Free screening but donations encouraged!

Elia Suleiman, Palestine, 1996, 88 min

After spending more than a decade in New York, Palestinian director Elia Suleiman returned to his homeland in 1992 to make his first feature film. Expectations of what he could do were high: he left the U.S. with an ITVS grant to develop his project and soon won a prize at Locarno for his script. With further backing from a French co-producer, Suleiman was able to complete his film just in time to win the award for best first feature at the 1996 Venice Film Festival.

Chronicle of a Disappearance is an extended meditation of the contemporary life of Palestinians in “the Holy Land.” Elders recount absurdly funny tales and jokes; Russian emigres talk about tourism’s ravaging of the country; tourists pontificate about Israeli politics; and a young Palestinian actress struggles to find an apartment, while Suleiman, himself a character, tries to figure out what kind of film he should make. Suleiman weaves these narratives together with extraordinary irony and grace.

Post-screening Q&A afterwards!

Kim Mirye, 2018, South Korea, 74 min

On August 30th, 1974,a time bomb set by the "Wolf" brigade of the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front destroyed the Tokyo Headquarters of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. "Fangs of the Earth" and "Scorpion" soon followed with more bombings. Unlike other leftist groups at the time that sought to seize the Japanese state to build socialism, the EAAJAF were explicitly opposed to the Japanese nation-state, understanding it as an imperialist power in East Asia and a junior partner to American imperialism.

Over 50 years have passed since the Mitsubishi bombing; some EAAJAF members have passed, others are still incarcerated, and some have been recently released. In the intervening years, a group of friends and family members stepped forward to support their incarcerated loved ones, answering questions about how to provide long-term prisoner support for people incarcerated by the state and condemned by society.

Guiding us through the memory-scape of the EAAJAF movement, this film reflects upon the power and violence of the state, posing questions about responsibility, complicity and solidarity for individual human beings living within the territories of imperial states.

Compelled by the energy of ordinary people,Kim Mirye's work has zoomed in on the experience of exclusion in everyday lives.Her films investigate and uncover historical roots of dehumanization, and on their relation to others and the world. What is it to resist in the heart of empire? 

TAKE BACK YOUR DATA: A hands-on anti-surveillance accountability workshop with Paraspace Books. FREE WORKSHOP!

In this workshop led by Paraspace Books (S Rodriguez and Sara Balabanlilar), participants will learn and implement protective measures against online data surveillance in a hands-on environment. We will discuss best practices for cybersecurity using ‘good, better, best methodologies and simplify what can be a daunting process for the casual netizen.

S and Sara will use their own cell phones and laptops as examples as participants set up a VPN, alternate email addresses, online storage systems, and phone numbers. In this workshop, Paraspace will map out ways of navigating different situations requiring users to give out their data in exchange for ‘real life’ and digital services. Bring your computer and phone!

Additional resources (print, USB, and cloud) will be provided at the event and after for those who are not able to attend.

BIOS

Sara Balabanlilar has been a publisher, bookseller, designer, and undercover gallerist. She is the co-founder of queer sci-fi bookshop Paraspace Books. She has spent almost ten years working in the book world, including internationally-focused, award-winning publishers Deep Vellum Publishing and Dalkey Archive Press, and is currently a Senior Sales Specialist at indie publisher Microcosm Publishing.

S Rodriguez is a Texas based interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator. Their practice is rooted in their unwavering belief toward liberation for all beings, and against oppression. S is the co-founder of Barbee Manshun, a curatorial project focused on democratizing the art gallery and showcasing historically marginalized artists, and of Paraspace Books, an award winning transient queer book shop and workshop project focused on non-canonical sci-fi and speculative futures. They have exhibited and performed at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Diverse Works, the Blaffer Art Museum, the Austin Public Library, the Houston Centerfor Contemporary Craft, Lawndale Arts Center, and more. S is a former Idea Fund Grant recipient, and Common Field Partner.

