Last night the Morgellon hosted me, Skye and Arthur, with our new friends Jordan, Annie and Dane.
We watched Mike Kelley’s Day is Done, disc 1 (maybe 100 minutes of the 169 minute total).
It was great.
The other night Skye and Amy and Jack and I watched Showgirls.

I really have a desire now to have my own theater, wherein I can show movies for friends and strangers (who may become new friends) all the time.

How cool would it be to show Showgirls, Wizard of OZ, The Wall, Battlefield: Earth, The Devils, Zardoz, and Day is Done one night? With popcorn and hot dogs and soda and candy? In a theater with a mathemagical ceiling, a chandelier collision, ratty old seats that feel really lived in, crushed velvet curtains, and a twelve foot wide screen?

Super cool.

If only we could relocate the Morgellon to someone’s house, and 23E Studiots could take turns programming and hosting.

In other news,
we’ve had a lot of people come in inquiring about what movies we’re playing. And many who thought we were a new business in town, a little theater showing second run films it seems.
And yesterday I received a call from a gentleman who was at the Chinatown movie night (where one of the other gallerists shows curated flicks in the courtyard) Saturday. He stopped by the Morgellon after the first set of flicks down the way and picked up a card.
The next day he called to see if he could rent the Morgellon one night a month for a film series. I saved the message for the archive.
We spoke yesterday and I explained to him that we weren’t a real theater. He was very surprised.

All of which leads me to believe that we have created a really stupendous piece here with the theater and lobby and iconography. Despite being the work of 30 plus people, the Morgellon is a unified and coherent space. An act of true transformation, worthy of our patron saints, Athanasius Kircher and John Dee.

A year from now, we may need to build the New Morgellon Theater to show all the different films that come out of our footage.