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Stylized, furious, and endlessly influential, FEMALE PRISONER SCORPION: #701 (1972) screens next Friday, May 15 🦂

The explosive first entry in the legendary series stars Meiko Kaji as Nami “Scorpion” Matsushima, a betrayed woman transformed into an icon of vengeance inside a brutal prison system. Blending surrealist imagery, pop-art compositions, and eruptions of violence, director Shunya Ito pushed the women-in-prison genre into something radically expressionistic and politically charged.

🎟️ $12 single | $18 double feature with MARTYRS (2008)🔪

Stylized, furious, and endlessly influential, FEMALE PRISONER SCORPION: #701 (1972) screens next Friday, May 15 🦂

The explosive first entry in the legendary series stars Meiko Kaji as Nami “Scorpion” Matsushima, a betrayed woman transformed into an icon of vengeance inside a brutal prison system. Blending surrealist imagery, pop-art compositions, and eruptions of violence, director Shunya Ito pushed the women-in-prison genre into something radically expressionistic and politically charged.

🎟️ $12 single | $18 double feature with MARTYRS (2008)🔪

Stylized, furious, and endlessly influential, FEMALE PRISONER SCORPION: #701 (1972) screens next Friday, May 15 🦂

The explosive first entry in the legendary series stars Meiko Kaji as Nami “Scorpion” Matsushima, a betrayed woman transformed into an icon of vengeance inside a brutal prison system. Blending surrealist imagery, pop-art compositions, and eruptions of violence, director Shunya Ito pushed the women-in-prison genre into something radically expressionistic and politically charged.

🎟️ $12 single | $18 double feature with MARTYRS (2008)🔪

Stylized, furious, and endlessly influential, FEMALE PRISONER SCORPION: #701 (1972) screens next Friday, May 15 🦂

The explosive first entry in the legendary series stars Meiko Kaji as Nami “Scorpion” Matsushima, a betrayed woman transformed into an icon of vengeance inside a brutal prison system. Blending surrealist imagery, pop-art compositions, and eruptions of violence, director Shunya Ito pushed the women-in-prison genre into something radically expressionistic and politically charged.

🎟️ $12 single | $18 double feature with MARTYRS (2008)🔪

Stylized, furious, and endlessly influential, FEMALE PRISONER SCORPION: #701 (1972) screens next Friday, May 15 🦂

The explosive first entry in the legendary series stars Meiko Kaji as Nami “Scorpion” Matsushima, a betrayed woman transformed into an icon of vengeance inside a brutal prison system. Blending surrealist imagery, pop-art compositions, and eruptions of violence, director Shunya Ito pushed the women-in-prison genre into something radically expressionistic and politically charged.

🎟️ $12 single | $18 double feature with MARTYRS (2008)🔪

This weekend DEAD LOVER, Canadian writer-director-star Grace Glowicki’s genre-defying, expressionistic romantic horror comedy, comes to @facetschicago! A deranged mixture of experimental DIY black box theatre, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Monty Python, and Kenneth Anger that you won’t want to miss!

Featuring a cast of just four actors playing multiple characters, Glowicki stars as a stinky, ostracized Gravedigger whose longing for love is finally answered when she meets the man of her dreams (co-writer Ben Petrie), only for their love affair to end suddenly when he dies at sea, leaving behind only a single finger. Heartbroken and determined to bring back her dead lover, the Gravedigger begins a series of harebrained scientific experiments involving lizards and a fresh corpse.

A silly and yet deeply melancholic examination of loneliness, desire, obsession, and our inability to let go of the ones we love, DEAD LOVER is unlike anything else you’ll see this year. Shot on luminous 16mm by cinematographer Rhayne Vermette (Levers), Glowicki’s film is another wonderfully idiosyncratic entry in Canada’s post-Guy Maddin indie film landscape.

Opening screening on Saturday, May 9th will be accompanied by an introduction from Must-Watch Indies series programmer Marya E. Gates (aka me). On Saturday, May 16 the screening will be presented in glorious Stink-O-Vision with special scratch-and-sniff cards.

Tickets on sale at link in bio or at the box office.

This weekend DEAD LOVER, Canadian writer-director-star Grace Glowicki’s genre-defying, expressionistic romantic horror comedy, comes to @facetschicago! A deranged mixture of experimental DIY black box theatre, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Monty Python, and Kenneth Anger that you won’t want to miss!

