Last Friday, I had the pleasure of visiting a movie night that Brandon Downing curated at Dixon Place, a very cool theater/performance space on the Lower East Side (as well as meeting Brandon and Gary Sullivan who was nice enough to give me a couple of books, including the third issue of his comic Elsewhere which is a collection of his The New Life strips from Rain Taxi – really cool to read a bunch of work quickly that spans ten years). Moving-ish images on a screen was the one constant of the half dozen or so performances, but the exciting thing about the whole event was the evolving tensions between the agents (human, electronic, visual, aural, and rhetorical) assembled for each piece, and trying to follow how the disrupting or interacted with one another.  Julian Brolaski’s neo-benshi take on Bette Davis’s less-than-classic Another Man’s Poison was pretty amazing.

On Saturday, Brandon organized another movie night featuring exclusively Hollywood movies. I hope that one went as well as the first, so he can have more of these in the future.  If he does and you live in New York City, find a way to go to it.