9 @ Night Film Series — Tenderloin Museum
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9 @ Night Film Series
Rob Nilsson’s epic 9-film cycle made in collaboration with the Tenderloin yGroup screens in 2026
Tenderloin Museum screens director Rob Nilsson’s epic cycle of 9 Tenderloin feature films in its entirety.
Full Series Tickets
Here
| Individual Film Descriptions & Tickets below
9 interconnected feature films, spun from the world of the Tenderloin and featuring TL denizens inhabiting their characters and improvising the scripts, are framed by the poetic vision and prolific practice of iconoclast director
Rob Nilsson
. His ambitious
9 @ Night
cycle achieves a deep exploration of the human condition
and
stands as a rich chronicle of the Tenderloin–the physical place, its people, their existential struggles, sorrows and joys.
Independently produced, the series is an epic feat of cinema in terms of both craft & concept.
9 @ Night
is the fruit of Nilsson’s nearly 2-decade collaboration with the
Tenderloin yGroup
, an acting workshop embedded in the neighborhood and operating with Nilsson’s creative method of “Direct Action,” which he describes as “
a cinema of the moment which lives off the land to discover the relationship between what we think we want and what is actually there
.” The films and the process that created them (as well as their life after completion) are a tremendous synthesis of art-making, community, and the culture of the Tenderloin both real and imagined.
The Tenderloin Museum is proud to present the
9 @ Night
series in its entirety, screened salon-style with Nilsson (and guests) in-person, offering a rare opportunity to see the complete film cycle in “the land” where it was forged. For lovers of San Francisco on-screen, gritty filmic realism, character driven dramas, consider
9 @ Night
an essential opus in the canon of Tenderloin-alia!
This rare, complete presentation of
9 @ Night
is part of a broader retrospective of Nilsson’s work happening around the Bay Area. Nilsson has been collaborating with fellow filmmaker
Zhan Petrov
to digitally restore his films—nearly 50 features over a 5 decade career!—and to organize the artist’s full oeuvre via a new and interactive website:
RobNilssonArtForms.com
. Visit the site for info on other nearby opportunities to view Nilsson’s films with the artist in person!
About Rob Nilsson:
Rob Nilsson is the first American film director to win both the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival (NORTHERN LIGHTS, 1979) and the Grand Prize at the Sundance Film Festival (HEAT AND SUNLIGHT (1988). His work as a filmmaker, poet, painter, essayist, and film critic explores “the way things seem to be” in the joys and sorrows of everyday people. Born and raised in familial, social and political systems they struggle to find their way as unique individuals. This dilemma creates the paradoxes and contradictions Nilsson sees at the root of the artist’s mission.
Praise for
9 @ Night:
“If pressed, many cinephiles would admit a magnetic attraction to truly magnum opuses: whether crafted by Tarr, Rohmer, Rivette or Syberberg, the mere existence of such titanic features or multi-film cycles suggests an important artistic event. There’s nothing quite like the exhilaration of discovering a huge project that in cinematic terms reaches for the extra-wide narrative/cinematic embrace of
The Brothers Karamazov
, Proust, even
Infinite Jest
. But does anyone work with that kind of scope in contemporary American cinema? Meet Rob Nilsson, who with very little self-promotional zeal has spend the last dozen- plus years creating a fascinating collection of exquisitely shot digital features under the umbrella of
9 @ Night
… a sprawling black and white tapestry of separate but overlapping feature narratives that encompass a broad character scroll of homeless, hustling and bourgeois types in San Francisco and environs.” – Dennis Harvey, Film Comment, Sept./Oct. Issue, 2008
+
Read Ray Carney’s superlative essay surveying
9 @ Night
for the Harvard Film Archive.
UPCOMING 9 @ NIGHT PROGRAMS:
May 7, 2026
Rob Nilsson’s “CHALK” (1996) + Zhan Petrov's "HOW I SEE" (2025)
May 7, 2026
Rob Nilsson’s
CHALK
(1996)
Film screening & post-show discussion + Zhan Petrov’s
HOW I SEE
Thursday, May 7, 2026 | 6:00-9:00 PM
6:00pm DOORS +
HOW I SEE
(2025, 15 mins) / 6:30pm
CHALK
(1996, 140 mins)
at Tenderloin Museum, 398 Eddy St., SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members |
Register via Humanitix
TC (Kelvin Han Yee), a Korean pool prodigy, dominates the local talent, but his brother (Johnnie Reese) sets up a match with ruthless, gambling tournament player Dorian James (Don Bajema) that has dire stakes for their family and local hall. Will TC fold?
