Mezzanine

Mezzanine is an irregular independent and revival film series based in Los Angeles, developed and overseen by Micah Gottlieb.

Programs are frequently done in collaboration with local & visiting artists, filmmakers, writers, curators and other luminaries.

05/12/2026

Next Wednesday!

PHANTOM BEIRUT (1998) أشباح بيروت
a film by Ghassan Salhab

U.S. premiere of a brand-new 2K restoration

Wednesday, May 20

doors/bar 7:30pm
film 8:00pm

“An intelligent thriller of deception, loyalty and betrayal.” -The New York Times

“[Salhab] weaves the familiar Lebanese themes of exile, destruction, memory, hope and illusions into a poem to a beloved city and its people, as scarred as its buildings.” -Variety

Among the most beautiful cinematic evocations of the Lebanese Civil War, director Ghassan Salhab’s remarkable feature debut captures the everyday rhythms of Beirut in the late ‘80s, where citizens live a potent mixture of nostalgia and fear amid a seemingly endless conflict. After faking his own death during battle, Khalil (Aouni Kawas) returns to Beirut under a new identity, forced to confront the old friends and comrades he left behind a decade earlier. Interspersed with onscreen interviews with cast members, Salhab’s offbeat thriller is a time capsule of a city and a people continuing to live with the ghosts of their past.

In Arabic with English subtitles. A Several Futures release. Special thanks to Graham Carter.

04/30/2026

Megan O’Grady presents: VAGABOND (Sans toit ni loi)
a film by Agnès Varda
1985, France, 105m, DCP

Followed by a conversation with writer Megan O’Grady and Carolina A. Miranda

Saturday, May 9th

doors 2:30pm
film 3:00pm

On occasion of the release of her new book, HOW IT FEELS TO BE ALIVE , we are thrilled to have celebrated art critic and essayist Megan O’Grady in person to present Agnès Varda’s masterpiece.

“Moving became routine, almost habitual: the rhythms of acquisition and disposal, the hope that this, this would be the place, and then another packed suitcase. In college, I had romanticized female drifter characters, women who wandered, who seemed to need nothing and no one. My favorite drifters were….Mona, the young hitchhiker of Agnès Varda’s VAGABOND (1985) who roams the South of France, pitching her tent wherever she can, blowing her nose into the air through her fingers [...] These characters are antiheroes, though not quite the symbolic countercultural figures—iconic outlaws or rebels without causes—that male drifters often are. A woman without a home was narratively compelling in large part because she was a woman, unsheltered and exposed. […] Mona [is] unapologetic about [her] lack of direction, and I adored the almost willful fecklessness that unsettled the people who crossed [her] path. It was an attitude, one that dispensed with the sentimental mythologies of home that I found so hard to shake: home as representative of the totality of one’s identity and destiny, home as the reflection of an intentionally lived life, home as the site at which all the conflicting parts of us would be magically reconciled. [...] Or maybe these women represented extremes of something I recognized in my own aimlessness, some internal vagrancy. The films had made it seem cooler, or less sad, to live with a broken compass. But by my late twenties, I saw that I had misread, or miswatched, these characters, who all did, in fact, end up somewhere: Sylvie hopping trains, Wanda in jail, Mona dead in a ditch.” -Megan O’Grady

04/18/2026

Megan O’Grady presents: VAGABOND (Sans toit ni loi)
a film by Agnès Varda
1985, France, 105m, DCP

Followed by a conversation with writer Megan O’Grady and Carolina A. Miranda

Saturday, May 9th

doors 2:30pm
film 3:00pm

On occasion of the release of her new book, How It Feels to Be Alive, we are thrilled to have celebrated art critic and essayist Megan O’Grady in person to present Agnès Varda’s masterpiece.

