Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Sunday, October 4, 2026.
Pioneer Works hosts an artist-led workshop with Ariana Martinez, Nour Yusoff, Anna RG and Sick Music Center, translating a gallery sound work between listening, touch and improvised sonic scores.
Amir Bar-Lev follows a 2021 winter expedition that set out to become the first team to summit K2 in winter, when the mountain is most dangerous.
Xanadu’s Sunday Afterglow opens its skate floor at noon for an afternoon of roller skating and DJs, a welcome change from another bar-bound Sunday.
Havel 90’s afternoon shorts program spotlights Jan Švankmajer, the Czech surrealist whose stop-motion worlds make ordinary objects feel uncanny.
Anthology’s Avatars of the Whore program includes a short screening that challenges familiar screen depictions of women working in sex.
Angie Chen’s My Name Ain’t Suzie / Fa Gai Si Doi joins Anthology’s Avatars of the Whore series, a Sunday archive pick outside the standard repertory circuit.
Maysles screens T.V. Transvestite, a rarely seen 1982 document of Harlem’s House of LaBeija ball, followed by a discussion with filmmaker Wolfgang Busch.
Slippery Sundays brings the Slipper Room’s late-night mix of burlesque and variety back to the Lower East Side.
The Havel 90 festival closes with Leaving, a Czech political comedy-drama adapted from Václav Havel’s final play.
Operator, Silas Five and Awful Christine take the late Night Club 101 slot, an after-hours bill for following the venue’s less polished side.