Sunday, October 18, 2026 at 8:00 PM
WHAMMY!, Los Angeles
## Part of the 2026 Circa: Queer Histories Festival, presented by One Institute. Angel's Body Temperature (天使の体温, 2001) opens on Aketo, a 20-year-old Tokyo college student with a lover, Hiroshi, who lives in Kyoto. They ache. They wander. When a young woman named Harumi drifts into Aketo's orbit and into his apartment, the film wallows in nostalgia and alienation. Shot on digital video with a grainy, restless texture - like a relic too quickly-forgotten on VHS. Directed by Akihiro Suzuki, Angel's Body Temperature belongs to a body of Japanese queer cinema from the late 1990s and early 2000s that has remained almost entirely invisible to Western audiences - a lost chapter of New Queer Cinema unfolding parallel to the movement's celebrated American and European counterparts. Suzuki's film shares that era's preoccupation with young men adrift in cities. Outside of directing, Suzuki notably programmed New Queer Cinema for Japan and even co-produced Latin Boys Go to Hell. The screening will be introduced by Dakota Noot, who contributed a commentary track to the film's recent North American Blu-ray release from Kani Releasing. A Q&A will follow, along with a virtual interview with director Akihiro Suzuki, offering rare direct access to a filmmaker whose work is only now finding the audience it deserves. **dir. Akihiro Suzuki, 2001***Japan, digital projection*82 min ## Sunday, 10/187:30 DOORS8:00 SCREENING ## $10 general admission. ***Basic*** *&* ***Microcinephile*** *members, please log-in to your account at checkout for your discounts to apply*.* Don't have a membership? Get one* *[here](https://shop.whammyanalog.com/pages/get-a-membership)*. **Dakota Noot** is a Los Angeles-based artist and curator. He uses drawings, paintings, and installations to create animal-human hybrids that explore rural yet fantastical, queer identities. Originally from Bismarck, North Dakota, he continues to show in both North Dakota and Los Angeles, including solo and two-person shows at Highways Performance Space, MuzeuMM, and PØST. Noot has exhibited in group shows at Charlie James Gallery, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Torrance Art Museum and “Queer Biennial: What if Utopia?” at LAST Projects. His series of cutout drawing-installations have been shown at Art in Odd Places, LA Freewaves, Cerritos College Art Gallery, and Otis College. Noot has been featured in Hi-Fructose magazine. Outside of art-making, Noot has a dedication to pinku-eiga (pink film). He co-hosts a podcast on pink film, titled Two in the Pinku. Noot is currently writing a book a gay pinku (barazoku). He has contributed booklet essays, video essays, and audio commentaries to Vinegar Syndrome, Klubb Super 8, and 88 Films. *****Whammy!*** *is located at* **1***2***00 N Alvarado St***, near the intersection of Sunset & Alvarado and in between Tierra Mia Coffee and Manly & Sons Barbershop. Street parking only, please* ***do not park*** ***in the library parking lot****, as your vehicle will get locked in when the library closes. The corner of Sunset & Alvarado is served by 3 major bus lines*, the** 2, the ***4****, and the* ***93.***