Featuring a cast of just four actors playing multiple characters, Glowicki stars as a stinky, ostracized Gravedigger whose longing for love is finally answered when she meets the man of her dreams (co-writer Ben Petrie), only for their love affair to end suddenly when he dies at sea, leaving behind only a single finger. Heartbroken and determined to bring back her dead lover, the Gravedigger begins a series of harebrained scientific experiments involving lizards and a fresh corpse.

A silly and yet deeply melancholic examination of loneliness, desire, obsession, and our inability to let go of the ones we love, DEAD LOVER is unlike anything else you’ll see this year. Shot on luminous 16mm by cinematographer Rhayne Vermette (Levers), Glowicki’s film is another wonderfully idiosyncratic entry in Canada’s post-Guy Maddin indie film landscape.

Opening screening on Saturday, May 9th will be accompanied by an introduction from Must-Watch Indies series programmer Marya E. Gates (aka me). On Saturday, May 16 the screening will be presented in glorious Stink-O-Vision with special scratch-and-sniff cards.

Tickets on sale at link in bio or at the box office.

This weekend DEAD LOVER, Canadian writer-director-star Grace Glowicki’s genre-defying, expressionistic romantic horror comedy, comes to @facetschicago! A deranged mixture of experimental DIY black box theatre, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Monty Python, and Kenneth Anger that you won’t want to miss!

Featuring a cast of just four actors playing multiple characters, Glowicki stars as a stinky, ostracized Gravedigger whose longing for love is finally answered when she meets the man of her dreams (co-writer Ben Petrie), only for their love affair to end suddenly when he dies at sea, leaving behind only a single finger. Heartbroken and determined to bring back her dead lover, the Gravedigger begins a series of harebrained scientific experiments involving lizards and a fresh corpse.

A silly and yet deeply melancholic examination of loneliness, desire, obsession, and our inability to let go of the ones we love, DEAD LOVER is unlike anything else you’ll see this year. Shot on luminous 16mm by cinematographer Rhayne Vermette (Levers), Glowicki’s film is another wonderfully idiosyncratic entry in Canada’s post-Guy Maddin indie film landscape.

Opening screening on Saturday, May 9th will be accompanied by an introduction from Must-Watch Indies series programmer Marya E. Gates (aka me). On Saturday, May 16 the screening will be presented in glorious Stink-O-Vision with special scratch-and-sniff cards.

Tickets on sale at link in bio or at the box office.

Join us Thursday, June 4th for a special screening of the latest film from Michael Glover Smith, HEKLA!

Set over one chaotic day in Chicago, HEKLA is a funny and heartfelt comedy/drama about the emotional cost of pursuing a creative life. Stay after the film for a Q&A with @whitecitycinema, lead actress/co-writer @elizabethstam, and @sandro_film, moderated by Indie Outlook’s @mattfagerholm. 🎟🎟🎟 🔗🔝

This Friday, May 8th, Optical Noise presents a retrospective of Richard Kern 💥

Pulling from the lineage of Andy Warhol and John Waters as much as punk and No Wave, Kern’s films (1985–1993) go straight for the jugular - tearing into power, sex, politics, and the myth of the American family. Featuring collaborations with artists like Sonic Youth, David Wojnarowicz, and Lydia Lunch, this is underground cinema at its most volatile.

40 years later, Kern’s work still feels equally provocative and unsettling – probably because America has only become that much more conservative and reactionary. 🎟🎟🎟 🔗🔝

This Friday, May 8th, Optical Noise presents a retrospective of Richard Kern 💥

Pulling from the lineage of Andy Warhol and John Waters as much as punk and No Wave, Kern’s films (1985–1993) go straight for the jugular - tearing into power, sex, politics, and the myth of the American family. Featuring collaborations with artists like Sonic Youth, David Wojnarowicz, and Lydia Lunch, this is underground cinema at its most volatile.

40 years later, Kern’s work still feels equally provocative and unsettling – probably because America has only become that much more conservative and reactionary. 🎟🎟🎟 🔗🔝

What are you waiting for? RATATOUILLE (2007) is screening Sunday, May 17! 🐀🥖 Join Remi, a little rat with a big zest for life, as he sneaks into a fancy French restaurant and does whatever he can to become a successful chef.

This is part of our FAMILY SUNDAYS series, a day dedicated to cinema that is fun for the whole family. Join us after the screening for our animation lab, where kids and families can create their own mini stop-motion films using food. 🍦🍝

🎟🎟🎟 and more info 🔗🔝

Film Trivia is back this Saturday, May 9th at 4pm and the categories are 🔥

Brush up on your favorite (and least favorite) biopics, dive into the cinematic universe of Charli XCX, test your memory with co-star connections (can you name another film two actors shared the screen in?), and decode the chaos of “Guess the Movie from the Letterboxd review.”

