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Fri, Jan 30Celebrate the 100th anniversary of THE GENERAL! Experience Buster Keaton's timeless comedic genius and miraculous stunts executed with awe-inspiring precision with a live musical score performed by Jeff Rapsis on our historic Estey pipe organ!
Fri, Feb 06The oldest surviving animated feature, Prince Achmed (1926) was created through exquisite, hand-cut paper silhouettes by Lotte Reiniger. Experience this gorgeous, pioneering work of visual poetry with a mesmerizing Orchestral Ambient soundtrack on clarinet & synths by Glenn Dickson & Bob Familiar!
Sat, Feb 07Join us at the Discothèque to Celebrate the 30th Solar Return of Zach Hodges! DJ Matt Krefting will bring on the heat, spinning eclectic vinyls with exploratory enthusiasm! Come forth and delight! There will be cake!
Fri, Feb 13OUR RETRO-FUTURISM NOIR SERIES BEGINS! Å dazzling fusion of existential retro-noir and futuristic paranoia based on a novel by Phillip K. Dick. This 1982 Sci-Fi masterwork follows a government-sanctioned killer as he hunts down a rogue band of genetically engineered replicants. Ambient jazz preshow!
Sun, Feb 15A seductive, larger-then-life documentary directed by Michael Almereyda, Escapes blazes a wild path through mid-century Hollywood via the experiences of consummate raconteur (and unreliable narrator!) Hampton Fancher -flamenco dancer, actor, and the unlikely producer and screenwriter of BLADE RUNNER
Sun, Feb 22NEW DATE! Venture to Shangri-La with this rarely-screened Utopian vision from director Frank Capra!! Our TRANSCENDING CYNICISM Series Finale!
Wed, Feb 25OUR RETRO-FUTURISM NOIR SERIES CONTINUES! One man’s attempt to dream, to love, and to live freely becomes an act of cosmic rebellion. Terry Gilliam's anti-totalitarian masterpiece combines dystopian Orwellian despair with Monty Python absurdity. Preshow of film-inspired ambient jazz by Revenant Sea!
Fri, Feb 27A virtuosic performer who combines Indian Classical Music, Jazz and Post-Modern exploration, raga-pianist Utsav Lal improvises an exciting new score to the silent film epic: SHIRAZ (1928), the captivating story behind the creation of the most romantically melancholy wonders on earth, the Taj Mahal.
Sat, Mar 07EXTERMINATE ALL RATIONAL THOUGHT! Enjoy David Cronenberg's cerebral and grotesque, body-horror adaptation of William S. Burroughs’s celebrated 1959 nonlinear novel- historic for being the last piece of literature prosecuted for obscenity in the United States. OUR RETRO-FUTURISM NOIR SERIES FINALE!
Date and time is TBDLive music by folk legend Kath Bloom before Richard Linklater’s Romantic indie-classic! Two young people meet on a train travelling from Budapest to Paris, and spend one fateful evening together in Vienna. As the night progresses, their bond makes separating in the morning into a difficult choice...
Date and time is TBDIn a film where nothing happens, everything happens. Two friends sit down to dinner and talk: about their careers, politics, society, the meaning of life–and everything in between. After the film, enjoy conversation over a multi-course dinner created by GREAT FALLS HARVEST!
Video by Maralie Armstrong
Photo by Kristopher Radder
The belfry contains the permanent installation of the Weather Warlock drone synthesizer
Video by Maralie Armstrong
The Sanctuary
The Sanctuary was built in a similar fashion to a European opera house allowing for incredible acoustics and visceral sonic resonance. The versatile stage area has comfortably accommodated chamber orchestras, full-scale opera productions, and dozens of choral singers. The Estey pipe organ has been regularly maintained since installation in 1906 and is in perfect working order for performances ranging from classical to avant-garde. Ornately carved antique pews on 3 levels provide a seating capacity of 425. The venue also features a retractable cinema screen and projection capability.
Epsilon Spires hosts a multimedia art gallery on the top balcony of the Sanctuary with a curatorial focus on interactive installations that merge art and science to investigate the political implications of perception and subjectivity.