Weird Medicine

“Weird Medicine presents films on the outer bounds of medicine, channeling ideas that were important to us while conceiving Invention. Featuring difficult fathers and dark horse doctors, the films suggest that the key to what ails us often lay in the spectral past, rather than in the material present, including a new restoration of Robert Kramer’s Doc’s Kingdom, in which a fresh-faced Vincent Gallo goes to France looking for his estranged doctor father. Portals, gateways, and energetic intrigue haunt a shorts program that combines artist films and propaganda with obscurities of the new age.” —Series curators Callie Hernandez and Courtney Stephens