Mysterious Skin + He Never Dies: The Short Films Of Kalil Haddad
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Gregg Araki Run Time: 105 min. Release Year: 2005
Starring: Brady Corbet, Jeffrey Licon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Michelle Trachtenberg
Join us at The Frida Cinema for a very special evening featuring Gregg Araki’s 2004 indie classic Mysterious Skin followed immediately by a block of Experimental Gay short films called He Never Dies: The Short Films Of Kalil Haddad.
First up, Araki’s haunting masterpiece follows a boy named Neil (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, in a fearless early performance) as he escapes into a world of risky encounters and self-destructive bravado, while Brian (Brady Corbet) struggles with repressed memories that manifest as blackouts and visions of alien abduction. As their stories move inexorably toward each other, the truth that binds them threatens to shatter everything they thought they knew about themselves.
After that, there will be a 10 min intermission, and we’ll dive directly into He Never Dies: The Short Films of Kalil Haddad. The lineup of those films are as follows:
-The Taking Of Jordan (All American Boy)
-His Smell
-The Boy Was Found Unharmed
-Victim Of Circumstance
-My Secret Boyfriend Died In A Mass Shooting
About Kalil Haddad:
Kalil Haddad is an experimental filmmaker based in Toronto. He has written, directed, and edited over a dozen short films including: Tiger Eats a Baby (20), The Taking of Jordan (22), His Smell (23), and Victim of Circumstance (24). His films have screened at Kasseler Dokfest, Indie Memphis, Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Onion City Experimental, London Short Film Festival, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts.
As an editor, he’s collaborated with filmmakers like Sophy Romvari on Still Processing (2020) and It’s What Each Person Needs (2022), and John Greyson on International Dawn Chorus Day (2021), which received the TEDDY for Best Short Film at the 71st Berlinale.