Closing Day of Tamara Henderson: Seasons End: Panting Healer
REDCAT
12-6pm
FREE
Tamara Henderson’s writings, sculptures, 16mm films and paintings often refer to dreamscapes that the artist reconstructs in the exhibition space. She creates sculptures inspired by a process of notating ideas while under hypnosis, and her films are surrealist tales of passage, transformation and decay, in which objects and images are personified and imbued with the artist’s personal history and memories. Henderson collects objects from various sources, including found and recycled items and gifts gathered throughout her travels, and assembles them into large-scale installations.
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Das Bunker: History of Industrial
UNION
10pm - 3am
$5/$10
LOL LOL LOL. History of Industrial. Classic pre/post millennial industrial dance. Vintage and modern body and industrial dance. Rhythmic Noise & Industrial Techno. BONUS Area 4 hosted by 90s Goth Klub!
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Hammer Screening: How to Love a Watermelon Woman
Hammer Museum
11am - 3pm, on a loop
FREE
How to Love a Watermelon Woman is a film program that highlights the work of queer filmmaker Cheryl Dunye and celebrates the 20th anniversary of her seminal film The Watermelon Woman, 1996. Dunye is a 2016 recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim fellowship and was recently invited to join the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Today's film is a short: Ja’tovia Gary's Cakes Da Killa No Homo, 2013.
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Belladonna of Sadness
The Cinefamily
10:15pm (runs Christmas night through Wednesday)
$12
One of the great lost masterpieces of Japanese animation, never before officially released in the U.S., Belladonna of Sadness is a mad, swirling, psychedelic light-show of medieval tarot-card imagery with horned demons, haunted forests and La Belle Dame Sans Merci, equal parts J.R.R. Tolkien and gorgeous, explicit Gustav Klimt-influenced eroticism. The last film in the adult-themed Animerama trilogy produced by the godfather of Japanese anime & manga, Osamu Tezuka and directed by his long time collaborator Eiichi Yamamoto (Astro Boy and Kimba The White Lion), Belladonna unfolds as a series of spectacular still watercolor paintings that bleed and twist together. An innocent young woman, Jeanne (voiced by Aiko Nagayama) is violently raped by the local lord on her wedding night. To take revenge, she makes a pact with the Devil himself (voiced by Tatsuya Nakadai, from Akira Kurosawa’s Ran) who appears as an erotic sprite and transforms her into a black-robed vision of madness and desire.
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