ArcLight Presents Slamdance Cinema Club Dates For LA & Chicago August Through The End of 2016

ArcLight Presents Slamdance Cinema Club Dates For LA & Chicago August Through The End of 2016. 

This season’s upcoming screening dates that are listed below. To attend RSVP  here.

Hollywood – August 14th
Chicago – August 24th
Synopsis: After a late-in-life divorce, and compounded by bi-polar disorder, Mel finds herself in a psych ward. Her two daughters, Connie and Casey, facing varying problems of their own, would rather dodge the responsibility than care for her. Personal grievances, both petty and pointed, bubble to the surface.

Embers

Hollywood – August 7th

Chicago – August 25th

Synopsis: After a global neurological epidemic, those who remain search for meaning and connection in a world without memory. Five interwoven stories each explore a different facet of life without memory in a future that has no past.

Driftwood

Hollywood – September 18th
Chicago – September 28th 
Synopsis: A young woman washes ashore and is claimed by an older man in this intricately layered, dialogue-free exploration of familial roles, isolation, and captivity.

 
Before The Sun Explodes

Hollywood – September 19th
Chicago – September 29th 
Synopsis: Ken Cooper was a successful comedian in the 1990’s, but his single-guy jokes are irrelevant twenty years later. Now he’s an anxiety ridden, stay-at-home dad, clinging to a TV show dream that his breadwinner wife doesn’t believe in. Tonight could be a big break for Ken- a final shot at selling his pitch. But after an epic fight with his wife, Ken’s no longer welcome home. Their clash alters everything- on stage and off. Ken’s crushed, with nowhere to turn, until he meets Holly; a bright, charismatic comedienne, who lures him out of his shell and into her bizarre world. Their very real connection leads to a somewhat surreal, unforgettable and possibly unforgivable night.

 
Alvin’s Harmonious World Of Opposites

Hollywood – October 9th
Chicago – October 19th

 Synopsis: Alvin spends his days working as a Japanese translator, carefully creating the illusion of everyday normality. But then there is all that panda stuff, the good- looking girl downstairs that Alvin spies on but can’t summon the courage to approach and the mysterious substance that just keeps dripping from the ceiling. When his crazed and angry neighbor goes on a crusade to rid the block of units of a suspected flea infestation and with tensions in his life and home increasing – Alvin is forced into the ceiling to investigate. In order to bring back peace and harmony Alvin must face his captive emotions and accept the stains that permeate his sheltered existence.

 
The Million Dollar Duck

Hollywood – October 10th
Chicago – October 20th

Synopsis: MILLION DOLLAR DUCK dives into the wonderfully eccentric world of the Federal Duck Stamp Contest—the only juried art competition run by the U.S. government. The Duck Stamp is among the most successful conservation tools ever created, simultaneously spawning a uniquely American subculture brimming with talent, ego, art, controversy, big money, and migratory waterfowl.  Following six wildlife artists striving to win “the Olympics of wildlife art,” THE MILLION DOLLAR DUCK brings to life the high tension competition as one by one each is eliminated, leaving a winner whose life will be changed forever.

 
Myrtle Beach

Hollywood – November 13th
Chicago – November 23rd
Synopsis: Like a darker, less whimsical version of Vernon Florida, Myrtle Beach profiles a charismatic cast of local eccentrics, survivors, and lone wolves. Disarmingly quiet and visually arresting, these candid monologs and conversations gently coax disparate world views to the fore a fix a circumspect gaze on the uncharted flip side of life in resort towns.
Neptune

Hollywood –  November 14th
Chicago – November 24th
Synopsis: Raised in a church by the island’s insular priest, Hannah Newcombe has led a sheltered life. She plans on attending a prestigious boarding school on the mainland at the summer’s end, but the sudden disappearance of a classmate, swallowed by the sea, leads her to reexamine her ambitions. Hannah’s quiet obsession with the missing boy grows, leading to haunting dreams and visions. To pacify them, she vies to fill the missing boy’s role as a stern-man on his father’s lobster boat.  Now, torn between her commitment to the man who raised her and the man she hopes to save, Hannah is confronted with questions of her own identity for the first time

 
Slamdance Anarchy Shorts

Hollywood – December 11th
Chicago – December 21st 
Synopsis: Slamdance was born out of an oppositional, D.I.Y. gesture, and Anarchy is our attempt to recapture the early spirit of the festival. The casual cinephile might associate the Anarchy program with avant-garde, transgressive, or underground cinema. It is all of these things and none of them. We like to think of Anarchy as an anti-genre. It is a form of resistance to dominant cultural paradigms. The films value innovation of form, violation of taboo, and disdain for institutional modes of representation.

 
SMASH

Hollywood – December 12th
Chicago – December 22nd 
Synopsis: In a small town, tucked deep in rural Florida, a group of blue-collar folksgather to participate in a bi-annual wild event, Figure-8 School Bus Racing! Nineteen full-size busses pack a 3/8 mile figure-8 track and race twenty harrowing laps to crown a victor. Smash follows three drivers and the track promoter during a three-week push to prepare for race night.

Hope to see you all around the Hollywood ArcLight and ArcLight Chicago for our Cinema Club screening series!