Maverick filmmaker Rob Nilsson returns to TLM for a revival screening of
CHALK
, his 1996 pool-hustling film cast from the Tenderloin Action Group, his long-running acting workshop that mingled TL denizens and local performers. Set in 1990s Richmond, CA at the hardscrabble Crabtree pool hall,
CHALK
marries high-stakes billiards with family drama of Shakespearean scope.
A post-show discussion will feature Nilsson, longtime production manager Mira Larkin, Tenderloin Action Group co-founders Rand Crook and Ethan Sing, as well as professional pool player Billy Aguero, aka “Billy the Kid,” who designed the pool matches in the movie.
Click here for more info.
“It is not just one more ‘Hustler’ clone, but a plunge into the hermetic world these characters have created and inhabit.”
— Roger Ebert
May 7, 2026
PAST 9 @ NIGHT PROGRAMS:
Feb
26
Feb 26, 2026
GO TOGETHER - Film 9 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 26, 2026
Thursday February 26 , 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm
at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members |
Register via Humanitix
$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available
at this link
.
Film #9 in Rob Nilsson’s Tenderloin epic
9 @ Night
.
The sinking fortunes of an Oakland art cinema mirrors a shaky marriage. Michelle wants to program high minded films while her co-owner husband prefers "vintage porn" promoted by St. Tre, owner of a strip club and escort service. St. Tre's boy friend Ben Malafide, a recent inmate, begins to think life in prison is preferable to the "freedoms" of polite society. Bills pile up, homeless people begin to camp outside the theatre and, oddest of all, the theatre itself begins to speak.
Feb 26, 2026
Feb
24
Feb 24, 2026
PAN - Film 8 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 24, 2026
Tuesday February 24 , 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm
at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members |
Register via Humanitix
$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available
at this link
.
Film #8 in director Rob Nilsson’s
9 @ Night
film cyc
le. Bobby is a latch-key kid, a lonely 9 year old boy who plays at home as his single mother works to support them. Pan. an ex-convict tries to father a dysfunctional family of street people in an encampment by the railroad tracks. He tries to teach Bobby about life on the streets but violent consequences await those who challenge society's taboos.
Feb 24, 2026
Feb
19
Feb 19, 2026
NEED - Film 7 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 19, 2026
Thursday February 19 , 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm
at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members |
Register via Humanitix
$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available
at this link
.
Film #7 in director Rob Nilsson’s
9 @ Night
film cyc
le. Petite robs johns in order to support Tyrone, a failing pool hustler. Jane works as a stripper in a Tenderloin club. Lou, Jane's mother and a heroin addict, is a renegade aging prostitute who works the streets in defiance of the pimps. Francesca manages an escort service and does phone sex. In a profession which thrives on fantasy and martyrdom these women struggle to hold onto their reasons for caring for each other.
Feb 19, 2026
Feb
17
Feb 17, 2026
SCHEME C6 - Film 6 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 17, 2026
Tuesday February 17 , 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm
at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members |
Register via Humanitix
$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available
at this link
.
Film #6 in Rob Nilsson's Tenderloin epic
9 @ NIGHT
.
A scheme is a dream with street smarts. but doomed to fail. Bid's father is a cop but Bid is an urban outlaw on a motorcycle determined not to need family or society. Yve, his anarchistic girl friend and Grey, his accomplice in stolen auto parts, are part of his scheme to stay one step ahead of the law. Bid invites rebellion but discovers loneliness.
Feb 17, 2026
Feb
12
Feb 12, 2026
STROKE - Film 5 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 12, 2026
Thursday February 12 , 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm
at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members |
Register via Humanitix
$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available
at this link
.
Film #5 in director Rob Nilsson’s Tenderloin epic
9 @ Night
. Phil Berkowitz, a 60 year old North Beach poet, survivor of the days of wine and roses, has a stroke. Helpless, he lies in his flea bag Tenderloin hotel room and is found by Johnny, part-time janitor in a seedy strip club run by St. Tre and Malafide, now operating under the name Modisco. Johnny tries to help him regain his speech and plays Cupid, Introducing him to Svetlana, a waitress, and alcoholic. Svetlana feels sorry for Phil, but Phil mistakes kindness for attraction.
Feb 12, 2026
Feb
10
Feb 10, 2026
SINGING - Film 4 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 10, 2026
Tuesday February 10, 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm
at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members |
Register via Humanitix
$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available
at this link
.
Film #4 in director Rob Nilsson’s Tenderloin epic
9 @ Night
.
