Unmade Beds preceded by Midnight Coffee

Director: Amos Poe

1976 / 82min / Digital

Artist Duncan Hannah, freshly graduated from Parsons, plays Rico, a dashing, ennui-afflicted photographer with a weakness for the bottle and for performing Jean-Pierre Melville/Belmondo-in-Breathless cosplay for an audience of no one in Poe’s first narrative feature, a lo-fi New Wave pastiche shot in high-contrast black and white suggesting Weegee’s Naked City, featuring Debbie Harry serenading the camera with the jazz tune “Sweet Thing” and future Fun Gallery founder Patti Astor as a character called “Jeanne Moreau.” A scruffy, downbeat daydream of a film, fairly vibrating with the romance of being young and in love with the city and with cinema. Preceded by Midnight Coffee, featuring Poe, a lampoon of grindset culture and millennial miserablism that revolves around strange goings-on at a cafe during the graveyard shift.

Midnight Coffee (dir. Jaime Levinas , 2020, 12 mins)

Unmade Beds (dir. Amos Poe, 1976, 70 mins)

Introduction by filmmaker Jaime Levinas on Saturday, January 3rd

Part of Amos Poe and No Wave Cinema