Program for the evening:

Street Fight: The TV Show (2023, Directed by Nick Hayes)

Street Fight: The TV Show is the culmination of a decade of friendship and collaboration between Bryan Quinby and Brett Payne. Dads from Ohio, they became radicalized by the brutal landscape of American Politics and found anarchism, communism, and community. Famous for talking about bad bosses, and shitty workplaces, Brett and Bryan take their unique, midwestern perspective on what it means to be on the bottom of the pile of American Capitalism and have turned it into an irreverent and hilarious sketch comedy show.

Little Lions Den (2020, Created by Nathan Ward & Alex Ward)

The shell-shocked, LSD-drenched, doomsday-prepper talk show that only America could produce. Starring Landon Lammagin and Little Diesel (played by brothers Alex and Nathan Ward respectively) the surreal sketch comedy series features inane segments, ominous life lessons, and ridiculous guests. Ultimately, the show returns most often to themes of friendship, isolation, and our civilization’s inability to make any sense.

A Partial Theory of Commodity Fetishism in 3 scenes (+epilogue) (2018, Directed by Spencer Parsons)

The products of the human brain appear as autonomous figures endowed with a life of their own. This is the fetishism which attaches itself to the products of labour as soon as they are produced as commodities. It is nothing but the definite social relation, between men, themselves, which assumes here, for them, the fantastic form of a relation between goldfish crackers, haunted furniture, and poop.

Attention Shoppers (2025, Directed by Christopher Jason Bell)

As community members shop and workers stock shelves, a mysterious announcer (played by Abby Martin) briefly details the sabotage of leftist political projects across the world.

Alt Auto (2014, Directed by Elizabeth Cambron)

Only 1.6% of mechanics are female, but this garage is run entirely by women. Alt Auto is a short documentary profiling Alternative Auto Care in Columbus Ohio. The film weaves together the imagery of rough hands and scenes of companionship to create a document of a very different labor space.

Good White People (2016, Directed by Jarrod Cann & Erick Stoll)

In the Spring of 2001, the African-American community of Over-the-Rhine in downtown Cincinnati arose in protest after unarmed 19-year-old, Timothy Thomas, was killed by a white officer named Steven Roach. In the years following, in order to allure prospective residents, Over-the-Rhine was swept into a new narrative of safety and whiteness by the creation of an arts and brewery district for the creative class. Filmed during the peak of Over-the-Rhine’s urban renewal, Good White People is a short film that follows the story of Reginald Stroud who runs a karate school and candy store in the storefronts beneath the apartment he and his family have called home for over 10 years.