RSVP in 🔝🔗

MUST-WATCH INDIES is back at @facetschicago this weekend!!

I’m particularly excited to bring @allthatsleftofyoufilm back to the big screen for a few shows! This heartfelt generational epic deserves to be seen in a theater!!

ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU screens Saturday, May 9 at 1:30 PM (I will be doing an introduction), Sunday, May 10 at 5:30 PM, and Saturday, May 16 at 2:00 PM.

All screenings will include a special video message from writer-director-star @cheriendabis.

Tickets at link in bio or at the box office!

Video Village submissions are now open for our screening on July 24th at @facetschicago!

🔗 Submission link in bio!

🌟 We are over the moon to announce our Nothing Without a Company’s inaugural Not Without Company Film Festival featuring nine short films made across a decade of work co-produced with @bearcatproductions & @rishi.productions 🎬

🎉 This screening series marks the launch of NWaC’s official Film Department and tickets are now available for two screening times on Sunday May 31, at 10am or Noon. The festival will take at Facets Film Forum @facetschicago (1517 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614).

🌺 The Not Without Company Film Festival is rooted in experimentation and partnership. Whether you have been part of NWaC’s theatrical journey or are just discovering our work, we invite you to celebrate the next chapter with us, because storytelling is never created alone.

🎟️ As we expanded our commitment to storytelling through film be the first to grab your ticket and tell your friends! Link in bio or at NothingWithoutaCompany.org

Post Art by @mx.necromancer 🦄

🌟 We are over the moon to announce our Nothing Without a Company’s inaugural Not Without Company Film Festival featuring nine short films made across a decade of work co-produced with @bearcatproductions & @rishi.productions 🎬

🎉 This screening series marks the launch of NWaC’s official Film Department and tickets are now available for two screening times on Sunday May 31, at 10am or Noon. The festival will take at Facets Film Forum @facetschicago (1517 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614).

🌺 The Not Without Company Film Festival is rooted in experimentation and partnership. Whether you have been part of NWaC’s theatrical journey or are just discovering our work, we invite you to celebrate the next chapter with us, because storytelling is never created alone.

🎟️ As we expanded our commitment to storytelling through film be the first to grab your ticket and tell your friends! Link in bio or at NothingWithoutaCompany.org

Post Art by @mx.necromancer 🦄

Next Wednesday, May 6th, ESSENTIALS begins with a film that redefined what cinema could be...

Carl Theodor Dreyer's THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (1928) kicks off our newest monthly series with raw emotion, radical close-ups, and Renée Jeanne Falconetti’s unforgettable performance.

🎟️ Free for FACETS Members & $14 tickets available for the public

MUST-WATCH INDIES is back at @facetschicago May 9th!! Three more gems programmed by me! One night in Stink-O-Vision!!!

More about this month’s programming:

A deeply felt, decades-spanning epic, Palestinian-American auteur Cherien Dabis’ ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU is a bold act of cinematic defiance, historical reclamation, and a love letter to the communal, familial, and ancestral ties that bind. Showtimes: Saturday, May 9 - 1:30 PM, Sunday, May 10 - 5:30 PM, and Saturday, May 16 - 2:00 PM. All screenings will have a special pre-recorded introduction from @cheriendabis!

A superb romantic comedy with a BDSM twist, Harry Lighton’s directorial debut PILLION, starring Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård, offers a frank portrait of sexual coming-of-age and first love from a point of view rarely depicted on screen. Showtimes: Sunday, May 10 - 1:00 PM, Saturday, May 16 - 5:00 PM, Sunday, May 17 - 5:00 PM, and Thursday, May 21 - 6:30 PM

DEAD LOVER, Canadian writer-director-star Grace Glowicki’s genre-defying, expressionistic romantic horror comedy, is a deranged mixture of experimental DIY black box theatre, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Monty Python, and Kenneth Anger. Showtimes: Saturday, May 9 - 5:00 PM, Sunday, May 10 - 3:30 PM, Saturday, May 16- 7:30 PM – Presented in glorious Stink-O-Vision!, and Thursday, May 21- 9:00 PM

🎟️ Tickets and showtimes at link in profile 🍿

MUST-WATCH INDIES is back at @facetschicago May 9th!! Three more gems programmed by me! One night in Stink-O-Vision!!!

More about this month’s programming:

A deeply felt, decades-spanning epic, Palestinian-American auteur Cherien Dabis’ ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU is a bold act of cinematic defiance, historical reclamation, and a love letter to the communal, familial, and ancestral ties that bind. Showtimes: Saturday, May 9 - 1:30 PM, Sunday, May 10 - 5:30 PM, and Saturday, May 16 - 2:00 PM. All screenings will have a special pre-recorded introduction from @cheriendabis!

