A screening and talk-back presented by the National Museum of the Aftermath.
This summer, the National Museum of the Aftermath is presenting a four night film screening series. Join us for the second screening of the season, featuring Dakota Higgins' The Four Elements of Cinema (Excerpt: Fire and Water) and Charlotte Zhang's TYCOON (2026). This screening will be followed by a talk-back with the directors.
The Four Elements of Film (Excerpt: Fire and Water)
5m
TYCOON
89m
The first feature from Los Angeles–based Canadian artist Charlotte Zhang, Tycoon is a true shot in the arm, and one of the year’s most maverick debuts. A paranoid, speculative hybrid film set on the eve of the 2028 Olympics, Tycoon imagines an LA infested by cockroaches, ridden by ICE raids, and in the throes of a meat shortage, all of which provides an opportunity for a gang of friends and would-be hustlers to try take revenge on the hostile world around them. Shot on a motley mix of handheld, low-grade digital and Super 8 cameras, and punctuated by kinetic montage sequences, Tycoon is laced with a raw, DIY energy that refutes standards of narrative and documentary storytelling—to say nothing of the conventions of a Hollywood industry that shares the same city but may as well occupy another planet.
This series is free and no registration required, seating is first come first served.
Join us for the upcoming screenings in the series:
July 14, 6-8pm: Reginald Alan Hudlin's Space Traders + William Greaves' Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One