Joshua Tree

Dreaming in Black and White: Control with Producer Orian Williams in Joshua Tree

Control stands apart from most music biopics because it refuses to turn Curtis into a simple icon or legend. Instead of building toward a triumphant performance or a tidy moral, the film lingers on the small spaces where Curtis’s life actually unfolded–small homes, rehearsal rooms, backstage hallways, and hospitals.

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Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present screening w/ Tyler Hubby + Live Concert

Table of the Elements Presents Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present (2016) Screening w/ Director Tyler Hubby, a Live Band Accompaniment Plus a Post-Screening Concert with Samara Lubelski, Tara Jane O’Neill, Caroline Partamian, Ellen Schloff, Brian Butler, Nicolas & Patricia Vernhes, + Hat & Beard Press Book Pop Up.

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Kenneth Anger’s “Lucifer Rising” and the Ritual of Becoming

Kenneth Anger considered cinema not as storytelling but as an act of Magick in the tradition of Aleister Crowley’s “art and science of causing change in accordance with one’s will.” The film is not meant to explain itself. Its creator believed that meaning, like ritual, is experiential; it is something the viewer feels, not interprets.

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GramFest 2025

The spirit of Cosmic American Music returns to the Joshua Tree desert this fall with the revival of GramFest: A Cosmic American Music Festival, taking place Saturday, November 22, 2025, from 3:00 PM to 10:30 PM at the Joshua Tree Cultural Center’s Blak Box Theater.

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