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A few more reservations have opened up for next Thursday night’s presentation of Agnès Varda’s The Gleaners and I, the third and final film in our collaborative series, SEEDS, with Active Cultures.

Moving beyond the botanical, this artist-led series explores life’s recurring cycles, the resilience of adaptation, the wonder of germination, and the quiet wisdom found in dormancy.

Selected by artist Clarissa Tossin, The Gleaners and I will be followed by a conversation with Clarissa reflecting on seeds toward the end of their cycle, food waste, and what industrial agriculture deems unfit for display.

The Gleaners and I
Agnes Varda
2000, 82m

Agnès Varda’s extraordinary late-career renaissance began with this wonderfully idiosyncratic, self-reflexive documentary in which the ever-curious French cinema icon explores the little-known world of modern-day gleaners: those living on the margins who survive by foraging for that which society throws away. Embracing the intimacy and freedom of digital filmmaking, Varda posits herself as a kind of gleaner of images and ideas, one whose generous, expansive vision makes room for ruminations on everything from aging to the birth of cinema to the beauty of heart-shaped potatoes. By turns playful, philosophical, and subtly political, The Gleaners and I is a warmly human reflection on the contradictions of our consumerist world from an artist who, like her subjects, finds unexpected richness where few think to look.

May 28, 2026. 7pm

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Joe DeNardo will be with us on Friday May 29 to introduce and answer questions following a special presentation of his and Paul Felten's Slow Machine.

Slow Machine
Joe DeNardo, Paul Felten
2020, 72m

Stephanie, a restless and vibrant actress, meets Gerard, an NYPD counter-terrorism specialist who’s an aficionado of experimental theater (and maybe out of his mind). Flirtation ensues, ends disastrously, and forces Stephanie to the ramshackle upstate home of musician Eleanor Friedberger, yet this supposed escape is infected by violent memories of her past life. Directed by Paul Felten and Joe DeNardo, and starring Stephanie Hayes, Chloë Sevigny, Scott Shepherd and Eleanor Friedberger, Slow Machine is a miniature epic of paranoia, espionage, subterfuge, music, and performance captured on lush and invigorating 16mm.

May 29, 2026. 7pm

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Mezzanine and Now Instant are honored to present three Los Angeles premiere restorations by the singular Portuguese husband-and-wife team António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro, a poet and a psychiatrist whose beautiful collaborations were a major influence on their contemporaries, including Manoel de Oliveira and their student Pedro Costa.

“Largely unknown outside Portugal, filmmakers António Reis (1927-1991) and Margarida Cordeiro (b. 1939) are legendary figures in their native country. Reis was a poet, a folklorist, and an ethnographer; Cordeiro, a psychiatrist by trade. Across the four films they made together, the duo forged a cinema of profound commitment, deeply rooted in the language, labors, myths, dreams, and material realities of a land and a people: namely, the peasants of Trás-os-Montes in Portugal’s remote Northeast. With one foot firmly anchored in the earth and the other in the cosmos, Reis and Cordeiro conjure up the deep, cyclical time of folk tradition. Their films are a collision of the forces of documentary and poetry, fact and fabulation, the ancient and the avant-garde, a vertigo of contradictions at once harmonious and sharply unreconciled. Employing simple and direct means, their work is all the more mystical for being so concrete. ‘Here and nowhere else. Here and anywhere else’—this is the paradoxical space-time of their films, in the words of Serge Daney.”

Trás-os-Montes
António Reis, Margarida Cordeiro
1976, 111m
Tuesday June 9, 2026. 7PM

Ana
António Reis, Margarida Cordeiro
1982, 115m
Wednesday June 10, 2026. 7PM

Rosa de Areia
António Reis, Margarida Cordeiro
1989, 88m
Thursday June 11, 2026. 7PM

Tickets and full program notes available at now-instant.la

This program is presented with special thanks to Ed McCarry of Cinema Guild

June 9-11, 2026. 7PM

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Mezzanine and Now Instant are honored to present three Los Angeles premiere restorations by the singular Portuguese husband-and-wife team António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro, a poet and a psychiatrist whose beautiful collaborations were a major influence on their contemporaries, including Manoel de Oliveira and their student Pedro Costa.

“Largely unknown outside Portugal, filmmakers António Reis (1927-1991) and Margarida Cordeiro (b. 1939) are legendary figures in their native country. Reis was a poet, a folklorist, and an ethnographer; Cordeiro, a psychiatrist by trade. Across the four films they made together, the duo forged a cinema of profound commitment, deeply rooted in the language, labors, myths, dreams, and material realities of a land and a people: namely, the peasants of Trás-os-Montes in Portugal’s remote Northeast. With one foot firmly anchored in the earth and the other in the cosmos, Reis and Cordeiro conjure up the deep, cyclical time of folk tradition. Their films are a collision of the forces of documentary and poetry, fact and fabulation, the ancient and the avant-garde, a vertigo of contradictions at once harmonious and sharply unreconciled. Employing simple and direct means, their work is all the more mystical for being so concrete. ‘Here and nowhere else. Here and anywhere else’—this is the paradoxical space-time of their films, in the words of Serge Daney.”

Trás-os-Montes
António Reis, Margarida Cordeiro
1976, 111m
Tuesday June 9, 2026. 7PM

Ana
António Reis, Margarida Cordeiro
1982, 115m
Wednesday June 10, 2026. 7PM

Rosa de Areia
António Reis, Margarida Cordeiro
1989, 88m
Thursday June 11, 2026. 7PM

Tickets and full program notes available at now-instant.la

This program is presented with special thanks to Ed McCarry of Cinema Guild

June 9-11, 2026. 7PM

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Good Modeling Picture!!

