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YBCA presents Until the Light Takes Us

We are plunged into the world of "black metal": an ideological movement/music genre comprised of metal musicians, murderers, church-burners, and suicide victims. The film examines black metal through the eyes of the sceneÕs leaders, who tried to change the world using music and symbolic acts of violence …

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YBCA presents Graphic Sexual Horror

A freaky peek behind the terrifying facade of Insex.com, the most notorious of bondage websites, exploring the dark mind of its artistic creator and asking hard questions about personal responsibility …

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YBCA presents Holy Girls And Headless Women: The Films Of Lucrecia Martel

Filmmaker Lucrecia Martel in person on Jul 14 & 15. A founding filmmaker in the 'New Argentine Cinema" movement, Lucrecia Martel has become a major figure in contemporary world cinema. With just three feature films, she has created a deeply complex and vivid aesthetic, using a kind of exquisite minimalism where images, sound and subtle gestures dominate over traditional dramatic narrative.

Jul 14 – La Ciénaga
Mecha is a middle-aged woman with several accident-prone teenagers, a husband who dyes his hair, and the tedious problem of sullen servants. Nothing that a few drinks canÕt cure. Like Luis Bu–uel before her, Martel offers an unapologetic peek into the world of the decadent bourgeoisie …

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Jul 15 – The Headless Woman
A bourgeois woman is driving alone on a dirt road, becomes distracted, and runs over something. In the days following this jarring incident, she is dazed and emotionally disconnected, and becomes obsessed with the possibility that she may have killed someone …

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Jul 23 – The Holy Girl
In a decrepit hotel where a medical convention is being held, two teenage girls adjust to their growing sexuality and religious passion. After an encounter with a physician, one of the girls decides that she is going to deliver him from sin …

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YBCA presents Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Jeanne Dielman is an uptight housewife who makes dish washing, veal breading, bathtub scrubbing and coffee making into an art. She keeps to a rigorous schedule, including regular afternoon prostituting to help fund this art, her domestic sanctuary for herself and her teenage son …

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YBCA presents Beyond ESPN: An Offbeat Look at the Sports Film

While sports in cinema goes back to Eadweard Muybridge's early studies of men and women in motion, there's a surprising dearth of in-depth writing about sports in the movies. Beyond ESPN: An Offbeat Look at the Sports Film counters this with a varied assortment of films that don't play by the rules when it comes defining athleticism or the cinema of sports.

Aug 6 – Rare Films from the Baseball Hall of Fame
Celebrate the national pastime with cinematic treasures from the National Baseball Hall of Fame that will entertain baseball fans and cinephiles alike …

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Aug 9 – Sunday In Hell
The best film ever made about professional cycling, this grueling documentary follows the 1976 Paris-Roubaix bike race …

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Aug 13 – Towards Mathilde
An intimate diary of the birth, formulation and performance of a radical new dance piece …

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Aug 16 – The French
Lore has it that the William Klein passed up an opportunity to film the Rolling Stones in Africa to shoot this movie about the 1981 French Open …

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Aug 20 – Agua
Disgraced as a doper, 34-year-old Goyo returns to the world of competitive swimming to mentor Chino …

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Aug 23 – MiDNiTES FOR MANiACS present Winning Isn't Everything: A Tribute to 1970s Sports Film Triple Feature
Showcasing 1970s sports films where winning-the-game was less important than the process-of-scoring …

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Aug 27 – Visions of Eight
A fantastic, lost documentary of the '72 Olympic Games in Munich, as captured by eight different major directors …

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Aug 30 – Football As Never Before
Using eight cameras, this little-seen film follows every move of the mercurial George Best, by far the most famous soccer player of his time …

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