“Moving became routine, almost habitual: the rhythms of acquisition and disposal, the hope that this, this would be the place, and then another packed suitcase. In college, I had romanticized female drifter characters, women who wandered, who seemed to need nothing and no one. My favorite drifters were….Mona, the young hitchhiker of Agnès Varda’s VAGABOND (1986) who roams the South of France, pitching her tent wherever she can, blowing her nose into the air through her fingers [...] These characters are antiheroes, though not quite the symbolic countercultural figures—iconic outlaws or rebels without causes—that male drifters often are. A woman without a home was narratively compelling in large part because she was a woman, unsheltered and exposed. […] Mona [is] unapologetic about [her] lack of direction, and I adored the almost willful fecklessness that unsettled the people who crossed [her] path. It was an attitude, one that dispensed with the sentimental mythologies of home that I found so hard to shake: home as representative of the totality of one’s identity and destiny, home as the reflection of an intentionally lived life, home as the site at which all the conflicting parts of us would be magically reconciled. [...] Or maybe these women represented extremes of something I recognized in my own aimlessness, some internal vagrancy. The films had made it seem cooler, or less sad, to live with a broken compass. But by my late twenties, I saw that I had misread, or miswatched, these characters, who all did, in fact, end up somewhere: Sylvie hopping trains, Wanda in jail, Mona dead in a ditch.” -Megan O’Grady

03/05/2026

Last night: it was an immense pleasure to have and DoP Patrick Alexander Stewart in conversation after a sold-out 35mm screening of Mike Figgis’ TIMECODE (2000), with many crew members in attendance. ⏱️🎞️

Special thanks to Patricia Rozema, Darrell Brett and John Kostka for making this event possible.

Photos: 📷

02/26/2026

TIMECODE ⏱️📹
directed by Mike Figgis
2000, U.S., 98m, 35mm

35mm print, followed by a Q&A with actress Saffron Burrows and Mia Maestro

Tuesday, March 3

doors: 7:00
film: 7:30

One of the boldest experiments ever released by a major film studio, maverick filmmaker Mike Figgis turned heads with this split-screen thriller, starring an incredible cast of A-list actors and taking place entirely in real-time as four continuous 98-minute DV takes unfold on screen. On Sunset Blvd., on the stretch between Book Soup and Dialog Café, Figgis follows a group of Hollywood executives, actors and spouses (Salma Hayek, Stellan Skarsgard, Saffron Burrows, Holly Hunter, Kyle McLachlan, Leslie Mann, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Danny Huston, Xander Berkeley, Glenne Headly, Holly Hunter) ahead of a major pitch meeting, as adulteries and other overlapping dramas ensue in each of their personal lives. With its improvised dialogue and elaborate structural gambit, TIMECODE is a relic of the turn-of-the-millenium digital boom—at the height of the crossover between the American independent and commercial film industries—and an emblem of an era when anything felt possible.

“What is the purpose of the experiment? Above all, to show it can be done… Mike Figgis is a man who lives and breathes the cinema.” -Roger Ebert

“An impressive stunt....Surprisingly breezy to watch.” -Dave Kehr

Special thanks to Patricia Rozema and Darrell Brett.

02/22/2026

TIMECODE ⏱️📹
directed by Mike Figgis
2000, U.S., 98m, 35mm

25th anniversary screening on a 35mm print, followed by a Q&A with actress Saffron Burrows and Mia Maestro

Tuesday, March 3

doors: 7:00
film: 7:30

One of the boldest experiments ever released by a major film studio, maverick filmmaker Mike Figgis turned heads with this split-screen thriller, starring an incredible cast of A-list actors and taking place entirely in real-time as four continuous 98-minute DV takes unfold on screen. On Sunset Blvd., on the stretch between Book Soup and Dialog Café, Figgis follows a group of Hollywood executives, actors and spouses (Salma Hayek, Stellan Skarsgard, Saffron Burrows, Holly Hunter, Kyle McLachlan, Leslie Mann, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Danny Huston, Xander Berkeley, Glenne Headly, Holly Hunter) ahead of a major pitch meeting, as adulteries and other overlapping dramas ensue in each of their personal lives. With its improvised dialogue and elaborate structural gambit, TIMECODE is a relic of the turn-of-the-millenium digital boom—at the height of the crossover between the American independent and commercial film industries—and an emblem of an era when anything felt possible.

“What is the purpose of the experiment? Above all, to show it can be done… Mike Figgis is a man who lives and breathes the cinema.” -Roger Ebert

“An impressive stunt....Surprisingly breezy to watch.” -Dave Kehr

Flyer by . Special thanks to Patricia Rozema and Darrell Brett.

