Roxie Mixtape #8: Side B (After Dark)

Recommended for audiences 17+

Roxie Mixtape #8, an on-going series celebrating diverse and engaging short works by Bay Area filmmakers. Join us for our Roxie After Dark program, a night of unique, provocative and inspiring movies for a mature audience. An exciting and enticing mix of narrative, documentary, and experimental there is sure to be a little something for everyone in this program.

A Brighter Summer Day for the Lady Avengers – Birdy Wei-Ting Hung: Taiwan, 1980s. Hot summer day, watermelon juice, and a teenage girl’s sexual awakening with her celluloid fantasies. Shot on 16mm.

IDLE/WILD – Kaitlin Fontana:  Dating is hard. So when Annie suggests a unique first date — meet me at Idyllwild campsite, and bring your tent — Berit decides to go for it. Is this how it all starts? Or how it ends?

Our Little Experiment – Seth Puckett: Bonnie and Roger decide to spice things up by opening their marriage. Roger thinks he has it made, but he’s not prepared for how enthusiastically Bonnie embraces the new lifestyle.

BUT I LOVE THE ZINE – Fiona McDougall: In an age of digital scrolling, passionate creators resurrect the intimate art of zines across the San Francisco Bay Area—their handcrafted pages offering tactile rebellion and authentic connection that screens simply cannot replicate. We journey into the studios of remarkable zine authors, explore treasures with a major art museum curator, and feel the electric energy of devoted festival-goers celebrating this defiant paper revolution.

YEARN – Ben Smith:  During an earthquake, two statues in an art museum finally hook up – defying the laws of religion, society, and physics.

Blemish – Kylie Villavicencio: A man becomes overwhelmingly obsessed with his own skin.

Willa Justice – Drag Queen Private Eye – Felix Mack: With Willa Justice hot on the trail of high desert murderer, Pink Face, she must follow her heart and a mysterious chicken to solve the case.

Overheard in Dolores – Emily Kent: An eavesdropper’s guide to an iconic San Francisco park through the eyes of a handycam.