Saturday, November 1, 2025, 8:00 pm, classic-editor
AN EVENING WITH RODNEY ASCHER
Many of us came to know and love Rodney a couple decades back when he moved from Miami to San Francisco, and proceeded to impress larger and larger audiences with his sharp wit, his emotional range, and his outrageous cinematic talent. But it wasn’t long before his special fusion of genre savviness and contemporary pop-cult dread took him to Hollywood, which he similarly awed with even more masterful re-animations of classic narrative modes into the up-to-date stylizations of psychological horror seen in his Room 237, The Nightmare, and A Glitch in the Matrix. The time has finally come when the dark visionary’s woefully underseen art-films are readily available and appreciated in an incredibly rich program of the mature auteur‘s shorts…in fact perfect for our annual Halloween haunting. Here in the flesh, Mr. Ascher himself leads the evening’s deep dive over the edge of modern film angst, including his infamous The S from Hell, Visions of Terror, Primal Screen, The First Ventriloquist, a music video, a collaboration with Doris Wishman(!), and our own 16mm monster mash. Come in costume for Tricks AND Treats!! $11