02/20/2026

Moments from a wonderful evening with filmmaker Dwayne LeBlanc in conversation with writer Harmony Holiday after a screening of LeBlanc’s trilogy of short films at , including the L.A. premiere of his new film YOU DO NOT EXIST. 🙌

Special thanks to Shelby Eggers.

Photos: .hildebrant

02/14/2026

Last Thursday, alums Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan joined us in person for the L.A. premiere of their new film REMOVAL OF THE EYE, in conversation with filmmaker Laurel Parmet . 🙌

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Photos: .hildebrant

02/09/2026

TIMECODE ⏱️📹
directed by Mike Figgis
2000, U.S., 98m, 35mm

25th anniversary screening on a 35mm print, followed by a Q&A with actress Saffron Burrows

Tuesday, March 3

doors: 7:00
film: 7:30

One of the boldest experiments ever released by a major film studio, maverick filmmaker Mike Figgis turned heads with this split-screen thriller, starring an incredible cast of A-list actors and taking place entirely in real-time as four continuous 98-minute DV takes unfold on screen. On Sunset Blvd., on the stretch between Book Soup and Dialog Café, Figgis follows a group of Hollywood executives, actors and spouses (Salma Hayek, Stellan Skarsgard, Saffron Burrows, Holly Hunter, Kyle McLachlan and many others) ahead of a major pitch meeting, as adulteries and other overlapping dramas ensue in each of their personal lives. With its improvised dialogue and elaborate structural gambit, Timecode is a relic of the turn-of-the-millenium digital boom—at the height of the crossover between the American independent and commercial film industries—and an emblem of an era when anything felt possible.

“What is the purpose of the experiment? Above all, to show it can be done… Mike Figgis is a man who lives and breathes the cinema.” -Roger Ebert

“An impressive stunt....Surprisingly breezy to watch.” -Dave Kehr

Flyer by . Special thanks to Patricia Rozema and Darrell Brett.

01/23/2026

Three by Dwayne LeBlanc: CIVIC, NOW HEAR ME GOOD, YOU DO NOT EXIST

With Dwayne LeBlanc in person, followed by a conversation with Harmony Holiday

Wednesday, February 18

doors/bar 7:30
film 8:00

Among the most exciting Los Angeles-based independent filmmakers to emerge this decade, Dwayne LeBlanc’s rigorous and hypnotic films are tactile snapshots of a life in transition, each following the travels of a single character (portrayed by Barrington Darius) between L.A. and Europe. Set in intimate spaces—the interior of a car, at a crowded party, or in the backyard—and imbuing them with a deeply felt lyricism and texture, LeBlanc’s filmmaking is filled with inspired and intuitive choices, taking a polyphonic approach to depicting community life on screen.

Widely acclaimed after screening at international film festivals, these three short films will be screening together for the first time with the filmmaker in person, including the L.A. premiere of his brand-new film YOU DO NOT EXIST, followed by a conversation with writer Harmony Holiday.

CIVIC
directed by Dwayne LeBlanc
2022, U.S., 20m, DCP

“An ideal short film… I’m unfailingly enthralled by its display of inventiveness, its dramatic scope, and its beauty—in other words, by its union of concept, substance, and style.” -Richard Brody, The New Yorker

Official Selection: 2022 International Rotterdam Film Festival

NOW, HEAR ME GOOD
directed by Dwayne LeBlanc
2025, U.S., 15m, DCP

After hosting a party in his new home abroad, a musician explores his sense of community and, in exile, rediscovers his voice.

Official Selection: 2025 International Rotterdam Film Festival

YOU DO NOT EXIST
directed by Dwayne LeBlanc
2026, U.S., 8m, DCP

L.A. premiere!

Planes carve through the sky, ferrying strangers in and out of Booker’s world, while the weight of unrealized paths stir beneath them. The sky rips open at the edge of his senses, he listens.

Official Selection: 2026 International Rotterdam Film Festival

Total runtime: approx. 60m + conversation. Special thanks to Shelby Eggers and ellie sunlight moon. Flyer by

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