Looking for Langston

Movie Summary: A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story. A wake is going on, with mourners gathered around a coffin. Downstairs is an elegant bar where tuxedoed men dance and talk. One of them has a dream in which he comes upon Beauty, who seems to reject him, although when he awakes, Beauty is sleeping beside him. His story and his visits to the jazz and dance club are framed by voices reading from the poetry and essays of Hughes and others. The text is rarely explicit, but the freedom of gay Black men in the 1920s in Harlem is suggested and celebrated visually.

Queer Film LA Says: A hypnotic experimental film that weaves between reality and a fantastic recreation of the Harlem Renaissance of Langston Hughes, exploring the lives and desires of Queer Black writers and artists throughout time.

Movie Summary: A sci-fi novelist in 1950s Brooklyn suddenly finds herself transported 40 years into the future. She quickly learns that she isn’t the only “timefreak,” and that her time may already be up.

Queer Film LA Says: The world premiere of the restoration of this 90s cyberpunk bisexual time travel noir, with director Hilary Brougher in person. Tickets are free, no advance reservations, get there early to line up -- the box office opens at 6:30.