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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 02/10/2026

MIDNIGHT - THE MUSICAL VAMPIRE (音樂殭屍) (Wilson Tong Wai-shing, 1992) A superpowered jiangshi (“hopping vampire”) wreaks havoc as a Taoist priest & his disciples try to stop it. They discover the only thing able to tame it is music. A more peculiar entry in the MR. VAMPIRE Extended Universe.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 02/10/2026

10p - THE CHINESE GHOSTBUSTER (鍾馗嫁妹) (Wu Ma, 1994) Ghost siblings venture into the realm of the living to search for a husband, in hopes of reincarnating. Finding a candidate in a gigolo, the pair mercilessly pursue him until he’s forced to seek help. Who you gonna call? Lam Ching-ying of course.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 02/10/2026

7:30 - YOU SORTA KNOW IT’S GONNA END (Kalil Haddad/Ryan Steel, 2025) Staples of the independent Canadian scene present the US premiere of their new shorts cycle, a tangle of nostalgia, masculine crisis & caustic youth. Featuring 10 shorts from both directors alongside their new collaboration.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 02/10/2026

FRI 10/2 5p - OCTOBER COUNTRY (Donal Mosher/Michael Palmieri, 2009) A vérité documentary following the Moshers, a working-class family in upstate NY, as they reconcile the hardships of daily life including unplanned pregnancy, sibling estrangement, poverty, emotional despondency & war trauma.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 01/10/2026

THU 10/1 New month, new movies! 10p - THE TOUCH OF HER FLESH (Michael Findlay, 1967) Weapons dealer Richard swings home from a business trip, only to catch his wife cheating. Richard adopts a new identity & begins a murderous rampage against “immoral” women,” with his ex wife as ultimate target.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 30/09/2026

10p - SWEET TRASH (John Hayes, 1970) Digging painfully into the Irish Catholic background the director & protagonist shared, Donovan’s flight from the mob takes him through the seediest corners of ‘70s New York, captured with vivid location shooting & culminating in a hallucinatory breakdown.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 30/09/2026

WE’RE BACK! 7:30p - FUNERAL SINIESTRO (Jairo Pinilla, 1977) Widely considered Colombia’s 1st horror movie, FUNERAL SINIESTRO is told from the POV of young Isabel, adopted stepdaughter of evil landowner Lucrecia, who tries grtting rid of Isabel in a variety of ways.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 27/09/2026

Spectacle is CLOSED til Wednesday for our annual steam cleaning See you soon!

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 25/09/2026

🚨LAST CHANCE!🚨 MIDNIGHT - CAUGHT BETWEEN WORLDS (Beny Tchaicovsky, 2001) A visual and sonic meditation on navigating the spaces between ordinary reality and metaphysical realms.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 25/09/2026

10p - ADVENTURES OF A SECRET KIDD: THE MASS HALLUCINATION OF KENN KWEDER (John Hutelmyer & Rob Nicolaides, 2015) Follows the life & career of Philly singer-songwriter/local legend Kweder. The film provides an intimate look at a rock star who never got that big break, but continues to live the dream.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 25/09/2026

7:30p - TIME WE KILLED (Jennifer Reeves, 2004) 16mm - $10 Robin is unable to leave her apartment following the Sept 11 attacks. Reeves condenses a posture of post-9/11 national psyche into an amnesiac individual, one who is trying to remember—yet willing to forget—how things might once have been.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 24/09/2026

THU 9/24 7:30p - THE ROTTEN APPLE (aka FIVE MINUTES TO LOVE) (John Hayes, 1963) This gloriously no-budget melodrama takes a familiar premise – innocents unknowingly walk into a den of vice – & crafts a powerful chamber piece that plays like Tennessee Williams dragged into a (literal) trash heap.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 23/09/2026

10p -THE UNRECOVERED (Roger Copeland, 2007) A girl who thinks the father that walked out on her family might be among the Ground Zero dead; a BioEvangelist who plans his own reckoning; & the Artist who monologues about the ways “death artists” put art on the defensive interweave stories.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 23/09/2026

