Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Thursday, October 1, 2026.
Elaine May’s Mikey and Nicky screens before Todd Berliner and Ira Sachs discuss its making at Symphony Space; admission is free with a reservation.
Anthology brings together films by Tony Cokes, Filipa César, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos and others in a program connecting experimental images with political struggle.
Content Blocks celebrates a record release on a three-act Union Pool bill with the Serfs and Cube; doors open at 7.
Brenda LaTorre and Gerardo Sámano Córdova discuss monstrous sons and maternal love, then turn the horror-book conversation into a Build-a-Boy craft session.
Maysles revisits the Harlem apartment shared by Antoine Yates, a tiger and an alligator, with a post-screening conversation featuring location scout Laura Coxson.
SCAM, Inspector Spacetime and Hermigervill share Pianos’ Iceland Airwaves off-venue showcase, bringing a three-act Icelandic bill to the Lower East Side; doors at 7.
Brooklyn Stage Company takes Brecht’s Galileo onto the Waterfront Museum’s wooden barge, using Robert Francis Cole’s adaptation for a distinctly Red Hook staging.
Peter Evans’s quartet pairs his trumpets with Alice Teyssier’s flutes and voice, Mazz Swift’s violin and voice, and bass at the Stone.
David Leon celebrates Panamerican Orchid Club with Joel Ross on vibraphone and Daniel Prim on drums, giving the Orchard Street festival a late-night album-release set.
Joseph Keckler brings a solo evening of songs, new and familiar, to the Red Pavilion, opening autumn with haunting ballads and operatic storytelling.