Underground Intimacy is a program showcasing two films, Shakedown and a_blurred_fluxx_00.avi, tracing the textures and contradictions spaces of Black queer nightlife, kinship, and becoming—examining how community forms and how visibility is negotiated.

Shakedown will play first with a_blurred_fluxx_00.avi proceeding afterwards and be sure to stay afterwards for an in-person Q&A with Osadolor Osawemwenze (director of a_blurred_fluxx_00.avi).

Shakedown

Leilah Weinraub, 2018, USA, 72 min

SHAKEDOWN is the story of Los Angeles’ black lesbian strip club scene and its genesis. Owned and operated by women, underground and illegal in nature, the club Shakedown is the darker, faster, younger iteration of this dance culture. The film is a window into this world. Shakedown emerged from a post-RIOTS, post-OJ, post-integration but still very racially divided Los Angeles. In this divided city Shakedown is an independent, all black and all female cash economy. SHAKEDOWN chronicles the explicit performances and personal relationships of the party’s dancers and organizers including Ronnie-Ron, Shakedown Productions’ creator and emcee; Mahogany, the legendary “mother” of the community; Egypt, their star performer; and Jazmine, the “Queen” of Shakedown.

a_blurred_fluxx_00.avi (Director’s cut)

Osadolor Osawemwenze, 2024, USA, 37 min

Across Dallas, the Bay Area, and New York City, eleven Blackqueer folks engage in layered conversations and candid everyday moments of joy, melancholy, introspection, euphoria, loneliness, and community-in-active-formation. Their complex minds revel in the journey of becoming Blackqueer and exploring their endless coming of age. As an experimental documentary, a_blurred_fluxx_00.avi delves deep into the nuance of today's Blackqueer youth. This dynamic and non-linear supercut provides a carefully crafted audiovisual space for the multiplicity of Blackqueer self-expressions. With a distinct yet nostalgic direction, editing style, and sound design embedded in low-resolution, a_blurred_fluxx_00.avi is a refreshing, necessary, and expansive film beyond time.

ARTIST BIO

Osadolor Osawemwenze is a New York-based director, visual maker, creative researcher, and sound designer born and raised in Dallas, Texas. As a Nigerian American, moments of discovery, reflection, and awareness of his positioning in this world influence their nostalgic Lo-Fi and D-I-Y videos and experimental sonic design. Through audiovisual works, Osadolor creates space to wonder/wander in abstraction, expansion, and fleeting clarity, finding the most inspiration in the multiplicity of herself that is not so clearly defined or categorizable. He recently graduated from Stanford University with an academic focus on the Black Diaspora, pop culture, Blackqueerness, media, art, and aesthetics. Osadolor's latest experimental documentary, a_blurred_fluxx_00.avi, which delves into the nuances of today's Blackqueer youth, was a finalist for Best Documentary (International Short Film) at the 2024 London Breeze Film Festival and has since been screened in various film festivals, theaters, and spaces. In their globally charting podcast, 'a coming of age, but irl,' Osadolor blurs introspection and conversation through uniquely crafted sonic experiences.

Live in-person post-screening Q&A with director Arin Spence. $5 admission.

Arin Spence, 2025, USA, 56 min

Andy's bogus job search comes to an end when they accept a mysterious position giving funerals to roadkill.

Free admission but donations strongly encouraged!

Noname Book Club DFW reads black fiction and nonfiction throughout the year, sends books to incarcerated folks, and builds community around reading and literacy. Join the club with a special free screening of "Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest" in conjunction with a live reading of Hanif Abdurraqib's Go head in the Rain: Notes on a Tribe Called Quest

Michael Rapaport, 2011, USA, 97 mins

A Tribe Called Quest has been one of the most commercial successful and artistically significant musical groups in recent history. The band’s sudden break-up in 1998 shocked the industry and saddened the scores of fans, whose appetite for the group’s innovative musical stylings never seem to diminish. This insightful film, directed by Michael Rapaport, takes viewers on a behind-the-scenes journey - chronicling the group's rise to fame and revealing the stories behind the tensions which erupted in the years to come.