WED 9/23 📼ONE NIGHT ONLY📼 7:30p - XFR Collective Presents: NUGGETS FROM THE MONDAY/WEDNESDAY/FRIDAY VIDEO CLUB The NYC-based non-profit a/v preservation group’s undertaken many projects, but none ambitious as these almost 900 tapes including works with Collaborative Projects, Inc. & Potato Wolf.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 22/09/2026

🚨SATURDAY🚨SATURDAY SATURDAY🚨 It’s the ANNUAL SPECTACLE STOOP SALE! 12-7p at 124 South 3rd St, Brooklyn - POSTERS - TAPES - RECORDS - EPHEMERA - TAROT READINGS - CLOTHING - GEAR AND MORE! priced to move!

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 22/09/2026

10p - MEGACITIES (Michael Glawogger, 1998) A man sewing film strips by hand, teen pickpockets, a street hustler caught in the middle of Times Square Giuliani-fication: MEGACITIES documents how human beings improvise to survive in the face of urban poverty.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 21/09/2026

10p - FUNERAL SINIESTRO (Jairo Pinilla, 1977) Widely considered Colombia’s 1st horror movie, FUNERAL SINIESTRO is told from the POV of young Isabel, adopted stepdaughter of evil landowner Lucrecia, who tries grtting rid of Isabel in a variety of ways.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 20/09/2026

7:30p - REHEARSAL BEHAVIOR: CINEDANCE ✨ON 16MM✨ Tracing a lineage of choreographic moving-image works from dance-for-film pioneers to experimental video. Featured artists inspire, reference, & collaborate, evidencing the cumulative effect of intergenerational exchange on this hybrid form’s lineage.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 20/09/2026

5p - WORKINGMAN’S DEATH (Michael Glawogger, 2005) Told in 5 chapters, following independent coal miners in Ukraine, Indonesian sulphur carriers near a volcano, Nigerian goat slaughterers, Pakistani ship breakers, & Chinese steelworkers as they carry out grueling duties.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 20/09/2026

SUN 9/20 3p - It’s back to school with BLOOD BRUNCH for some mystery horror

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 19/09/2026

MIDNIGHT - THE ROTTEN APPLE (aka FIVE MINUTES TO LOVE) (John Hayes, 1963) This gloriously no-budget melodrama takes a familiar premise – innocents unknowingly walking into a den of vice – and crafts a powerful chamber piece that plays like Tennessee Williams dragged into a (literal) trash heap.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 19/09/2026

SAT 9/19 5p - CIRCLING ZERO: WE SEE ABSENCE (Ken Jacobs, 2002) A verité documentary of the weeks following Sept 11; Jacobs himself described it as “not so much a work as a sampling of the ongoing actuality.” His camera captures the city as it incorporates this new reality into familiar routines.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 18/09/2026

MIDNIGHT - THE HANG-UP (John Hayes, 1969) After hard-nosed, queer-hating vice cop Walsh raids a brothel, he offers to help young sex worker Angel get back on her feet. It doesn’t take long before paternal instincts turn to lust, kicking off an affair that shatters his world of black/white morality.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 18/09/2026

7:30p - CYBERSCAPE: A COMPUTER ANIMATION VISION (Beny Tchaicovsky, 1997) A surreal historical chronicle of human evolution, moving from the primordial “Garden of Eden” to quantum mechanics. part of EEK ORK ORK VOL. II: A SHOWCASE OF COSMIC ANIMATION

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 18/09/2026

FRI 9/18 5p - THE UNRECOVERED (Roger Copeland, 2007) A girl who thinks the father that walked out might be among the Ground Zero dead; a BioEvangelist who plans his own reckoning; & the Artist who monologues about the ways “death artists” put art on the defensive.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 16/09/2026

