Acropolis welcomes James N. Kienitz Wilkins for three screenings of the director's new feature The Misconcieved—once on 35mm, on July 9 at Brain Dead Studios, and twice digitally, on July 10 and 11 at Now Instant Image Hall—as well as a special matinee of The Plagiarists on July 11 at 2220 Arts + Archives.

About the film:

Co-written by experimental filmmakers James N. Kienitz Wilkins and Robin Schavoir, The Plagiarists is at once a hilarious send-up of low-budget American indie filmmaking and a probing inquiry into race, relationships, and the social uncanny. A young novelist (Lucy Kaminsky) and her cinematographer boyfriend (Eamon Monaghan) are waylaid by a snowstorm on their way to visit a friend in upstate New York and are taken in by the kindly yet enigmatic Clip (Michael “Clip” Payne of Parliament Funkadelic), who puts them up for the night. But an accidental discovery months later recasts in an unnerving light what had seemed like an agreeable evening, stoking resentments both latent and not-so-latent. Exhilaratingly intelligent and distinctively shot on a vintage TV-news camera, The Plagiarists is a work whose provocations are inseparable from its pleasures.

TRT: 76 min

In person: Peter Parlow