jul 1: Q&A with Aaron Schimberg

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