Screenings + Garden

Zena and I took a couple of months off following an immensely fun first year of screenings, but we’re excited to jump back into our schedule starting July 22, with our next Lightstruck screening on July 25: Jill Godmilow’s excellent film made with Ron Vawter, Roy Cohn/Jack Smith! We’ll be screening a brand new 16mm print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive! And then on August 22, we’ll be screening Mostafa Derkaoui’s incredible Moroccan independent film About Some Meaningless Events for its 50th anniversary!

Our Screenings page will feature not only all the info you might be looking for about our Lightstruck shows, but also any other shows Zena and/or I might be doing outside of our regular series. So if you’re interested in the shows we do, it’s a one-stop info page for that kind of stuff. Additionally, as things get confirmed, I add them to a calendar that then populates in the sidebar of every page on the site, so even some TBA shows we can’t announce just yet will be visible there if you want to save the date.

Beyond screenings, I recently wrote an elaborate essay of sorts on the making of Stan Brakhage’s film The Garden of Earthly Delights (1981). I was initially just writing a much simpler description of the process of the film’s creation to include in the Brakhage filmography hosted here, but it grew quickly out of control and I decided to make it its own page. Hope you enjoy it!