Future Language : The Dimensions of VON LMO (2018) by Lori Felker

Doors: 7:30pm

Movie: 8pm

**Lori Felker will join us via video conference for Q&A**

FUTURE LANGUAGE: The Dimensions of VON LMO is a distorted portrait of an artist that explores storytelling, ego, delusion, conviction and memory. VON LMO is a musician/artist and self-proclaimed alien-hybrid who was a part of the late 70s New York No Wave music scene. Between trips to his home planet of Strazar and multi-dimensional travel, VON has also spent some very real time in Pr*son and on the streets of Earth. Challenged with translating his Future Language for audiences across the galaxy, Lori, our filmmaker and VON LMO fan, gets sucked into VON's orbit and finds herself lost in his story.

"Felker’s film is an affectionate portrait of stubborn persistence, rather than mere hagiography, as so many music docs tend to be. It’s as subjective and idiosyncratic a piece of work in its own way as the dark star at its center." Aquarium Drunkard - Dmitry Samarov

“Future Language could be the creaky, freaky vehicle to lift Von LMO out of obscurity.” The Stranger - Dave Segal

“Felker’s film, eight years in the making, is an impressive work of both archaeology and craftsmanship that uses every stylistic trick in the book—from archival footage to animation—to chronicle Von LMO’s many rises and falls; but the director's masterstroke was allowing the true subject of the movie to become her complicated friendship with this weirdo. Future Language is as much a thorny love letter from one eccentric artist to another as it is a warts-and-all portrait of a gifted musician haunted by demons of his own making.” Time Out Chicago - Michael Smith

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