Rated: NR    Runtime: 80 mins.
In the first of the 9@Night series, convicted counterfeiter Ben Malafide (Robert Viharo) gets out of prison after 20 years and ends up in the Tenderloin. Seeking the bare essentials to make ends meet, he confronts the Information Age, a barrage of images and noises that offer neither knowledge nor heart. With Paige Olson, Edwin Johnson. (US 2002) 80 minutes.

For the first time on the West Coast, Bay Area filmmaker Rob Nilsson presents the complete 9 @ Night, a series of nine feature films he produced over the last decade in collaboration with the Tenderloin yGroup, an inner-city acting and production workshop Nilsson developed in the San Francisco Tenderloin. The series continues beginning September 5 at The Rafael Film Center.

“For 30 years, San Francisco-based Rob Nilsson has been serving as the conscience and agent-provocateur of low-budget American independent filmmaking,” writes critic and historian Ray Carney, who also observes that Nilsson “has devoted his cinematic career to presenting the sorts of sociological realities, interpersonal interactions and emotional transactions that have been screened out of big-budget, mainstream American film.”

Rob Nilsson received the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1979 for his first feature Northern Lights (co-directed with John Hanson), and also won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1988 Sundance Film Festival for Heat and Sunlight.

9 @ Night SCHEDULE
Friday, August 29
6:45: NOISE
9:00: USED

Saturday, August 30
2:15: ATTITUDE
4:30: SINGING
6:45: STROKE
9:00: SCHEME C6

Sunday, August 31
2:15: NEED
4:30: PAN
6:45: GO TOGETHER
9:00: NOISE

Monday, September 1
6:45: USED
9:00: ATTITUDE

Tuesday, September 2
6:45: SINGING
9:00: STROKE

Wednesday, September 3
6:45: SCHEME C6
9:00: NEED

Thursday, September 4
6:45: PAN
9:00: GO TOGETHER