EQUALLY REPRESENTED ARTS
experimental theatre
POLITE APOCALYPSE (first-cut screening)
Fri, Jun 14
|21C Museum Hotel St Louis, Gallery 2
ERA presents in collaboration with Sleepy Kitty and Blip Blip Video a rough-cut screening of a new film by Lucy Cashion
Time & Location
Jun 14, 2024, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM CDT
21C Museum Hotel St Louis, Gallery 2, 1528 Locust St, St. Louis, MO 63103, USA
About the event
POLITE APOCALYPSE is an experimental film that stitches together three long form music videos into a surreal narrative about a New Year's Eve party during the end of the world. The movie features three Sleepy Kitty songs: 'How's the New Job Debbie?' 'Blessing/Curse,' and 'Bigger Picture,' and the entire film grows out of these tracks.
Throughout months of workshopping, the creative ensemble, which included the entire cast, found inspiration for the world of the film in pre-Bolshevik literature. POLITE APOCALYPSE is a dreamlike, cinematic collage of Dostoevsky's THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV and Chekhov's PLATONOV.
Directed & Written by Lucy Cashion
Produced by Will Bonfiglio & Lucy Cashion for ERA
Executive Poducer: ERA
Starring: Will Bonfiglio, Maggie Conroy, Reggie Pierre, and Rachel Tibbetts
Featuring: Cara Barresi, Paige Brubeck, Francesca Ferrari, Jakob Hultén, Ryan Lawson-Maeske, Alicen Moser, Kristen Strom, Evan Sult, Joe Taylor, and Pete Winfrey
Director of Photography: Brian McClelland for Blip Blap Video
Production Design: Sleepy Kitty
Editor: Brian McClelland
Associate Producers: Miranda Jagels Felix & Spencer Lawton for ERA
Associate Producers: Paige Brubeck & Evan Sult for Sleepy Kitty
Costume Design: Meredith LaBounty
Original Songs by: Sleepy Kitty
Produced with support from the Regional Arts Commission.
More info on the POLITE APOCALYPSE production page.
We invite you to the first screening of POLITE APOCALYPSE. It is still a work in progress, but it needs an audience of discerning patrons like you for the creators to evaluate how to shape the work going forward.
Doors at 7pm. Screening begins at 7:30pm. Run time approx. 2 hours.