Unstreamable – Liquid Sky [In-Person Only]
$14 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 NWFF Members
About
(Slava Tsukerman, US, 1982, 112 min, in English)
** Unstreamable’s Jas Keimig and Chase Burns will introduce the opening night screening, June 2 at 8pm! **
Slava Tsukerman’s Liquid Sky is a nihilistic New Wave snapshot of New York City’s punk scene in the early ‘80s, featuring copious amounts of heroin, every imaginable neon color, and orgasm-hungry aliens…
New York has never looked trippier than in Liquid Sky.
The film centers around two cocaine-addicted models in Manhattan, Margaret and Jimmy, who are both played by the gender-bending Anne Carlisle. Jimmy is suave with slicked-back hair and sleek suits, while Margaret—a bisexual with a drug dealer girlfriend—is often decked out in vibrant colors with bold geometric shapes painted across her face. In fact, the whole movie is soaked in neon colors and moody lighting as it moves from bedroom to club dance floor, trippy like the inside of a kaleidoscope. When a UFO lands on the roof of Margaret and her girlfriend’s apartment building, the alien inside feeds on the orgasms of people Margaret bangs. The feeding then kills them in a process depicted with a filter resembling a psychedelic heat sensor. It’s wild.
Liquid Sky is one of the highest-grossing indie movies of its time and eventually had a lasting influence over early 2000s culture. In particular, the movie deeply informed the electroclash/Berliniamsburg scene in New York City at the turn of the millennium. You can see bits of Jimmy and Margaret in the way artists like Peaches, Chicks on Speed, and even Lady Gaga at the end of the decade styled themselves. Neon and Liquid Sky live on forever…
Synopsis courtesy of Jas Keimig/Unstreamable.
Rape, SA, pervasive drug use, slurs, and general sleaze. For more specific warnings, visit here.
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The majority of seats in our main cinema are 21″ wide from armrest to armrest; some seats are 19″ wide. We are working on creating the option of removable armrests!
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