Re:Play Screening at Loudoun House
Loudoun House’s Re:Play exhibit, an installation of video works by contemporary artists using found media, will close on October 16. The final special event in the exhibit’s run, a co-production of the Lexington Art League and the Lexington Film League, will be a screening of Craig Baldwin’s avant-garde masterpiece “Mock Up on Mu.” This feature length film is a narrative collage assembled from elements as varied as vintage home movies, NASA footage, b-movie sci-fi trailers, industrial films, and World’s Fair promotional videos. Described by the New York Times as “by turns absorbing, confounding, exhausting and altogether stranger and more rib-ticklingly funny than most fiction,” the film takes on the “mostly true” story of California’s post-war subcultures with a special emphasis on the rise of Scientology. The screening starts at 7:30 P.M. on Thursday, October 13 and is free and open to the public. For more information, please visit www.lexingtonartleague.org.
Horror Classics at the Kentucky Theatre
The Kentucky Theatre’s monthlong celebration of Halloween continues! Remaining screenings include “Jaws” (October 13-14), “An American Werewolf in London” (October 20-21), “Night of the Living Dead” (October 27-28), and “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” (October 28-29). The first three films will be shown at 9:40 P.M. on Thursday and then at midnight on the following day. “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” will, as one would hope and expect, screen exclusively at midnight. For more information on the series, please visit www.kentuckytheater.com.
Community Cinema Screening at ArtsPlace
On Thursday, October 20, KET will host a special screening of “Deaf Jam” at ArtsPlace on North Mill Street. The one hour documentary tells the story of Aneta Brodski, one of the first deaf teenagers to participate in the U.S. National Poetry Slam. The film follows Brodski’s journey from her early involvement with an American Sign Language poetry group to her ultimate participation in spoken word on a national stage. The film, part of KET’s monthly Community Cinema Series, will begin at 6:30 P.M. and will be followed by a discussion. There will be a brief reception preceding the screening at 6:00 P.M. For more information on Community Cinema, please visit www.ket.org/communitycinema.
“Legendary” World Premiere at the Kentucky Theatre
On Tuesday, October 25, the Kentucky Theatre will premiere the feature length documentary “Legendary: When Baseball Came to the Bluegrass.” The film follows the Lexington Legends baseball team from their challenging inception in the late 1990’s to their status as a community fixture in the present day. The documentary is the fourth directorial effort by Kentucky filmmaker Michael Crisp, whose diverse earlier work has covered topics as serious as the 1958 Floyd County schoolbus disaster (“The Very Worst Thing”) and as lighthearted as the 1970’s Lexington children’s television program “Happy’s Hour” (“When Happy Met Froggie”). The screening will start at 7:30 P.M. and will be followed by a Q&A. Panelists will include Crisp, producing partner Scott Hall, recently retired Legends’ CEO Alan Stein, and other team representatives tbd. There will be an after party at Trust Lounge, the Main Street jazz bar that is owned by Legends’ General Manager Andy Shea. For more information on the film, you can visit Facebook and search for “Legendary: When Baseball Came to the Bluegrass.”
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