Rated: NR    Runtime: 84 mins.
Certain he’s been betrayed, Malafide (Robert Viharo) leaves his lover and hops freights to Reno to find a Cherokee healer he met in prison named People T. Joined by a black homeless man named Johnny (Edwin Johnson), they set out into the desolate beauty of the Nevada desert. (US 2007) 84 min.

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.”

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