The Thousands

When The King of the White People, Dave Eggers, inaugurated Wholphin, the DVD anthology of moving picture ephemera, it was with the intention of releasing short fiction films and documentaries from the bondage of the snooty film festival circuit. All those haughty aesthetes with their top hats and monocles. No. Thanks.

What turns all this into some kind of zen koan is the thought that perhaps the comfort of your living room and plasmo hi-demolition screen is a ghetto all its own. Isn’t film best enjoyed with others? Preferably with people just as good-looking and intelligent as yourself and the ready availability of beer, whiskey and more beer? Yes it is. Which is why Speakeasy Cinema is screening issue 14 of Wholphin in its entirety at the FBi Social.

Here’s the exclamation-mark-riddled nineteenth-century-carnival-hawker pitch:

Polyamorous perversity! The secret life of the inside of your mouth! A gazelle in Palestine! Cats and mice living together! The fabulous Zellner Brothers! A journey into the dark heart of nuclear disaster! Will Oldham tells you a bedtime story (with spooky results)! And so much more, folks.

Plus I hear the DJ playing before and during the interval is FBi’s Kate Jinx. And she’s great!