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Movie night at the Rocking S! April 18th.the afternoon is for open studios, 5 pm brings experimental sound by Silent G, and starting at 7, Jenna Duncan will introduce and screen David Lynch'e most feminist film, Inland Empire! open to all, free. Come hang out with us!
Jenna Chiara Duncan is a writer, editor, podcaster, and filmmaker originally from Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Duncan holds an Ed.D in Education Leadership from Northern Arizona University; a Master’s degree in Media Studies from The New School for Social Research (New York City); an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College; and a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from University of Arizona. Her articles, essays, poems, and reviews have appeared in: Apotheka Press Literary Magazine, Echo Magazine, JAVA magazine, The Phoenix New Times, Potrero View (San Francisco), Southwest Noir anthology, Grey Alley Anthologies 1 and 2, Cream City Review and on Seattle’s Poetry on Buses.
INLAND EMPIRE:
Imagine stepping onto a film set and then realizing you can’t step off—that your identity is just another role being watched, rewritten, and consumed. That’s the unsettling core of INLAND EMPIRE, a film in which auteur David Lynch fractures reality through the dual performance of Laura Dern as Nikki, a fading Hollywood star, and Susan, her degraded, marginalized double, blurring the line between actress and character, fantasy and punishment. As timelines collapse and narratives loop through cursed film production sets, travels through time and space, and phantastic, surreal dream-like life interruptions—the film becomes less a story and more an experience of psychological disintegration, exposing how Hollywood constructs and discards women based on their desirability. When the gaze disappears, identity itself begins to erode. Within that collapse of the Ego emerges a strange, subversive thread of female solidarity that resists objectification, leaving us with a haunting question: if women's lives are performances shaped by who’s watching, then who are we, truly, when no one is there to watch?
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3133 E Sheridan St, Phoenix, AZ, United States, Arizona 85008
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