11/15/2025
saturday, november 15 th
Saturday @ 4:30 pm
KOLN 75 by Ido Fluk
Keith Jarrett’s legendary performance in January 1975 nearly didn’t happen. Based on a true story, Köln 75 follows how the concert was conceived and orchestrated by the efforts of a teenage up and coming concert promoter, Vera Brandes, (played by German actress Mala Emde). Her enthusiasm set her to multitasking – from organizing the concert venue (the Cologne Opera House), promoting the event, and selling the tickets, to convincing Jarrett to perform when he almost dropped out when the Bösendorfer Imperial Grand piano he was promised was nowhere to be found. John Magaro plays Jarrett with his own intensity, a sublime counterpoint to Mala Emde’s joyful portrayal of the enthusiastic and unstoppable Vera. Köln 75 captures the compelling, entertaining and, until now, unknown backstory about Jarrett’s one-hour, entirely improvised concert, which became the best-selling solo album in jazz history.
Saturday, November 15 @ 7:00 pm
THE URANIA TRILOGY by legendary musician, artist, filmmaker TAV FALCO
An American girl, Gina Lee is an alienated and disaffected female who has become disenchanted with hometown strip malls, sleaze bars, and rides along the river-side in her BMW. Impulsively she buys a discount airline ticket in a shopping mall travel agency. Destination: Vienna, the merry/sinister imperial city on the Danube. Gina Lee quickly slips into discreet, yet decadent dalliances at Cafe Central and at the notorious Hotel Orient, where she becomes embroiled in an intrigue to uncover buried N**i plunder. Her tragic liaison with rakish Karl Heinz Von Riegl results in her submersion beneath the dark waters of Lake Atter, yet her ultimate fate remains unresolved. This is a black&white film poem infused with metaphor and mood, where the past overtakes the present, and the present overtakes the past.
This sui generis, hand-processed 16mm film is digitized and ready for projection in its definitive form in ProresHQ @ 2K. It is a film made for those hungry to submerge themselves in Orphic mysteries and to embrace narratives of timeless consequence. The Urania Trilogy is haunting. It explores myth, memory, and identity through dreamlike structures - evoking a shifting reality where the past overtakes the present, and the present overtakes the past, while already hurling itself into the future. This film is intended for aficionados in search of a cinema of paradox in a pure, yet contaminated form. The incarnation of subversion...The insolence of deception...The exultation of vengeance. One night Only!