Join us for a one-night special event featuring 3 short documentaries by Courtney Bush, followed by a Q&A with poet Ari Lisner.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 - 7:30PM

PARIS J’I DON’T HATE YOU AS MUCH AS I DID WHEN I WAS 21
dir. Courtney Bush, 2024
USA. 54 min.
In English.

~One day, a woman crosses every bridge on the Seine with her best friend, Anne-Louise.~

As much a documentary as it is a video diary or a poetic essay, PARIS J’I DON’T HATE YOU AS MUCH AS I DID WHEN I WAS 21 finds the filmmaker-poet-comedienne traversing the titular city while examining her friendship and her own changing relationship with Paris through lenses of literature (Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge) and pop culture (The Sopranos) which deal in their own ways with the anxiety and emotion induced by the city and the overpowering aesthetic institution of “Paris.”

Screening with

HELL: A FILM ABOUT BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI
dir. Courtney Bush, 2024
USA. 18 min
In English.

In this darkly comic exploration of a small area of Biloxi, Mississippi, the filmmaker braids together local legend, a murder scandal from the 80s, and strange occurrences related to the BP oil spill and Hurricane Katrina (including a mysterious visit by the actor Kirsty Alley) as an attempt to approach her complex relationship to her hometown.

And

A DISORIENTING VIDEO OF SCOTTISH SHEEP
dir. Courtney Bush, 2024
USA. 5 min.
In English.

See title.

Courtney Bush is a poet and filmmaker from the Mississippi Gulf Coast. She is the author of the books Every Book Is About The Same Thing (Newest York Arts Press, 2022), I Love Information (Milkweed Editions, 2023), and the forthcoming A Movie (Lavender Ink, 2025). Once her homemade cinema pieces have been projected as light at least once, which symbolically completes the cycle and makes them “real movies,” they can be found on Youtube.