Light Industry — Local services in New York

Light Industry doesn’t just show films—it believes in them. The kind that don’t always fit in a theater. The kind that unravel slowly, spill past the edge of the frame, ask you to meet them halfway in the dark. This was Prismatic Ground, a night of experimental documentary but really it felt like a séance. The screen lit up and things moved through us—memories, gestures, ghosts.

People stood in silence after some of the pieces. Not awkward, just altered. We drank Modelo from cans like communion. The bar was open but the real intoxication was in the grain, the scratches, the voices layered like paint. Images that don’t stop when the...

“NONE OF MY FILMS WILL EVER PLAY HERE. NEVER.” -- Chantal Ackerman on Light Industry, 2012

"The programmers tried to defend themselves; they spoke of alternative film spaces throughout history I thought of Henri Langlois, who staged legendary film screenings in his staircase. They tried to move Akerman away from a dichotomy and into a difference of opinion, but Akerman wasn’t having it. “It is my opinion and it is true,” she declared, “If Michael knew … if he knew how his art was being treated … I think he will die! If he saw this, he...

The day we went to Light Industry the sky opened up and rain came down to earth as it can only come down to the earth in NY: from all directions! So we arrived completely soaked and the person in front of me was a mountain of man in a white t shirt but then after all this we Saw the most amazing Japanese animation films...