A superb romantic comedy with a BDSM twist, Harry Lighton’s directorial debut PILLION, starring Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård, offers a frank portrait of sexual coming-of-age and first love from a point of view rarely depicted on screen. Showtimes: Sunday, May 10 - 1:00 PM, Saturday, May 16 - 5:00 PM, Sunday, May 17 - 5:00 PM, and Thursday, May 21 - 6:30 PM

DEAD LOVER, Canadian writer-director-star Grace Glowicki’s genre-defying, expressionistic romantic horror comedy, is a deranged mixture of experimental DIY black box theatre, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Monty Python, and Kenneth Anger. Showtimes: Saturday, May 9 - 5:00 PM, Sunday, May 10 - 3:30 PM, Saturday, May 16- 7:30 PM – Presented in glorious Stink-O-Vision!, and Thursday, May 21- 9:00 PM

🎟️ Tickets and showtimes at link in profile 🍿

MUST-WATCH INDIES is back at @facetschicago May 9th!! Three more gems programmed by me! One night in Stink-O-Vision!!!

More about this month’s programming:

A deeply felt, decades-spanning epic, Palestinian-American auteur Cherien Dabis’ ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU is a bold act of cinematic defiance, historical reclamation, and a love letter to the communal, familial, and ancestral ties that bind. Showtimes: Saturday, May 9 - 1:30 PM, Sunday, May 10 - 5:30 PM, and Saturday, May 16 - 2:00 PM. All screenings will have a special pre-recorded introduction from @cheriendabis!

A superb romantic comedy with a BDSM twist, Harry Lighton’s directorial debut PILLION, starring Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård, offers a frank portrait of sexual coming-of-age and first love from a point of view rarely depicted on screen. Showtimes: Sunday, May 10 - 1:00 PM, Saturday, May 16 - 5:00 PM, Sunday, May 17 - 5:00 PM, and Thursday, May 21 - 6:30 PM

DEAD LOVER, Canadian writer-director-star Grace Glowicki’s genre-defying, expressionistic romantic horror comedy, is a deranged mixture of experimental DIY black box theatre, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Monty Python, and Kenneth Anger. Showtimes: Saturday, May 9 - 5:00 PM, Sunday, May 10 - 3:30 PM, Saturday, May 16- 7:30 PM – Presented in glorious Stink-O-Vision!, and Thursday, May 21- 9:00 PM

🎟️ Tickets and showtimes at link in profile 🍿

MUST-WATCH INDIES is back at @facetschicago May 9th!! Three more gems programmed by me! One night in Stink-O-Vision!!!

More about this month’s programming:

A deeply felt, decades-spanning epic, Palestinian-American auteur Cherien Dabis’ ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU is a bold act of cinematic defiance, historical reclamation, and a love letter to the communal, familial, and ancestral ties that bind. Showtimes: Saturday, May 9 - 1:30 PM, Sunday, May 10 - 5:30 PM, and Saturday, May 16 - 2:00 PM. All screenings will have a special pre-recorded introduction from @cheriendabis!

A superb romantic comedy with a BDSM twist, Harry Lighton’s directorial debut PILLION, starring Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård, offers a frank portrait of sexual coming-of-age and first love from a point of view rarely depicted on screen. Showtimes: Sunday, May 10 - 1:00 PM, Saturday, May 16 - 5:00 PM, Sunday, May 17 - 5:00 PM, and Thursday, May 21 - 6:30 PM

DEAD LOVER, Canadian writer-director-star Grace Glowicki’s genre-defying, expressionistic romantic horror comedy, is a deranged mixture of experimental DIY black box theatre, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Monty Python, and Kenneth Anger. Showtimes: Saturday, May 9 - 5:00 PM, Sunday, May 10 - 3:30 PM, Saturday, May 16- 7:30 PM – Presented in glorious Stink-O-Vision!, and Thursday, May 21- 9:00 PM

🎟️ Tickets and showtimes at link in profile 🍿

🐀Coming this May is a special screening of RATATOUILLE (2007), the Pixar classic that taught us anyone can cook. Follow our favorite rat, Remi, as he explores Paris and tries to become the best little chef. After the screening, there will be an animation lab for kids to experiment with techniques like storyboarding, clay animation, and motion experiments.

Screening is Sunday, May 17 at 2pm. 🎟🎟🎟in our 🔗🔝