Tethered to the Ether

Name: Tethered to the Ether
Start: 2025-10-30T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Casket Arts

Schedule

Thu, 30 Oct, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Casket Arts | Minneapolis, MN

Dear Friends of Casket Cinema,
Casket Cinema goes down the rabbit hole just before Halloween with local MN filmmaker Micheal Thomsen’s “Tethered to the Ether”. Thomsen is a NE Mpls assemblage artist and filmmaker. The film is his biggest and most intricate work of art yet — a moving collage filled with beautiful blink-and-you’ll-miss-it details, decadent vignettes, handmade props, masks and miniature sets, camera-in-camera Easter eggs and so much more. The director spins a dark, mesmerizing tale that’s as psychologically nerve wracking as it is beautifully surreal. His distinctive style is Baroque contemporary and its’ central to the film’s production design aesthetic. It’s blended with a hypnotic score composed by Thomsen himself, with additional musical interludes by Mike Gunther, Nico V. Isotalo, and Waveless. This film will play on October 30th at 8pm. The special guest will be the director himself, Michael Thomsen, he will converse with Casket Cinema co-founder Mark Wojahn via zoom after the screening. This will be a very special event.
What: the film “Tethered to the Ether”
The Cinema will open its doors at 7:30pm and the film will begin at 8pm.

When: October 30th at 8pm, doors at 7:30pm. Film at 8pm.

Where: Casket Cinema is located in the art studio of Mark Wojahn. The cinema is in the old Northwestern Casket Building, 681 17th Ave NE #145, Minneapolis, MN 55413, (612)568-3178.
Cost: Donation of $15-20 will go to pay the filmmaker.
Special guests: Director Michael Thomsen, will converse with Casket Cinema co-founder Mark Wojahn via zoom after the screening.
Film’s website: https://filmfreeway.com/TetheredtotheEther
Reviews: https://www.mplsart.com/written/2024/03/worth-a-look-tethered-to-the-ether
Awards wins:
Winner of the Hallucinea Film Fest: Best Experimental Film
Winner "Best No Budget Film" at the Transparent Film Festival in NYC
Winner "Best Experimental Film" at the Berlin Indie Film Festival.
Please bring friends and BYOB. Admission is usually by donation unless noted.
We are a micro/studio-cinema dedicated to showing the best in independent films and documentaries. After each screening we delve into the subject with a Q& A with special guests and/or filmmakers.
Please Rsvp and get more info to get to this screening at the Casket Cinema Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/groups/Casketcinema
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As always please BYOB!
see yah,
Mark & Wilbur
dudes at Casket Cinema
http://www.casketcinema.com
Next up at Casket Cinema
10/2/25- “The Films of Craig Baldwin” with special guest director Craig Baldwin on zoom (Digital)
10/30/25-”Tethered To The Ether” with special guest director MN’s Michael Thomsen at Casket Arts (HD)
12/4/25- “Stories from Ground Zero” Palestine documentary (HD)
1/15/2026- “Videos of Mike Rivard” St.Paul Filmmaker & Educator (Digital)
2/5/26 “The Ann Arbor Film Fest” at MCAD (the Minneapolis College of Art & Design) (HD)
3/12/26- “16mm Trailer Explosion” with MN curator Mark Har (16mm) 4/2026- Go to the Minneapolis Intl. Film Festival!
5/16/2026- “The Dance Is Not Over”with special guest director Mark Wojahn & participant Patrick Scully, screens at Art-A-Whirl in Casket Cinema at Studio 145. (HD)