SINGING
follows Perry Truman, an accountant from the suburbs, rejects a tryst offered by his live-in girl friend of 20 years. She wants to rekindle their love. He has just quit his job. Wandering the Tenderloin that night he is drawn into a series of dangerous and erotic street encounters. Everyone sings in
SINGING
, except the real singer. Perry sings the same song twice but with different meanings. At the end he sings like a man who knows he has failed to live passionately.
Feb 10, 2026
Feb
5
Feb 5, 2026
ATTITUDE - Film 3 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 5, 2026
Thursday February 5, 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm
at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members |
Register via Humanitix
$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available
at this link
.
Film #3 in director Rob Nilsson's Tenderloin epic
9 @ NIGHT
. ATTITUDE
follows Spoddy, an impossible small time auto thief who alienates everyone. Then he is diagnosed with AIDS. Stunned, and in denial, he confronts his girlfriend, sister of two tough partners in crime. She rages at him. Where did he get it? Spoddy rages back. “I spread what I want." The bottom is about to fall out of his life.
Feb 5, 2026
Feb
3
Feb 3, 2026
USED - Film 2 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 3, 2026
Tuesday February 3, 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm
at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members |
Register via Humanitix
$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available
at this link
.
Film #2 in Rob Nilsson’s Tenderloin epic
9 @ Night
.
USED
follows two pilgrimages to Reno. Malafide and Johnny hop trains to seek inspiration from People T, an ex-con Cherokee healer. But St. Tre takes would-be paramour Kenny by plane to play cards. Out in the Nevada desert one voyage ends in reconciliation... then suicide. The other ends empty-handed back where it started. Everyone has used and been used. A latter day WAITING FOR GODOT. but in constant motion.
Feb 3, 2026
Jan
29
Jan 29, 2026
NOISE - Film 1 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Jan 29, 2026
Thursday January 29, 2026 | 6:30-8:30pm
398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members |
Register via Humanitix
$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available
at this link
.
Film #1 in director Rob Nilsson’s
9 @ Night
film cycle. Ben Malafide (Robert Viharo), arrives in San Francisco by ferryboat after 20 years in Federal Prison. He finds a world run by misdirection, euphemism, equivocation, downright lies and which avoids direct answers to any given question. Street raw meets digital glitz and Ben is transported...then thwarted.
Jan 29, 2026
Menu
9 @ Night Film Series
Rob Nilsson’s epic 9-film cycle made in collaboration with the Tenderloin yGroup screens in 2026
Tenderloin Museum screens director Rob Nilsson’s epic cycle of 9 Tenderloin feature films in its entirety.
Full Series Tickets
Here
| Individual Film Descriptions & Tickets below
9 interconnected feature films, spun from the world of the Tenderloin and featuring TL denizens inhabiting their characters and improvising the scripts, are framed by the poetic vision and prolific practice of iconoclast director
Rob Nilsson
. His ambitious
9 @ Night
cycle achieves a deep exploration of the human condition
and
stands as a rich chronicle of the Tenderloin–the physical place, its people, their existential struggles, sorrows and joys.
Independently produced, the series is an epic feat of cinema in terms of both craft & concept.
9 @ Night
is the fruit of Nilsson’s nearly 2-decade collaboration with the
Tenderloin yGroup
, an acting workshop embedded in the neighborhood and operating with Nilsson’s creative method of “Direct Action,” which he describes as “
a cinema of the moment which lives off the land to discover the relationship between what we think we want and what is actually there
.” The films and the process that created them (as well as their life after completion) are a tremendous synthesis of art-making, community, and the culture of the Tenderloin both real and imagined.
The Tenderloin Museum is proud to present the
9 @ Night
series in its entirety, screened salon-style with Nilsson (and guests) in-person, offering a rare opportunity to see the complete film cycle in “the land” where it was forged. For lovers of San Francisco on-screen, gritty filmic realism, character driven dramas, consider
9 @ Night
an essential opus in the canon of Tenderloin-alia!
This rare, complete presentation of
9 @ Night
is part of a broader retrospective of Nilsson’s work happening around the Bay Area. Nilsson has been collaborating with fellow filmmaker
Zhan Petrov
to digitally restore his films—nearly 50 features over a 5 decade career!—and to organize the artist’s full oeuvre via a new and interactive website:
RobNilssonArtForms.com
. Visit the site for info on other nearby opportunities to view Nilsson’s films with the artist in person!
