Reel World
The Dark returns

Dark Matters Film Festival—
Dark Matters Film Festival—
Avokado Artists and the National Hispanic Cultural Center will present a special, fundraising event for !Globalquerque!, Albuquerque’s annual celebration of world music. This Friday, Sept. 11, at 7:30pm, DakhaBrakha, Ukraine’s musical “Ambassadors of Ethnic Chaos,” will be performing a live score to Aleksandr Dovzhenko’s restored 1930 classic Earth (Zemlya). The silent film concerns the efforts of rural Kulak farmers to resist collectivism in post-revolution Russia. The movie/concert will take place at the Albuquerque Journal Theatre (1701 Fourth Street SW). Tickets are $22 and are available in advance through vendini.com.
Cult actress and internet icon Felicia Day (star of “The Guild,” “Supernatural” and Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog) will be at the Jean Cocteau Cinema (418 Montezuma) in Santa Fe this Sunday, Sept. 13. Starting at 6pm Day will sign copies of her new memoir, You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost). Admission to the event is $10 or free with hardcover book purchase ($25.99). To learn more about the event, go to jeancocteaucinema.
Indie Q, the Albuquerque Film Office’s quarterly celebration of local filmmaking, returns to the KiMo Theatre (423 Central NW) on Wednesday, Sept. 16. From 7 to 9pm, the KiMo will screen a collection of New Mexico-made shorts, trailers and works-in-progress. Among this go-around’s offerings are selections from the recent 48 Hour Film Project. For more info go to indieq.ning.com.