Let's all toast independent film for a night, shall we? Join us for a double bill evening featuring HERE’S TO THE FUTURE! + HIT 2 PASS (Official Selection DOXA, 2015). Both of these films incorporate multiple recording formats and make use of emerging technology to structure narratives that are stylish, contemporary, and incredibly dynamic. Directors Gina Telaroli (HERE'S TO THE FUTURE) and Kurt Walker (HIT 2 PASS) will be joining for intros Q&A .

October 20, 2015
Doors 8:30 pm
HERE'S TO THE FUTURE - 9:00 pm
(Break) 10 mins
HIT 2 PASS - 10:10

Tickets $10 advance/ $12 at the door for BOTH movies

*All tickets 19+ w/ID for entry and bar service.
**Groupons and passes OK! Please redeem at the door.

HERE'S TO THE FUTURE (Gina Telaroli, 2014 / 76 mins) | On a late-summer Sunday in 2011, a female director (Telaroli herself) gathers a team of filmmakers, writers, musicians, artists, critics, and friends in an apartment to recreate a scene from Michael Curtiz’s Depression-era drama The Cabin in the Cotton. Over plates of pasta and glasses of red wine, a round robin of non-professional actors take turns performing the same scene, again and again, in different permutations. With a freedom influenced by pre-Code Hollywood, cameras, phones, and laptops are scattered around the set at almost every possible angle, documenting
the action – both in front of and behind the camera – as it unfolds, from rehearsals to equipment adjustments to the
banter between takes. An intimate, playful, and spontaneous look into the collaborative cinematic process emerges, a
snapshot of the filmmaker’s perennial struggle to capture fleeting moments before the day (and light) slip away. [Filmed on September 18, 2011 in Brooklyn, NY with Panasonic AG-AF100A / Panasonic TM700 / Canon 60D / Flip Mino HD / Android Phone / Blackberry Curve / MacBook Pro with Photobooth.]

"Both fun and funny. Inspiring that one can make a good, extremely low-budget modernist movie ['Here's to the Future'] --like Godard in KING LEAR -- in just one day of shooting. We should all be doing this.” – Doug Dibbern, MUBI

HIT 2 PASS (Kurt Walker, 2014 / 72 mins) | Two circles move in not-quite unison; a camera tracks a car which, later, tracks a track, all forced contact and slow speed, velocity crying out for inertia like friendship, a time apart in the digital flow of perpetual motion to talk and listen and know, where history sits calmly and speaks slowly as a tangent-you have to pick precisely the right angle, as he picks precisely the right word, and stick with it, and, again, listen-to these online concentricities as it gradually reveals
that what from one distance looked sturdy is, from in fact the same distance but different light, a mess in constant need of untangling (And so you see that Walter Benjamin’s Angel has no choice but to turn his back to the future.) and that in the face of this monumental facing up, literal project of lifetimes, there is absolutely nothing but love. [Filmed in 2013 on location in Prince George & Vancouver, B.C. with Canon XHA-1s / Sony FS700 / Canon HV20 / Arriflex 16BL / Canon t2i / Canon 7D / Flip HD / iPhone 5 / iPod / GoPro / Elgato Game Capture HD.]

“'Hit 2 Pass' is an act of genuine and tender interrogation and self-discovery that explores the gap between the immaterial excitement of video games and the complexity of life. Like the most humble and earnest first features, Walker's film is open about its own imperfections so as to carve out its own distinctive and tentative place in the saturated imaginary of contemporary cinema.” – Giovanni Vimercati, Film Comment