Thursday, November 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
WHAMMY!, Los Angeles
Three aimless millennials in a go-nowhere band are recruited as willing pawns by a shadow revolution, an insurrection led by an unlikely anti-government cabal of Buddhist sovereign citizens, telepathic Native American separatists, hardline Rastafas spearheaded by the dreadlocked King Alpha, and AR-toting doomsday preppers. Their mission: to find and execute **[names redacted]**. Dosed with the nihilistic punk DNA of Lizzie Borden’s *Born in Flames* and Fassbinder’s *The Third Generation*, *Empty Metal* tosses scraps of our everyday dystopia into its psychic soup, serving up a present that shades into science fiction, studded with details of the daylight world returning with the clarity of a nightmare. (Video Data Bank) **dirs. Adam Khalil & Bayley Sweitzer, 2018***United States, digital projection*83 mins ## 7:30 DOORS8:00 SCREENING