Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Friday, July 24.
A literary salon called offal at Public Records is wonderfully specific, especially with Joseph Earl Thomas folded into the upstairs setting.
Poets House gives this empire-and-mind framing a serious literary context without sanding off its specificity.
Spectacle programming a play-like film object points to something stranger than a normal repertory screening.
Close Up's small-room intensity suits this percussive, names-forward bill, especially for listeners looking past the obvious jazz rooms.
Paradise Factory plus a title this deliberately unpolished suggests downtown fringe with a real point of view.
Cafe Erzulie gives this one-word late listing a neighborhood dance-floor charge that feels more local than the bigger club options.
A late Jean-Louis Costes program at Spectacle is abrasive cult territory, built for viewers who came prepared for discomfort.
A late Union Hall comedy night called Girl Church has a clear comic congregation, not just another showcase title.
A late set-and-session at Close Up has working-player looseness, with the night likely to open up after the first set.
The midnight timing and alien-hitchhiker title make this the day's purest tiny-cinema detour.