Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Monday, June 29.
A Monday PIT Loft session devoted to clown work is deliberately smaller and stranger than the stand-up traffic around it.
The Nuyorican-Bowery crossover gives the poetry slot a live competitive charge, more neighborhood microphone than polite literary evening.
Film-Makers' Coop gives No Shore an experimental moving-image context, the sort of place where an unresolved title is part of the invitation.
Spectacle is exactly the scale for a title this knowingly physical and strange, a microcinema pick for viewers chasing the more unruly edge of the night.
Devon Walker turning favorite lyrics into a live Littlefield show sits in a useful gray zone between comedy, music nerdery, and group confession.
Lucky 13 is the right setting for a Serpentes Paraiso-presented night called Come to Me, a metal-bar-adjacent bill that reads more handmade than market-tested.
Anthology's later Mare's Nest screening belongs to the archive-weirdo lane, with a title that keeps its meaning just out of reach.
A ten o'clock Spectacle slot called The Rider of the Skulls has the late cult energy the title is already promising.
Mezzrow turning over to vinyl near midnight is less a concert than a listening-room afterimage for the crowd that does not want the jazz night to end cleanly.
A Smalls jam just before midnight is built for the musician-heavy crowd, where the best moments are likely to feel found rather than advertised.