The Bar Without a Neon Sign - Auckland Premiere

Join us for the Auckland Premiere of THE BAR WITHOUT A NEON SIGN
An Operetta of Boom, Written and Directed by C.R. Avery

7pm TUES 21 NOV 2023
Capitol Cinema, Auckland

Screening hosted by Auckland Poet, Miriam Barr.
Followed by a Q&A with C.R. Avery.

Credited with OFFICIAL SELECTION at the Berlin International Art Film Festival 2022, SEMI-FINALIST at Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival 2022, and BEST SCORE at the Golden Horse International Film Festival 2022, C.R. Avery’s original motion picture THE BAR WITHOUT A NEON SIGN is an Operetta of Boom inspired by Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ and Dylan’s ‘Renaldo & Clara’.

An old street merchant comes across a time machine on his morning stroll. What follows is a type of black-magic, a gangster boogie show-down, in the dark arts vagabond neon dreamscape. It’s here that Light Rain and the End-of-Night finally meet, at the mysterious rodeo’s boarded up crossroads. Lady ‘Lust For Life’ & her sister ‘Slow Death Sizzle Reel’ howl a triple x freedom whirlwind success story with Sir Grace & Madam Beauty swooning in an outlaw country waltz of pre’siz’ion. Laughter’s smoke-ring of song & dance never looked or sounded so good, bouncing through century’s shifting sidewalks with a mouthorgan grinding a simple street merchant’s tell-tale howls and wailin’, that doo-wop saxes and incognito waxes Joe Blow poetic on the grave of time.

Run time: 71 minutes
R18 - contains explicit language, sexual themes and references
THE BAR WITHOUT A NEON SIGN ©2023 THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED