Thursday February 1 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

We are excited to feature two films by Paul Bishow - CINEMA OF REVENGE and LAST ARTHOUSE ON THE LEFT - followed by Q&A with Paul Bishow.

Paul Bishow is an experimental filmmaker who along with fellow filmmakers Pierre DeVeaux and Pam Kray founded I AM EYE, a film forum dedicated to showing films and encouraging and supporting others who do the same. All three also worked as motion picture projectionists in Washington DC with IATSE local 224 projectionist union. CINEMA OF REVENGE shows union members picketing in front of The Key Theater on Wisconsin Ave. and the dismantling and removing of a wheel boot of car. The Biograph Theater was indeed the The Last Arthouse on the Left. It was located at 2819 M street in NW DC. The film is an intimate portrait of the last days the theater was open.

Paul Bishow moved to DC in the mid-70s. He has since made dozens of films, both feature-length and short subject, mostly in Super-8 format. They range from the film essay Anarchy and Chaos Prelude, DC to Bad Brains (1979) to the feature fiction film It’s a Wonderful Horrible Life (2001). Many DC punk bands have appeared in his films. Footage from his films has appeared many docs, including Don Lett’s Punk Attitude and Mandy Stein’s Bad Brains, Band in DC (2012). Paul was a member of the “I Am Eye” Film Forum, which ran an underground film series from 1982-1997. He (along with Sam Lavine and James June Schneider) was part of the team that made Punk the Capital (2019) about the DC music scene in the 1980s.