view the trailer: citizencinema.net/9-at-night/

View Roxie Film Center show times and buy tickets now »

View Rafael Film Center show times and buy tickets »

View the entire 9 @ Night SF Bay Area premiere schedule »

"Nilsson's films are beautiful, exciting, imaginative, unfamiliar-- and outside of that, very good." - John Cassavetes

For the first time on the West Coast, Bay Area filmmaker Rob Nilsson, the first American director to win both the Camera d'Or at Cannes and the Grand Prize at Sundance, presents the complete 9 @ Night, a series of nine feature films he produced over the last decade in collaboration with the Tenderloin yGroup, an inner-city acting and production workshop Nilsson developed in the San Francisco Tenderloin. With a "Direct Action" aesthetic influenced by the pioneering work of John Cassavetes, and a structure inspired by Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue, the nine black-and-white films have individual and independent stories, but they share recurring characters and interrelated themes.

"For 30 years, San Francisco-based Rob Nilsson has been serving as the conscience and agent-provocateur of low-budget American independent filmmaking," writes critic and historian Ray Carney, who also observes that Nilsson "has devoted his cinematic career to presenting the sorts of sociological realities, interpersonal interactions and emotional transactions that have been screened out of big-budget, mainstream American film."

Learn more about the 9 @ Night Film Series and view the trailer »

The Roxie Film Center will screen the nine films in their chronological order from Aug. 29 - Sept. 4, followed by the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center Sept. 5 - 11.

View Roxie Film Center show times and buy tickets now »

View Rafael Film Center show times and buy tickets »

Rob Nilsson and members of the Tenderloin yGroup will be present for post-screening Q & A's.

Wednesday, September 3

6:45: SCHEME C6 Bid (Cory Duval) is a self-styled rebel on a motorcycle determined to prove to his father Qually (Bruce Marovich), a 30-year veteran of the San Francisco Police Department, that he can live outside the law, without family, friends or even a place to stay. With Monica Cortes Viharo, David Fine. (US 2001) 97 min.

9:00: NEED Jane (Marianne Heath) is a stripper, her mother Lou (Brette McCabe) an aging prostitute defying the pimps. Petite (Diane Gaidry) robs johns, and Francesca (Gabriel Maltz Larkin) manages an escort service. In a profession that thrives on fantasy and martyrdom, these four women struggle to hold on to their reasons for caring for each other. (US 2005) 97 min.

Thursday, September 4

6:45: PAN Ex-convict Pan (Kieron McCartney) tries to father a group of street people in a homeless encampment by the railroad. Into their lives comes Bobby (Nighttrain Schickele), a lonely latchkey kid who follows Pan out there. Critic David Templeton writes: "Pan makes heartrending visual poetry out of the iconic images of trains and railroad tracks... " (US 2006) 96 min.

9:00: GO TOGETHER - The culmination of the series takes self-referential and expressionistic curves, as a couple (Denny Dey and Michelle Anton Allen) struggle with the survival of both their marriage and the failing Oakland art cinema they own... ironically showing the 9 @ Night movies. Homeless gather in the alleys, and the theater itself wants to speak to them. (US 2007) 100 min.

View the entire 9 @ Night SF Bay Area premiere schedule »

Learn more about the 9 @ Night Series »

Post a comment on the official SF Bay Area Premiere page »