Tu Y/Ojo POV2 is the second episode of a series of video works directed and produced by adO/Aptive. The project Tu Y/Ojo ("You and I/Eye") confronts the viewer with their relationship to technologies of image creation and proposes an open and collective way to produce artworks in public space. For each POV (point of view) adO/Aptive calls local people, performers and artists to participate in scripting, acting as well as filming the work. 

Tu Y/Ojo was filmed in March 2025 in Klyde Warren Park in Dallas. 

Performed and filmed by Benjamin Adams, Sofia Alejandro, Lyzette Amador, Arfa, Alex Curington, Aliyah Cydonia, SooMi Han, Savion Perr, Daniel H. Pineda, Francisco Santillan & Janina Weißengruber. Produced & directed by adO/Aptive (Daniel H. Pineda & Janina Weißengruber). Cut & subtitles by Daniel H. Pineda. With a song by Savion Perr.*

Program order:

1. Line of Sight, 2024 by Kevin Daryl Ferdinandus

2. gates of hydra, 2022 by Philipp Pess

3. Tu Y/Ojo POV2  2025 by adO/Aptive PREMIERE& post-screening Q&A

4. Tu Y/Ojo POV1  2025 by adO/Aptive 

Afterparty with DJ Sets by @nosocial__, @shoggoth_11, @___dissed & @jan.w.e.i.

DM @adoaptive or @spacydtx on IG for afterparty details starting at 10pm!

FREE SCREENING!

Join SERUN Foundation and other affiliated groups including the Stop Cop City Dallas Coalition for a screening of the PBS FRONTLINE 1989 documentary, The Dallas Drug War, followed by a community discussion. Holiday beverages and snacks will be served. Bring a toy to donate to our gift drive for children who currently have loved ones incarcerated or in ICE detention.

PBS, 1989, USA, 56 mins

Frontline correspondent Bob Ray Sanders profiles the struggle of one neighborhood in Dallas, Texas, to combat the drugs and violence that threaten the lives of its citizens and the future of the community.

Free Screening!

Rita Baghdadi, 2022, Lebanon/US/UK, 80 min

Sirens intimately chronicles the lives and music of Slave to Sirens, a young all-female metal band whose burgeoning fame is set against the backdrop of the Lebanese revolution. Its members wrestle with friendship, sexuality, and destruction as their music serves as a refuge to Beirut’s youth culture. The complicated relationship and subsequent tense fallout of founders Lilas Mayassi and Shery Bechara threatens the very fabric of the band, but an even greater looming threat is Lebanon’s criminalization of homosexuality, and the devastating effects of the country’s political corruption. Yet despite their obvious challenges, the members of Slave to Sirens persist in trying to create a revolution of their own: living their truth.

Robert Fulton, various years, USA, 77 mins (total program)

Spacy is proud to present “Universe Synergy: Select Films by Robert Fulton” which includes four recently restored high definition digital master shorts from aerial cinematographer & experimental filmmaker Robert Fulton. Fulton approached filmmaking as an act of perception rather than representation. His works translate the precision of physical practice, the rhythms of sound, and the immateriality of light into a cinema of heightened awareness.

The four films presented are:

• Kata

• Chant

• Inca Light

• Reality’s Invisible

Recommended if You Like: Claudio Caldini, ethnographic documenting, aerial footage of nature landscapes, experimental cinema

Isiah Medina, 2025, Canada, 84 min

As he mulls over the budget for his new film, director-gangster Clem sends his artist cronies after an old comrade rumoured to be a leaker.

