BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS // True/False @ Stray Cat

dir. Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross // 2020 // 1 hr 38 min // Digital Projection

True/False Film Festival, an internationally recognized film festival tucked into the heart of Cooumbia, Missouri is dropping by for a night thhat blurs the line between truth and fiction! And we thought the best way to do that would be to bring in one of their past favorites (and never screened in KC) BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS and a chance to win some free passes to the next True/False Film Festival!

On the eve of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and on its final night before closing, a Las Vegas dive bar becomes a stage where its employees and barflies commiserate one last time. Filmmaking brothers Bill and Turner Ross train their keenly observed quasi-fiction on the lived-in atmosphere of a haunt, whose massed warmth and love conceal its patron’s worries—at least for a little while. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets is a carefully constructed yet oddly affecting record of an American sensibility at once straining to survive and ready for the end.

Host or Publisher Stray Cat Film Center