Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Saturday, June 20.
Patel's desire-themed performance at Topaz Arts offers a small-scale movement pick with a personal frame, far from the day's institutional dance options.
Anthology's avant-garde firing-line framing suggests a combative program rather than a polite survey, aimed squarely at viewers who want cinema to push back.
A live Lynchian jazz-noir concept at the Red Pavilion is gloriously overdetermined, pairing cinematic dread with a venue already built for theatrical atmosphere.
This defiantly long title reads like a performance manifesto before the event even starts, making Brooklyn Art Haus a worthwhile Saturday wildcard.
The title alone announces a knowingly disreputable Ghibli remix, and C'mon Everybody is exactly the sort of Brooklyn stage where that joke can become a full night.
An open electronic-music session promises process, gear, and collaboration instead of a polished club set, giving synth obsessives something unusually participatory.
Queer indie horror readings after a book fair at the Twisted Spine is a tightly tuned scene gathering, equal parts literary hang and genre-night spillover.
A late Spectacle screening with this title points toward queer cult documentary territory, a better final stop than another generic Saturday party.
Fairy Smut is a properly unruly Pride-night premise, with fantasy camp and late cabaret energy packed into one very specific title.
Close Up's late set-and-session format is a working-musician proposition, with the night likely to loosen up well after the headline crowds go home.