Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Sunday, June 14.
A Sunday afternoon jam at Smalls is a narrow jazz-head ritual, less glossy than the club headliners and better for drop-in electricity.
Caveat turns the High School Musical anniversary premise into a knowingly niche fan event rather than simple nostalgia.
Spectacle's Blood Brunch title does exactly what that microcinema does best: make the afternoon feel a little unwell on purpose.
Alphaville gives this poetry open mic a bar-show edge, more local and porous than a formal reading series.
Brakhage at Anthology is the pure experimental-film lane, precise and demanding in a way that rewards the already-curious.
A puppet slam at Cassette lands squarely in oddball performance territory, with a title that sounds assembled by an actual scene.
The Bell House is a good fit for a title this strange, somewhere between downtown theater joke and full Sunday-night commitment.
A music-video premiere at Millennium keeps the evening in artist-film territory, small-scale and more handmade than polished.
This AFA program gives the list a second experimental-cinema door, focused enough for viewers who track the filmmaker, not the hype.
Close Up's late set-and-jam frame is built for players and listeners who want the night to loosen up after the billed concert.