Trailer for NEVER FORGET, ALWAYS REMEMBER: 9/11 25 YEARS LATER

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 16/09/2026

10p - NEVER FORGET, ALWAYS REMEMBER: 9/11, 25 YEARS LATER Program 1: REICHSTAG 9/11 (Ken Jacobs, 2016) DISINTEGRATION LOOP 1.1 (William Basinski, 2001)

"The Eternalism is a method of making images more real. ... Time and space are monumentalized."
-Ken Jacobs
"I fear cruelty, despise it, and it exists. It exists. It's often called patriotism."
-Ken Jacobs
With Reichstag 9/11, Jacobs applies his Eternalism method to heavily distorted witness-recorded footage of the September 11 attacks. Here, the metaphysical qualities of the method assume a mournful tone-as we watch the towers repeatedly collapse, we simultaneously watch them rebuild themselves. It is as if Jacobs still sees them and their occupants there, as if the space itself wore a scar. The title alludes to the burning of the Reichstag in 1933, suggesting a similar exploitation of a population's fear and anger by an imperial power seeking to expand its reach.
WARNING: This film contains sequences of intense strobing effects.
Special thanks to the Jacobs Family.

"All of a sudden the world had changed. It had taken on new meaning. As the days and months went by, people just cascaded into their own disintegration loops of fear, terror and anxiety. But also there was a rethinking going on about what had value. There was a lot of compassion in the public sphere amongst New Yorkers."
—William Basinski
August of 2001 found William Basinski, uninspired and unemployed, at a personal nadir. Rummaging through his old work for inspiration, he rediscovered some loops of slowed-down muzak he had recorded on tape in the 1980s. He began digitizing the recordings, intending to use them for a new piece. In the process of rerecording the loops, the ferric oxide coating the tapes began to flake away, the fidelity of the recordings decreasing with each loop. The Disintegration Loops are thus a record of Basinski's real-time capture of information disappearing into nothingness. Basinski completed his rerecording process on the morning of September 11, 2001, a few hours before he was scheduled to interview for a job at the World Trade Center.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 16/09/2026

WED 9/16 Glawoggermania continues! 7:30p - MEGACITIES (Michael Glawogger, 1998) A man sewing film strips by hand, teen pickpockets, a street hustler caught in the middle of Times Square Giuliani-fication: MEGACITIES documents how human beings improvise to survive in the face of urban poverty.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 15/09/2026

10p - THE HANG-UP (John Hayes, 1969) After hard-nosed, queer-hating vice cop Walsh raids a brothel, he offers to help young sex worker Angel get back on her feet. It doesn’t take long before paternal instincts turn to lust, kicking off an affair that shatters his world of black-&-white morality.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 15/09/2026

TUE 9/15 7:30p - WHORE’S GLORY (Michael Glawogger, 2011) His final completed film explores prostitution in 3 disparate semi-autonomous economic and religious zones: a brightly lit high-end brothel in Bangkok, a claustrophobic urban compound in Bangladesh, & a ghostly border-town motel in Mexico.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 14/09/2026

10p - THE ROTTEN APPLE (aka FIVE MINUTES TO LOVE) (John Hayes, 1963) This gloriously no-budget melodrama takes a familiar premise – innocents unknowingly walking into a den of vice – and crafts a powerful chamber piece that plays like Tennessee Williams dragged into a (literal) trash heap.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 14/09/2026

MON 9/14 7:30p - CIRCLING ZERO: WE SEE ABSENCE (Ken Jacobs, 2002) A verité doc of the weeks following September 11; Jacobs described it as “not so much a work as a sampling of the ongoing actuality.” Captures the the city as it steadfastly incorporates the new reality into familiar routines.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 13/09/2026

7p - THE UNRECOVERED (Roger Copeland, 2007) Q&A w/director EARLIER START TIME A girl who thinks the father that walked out might be among the Ground Zero dead; a BioEvangelist who plans his own reckoning; & the Artist who monologues about the ways “death artists” put art on the defensive.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 12/09/2026

