PLANKTON WAT and VIK WHISTLE an evening of experimental live music and film

Tuesday, August 18

Steadfast in the pursuit of musical transcendence, Portland musician Dewey Mahood is one of the most versatile and prolific musicians in the modern psychedelic underground. As PLANKTON WAT (Thrill Jockey Records), he has explored the outer reaches of folk and synthesized drift since the mid-aughts, and his fluid compositions apply ethereal, elastic textures to grounded rhythmic grooves that recall the cosmic and the earthly in equal measure. For this show Mahood contours his melodic guitar playing into wholly transfiguring pieces to accompany classic experimental films.

Chico’s VIK WHISTLE shares the evening with new experimental/psych music and video.

Tickets for this special event are $15 - walk up at the door, day of show (no advance tickets). Doors open 7:30 show 8pm.

SORCERER

William Friedkin

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• 121 minutes
• 1977
• English

AUGUST 21 - 22

A hallucinatory journey into the heart of darkness, William Friedkin’s pulse-pounding reimagining of the suspense classic The Wages of Fear was dismissed upon its release, only to be recognized decades later as one of the New Hollywood’s boldest auteur statements. In a remote Latin American village, four desperate fugitives—a New Jersey gangster (Roy Scheider), a Mexican assassin (Francisco Rabal), an unscrupulous Parisian businessman (Bruno Cremer), and an Arab terrorist (Amidou)—take on a doomed mission: transporting two trucks full of highly explosive nitroglycerin through the treacherous jungle. Aided by Tangerine Dream’s otherworldly synth score, Friedkin turns each bump in the road into a tour de force of cold-sweat tension—conjuring a hauntingly nihilistic vision of a world ruled by chance and fate.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 21 --- 7:30pm

SATURDAY, AUGUST 22 --- 8pm

No ads - films begin at posted showtimes

ANIMAL CRACKERS

Victor Heerman

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• 97 minutes
• 1930
• English

AUGUST 22 - 23

The pre-Code Marx Brothers comedy ANIMAL CRACKERS is an outrageous satire of aristocratic, high society, an endless lampoon of the old Gilded Age ruling class. The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor. The film's anarchistic humor and surrealist elements forever influenced comedy filmmaking and earned praise from avant-garde critics such as Antonin Artaud and filmmakers like François Truffaut and Jim Jarmusch. Hooray, hooray, hooray!

SATURDAY, AUGUST 22 --- 5:30pm

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23 --- 2pm

No ads - films begin at posted showtimes

SLEEPBOMB live score to FRANKENSTEIN (1931)

Thursday, August 27

SLEEPBOMB is a San Francisco-based cinematic post-metal/doom project focused on full, original scores for genre films. Ranging from heavy doom riffs to dreamy shoegaze, dark soundscapes punctuated with shimmering guitar and ethereal vocals, SLEEPBOMB has been exploring experimental sounds and forms informed by fellow travelers Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Sunn 0))), Ulver and Swans, among others. Settling on a drone influenced style of post/doom metal as the overarching theme while exploring other genres as appropriate for the film’s particular style, they bring their new live score to the groundbreaking 1931 horror film FRANKENSTEIN. The film's innovative special effects, atmospheric direction, and Boris Karloff's sympathetic portrayal of the Monster made it a critical and commercial success, influencing the horror genre and popular culture significantly. A singular live musical experience that re-contextualizes this classic film.

Tickets for this special event are $20 - walk up at the door, day of show (no advance tickets). Doors open 7:30 show 8pm.