Devin Shears, 2024, Canada, 74 mins

“Told almost entirely without dialogue, this meditative character study follows Benjamin Turnbull as Harvey, a straight, fat man who discovers an opportunity to build new confidence in himself and his body when he learns about the chub subculture in the LGBTQ community and decides to submit a photograph of himself to a magazine's "Cherub of the Month" contest. “ — Nickel Festival

Screening includes:

• Magueyes - Rubén Gámez, 1962, Mexico, 9 min

• Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of the Cajun and Creole Cooking of Louisiana - Les Blank, Maureen Gosling, 1990, USA, 31 min

Spices move through trade, theft, and travel. Spiciness also catalyzes change on both culinary and cultural levels, and can represent moments/acts of resistance and the individuals who rise to occasions calling for liberation. Join Cookbook Lookbook for spicy installation, a double-feature screening of Magueyes (directed by Ruben Gámez) and Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of Cajun and Creole Cooking (directed by Les Blank), followed by casual tableside conversation.

CookBook LookBook is an artist collective that explores storytelling through food. We organize community events and installations across the U.S. with a focus on SPICE this year. In 2023, we were supported by a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. In 2025, our inaugural publication was acquired by the Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Melisa Gerecci will attend, along with multimedia offerings from this year's cohort. $8 screening includes popcorn with SPICE bar! 

• Agenda:

  • 6-6:15pm - Explore the installation

  • 6:15pm - Screening starts

  • 7pm - After-screening conversation and multi-media exploration around the table  

Los Magueyes is a Mexican experimental film without humans: agaves are the only protagonists of a cruel and ruthless battle. In this short film, war dialogues with the power of cinematographic representation, and landscape is far more than a passive backdrop.

Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of the Cajun and Creole Cooking of Louisiana is a mouth-watering exploration of the cooking and other enthusiasms of French-speaking Louisiana. Features tangy music, and food by Marc Savoy, Paul Prudhomme, and other greats.

Special 10th anniversary screening!

Isiah Medina, 2015, Canada, 65 min

When one is unable to pay the bills, the electricity is cut. Once one can pay again, the digital appliances flash 88:88. While philosophical systems begin with the concept of nothing as a starting point for thinking, Isiah Medina’s feature debut uses ​“88:88” as a marker of the nothing (no thing) of poverty and the possibility of counting life anew. Medina’s film cuts together instances in the lives of friends and their experiences in love, science, art, and politics in order to see those lives outside of narrative, and to show that thinking is always both possible and necessary. Praised by philosophers, filmmakers, artists, mathematicians, and audiences around the world, 88:88 celebrates its 10th anniversary this year.

FREE SCREENING!

In collaboration with Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Visual AIDS Day With(out) Art 2025 is a free screening of a new video program titled "Meet Us Where We're At". This program features six new videos from international artists that highlight the experiences of people who use drugs and the intersection of harm reduction with the ongoing HIV crisis.

The program features new work by Camilo Tapia Flores, Camila Flores-Fernández, Hoàng Thái Anh, Kenneth Idongesit Usoro, José Luis Cortés, and Gustavo Vinagre & Vinicius Couto.

A day of mourning and action that uses art to respond to the ongoing HIV and AIDS crisis, Day With(out) Art encourages museums, universities, museums, and art institutions to present related programming on or around December 1, World AIDS Day. Because AIDS is not over!

Jocelyne Saab, 1985, France / Lebanon, 102 mins

Set amid the Lebanese Civil War, Saab’s fiction feature debut centers the unlikely bond formed between Karim, a forty-something painter, and Samar, a teenager who grew up in war-torn Beirut.

Madeline Mondell, 2025, USA, 25 min

A shot Run-Gun/ Gorilla Style film that’s a personal look into East Dallas from a born and raised East Dallas local artist with NO CAR. The first $5FLE$H Production. $20 admission ticket!

Schedule/Agenda 

• 1st Screening 7pm-8:30 On Loop

  • Cross talk and casual viewing encouraged 

  • 30 minute intermission 

• 2nd Screening 9-930

  • No cross talk, full viewing encouraged 

  • Q&A With Directors Madeline Mondell and Fauna Laurel 

• Live Set from Scarletien 10:15pm

FREE SCREENING!

