Brainwash

2021 27th Annual Brainwash Movie Festival Program!

The 27th Annual Brainwash Drive-In/Bike-In/Walk-In Movie Festival

Each night from Friday, October 15th – Sunday Oct. 17th, 2021 All shows @ 8:30pm

A rarefied and unique event: A drive-in movie festival high in the eastern California Sierra Mountains! Screening the weird, unusual and significantly great (but, probably, unheralded) movies of the world for the past 26 years. Nothin’ like it!

At The New Nimby Project

434-860 Doyle Loop

Doyle, California 96109

(Across from the Buck Inn)

 

Tickets $12ea. per show. Big Discounts on Groupon!



Friday, Oct. 15th


At Home She’s a Tourist –
David Andrews
 
Aliens on Halloween – Riker Lynch

Saving North – J. Mitchell Johnson

       
                   
Saturday, Oct. 16th


Dash McCabe – Robert Pace
 
The Fuzzies – Josh Funk
 
Man on the Moon –
Sean Conway
 
Oh, For a Pack of Gum –
Malcolm Mills
   
As Good As Dead –
Dave Reda
 
Peace In War – John Case
 
Pleasant Valley Drive In –
Brian Zahm
 
ZugZwang –
Alireza Mohammadi
 
Antenna Farm – John Akre
 
Ouroboros – Heather Knott
 
Safe Passage (for Sheila) –
Erin Fussell
 
Survivers –
Carlos Gómez-Trigo
 
Swipe – Anthony Sneed
 
Vegetarian’s Lament –
Eric Maierson
 
Earsie – Erin Greenwell
 
Melissa Is Dead –
Matthew Ragsdale
 
an entombing(dis)entombing
Adam E. Stone
                                                            

                                                             
Sunday, Oct. 17th


Мы/We – Ivan Lopatin

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Brainwash thanks our generous sponsors!


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And many thanks to the following contributors — past, present, and future:

Founders: Shelby Toland, Dave Krzysik, Barbara Traub & Scott Arford
Exec. Producer: Duncan Maddux
2019 judges: Linda Lord, Dave Krzysik, Kamala and Shelby Toland

Special Thanks to:
Neil Kaplan, David Sutera, Mike Snook and Nimby, Amy Stabler, Dionne Stevens, Jason Gohlke, (General Partner Emeritus), Ron Baker, Simon Lang, Michael Mohr, Jalal Elhayek, Steve Mobia, Bekah Barnett, Ben the awesome fiddle and banjo player, Doug Campbell, Mark McGothigan, Gary Nakamoto, Dave Reda, Emmanuel Jonas, Steven DeCaprio, Sarah Fisher, Yvette Hochberg, Andy Kirk, D.J. Neel N. Kizmiaz, Lillian Phaeton, Bev Reiser, The Rhythmic Revolution, Hal Robins, Betty Tweedy, Jonathan Logan, Jesse Block, Ed Holmes, Vikki Vaden, Mark States, Victor Ho, John Law, The SF Cacophony Society, (we're on pgs. 230-231), Scott Beale, Rob Schmidt, J.D. Boggmann, Mr. Mystic, M2, Burning Man, Phil Shuey, Kathy Vaquilar, Annie Coulter, Mike Dingle, SomArts, Jabari Herbert, Monsa, Phil Snyder, Mark Thimijian, ALL of our moviemakers! and, in memoriam to Michael Hawk and Les Blank, whose movies live on.

Theme Music for the Festival and Big Weird Time Webisodes: Traffic Man, written by Dave Krzysik & Ed Bullins.
Performed by:
Hot Tub Man: Benny Lewis, Joe Shelby, Gaylord Birch, Nik Phelps, Joe McKinley, & Dave Krzysik. Hot Tub Man, with a different line-up, also performed Find Your Place, moviemaker Scott Bartlett's last movie.

Not To Mention The Doggie Diner Dogheads:

Chill.