Camera Obscura’s long-awaited return to the US includes tonight’s date at Music Hall of Wiliamsburg. Their latest album, Desire Lines (“a career best”-NPR), was released early last summer, and was followed by a US tour, which included support dates with She & Him.

Opener Laura Cantrell has toured extensively in the United Kingdom, Europe and Ireland, and was a favorite of pioneering British disc jockey John Peel, who called her 2000 album “Not The Tremblin’ Kind” “my favorite record of the last ten years, possibly my life.”

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Let the marathon begin! The premise of today’s marathon screening is that no one who was rejected from the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival this year is denied screen time for at least one of their works. Admission is free for the entire 9 hours of films. Here we stand, here we screen. What was once a solitary experience of rejection has become, through a funny faux pas, a building of community.

A few months ago I received another rejection from a film festival via email. This particular letter, from the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (M.U.F.F.), like most of the others, was a generic stock-email. The kind whose cut-copy-paste, all-too-familiar template phrasing made one’s heart preemptively sink, not having read the lines we’ve all read too many times, but already knowing what they will say.

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Back from Europe for only a few weeks, film portrait artist Marie Losier invites her friends to share the screen with her in this evening of experimental short works to celebrate her return. The evening includes: Marie Losier, New surprise work! Peaches + Jesper Just (a film not yet seen!), and Hermaphrodite.

Losier is a portraitist of avant-garde artists, including filmmakers Guy Maddin and The Kuchar brothers, theater director Richard Foreman, and composer / filmmaker Tony Conrad. She is the director of The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, the story of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV founder
Genesis P-Orridge, which won the 2011 Berlin Film Festival Teddy Award for Best Documentary.

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Five Years of Let’s Play House: With evocative and emotive productions showcasing a stripped back, classic feel, Urulu’s sounds are a throwback to the lost generation of smoother groove-makers. Resident Advisor best describes him as someone with “an impressively complete grasp of what makes a classic house cut.“

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Friday, July 11
9pm – 4am at Rough Trade NYC, free before midnight
64 N 9th Street, Williamsburg

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ALL OF THE FILM YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE IS REAL. NOTHING HAS BEEN STAGED.

So begins the 1982 shockumentary THE KILLING OF AMERICA, a film that, even among its mondo movie contemporaries, stands out as one of the grimmest and most infamous films ever produced. So much so, in fact, that to this day it remains effectively unreleased in The United States.

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