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 12/09/2026

MIDNIGHT - SWEET TRASH (John Hayes, 1970) Digging painfully into the Irish Catholic background the director & protagonist shared, Donovan’s flight from the mob takes him through the seediest corners of ‘70s New York, captured with vivid location shooting & culminating in a hallucinatory breakdown.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 11/09/2026

FRI 9/11 7:00p - NEVER FORGET, ALWAYS REMEMBER: 9/11, 25 YEARS LATER Program 1: REICHSTAG 9/11 & DISINTEGRATION LOOP 1.1 We will be time-syncing our September 11, 2026 screening to play exactly 25 years later as the sun sets over Spectacle, blocks from where Basinski made the loops.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 07/09/2026

10p - CIRCLING ZERO: WE SEE ABSENCE (Ken Jacobs, 2002) A verité documentary of the few weeks following September 11; Jacobs himself described it as “not so much a work as a sampling of the ongoing actuality.” His camera captures the city as it incorporates this new reality into familiar routines.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 07/09/2026

MON 9/7 For Labor Day: 7:30p -WORKINGMAN’S DEATH (Michael Glawogger, 2005) Told in 5 chapters, following independent coal miners in Ukraine, Indonesian sulphur carriers near a volcano, Nigerian goat slaughterers, Pakistani ship breakers, & Chinese steelworkers as they carry out grueling duties.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 06/09/2026

SUN 9/6 3pm - this holiday weekend, it’s The People’s BLOOD BRUNCH

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 05/09/2026

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 05/09/2026

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 05/09/2026

SAT 9/5 7:30p - THE TIME WE KILLED (Jennifer Reeves, 2004) 🎞️16MM🎞️ Robin is an agoraphobic writer, unable to leave her apartment after 9/11. Condensing the post-9/11 national psyche into an amnesiac individual, trying to remember—yet also willing to forget—how things might once have been.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 05/09/2026

heads up, tomorrow SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 7:30PM, we have a 📽️special 16mm📽️ screening of THE TIME WE KILLED (Jennifer Reeves, 2004), a chiaroscuro autofiction that deserves to be seen on film. part of NEVER FORGET, ALWAYS REMEMBER: 9/11, 25 YEARS LATER

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 04/09/2026

10p - CYBERSCAPE: A COMPUTER ANIMATION VISION (Beny Tchaicovsky, 1997) A surreal historical chronicle of human evolution, moving from the primordial “Garden of Eden” to quantum mechanics.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 04/09/2026

7:30p - WHORE’S GLORY (Michael Glawogger, 2011) Glawogger’s final completed film explores prostitution in three disparate semi-autonomous economic and religious zones: a brightly lit high-end brothel in Bangkok, a claustrophobic urban compound in Bangladesh, & a ghostly border-town motel in Mexico.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 04/09/2026

FRI 9/4 5p - FUNERAL SINIESTRO (Jairo Pinilla, 1977) Widely considered Colombia’s 1st horror movie, FUNERAL SINIESTRO is told from the POV of young Isabel, adopted stepdaughter of evil landowner Lucrecia, who tries grtting rid of Isabel in a variety of ways.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 03/09/2026

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 02/09/2026

10p - MOTORAMA (Barry Shils, 1991) A 10 yr old obsessed with a collect-‘em-all roadside card game steals his deadbeat dad’s Mustang & bops across a surrealist landscape of rotting Americana, encountering increasingly deranged, violent characters on his way to the Chimera Gas Company headquarters.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 02/09/2026

TUE 9/2 7:30 - ADVENTURES OF A SECRET KIDD: THE MASS HALLUCINATION OF KENN KWEDER (John Hutelmyer & Rob Nicolaides, 2015) Follows the life & career of Philly singer-songwriter/local legend Kweder. Provides an intimate look at a rock star who never got that big break, but still lives the dream.

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Spectacle @spectacletheater.com · 01/09/2026

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