Adam Green’s ALADDIN — Adam Green In Person!

The Philosophical Research Society proudly welcomes songwriter, filmmaker, visual artist and poet Adam Green, as he joins us in person for the LA premiere of the the theatrical re-release of his singular, hilarious, and deliciously trippy modern cult classic ALADDIN (2016)!

A key figure — as one half of The Moldy Peaches — in New York’s early aughts anti-folk scene and an acclaimed singer-songwriter, Green proved himself to also be a wholly unique auteur behind the camera with his second feature film, a hyper-sensory, poetic, and humorously modern take on the Arabian Nights Classic tale, shot entirely on papier mache sets — resembling a Jodorowsky film made out of cardboard. The film revolves around Aladdin's dysfunctional family, who live in a "Regular Town" ruled by a corrupt Sultan with a decadent socialite daughter. When Aladdin finds a 3-D printing lamp, we are taken on a journey that explores technology, government repression, greed, and true love.

Starring Macaulay Culkin, Natasha Lyonne, Alia Shawkat, Jack Dishel, Francesco Clemente, and Green himself in the titular role, the immersive and subversive fantasy was described by Buzzfeed.com as “the trippiest movie ever made,” while RogerEbert.com called Aladdin “a movie that belongs inside a museum.” An instant cult hit, the movie was screened theatrically in a midnight movie context, at over a hundred of Green’s concerts around the world, as well as the Andy Warhol Museum in Philadelphia.

Post-screening Q&A with Adam Green!

Dir. Adam Green, 2016, 82mins, Unrated - ADULT AUDIENCES ONLY, Digital.

ABOUT ADAM GREEN

Adam Green is an artistic polymath— a songwriter, filmmaker, visual artist, and poet. As part of New York’s downtown antifolk scene at the end of the nineties, Green made up one half of The Moldy Peaches, who later enjoyed mainstream success via the 2007 Grammy-winning Juno soundtrack. As a solo artist, Green has recorded 10 albums, many of which have become cult hits. His songs have been performed by artists as diverse as The Libertines, Carla Bruni, Kelly Willis, Dean & Britta, and Will Oldham. His 2005 record Gemstones went Gold in Europe.

His second feature film, Adam Green’s Aladdin (2016) — an immersive fantasy film starring Macaulay Culkin, Natasha Lyonne, Alia Shawkat, Jack Dishel and Francesco Clemente and shot entirely on papier-mache sets — was described by Buzzfeed.com as “the trippiest movie ever made,” while RogerEbert.com called Aladdin “a movie that belongs inside a museum.” An instant cult hit, the movie was screened theatrically in a midnight movie context, at over a hundred of Green’s concerts around the world, as well as the Andy Warhol Museum in Philadelphia.

After first publishing a bilingual volume of his poetry with Suhrkamp Verlag, Green’s newest book War and Paradise is a graphic novel that combines his lyrical and visual vocabulary. The satirical war epic is about the clash of humans with machines, the meeting of spirituality with singularity, and the bidirectional relationship between life and the afterlife. Green’s 10th solo album, Engine of Paradise, is a musical exploration of these same themes. Recorded in Brooklyn, New York, by Loren Humphrey, the forthcoming album reimagines the baroque orchestral style of his early 2000s era records and features performances by James Richardson (MGMT), Florence Welch (Florence and the Machine) and Jonathan Rado (Foxygen).

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