DJ night in the Ready Room. An evening of booze, beats and bliss hosted by Mila Matveeva.
Not Ready! DJ nights throughout September
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Launch party for Princess Nokia’s new album ‘1992’.
Free shuttle to and from the show! Check www.knockdown.info for live updates.
Jordan Pike hosts a DJ night in the Ready Room bar with Macy Rodman and Image Man
The final installment of Horror Sundays with Billy Burgess’ Druid Underground!
Found Footage Assault Vol 4
A hardcore, one-hour mega-mash up hell-ride of absurd footage sourced from VHS tapes of homemade music videos, methenamine fueled biker rallys, twisted political propaganda, horrifying party videos and much much more! Get yourself a piece as American redneck culture is sliced open for all to see like a giant, horrifying cake.
Shorts Program
A break-neck barrage of rowdy short films celebrating the best in absurd, creative and ecstatic cinema both on and off today’s underground film radar. A spectacle unlike any other, Druid Underground champions subversive techniques that advance the language of cinema, challenge pre-conceived notions of underground art and simultaneously blow your mind out of your skull. Animation, experimental, performance art and MORE!!!
FREE RAFFLE ticket for first 100 ticket holders
DJ Drew Redmond and his guest of the week will be spinning wild ass bizarro rock 45s before and after the screenings!
Horror Sundays continues with Best of Druid Underground Film Festival Animation Showcase
International animated shorts culled from the screening archives of the Druid Underground Film Festival. The VERY BEST of over A DECADE of rowdy, subversive programming screened on tour across the USA and compiled here for the first time ever!
Bruce Bickford’s CAS’L (2015)
Shot over a 20 year span, CAS’L is Bruce Bickford’s first all-claymation short feature. Bickford talks about his bizarre, technical, horrifying stream-of-consciousness film in the following description: “Mercenaries and other obnoxious brutes are trying to muscle in on the CAS’L’ area. They’re looking for trouble and find it. Stray energies in the area morph them into grotesque bulbous heads. The conquistadors and barbarians of the castle are smoking the wrong brand of cigarettes that cause them to commit random violence, even against each other. Some little people and fairy folk defeat many of them.”
DJ Drew Redmond and his guest of the week will be spinning wild ass bizarro rock 45s before and after the screenings!
NEXT WEEK: the final week of Druid Underground’s film residency!
From 1968 to 2015, two weirdo horror films created and set in New York…. Toast our city’s infinite variety and wild spirit following Bushwig festival of drag. Films provided by Horror Boobs and Something Weird Video. Presented by Druid Underground Film Festival for the Horror Sundays series.
The Toxic Retards (2015)
Carl J Sukenick has been making horror movies in his NYC apartment for the last 30 years. As a filmmaker he uses the medium of horror as a means of therapy to navigate his mental illness. The Toxic Retards is the penultimate example of every idiosyncratic technique Sukenick has developed in his career. Groundbreaking, spellbinding and horrifying.
Confessions of a Psycho Cat (1968)
A wealthy, psychotic seductress invites three notorious tough-as-nails men (including actual boxing legend Jake La Motta) to her swanky trophy room saying she’ll give them each $100,000 “if you can stay alive in Manhattan for 24 hours!” Thus begins an epically sleazy play on The Most Dangerous Game. A true NYC horror oddity and the wildest murder scene ever shot in the middle of Central Park.
DJ Drew Redmond and his guest of the week will be spinning wild ass bizarro rock 45s before and after the screenings!
Ready Room rolls on with DJs 9pm – 2am!
Knockdown Center kicks off a month-long series of DJ nights in the Ready Room bar! We’re not ready for summer to end! Come get down with a killer line-up of acts every night in our bar!
with Druid Underground Film Festival Horror Sundays series:
Undertaker and His Pals (1966)
A macabre story of two motorcycle-riding, knife-wielding, shiv-shaving, eye-gouging, arm-twisting, chain-lashing, scalpel-flashing, acid-throwing, gun-shooting, bone-breaking, pathological nuts and their pal the undertaker.
Road of Death (1973)
Sleazy swingers, marauding motorheads, and so many continuity errors that to make a drinking game out of it would mean an almost certain death. This shot-in-Florida biker revenge epic starring Thora Birch’s porn star parents is “so cheap and sleazy and amazingly godawful that it’s a sick delight from beginning to end” – Luther Heggs, SWV
All films provided by Something Weird Video
Join us for a conversation on the intersection of poetry and visual art and a reading with contributors Ken Chen and Elaine Equi. Hosted by Paolo Javier and Fred Sasaki.
Ken Chen is the Executive Director of The Asian American Writers’ Workshop and the 2009 recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for his poetry collection Juvenilia. A founding contributor to Arts & Letters Daily, he is one of the founders of CultureStrike, a national organization seeking to bring artists into the migrant justice movement.
Elaine Equi is the author of many collections of poetry including, Voice-Over, which won the San Francisco State Poetry Award; Ripple Effect: New & Selected Poems, which was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Award and on the short list for The Griffin Poetry Prize; Click and Clone; and most recently, Sentences and Rain. Widely published and anthologized, her work has appeared in The Nation, Brooklyn Rail, Poetry, The New Yorker, and several editions of The Best American Poetry. She teaches at New York University and in the MFA program at The New School.
ABOUT THE HOSTS:
Paolo Javier is the author of four full-length collections of poetry, including Court of the Dragon (2015), which Publisher’s Weekly calls “a linguistic time machine.” A featured artist in MoMA PS1’s 2015 Greater NY Show, he has received grants from the Queens Council on the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts, and completed residencies at the Millay Colony, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the ACA Galleries. His recent collaboration with Listening Center (David Mason) appears as a limited edition book/cassette, Ur’lyeh/Aklopolis, published by Texte und Töne in fall of 2016.
Fred Sasaki is the art director for Poetry and gallery curator for Poetry Foundation. He is also a host of Homeroom’s School Night lecture series.
ABOUT THE CO-PRESENTERS:
For over a century, Poetry has been famous for discovering the poets and poems we now remember. And now, the voices to be discovered in Poetry are more diverse then ever—voices that speak to our own time, our own moment.
Founded in October 2000, the Brooklyn Rail is an independent forum for arts, culture and politics throughout New York City and beyond. Printed ten times annually, and featuring criticism of visual art, music, dance, film, theater and literature, as well as original fiction, poetry and political commentary, the Rail is distributed free of charge both in print and online.IN THE GALLERY:
Knockdown Center presents Cold Open Verse featuring Constance DeJong, Sophia Le Fraga, and Ian Hatcher.
For over a century, Poetry has been famous for discovering the poets and poems we now remember. And now, the voices to be discovered in Poetry are more diverse then ever—voices that speak to our own time, our own moment.
Founded in October 2000, the Brooklyn Rail is an independent forum for arts, culture and politics throughout New York City and beyond. Printed ten times annually, and featuring criticism of visual art, music, dance, film, theater and literature, as well as original fiction, poetry and political commentary, the Rail is distributed free of charge both in print and online.IN THE GALLERY:
Knockdown Center presents Cold Open Verse featuring Constance DeJong, Sophia Le Fraga, and Ian Hatcher.
Blonde Art Books has teamed up with Poet Transmit to present a book preview reel and live studio featuring theatrical trailers for publications, self-produced commercials, and live broadcast performance relating to the concept of the book and an expanded notion of transmission and poetry.
At 3:30pm, join curators Victoria Keddie and Cat Tyc for a guided tour of the exhibit.
This is an official 2016 Brooklyn Book Festival event.