SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents
Part of our DARING DOCUMENTARIES & OPEN MIC SHORT NIGHT series! Wednesday, May 4, 2022
LOCATION: The Secret Movie Club Theater, 1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90021
*Please note entrance/parking is actually in the back of the building. Make a right on Wilson Street, then a right behind the building. We’re the first set of black steps after the big gate. We’ll have staff to help guide/park you.
8pm THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS(2003, dir by Lars Von Trier & Jorgen Leth, Kino Lorber, 90mns, digital presentation)
SPECIAL NOTE: All filmmakers interested in participating in the May 2022 Open Mic Short Night competition are asked to attend as each team will be picking an "obstruction" from a bowl (without being able to see what it is until it has been picked) at the end of the night. The Open Mic Short Night competition theme for May 2022 is "Obstructions".
IMPORTANT NOTES:
***ALL AUDIENCE are still required to show proof of vaccination at the door. PLEASE HAVE YOUR VIRTUAL OR PHYSICAL VACCINATION CARD READY BEFORE ENTERING THE THEATER. If you have an exemption, please have proof of a negative PCR level COVID test within 3 days of the screening.
***As of April 1, 2022, masks are now optional for indoor theater events if you're fully vaccinated. Anyone with a vaccination exemption can still attend as long as they have proof of a RT-PCR level negative Covid test ( within 72 hours of the event) but will be required to wear a mask. We will continue to update our protocols with the dynamic situation.
HOW TO:
1)PLEASE BRING YOUR VACCINATION CARD (digital cards accepted).
2)PRE-ORDER ANY CONCESSIONS OR MOVIE MERCHANDISE you would like from the additional Add-Ons. You can pick up all concessions & merchandise at our tables in our lobby prior to the screening.
We will be able to sell concessions & merchandise at the theater. But it will make everything much quicker and easier if you pre-order!
3)PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ANYONE EXHIBITING COVID OR FLU LIKE SYMPTOMS AT THE DOOR, WILL BE OFFERED COMPLIMENTARY TICKETS TO A FUTURE SHOW AND ASKED TO RETURN WHEN HEALTHY. So please, if you’re feeling sick, just write us at community@secretmovieclub.com and we’ll offer your complimentary tickets to a future screening when you’re healthy. Let’s all do our part to beat this thing so we can go back to the complete movie going experience!
Tonight we get a twofer when we screen Lars Von Trier's & Jorgen Leth's incredible 2003 documentary/short film collection The Five Obstructions.
One, it's an amazing, inspiring documentary on how being challenged with "obstructions" can actually spur you on to imaginative solutions and better creative work.
Two, our Open Mic Short Night May 2022 competition theme is "Obstructions". All filmmaking teams wanting to participate in the competition are asked to have 1 representative attend the evening and pick an "obstruction" (blindfolded so to speak) from a bowl at the end of the night.
Each filmmaking team will be required to make their short adhering to the "obstruction" they picked (an example obstruction might be "no dialogue", etc.).
For everyone else, just come and enjoy this fascinating documentary. Lars Von Trier challenged his film school professor and hero, Danish filmmaker Jorgen Leth, to remake Leth's inspiring 1960's short film "The Perfect Human" five times with five different obstructions.
Leth proves to be more clever than Von Trier anticipated in finding ways to remake the movie based on Trier's (any surprise) "diabolical" obstructions.
We get to see both the "making of" and the final products. Along the way, we also get to see a surprisingly moving and complex relationship between student and teacher, apprentice and master, that has evolved since the student has gone on to become even more well known than the master.
A must see movie for all moviemakers!
Best always,
Craig Hammill
35mm Secret Movie Club Founder.Programmer
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REFUNDS:
We can offer refunds up to 24 hours before showtime. Please request a refund through Eventbrite and we will process ASAP. After that, no refunds. Sorry.
However if something last minute comes up and you can’t make the screening, for whatever reason, just write us at: community@secretmovieclub.com and we’ll offer you complimentary tickets to a future screening.
HELPFUL SECRET MOVIE CLUB (1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, LA, CA 90021) THEATER PARKING TIPS:
We recommend that you park just outside our theater. Remember our theater is actually in a beautiful street art alleyway in the back of the 1917 Bay Street building. You get to our entrance by taking a right on Wilson, then a right behind the building. We are the first set of black steps on the right after the big gate.
We will have a staff member on duty to monitor all cars parked in the street-art alleyway at our entrance.
There is also a parking lot at the corner of Mateo and Violet Street, just 2 blocks from our theater, which costs $7 per car.
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