Stranger, smaller-room, and in-the-know Scope NYC picks for Thursday, October 8, 2026.
The first Read My Desire program in Anthology’s Combat Breathing series looks at desire, spectatorship and the image through a curated set of films.
The Indeterminacy Festival brings Making a Round Ark to the National Arts Club, a focused evening for experimental performance and ideas.
Brooklyn Art Haus stages three linked stories around an unfinished history, a small-room theater pick beyond the usual downtown circuit.
Kaves’s work-in-progress film and immersive performance braids generations of a Brooklyn family into a fever dream, followed by a Q&A with the writer-director.
Anthology’s Cinema of Gender Transgression series brings together Vika Kirchenbauer’s moving-image work in a dedicated program.
Merrick Henry hosts an exuberant variety night at Wonderville, mixing games, performance and arcade-bar energy.
Berlin screens Benjamin Christensen’s silent witchcraft classic with a live score, pairing early cinema’s occult imagery with a club-room performance.
Eternal Wind turns music from Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy into a late-night jazz set at the Red Pavilion.
IFC opens V/H/S/Mixtape with an extended 9:30 introduction by filmmaker Ernest Dickerson; new segments include work by RZA, Flying Lotus, David Moreau and Renee Zhan.
Chris Gethard tells the story of his grandfather’s immigration journey through the lens of the present in this in-person Caveat show.