AT THE EDGE OF A VAST DOMAIN...

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The story so far: Jacob Maker tends to his esoteric beekeeper grandfather's hive of "Mesopotamian bees" in Alamogordo, New Mexico in between shifts as a virtual weapons technician for NASA. He begins having prophetic visions that take him on a trip through time and teach him about the simultaneous past, present and future of mythology, astronomy, telecommunications, warfare, apiology, his own family and all the strange places and ways these seemingly unrelated histories intersect. David Blair's 1991 cult classic became the first movie broadcast over the internet in 1993, but the pioneering work of digital filmmaking that inaugurated the streaming age remains unlike anything else 35 years later.

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Wax, or The Discovery of Television Among The Bees will be screening from a rare VHS tape.

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dir. David Blair, 1991
United States, VHS projection
85 min, 1.33:1

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Friday, 3/27
7:30 DOORS
8:00 SCREENING
$12 general admission, $11 for Whammy! members

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50% of the total proceeds of this screening will go directly to T.A.P.E. - a Los Angeles based 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to facilitating support for analog media through free digitizing, education, hands-on training, equipment rentals and volunteer opportunities. Teach, archive, preserve, exhibit.

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Whammy! is located in the REAR unit of 2514 Sunset Blvd, entrance access is via Rampart Blvd.