HOT TICKET + A CONVERSATION WITH ZOË LUND - L.A. premiere!
We present the L.A. premiere of a film by writer and actress Zoë Lund, newly restored by Stephanie LaCava and Manon Lutanie, followed by an unreleased video interview with Lund in 1997.
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Nov 25, 2024, 7:30 PM
Now Instant Image Hall, 939 Chung King Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90012, USA
HOT TICKET + A CONVERSATION WITH ZOË LUND
doors: 7:00
event: 7:30
We present the LA premiere of Hot Ticket (1993), a 2 minute film by Zoë Lund, newly restored by Stephanie LaCava and Manon Lutanie, and A Conversation with Zoë Lund, an unreleased interview shot and conducted with Lund in 1997 by independent filmmaker Douglas Buck.
With readings and performances of Lund’s writings.
Hot Ticket
directed by Zoë Lund
1993, restored 2024, U.S., 2m, DCP
Hot Ticket is the only existing film by Zoë Lund. Written and directed in three days on the occasion of the Rotterdam Film Festival in 1993, it features Lund stepping out of a cinema to enter the real world. She stops at the box office to buy a ticket, before rushing into the night.
“Hot Ticket constitutes a visual apologue. Like everything Zoë created (for instance her performance in Ms .45, the script of Bad Lieutenant, and her unpublished novel trilogy 490), it returns us to the most naked and vivid state of existential necessity.” –Nicole Brenez, Senses of Cinema
A Conversation with Zoë Lund
directed by Douglas Buck
1997, DCP
Looking cool as can be, chain-smoking her brown slims, a relaxed and erudite Lund sits in a quiet loft in NY's Garment District expounding not only on her experiences making Abel Ferrara's NY classic Bad Lieutenant, including her continued oft-rocky relationship with the film's director, but on her career, on art and on cinema in general. Excerpts from a longer 90 minute interview.
ON SALE:
Poems
Zoë Lund, Small Press, Éditions Lutanie
2023, 16pp
Poems presents four unpublished poems by American writer and actress Zoë Lund (1962–1999), written in the 1980s. An incandescent voice emerges, revealing the might, sincerity, and precision of her expression, as well as her vulnerability and defiance in the face of death. This is the first publication dedicated to her work.
With an introduction by Stephanie LaCava. Edited and translated into French by Stephanie LaCava and Manon Lutanie.
Full program runtime: approx. 60 mins.
Special thanks to Ted Gerike (Now Instant), Manon Lutanie and Stephanie LaCava.
Please note: this event is taking place at Now Instant Image Hall.