Trumpet, 2003-2004, digital photograph.

 

We don’t provide earplugs.

 

FRIDAY

Get away from the city bustle without leaving downtown Manhattan–check out Dmitry Vasyukov and Werner Herzog’s film, Happy People: A Year in Taiga, screening at the IFC Center.

The prolific career of songwriter and musician Paul Williams is being commemorated with a retrospective at the Museum of the Moving Image. Check out the documentary, Paul Williams: Still Alive. Williams will be in attendance!

30 plays in 60 minutes “performed from a perspective of absolute honesty.” The New York Neo-Futurists presents, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, an ad-lib, unreproducible performance every Friday and Saturday at the Kraine Theatre.

SATURDAY

Join director Paul Morrissey at Film Forum where he’ll introduce the screening of his 1970’s classic Trash.

Eyebeam Art + Technology Center is hosting a live performance of Brian House’s meditative piece, Forty-eight to Sixteen.

If you haven’t yet experienced a live performance at DIY venue, Shea Stadium BK, here’s the perfect opportunity to do so with performances tonight by Blues Control , Home Blitz, Illegals, Trepanning, & DJ GDFX. RSVP here.

SUNDAY

TEMP Art Space is hosting the panel discussion, Constructing a Place, featuring artists and poets responding to the book by the same name by Laura F. Gibellini.

Creature From the Black Lagoon is back and in 3D! The 1954 mega cult classic will be screening at Film Forum.

For a mind bending cap to your weekend: the MoMA presents a screening of the “genre shattering” Japanese documentary, A Man Vanishes directed by Shohei Imamura’s. Begins at 5:15 PM.