Party: MOVIE NIGHT: Killer of Sheep
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Date: 19.10.2014 20:00
Address: 59 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, United States | show on the map »
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Come on down to the Rod & Gun for Movie Night! This week's installment is Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep (1977).
Stan works in drudgery at a slaughterhouse. His personal life is drab. Dissatisfaction and ennui keep him unresponsive to the needs of his adoring wife, and he must struggle against influences which would dishonor and endanger him and his family. KILLER of SHEEP is a gorgeous portrait of a quiet life, of family, rituals, childhood, oppression and resistance in 1970s Watts, Los Angeles, shot in black and white and featuring an expansive soundtrack surveying the history of African American music.
This was Burnett's first feature-length film, shot for his master's thesis. It was recognized as a national treasure and included among the first 50 films entered in the National Film Registry for its historical importance by the Library of Congress in 1990.
Invited: Kris Nolte, Derek Cooper, Jerie Choi, Naomi Frank, Christopher White, Kathleen Fletcher, Sophie Saint Thomas, Steve Sasso, Connor Donahue, Horatio Baltz, Rachel Meirs, Emma Fabiny Cohen, Jerron Paxton, Eli Smith, Ernesto Gomez, Emily Rubin, Bekkah Von Volfson, Emily Gallagher, Theletterj Boxer, Katie Vogel, Luka Douridas, Talia Keren-Zvi, Don Fierro, Hubert J. Jenkins, Seth Kessel, Erica Marie Mancini, jil c-r, Sarah M. Wonsever, Nick Glastonbury, Leslie Henkel Fierro, Feral Matt Foster, Tessa Hartley, Melanie Hoff, Rashad Brown, Luke Green, Erika Blair, Kofi Daniel Opam, Caroline Sinders, Alexandra Wagner, Anna Panza, Riley Duncan, Willy Gantrim, Dylan Gauthier, Jason Eisner, Ernie Vega, Mark Sonderskov, Wyndham Baird, Olof Bortz show more »
