Thursday May 2 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

We are pleased to welcome James June Schneider for a screening of The End Of The Light Age (aka 1,2,3 Whiteout) (2007) followed by Q&A.

Produced by Sphairos Productions (USA), La Huitième compagnie (France)
(2007, 16mm, color, 75 min, USA / France)
Starring Karine Adrover and Lou Castel

"This 'tone-poem' for darkness' mixes amazing scenes with diverse archive footage, an exceptional sci-fi sensibility and incredible soundscapes to form a blissfully imaginative retro-futuristic creation." - Leeds Intl. film festival, 2007

JS: "In any urban space you are confronted with this massive illumination all the time. With Super-Max prisoners they now keep a light on constantly. You have this long tradition of light being good, this powerful force that will bring clarity to the world. So I wanted to make a science fiction film that used this notion of light as this aggressive element with a scientist that’s created a machine that produces darkness. We had shot most of this before we had written a script. It was sound and image that I had picked up over the years that I fed into it. It makes for an interesting approach because I could go to Lou Castel and Karine Adrover and say "this is the world you are going to be inhabiting". This was also one of the last 16mm films edited on the east coast. The woman who cut the negative, she’d been cutting Spike Lee’s negatives up in New York and she said "this is the last one". I miss working on an editing table as you have this physical machine that you have to move and I think that energy enters into the film."