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