About Rob Nilsson:
Rob Nilsson is the first American film director to win both the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival (NORTHERN LIGHTS, 1979) and the Grand Prize at the Sundance Film Festival (HEAT AND SUNLIGHT (1988). His work as a filmmaker, poet, painter, essayist, and film critic explores “the way things seem to be” in the joys and sorrows of everyday people. Born and raised in familial, social and political systems they struggle to find their way as unique individuals. This dilemma creates the paradoxes and contradictions Nilsson sees at the root of the artist’s mission.
Praise for
9 @ Night:
“If pressed, many cinephiles would admit a magnetic attraction to truly magnum opuses: whether crafted by Tarr, Rohmer, Rivette or Syberberg, the mere existence of such titanic features or multi-film cycles suggests an important artistic event. There’s nothing quite like the exhilaration of discovering a huge project that in cinematic terms reaches for the extra-wide narrative/cinematic embrace of
The Brothers Karamazov
, Proust, even
Infinite Jest
. But does anyone work with that kind of scope in contemporary American cinema? Meet Rob Nilsson, who with very little self-promotional zeal has spend the last dozen- plus years creating a fascinating collection of exquisitely shot digital features under the umbrella of
9 @ Night
… a sprawling black and white tapestry of separate but overlapping feature narratives that encompass a broad character scroll of homeless, hustling and bourgeois types in San Francisco and environs.” – Dennis Harvey, Film Comment, Sept./Oct. Issue, 2008
+
Read Ray Carney’s superlative essay surveying
9 @ Night
for the Harvard Film Archive.
UPCOMING 9 @ NIGHT PROGRAMS:
May 7, 2026
Rob Nilsson’s “CHALK” (1996) + Zhan Petrov's "HOW I SEE" (2025)
May 7, 2026
Rob Nilsson’s
CHALK
(1996)
Film screening & post-show discussion + Zhan Petrov’s
HOW I SEE
Thursday, May 7, 2026 | 6:00-9:00 PM
6:00pm DOORS +
HOW I SEE
(2025, 15 mins) / 6:30pm
CHALK
(1996, 140 mins)
at Tenderloin Museum, 398 Eddy St., SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members |
Register via Humanitix
TC (Kelvin Han Yee), a Korean pool prodigy, dominates the local talent, but his brother (Johnnie Reese) sets up a match with ruthless, gambling tournament player Dorian James (Don Bajema) that has dire stakes for their family and local hall. Will TC fold?
Maverick filmmaker Rob Nilsson returns to TLM for a revival screening of
CHALK
, his 1996 pool-hustling film cast from the Tenderloin Action Group, his long-running acting workshop that mingled TL denizens and local performers. Set in 1990s Richmond, CA at the hardscrabble Crabtree pool hall,
CHALK
marries high-stakes billiards with family drama of Shakespearean scope.
A post-show discussion will feature Nilsson, longtime production manager Mira Larkin, Tenderloin Action Group co-founders Rand Crook and Ethan Sing, as well as professional pool player Billy Aguero, aka “Billy the Kid,” who designed the pool matches in the movie.
Click here for more info.
“It is not just one more ‘Hustler’ clone, but a plunge into the hermetic world these characters have created and inhabit.”
— Roger Ebert
May 7, 2026
PAST 9 @ NIGHT PROGRAMS:
Feb
26
Feb 26, 2026
GO TOGETHER - Film 9 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 26, 2026
Thursday February 26 , 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm
at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members |
Register via Humanitix
$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available
at this link
.
Film #9 in Rob Nilsson’s Tenderloin epic
9 @ Night
.
The sinking fortunes of an Oakland art cinema mirrors a shaky marriage. Michelle wants to program high minded films while her co-owner husband prefers "vintage porn" promoted by St. Tre, owner of a strip club and escort service. St. Tre's boy friend Ben Malafide, a recent inmate, begins to think life in prison is preferable to the "freedoms" of polite society. Bills pile up, homeless people begin to camp outside the theatre and, oddest of all, the theatre itself begins to speak.
Feb 26, 2026
Feb
24
Feb 24, 2026
PAN - Film 8 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 24, 2026
Tuesday February 24 , 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm
at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members |
Register via Humanitix
$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available
at this link
.
Film #8 in director Rob Nilsson’s
9 @ Night
film cyc
le. Bobby is a latch-key kid, a lonely 9 year old boy who plays at home as his single mother works to support them. Pan. an ex-convict tries to father a dysfunctional family of street people in an encampment by the railroad tracks. He tries to teach Bobby about life on the streets but violent consequences await those who challenge society's taboos.
Feb 24, 2026
Feb
19
Feb 19, 2026
NEED - Film 7 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 19, 2026
Thursday February 19 , 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm
at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members |
Register via Humanitix
$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available
at this link
.
