Orbit(film) is a program of short films dedicated to the awe and absurdity of the solar system. Ranging in tone from fragile to farcical these films were made by a collection of the most urgent personal filmmakers working in the US today. Directors include Brent Green, Bill Brown, Jessica Oreck, Brent Hoff, Kelly Sears, Deborah Stratman, Travis Wilkerson and many more, a roster of veritable indie art film superstars. The collection was curated and produced by Mike Plante, former director of programming of Cinevegas and current publisher of Cinemad, and Mark Elijah Rosenberg, founder and artistic director of Rooftop Films, the popular film series based in New York City.

Additionally, this evening will be presented as a double bill with the intro screening being a new classic of political filmmaking, Wilkerson’s An Injury to One (2002). The feature-length suspense documentary focuses on the murder of Frank Little, an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World who worked to unionize the miners in the Anaconda mine in Butte, Montana. A breakthrough in the form of poetic documentary, the film mixes a noirish narrative with musical interludes by Will Oldham, Jim O’Rourke and the band Low.

Tickets are $9 Film Society members; $10 senior/student/disabled; $11 general public.