Detroit's Screening Room: Rare 16mm Shorts, Two Hours on Film

Motor City Cinema Society returns to its shorts series for a fourth round, with two hours of rare live-action shorts drawn from the society's own archive. No titles are posted for this one yet, which keeps the evening a set of finds rather than a list to study beforehand. The society's own line is that these shorts are not shown together anywhere else.

The archive holds about 600 16mm films, and this program comes out of those cans instead of a distributor catalog. A Monday here reads as a set of discoveries, with odd live-action subjects that rarely share a bill. Everything goes up as 16mm film in the society's intimate room beside the Redford Theatre, with the audience close enough to react as a group.

The Screening Room sits at 17352 Lahser Road, next door to the historic Redford Theatre, with doors at 6:30 PM for the 7 PM show. Single tickets are $7.00 each on the society's checkout for this date, and tickets are also sold at the door. A season pass runs $75 for all fifteen fall screenings plus a bag of popcorn. Seating is general admission and tickets are not refundable.