SHAKEDOWN

Showings

THEATER 2 Sat, Feb 24 8:45 PM
LOW TICKET ALERT
Film Info
Runtime:72
Release Year:2018
Production Country:USA
Original Language:English
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Leilah Weinraub
Screenwriter:Leilah Weinraub

Description

In SHAKEDOWN—a film with the rare distinction of at one point being simultaneously available on both the Criterion Channel and Pornhubconceptual artist Leilah Weinraub’s documents the vibrant and provocative world of the eponymous L.A.’s Black, lesbian underground strip club. With the tenderness of a home movie, Weinraub provides a window into the world of Shakedown, which was owned and operated by women, illegal in nature, and a place of sexual empowerment and community. An exploration of desire, identity, and resistance, hailed by Cinema Scope as “a queer cultural intervention on par with PARIS IS BURNING, without the touristic undertones,” SHAKEDOWN captures the propulsive, dreamlike atmosphere of a haven of sexual freedom.