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July & August DarkRoom Screenings – Don't Miss Out

As summer gets fully underway, we’re hosting more DarkRoom shows and having overflowing feelings of gratitude for all attendees. Looking everyday.

(Pictured: Non Films, Matt York, Jennifer Ru Zhou, Maxwell Nalevansky, Gabriel Bellone, Mira Seeba, Elizabeth Yoo. ABOVE: From Baltimore, our friends Suburbanabuse ripping the house apart with a brilliant closing set. 🔥)

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In JULY, we present two all-new DarkRoom Screenings at Ryan Bock’s YOUNG AMERICANS art show. Wednesday July 8 will feature an evening of all-archival documentary evening with two legendary filmmakers, Alex Megaro and Nathan Truesdell, and on Wednesday July 22 we will host another secret shorts block. 🇺🇸

Tuesday, July 28: 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐦 is happening once again at Freddy’s in Brooklyn, with this screening being our very first MUSIC VIDEO edition. (Doors 8pm • Films 9pm • Donations encouraged.) Another one-night-only event with directors and artists in person, maybe with a few surprises…

August Approaches…

Saturday, August 1: A very special edition of 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐦 Screening & Salon is happening again The Film-makers’ Cooperative: a 16mm tribute to filmmaker and animation pioneer Lawrence Jordan! Join us in Manhattan for an evening of surreal collage animation, including his magnum opus. Tickets on sale NOW.

Monday, August 3: 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐦 Screening & Salon returns to the mighty Nitehawk Prospect Park with an all-new lineup of rarely-screened short films. Our past shows have all SOLD OUT, so please mark your calendars and watch this space for the impending ticket announcement! 🎟️

Free limited edition zines will be available exclusively at each screening.

* If you are interested in screening a short film at DarkRoom, please use THIS FORM and send us your work. We cannot promise a response to every submission, but we do watch each film and will respond to you well in advance of the date to confirm your availability.

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• Upcoming festival deadlines: Slamdance Film Festival (Early: July 6), Ridgewood Off-Kilter Film Festival (Late: July 15), Coney Island Film Festival (Early: August 14), The Film & Video Poetry Society (August 31), International Film Festival Rotterdam (Reg: August 31), Atlanta Film Festival (Regular: September 11), MONO NO AWARE XX (October 15).

• For its 40th Anniversary, Ross McElwee’s iconic Sherman’s March remains one of the most influential documentaries ever made, and is returning to Film Forum in a new 4K restoration. See it this weekend. (Poster design by the great Tyler Rubenfeld)

• JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film 2026 is coming up from July 8—18, 2026 at the Japan Society. “JAPAN CUTS is the largest showcase of contemporary Japanese cinema in North America and an annual highlight of New York’s cinema scene.”

• Find us on Instagram, Bluesky, Facebook, Twitter, Threads…

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Our dear friend Brett Whitcomb’s Discount Funeral (one of our favorite films of 2025) is now streaming courtesy of PBS and Reel South Docs. This one must be seen to be believed. Featuring a brilliant score by Jason LaRay Keener, this 30-minute unconventional and observational doc has been described as a “pastoral visual poem of everyday life in America.” A fantastic film that will take you on an original journey unlike anything you’ve seen before.

“Through raw, unfiltered glimpses of dozens of lives in Birmingham, Alabama, Discount Funeral stitches together faces, places, and fleeting moments into a surreal portrait of America. Fragmented yet intimate, the film reveals the beauty, grit, and quiet strangeness embedded in everyday existence.” WATCH HERE and enjoy.

xoxo
Non Films

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