Gramps Movies Presents: Strange Powers

GRAMPS MOVIES PRESENTS:

STRANGE POWERS: STEPHIN MERRITT AND THE MAGNETIC FIELDS

FILM SCREENING

SEPTEMBER 21, 2025

4PM

$11

21+

SHIRLEY’S THEATER(INSIDE OF GRAMPS WYNWOOD)

176 NW 24TH ST

MIAMI FL 33127

Ten years in the making, Strange Powers is an intimate documentary portrait of songwriter Stephin Merritt and his band the Magnetic Fields.

With his unique gift for memorable melodies, lovelorn lyrics and wry musical stylings that blend classic Tin Pan Alley with modern sounds, Stephin Merritt has distinguished himself as one of contemporary pop’s most beloved and influential artists. Both a prolific recording artist and composer of theater and film scores, he performs most famously as the

Magnetic Fields, whose 1999 three-disc opus 69 Love Songs is widely considered a masterpiece of traditional song craft and irresistible synthpop.

Strange Powers explores Merritt’s songwriting and recording process, and focuses on his relationships with his bandmates and his longtime manager, Claudia Gonson revealing an artist who has produced one of the most engaging and confounding bodies of work in the contemporary American songbook.

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