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Friday May 24 – 8 pm


The Room


The undisputed worst film ever made…you've heard the legends. "How bad can it be," you ask? Well...come find out as we inaugurate our 20 foot screen by putting pure drivel all over it. Hooting and hollering encouraged.



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Friday May 31 – 8 pm


Strange Beauty Film Festival Snow Day


In January, the annual Strange Beauty Film Festival had to cancel one of its screenings due to an ice storm. Here's the re-do, featuring an hour of short, weird films from around the globe and then CIRCLE SPIRAL SLOW, a new multi-screen 16mm program from Durham Cinematheque featuring live soundtrack by Durham instrumental band Arrows Out.

Satday June 1 – 8 pm


Firsta June Invitational


Durham Cinematheque curates a crop of films to precede an encore presentation of CIRCLE SPIRAL SLOW, with live soundtrack by Arrows Out

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Photo by Alex Maness


Did you catch the new Mount Moriah video that was shot at the Shadowbox? Props to Habib Yazdi and Andrew Synowiez of Hueism Pictures (as well as Shadowbox co-conspirator Alex Maness) for the moving image artistry.


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