DJ Angela Sawyer of Weirdo Records opens the night at 7pm with vinyl gems from her collection! Films start at 8pm. Tickets are $10 regular / $8 student and senior.

This American Land. Bound by arbitrary lines whose authority is daily reinforced by violence and bureaucracy. Sectioned into states, counties, and municipalities, based on voting patterns and property lines. Continually expanding its scope through bloody conquest, financial persuasion and cultural influence.

What lies in the middle? Empty space, crumbling centenarian constructions and a mysterious, crawling vine that swallows up several feet a day…

Inspired by the Occupy movement, which questioned the "publicness" of spaces we take for granted, Balagan presents four films:

Triumph of the Wild (2008, 10 mins, 35mm) by Martha Colburn



"Triumph of the Wild spans decades of battles in American history and places a man in a landscape infested with indigenous predatory animals." - MC

Future So Bright (2010, 23 mins, HDCam) by Matt McCormick



"[T]he film explores ghost towns, abandoned military bases, and boarded up tourist traps to present a meditative time capsule of the false starts and failed attempts of the past 200 years of American Western Expansion." - MM

Kudzu Vine (2011, 20 mins, 35mm CinemaScope) by Josh Gibson



Beautiful, eerie portrait of an invasive species from Korea that is taking over the Southern landscape several feet a day.

You Are on Indian Land (1969, 34 mins, 16mm) by Mort Ransen and Mike Mitchell



Legendary vérité document of a 1969 protest by members of the Mohawk tribe against a levy imposed on them by the U.S.-Canada border authority.