Film
Hail the New Puritan + deader than dead
- 7PM
Dir. Ligia Lewis, 2020, 20min
“Lewis makes performance about the impossibility and necessity of staking a claim to embodiment, using dark humor and going straight into the void to find what might be trapped inside of what she calls the logics of the canon.”—Martine Syms
Produced for the Hammer Museum's Made in L.A. Biennial, this 2020 short film by Dominican-born, Bessie-winning choreographer-dancer Ligia Lewis is a pandemic time capsule featuring masked performers.
Dir. Charles Atlas, 1987, 85min
“I think Charlie [Atlas] called this film biomythography, but it’s fictional and documentary and I like that … He is a master of the embodied camera.”—Martine Syms
This experimental 1987 film by Charles Atlas mixes mock interviews and documentary footage with a post-punk, avant-garde soundtrack in a portrait of Scottish dancer-choreographer Michael Clark and his company.
Go to the movies just once a month and a BAM membership pays for itself.
Wong Kar Wai’s restored, emotionally raw portrait of a relationship in breakdown screens with a short film about Black, queer, and trans identities in motion by filmmaker and performance artist Wu Tsang.
In this true crime story focused on the "Club Kids" era and its extremes, Macaulay Culkin stars as infamous party promoter and convicted killer Michael Alig.
A therapist working under the code name “Paprika” intervenes when a machine that records psychiatric patients’ dreams is stolen in this disorienting, imaginative, action-adventure, anime thriller.