The Headless Cowboy is a rockabilly satire merging music and performance with the visual strengths of theatre, dance and video bringing a fresh, comedic look at a heart-breaking tragedy in a multi-disciplinary performance by three of Alberta’s most sought-after artists. The Headless Cowboy explores the nature of belief in a compelling tale. The titular Cowboy seeks revenge against Dead Man who shot off his head and kidnapped his girl – Cry Baby. Meanwhile, the alien Ginger with Knives is collecting sperm samples to start a human petting zoo.

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SaBooge transports us beyond the seas to the sun-parched tedium of Hobart Town, an infant colony farther from civilization than the moon. When a traveling naturalist discovers the colony’s incredible secret, a convict mother and her extraordinary son break their silence, taking on the local gentry, its fundamentalist bigots, and the naturalist’s earth-shattering claim, in an attempt to save the lives they have worked so hard to keep hidden. Fathom is a mesmerizing and engrossing tale of expectation and tragedy set in colonial Tasmania, a god-forsaken land that time and progress have long forgotten.

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YU-FO by Theatre Replacement that brings together an exciting group of collaborators to further the company’s artistic practice and creation methodology. Conceived and written by Theatre Replacement’s artistic director Maiko Bae Yamamoto, YU-FO follows the interactions one fateful night between a Canadian man and the mysterious Japanese woman he encounters at a side-of-the-road diner off the breathtaking Sea-to-Sky highway in BC.

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Screening: Saturday, September 1

Set on the Mississippi River in the old side-wheeler days, Steamboat Bill Jr. follows the adventures of a spoiled young man forced by his crusty father to learn the ropes of river boating. The film’s crowning achievement is its hurricane climax.

Eye of Newt provides a touching and beautiful live soundtrack that brings this comic masterpiece to life.

NOSFERATU, EINE SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS (1922)

Screening: Sunday, September 2

Nosferatu is that rare creature, a truly frightening and disturbing horror epic. An unauthorized production of Bram Stoker’s work Dracula, the legal heirs didn’t give their permission so the names had to be changed. But this wasn’t enough: The widow of Bram Stoker won two lawsuits in which she demanded the destruction of all copies of the movie, however copies of it were already too widespread to destroy them all.

Featuring the renowned improvisational musicians, The Silent Summer Nights Monster Orchestra.

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