Gillo Pontecorvo, 1979, Italy/Spain, 101 mins

Spain, 1973. Dictator Francisco Franco has ruled the country since 1939 with an iron fist; but he is now a very old and sick man. The future of the weakened regime is in danger. Admiral Carrero Blanco is his natural successor. The Basque terrorist gang ETA decides that he must die to prevent the dictatorship from continuing.

Monika Treut, 1988, West Germany, 84 mins

“An unusual search for romantic love”

Dorothee Müller (Ina Blum) is a German journalist researching an article about the nature of romantic love—something she desperately needs, given her dysfunctional relationships with former lover Heinz (Gad Klein) and brother Bruno (Marcelo Uriona). In the Oz of San Francisco, Dorothee finds exactly what she was looking for—and then some—thanks to the help of lesbian strip show barker Susie Sexpert (Susie Bright), drag king Ramona (Shelly Mars), and her mysteriously kinky neighbors (Cleo Dubois and Fakir Musafar). When Dorothy surfaces like a dazzled tourist on the wilder shores of the city’s thriving lesbian community, she has discovered her true sexuality…and left some illusions behind.

Part German Expressionist satire, part sapphic travelogue, Monika Treut’s Virgin Machine (Die Jungfrauenmaschine) is a seminal—and fiercely controversial—work of lesbian cinema.

Akihiro Suzuki, 1999, Japan, 60 mins

Mostly seen on the gay pink circuit and recently restored by its director to its rightful place in the Japanese arthouse canon, Akihiro Suzuki's debut takes the death of a young gay porn performer named Takachi as its starting point. Looking for an Angel follows Shinpei and Reiko as they process their friend’s disappearance, their memories coalescing into a bold exploration of grief set against the backdrop of a nostalgic, blue-hued city shot in a variety of filmic formats. As the viewer begins to piece together Takachi’s story, laden with desire for another boy named Sorao, between the cities of Tokyo and Kochi (“where the boys look like angels”), a powerful free-associative beauty emerges from a unique work described by Suzuki himself as “neither straight, gay, queer, bisexual, asexual or pornographic, but [rather] anti-heterosexist” — a film completely free of dogma and convention.

Monika Treut & Elfi Mikesch, 1985, West Germany, 86 mins

“A ticket to a masochistic wonderland…”

Wanda (Mechthild Großmann) is a dominatrix who runs an S/M performance space in Hamburg where she stages elaborate sexual rituals for a discerning audience. Cruelty is her profession, but constructing traps for her lovers—including the lovelorn Gregor (Udo Kier), the naive and innocent Justine (Sheila McLaughlin), and the jaded Caren (Carola Regnier)—is her specialty. All know the rules of the game, but not all are willing to play their roles—but the show must go on… 

Inspired by the writings of the Baron Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Monika Treut and Elfi Mikesch’s Seduction: The Cruel Woman (Verführung: Die grausame Frau) is a coolly sensual tribute to masochism and obsession in all of its forms, and a seminal work of lesbian cinema.

“Sex may just be a passing fad. The age of tenderness is over. What is being presented: the world of sadomasochistic symbols, the rhythm of suffering, the pleasure of torment.”
- Treut/Mikesch

“This is S/M by Avedon, outfits by Dior.” - Film Comment

Akihiro Suzuki, 1999, Japan, 60 mins

Mostly seen on the gay pink circuit and recently restored by its director to its rightful place in the Japanese arthouse canon, Akihiro Suzuki's debut takes the death of a young gay porn performer named Takachi as its starting point. Looking for an Angel follows Shinpei and Reiko as they process their friend’s disappearance, their memories coalescing into a bold exploration of grief set against the backdrop of a nostalgic, blue-hued city shot in a variety of filmic formats. As the viewer begins to piece together Takachi’s story, laden with desire for another boy named Sorao, between the cities of Tokyo and Kochi (“where the boys look like angels”), a powerful free-associative beauty emerges from a unique work described by Suzuki himself as “neither straight, gay, queer, bisexual, asexual or pornographic, but [rather] anti-heterosexist” — a film completely free of dogma and convention.