Nowhere Near
Miko Revereza, Wendy’s Subway
2026, 184 pp.
Softcover, 7.8 x 5.12 in.

Design by Manon Lutanie

Nowhere Near follows the author’s psychogeographic journey from Los Angeles to Pangasinan to Mexico City after his departure from the United States, where he lived undocumented for twenty-six years. Returning to the Philippines with his grandmother to search for lost land and to confront a “family curse,” Revereza surfaces legacies of Spanish colonialism and US imperialism as they bear out in its continued present. Through film stills, photographs, family archives, and a rapt, first-person narrative, Nowhere Near excavates the amnesias and silences that shape personal and historical memory in the exilic, diasporic impasse.

Miko Revereza's Nowhere Near is the 2021 Open Reading Period Book Prize winner, and was selected by guest judge John Keene.

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Foxy Moron tees from our night with @misc.pippa are available in-store and online, with proceeds going to the Pippa Garner Foundation.

Baby tee and unisex styles available in limited quantities.

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MAY

5.6
Good Modeling Picture!! with Molly Soda, Dahlia Bloomstone, Conner O'Malley, Trevor Shimizu, Daniela Rodriguez & Laurel Nakadate.

5.8
BLOW ME! with Michele O'Marah and Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer

5.9 & 5.10
Human Highway with MutMuz Gallery

5.28
The Gleaners & I with Active Cultures and Clarissa Tossin

5.29
Slow Machine with Joe Denardo

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We are here tonight! This is me!
I think I did it again.
Are you getting this?
It’s an honor to be drawn by you.
I think I might cry.
Do you ever get lonely in there?
I think you look really cute with your hair that short.
Makes me regret my haircut that I just got.

On Wednesday May 6, Molly Soda will join Now Instant to present her curated program GOOD MODELING PICTURE!! The night will include video works from Dahlia Bloomstone, Conner O’Malley, Laurel Nakadate, Daniela Rodriguez, Trevor Shimizu, and Soda herself.

Special thanks to @electronicartsintermix

Does That Hurt The Fish?
Dahlia Bloomstone
2025, 11m

Coreys
Conner O’Malley
2024, 12m

Club
Trevor Shimizu
2002–2012, 4m

Finding Lana
Daniela Rodriguez
2022, 14m

Meeee
Molly Soda
2025, 24m

Oops!
Laurel Nakadate
2000, 4m

May 6, 2026. 7pm

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“In a post-truth, algorithmic, AI slop-fueled new media landscape, when the once-veracity of visuals can no longer be relied upon, and our consciousness is over-saturated with images of violence, the use of Hind’s recorded voice cuts through our apathy and indifference. This young, plaintive voice pierces through the wash of archival violence that numbs even the most sympathetic audience. This numbness is not one of the heart, but rather one of the eyes. To have been online in the last few years is to have been the recipient of a coordinated barrage of visual overwhelm in the American media landscape.

This media ecosystem flattens the deaths of Palestinians, young and old, into numbers; faceless, nameless, story-less, data to populate a news article. The image of a broken body has simply become a product for consumption, something to be devoured by the merciless calculations of the algorithm that rules our collective attention and focus. Our media landscape survives on the escalation of ever more sensationalized images. We become continuously numb to such extremes, spurring ever more intensifications, a vicious cycle of image-based calculation.”

An excerpt from A Voice, Immortal, an essay written by artist Sadia Quddus for the occasion of tonight’s screening of The Voice of Hind Rajab.

Please visit now-instant.la to read the full text.

The Voice of Hind Rajab
Kaouther Ben Hania
2025, 89m

April 23, 2026. 7pm

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“In a post-truth, algorithmic, AI slop-fueled new media landscape, when the once-veracity of visuals can no longer be relied upon, and our consciousness is over-saturated with images of violence, the use of Hind’s recorded voice cuts through our apathy and indifference. This young, plaintive voice pierces through the wash of archival violence that numbs even the most sympathetic audience. This numbness is not one of the heart, but rather one of the eyes. To have been online in the last few years is to have been the recipient of a coordinated barrage of visual overwhelm in the American media landscape.

This media ecosystem flattens the deaths of Palestinians, young and old, into numbers; faceless, nameless, story-less, data to populate a news article. The image of a broken body has simply become a product for consumption, something to be devoured by the merciless calculations of the algorithm that rules our collective attention and focus. Our media landscape survives on the escalation of ever more sensationalized images. We become continuously numb to such extremes, spurring ever more intensifications, a vicious cycle of image-based calculation.”

An excerpt from A Voice, Immortal, an essay written by artist Sadia Quddus for the occasion of tonight’s screening of The Voice of Hind Rajab.

Please visit now-instant.la to read the full text.

The Voice of Hind Rajab
Kaouther Ben Hania
2025, 89m

April 23, 2026. 7pm

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On Friday April 24, Now Instant presents the Los Angeles Premiere of There’ll Likely Be Michael Jackson Vigils Throughout the Night.

The program will screen twice, at 7:00 PM and 8:45 PM, with an introduction from Marcus Batto before each screening.

There’ll Likely Be Michael Jackson Vigils Throughout the Night
Marcus Batto
2026, 75m

Composed from nearly one thousand found-footage videos drawn from the early internet, filmmaker Marcus Batto reconstructs the day of Michael Jackson’s passing, assembling a vast and fragmented portrait of the cultural aftershock. Equal parts elegy, musical, and excavation, the film approaches the death of the King of Pop through the eyes of strangers, critics, mourners, and bystanders.

April 24, 2026. 7:00 PM & 8:45 PM

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