Film #7 in director Rob Nilsson’s
9 @ Night
film cyc
le. Petite robs johns in order to support Tyrone, a failing pool hustler. Jane works as a stripper in a Tenderloin club. Lou, Jane's mother and a heroin addict, is a renegade aging prostitute who works the streets in defiance of the pimps. Francesca manages an escort service and does phone sex. In a profession which thrives on fantasy and martyrdom these women struggle to hold onto their reasons for caring for each other.
Feb 19, 2026
Feb
17
Feb 17, 2026
SCHEME C6 - Film 6 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 17, 2026
Tuesday February 17 , 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm
at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members |
Register via Humanitix
$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available
at this link
.
Film #6 in Rob Nilsson's Tenderloin epic
9 @ NIGHT
.
A scheme is a dream with street smarts. but doomed to fail. Bid's father is a cop but Bid is an urban outlaw on a motorcycle determined not to need family or society. Yve, his anarchistic girl friend and Grey, his accomplice in stolen auto parts, are part of his scheme to stay one step ahead of the law. Bid invites rebellion but discovers loneliness.
Feb 17, 2026
Feb
12
Feb 12, 2026
STROKE - Film 5 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 12, 2026
Thursday February 12 , 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm
at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members |
Register via Humanitix
$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available
at this link
.
Film #5 in director Rob Nilsson’s Tenderloin epic
9 @ Night
. Phil Berkowitz, a 60 year old North Beach poet, survivor of the days of wine and roses, has a stroke. Helpless, he lies in his flea bag Tenderloin hotel room and is found by Johnny, part-time janitor in a seedy strip club run by St. Tre and Malafide, now operating under the name Modisco. Johnny tries to help him regain his speech and plays Cupid, Introducing him to Svetlana, a waitress, and alcoholic. Svetlana feels sorry for Phil, but Phil mistakes kindness for attraction.
Feb 12, 2026
Feb
10
Feb 10, 2026
SINGING - Film 4 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 10, 2026
Tuesday February 10, 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm
at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members |
Register via Humanitix
$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available
at this link
.
Film #4 in director Rob Nilsson’s Tenderloin epic
9 @ Night
.
SINGING
follows Perry Truman, an accountant from the suburbs, rejects a tryst offered by his live-in girl friend of 20 years. She wants to rekindle their love. He has just quit his job. Wandering the Tenderloin that night he is drawn into a series of dangerous and erotic street encounters. Everyone sings in
SINGING
, except the real singer. Perry sings the same song twice but with different meanings. At the end he sings like a man who knows he has failed to live passionately.
Feb 10, 2026
Feb
5
Feb 5, 2026
ATTITUDE - Film 3 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 5, 2026
Thursday February 5, 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm
at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members |
Register via Humanitix
$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available
at this link
.
Film #3 in director Rob Nilsson's Tenderloin epic
9 @ NIGHT
. ATTITUDE
follows Spoddy, an impossible small time auto thief who alienates everyone. Then he is diagnosed with AIDS. Stunned, and in denial, he confronts his girlfriend, sister of two tough partners in crime. She rages at him. Where did he get it? Spoddy rages back. “I spread what I want." The bottom is about to fall out of his life.
Feb 5, 2026
Feb
3
Feb 3, 2026
USED - Film 2 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Feb 3, 2026
Tuesday February 3, 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm
at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members |
Register via Humanitix
$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available
at this link
.
Film #2 in Rob Nilsson’s Tenderloin epic
9 @ Night
.
USED
follows two pilgrimages to Reno. Malafide and Johnny hop trains to seek inspiration from People T, an ex-con Cherokee healer. But St. Tre takes would-be paramour Kenny by plane to play cards. Out in the Nevada desert one voyage ends in reconciliation... then suicide. The other ends empty-handed back where it started. Everyone has used and been used. A latter day WAITING FOR GODOT. but in constant motion.
Feb 3, 2026
Jan
29
Jan 29, 2026
NOISE - Film 1 of Rob Nilsson's "9 @ Night"
Jan 29, 2026
Thursday January 29, 2026 | 6:30-8:30pm
398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members |
Register via Humanitix
$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available
at this link
.
Film #1 in director Rob Nilsson’s
9 @ Night
film cycle. Ben Malafide (Robert Viharo), arrives in San Francisco by ferryboat after 20 years in Federal Prison. He finds a world run by misdirection, euphemism, equivocation, downright lies and which avoids direct answers to any given question. Street raw meets digital glitz and Ben is transported...then thwarted.
Jan 29, 2026