Mezzanine presents the LA premiere of Hot Ticket (1993), a 2 min film by Zoë Lund (1962-1999), newly restored by Stephanie LaCava and Manon Lutanie, and A Conversation with Zoë Lund, an unreleased interview shot and conducted with Lund in 1997 by independent filmmaker Douglas Buck. With readings of Lund’s unreleased teenage poetry.

Hot Ticket is the only existing film by Zoë Lund. Written and directed in three days on the occasion of the Rotterdam Film Festival in 1993, it features Lund stepping out of a cinema to enter the real world. She stops at the box office to buy a ticket, before rushing into the night.

“Hot Ticket constitutes a visual apologue. Like everything Zoë created (for instance her performance in Ms .45, the script of Bad Lieutenant, and her unpublished novel trilogy 490), it returns us to the most naked and vivid state of existential necessity.” –Nicole Brenez, Senses of Cinema

Looking cool as can be, chain-smoking her brown slims, a relaxed and erudite Lund sits in a quiet loft in NY's Garment District expounding not only on her experiences making Abel Ferrara's NY classic Bad Lieutenant, including her continued oft-rocky relationship with the film's director, but on her career, on art and on cinema in general. Excerpts from a longer 90 minute interview.

Poems presents four unpublished poems by American writer and actress Zoë Lund (1962–1999), written in the 1980s. An incandescent voice emerges, revealing the might, sincerity, and precision of her expression, as well as her vulnerability and defiance in the face of death. This is the first publication dedicated to her work.

With an introduction by Stephanie LaCava
Edited and translated into French by Stephanie LaCava and Manon Lutanie

Please note: seating is limited. Box Office opens thirty minutes prior to the listed showtime. Online ticket sales will be honored up until 15 minutes after the scheduled showtime. In-store ticket purchases are subject to availability, first-come, first-served. We do not operate a standby list.