Every year we show exclusively shot-on-videotape works throughout September for something we call: SOV SEPTEMBER. Join us for this year's month-long exploration into the depths of some of the most under-appreciated margins of filmmaking. Usually no-budget, usually put together by small crews of friends (and family members, and neighbors), sometimes over-the-top gross, sometimes transgressive, and almost always like no other film you've ever seen - this series is for cinematically adventurous travelers only!

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Booker Prize-longlisted novelist Chloe Aridjis (The Shadow of the Object) plays a fictionalized version of herself in Josh Appignanesi’s gritty, shot-on-video thriller, a dreamlike tale of desire heavily informed by the work of surrealist painter and writer Leonora Carrington. The character of Chloe is the co-curator of a new Carrington exhibit at the Tate Liverpool and becomes increasingly disillusioned about the scene she’s found herself in. She begins to notice a strange and mysterious man and embarks on something of a cat-and-mouse game of erotic fixation and psychological spiral. Wildly underseen and underappreciated, Female Human Animal rejects categorization and clarity for a more transgressive and true expression of our inner desires. (Mezzanine)

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dir. Josh Appignanesi, 2018
United States, digital projection
73 min

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THURSDAY, 9/10
7:30 DOORS
8:00 SCREENING

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$10 general admission.

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Basic & Microcinephile members, please log-in to your account at checkout for your discounts to apply. Don't have a membership? Get one here.

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Courtesy of Mezzanine, a screening series based in Los Angeles, devoted to the finest arthouse and independent films year-round. In the spring they put on Los Angeles Festival of Movies. Learn more at mezzaninefilm.org.

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