Rated: NR    Runtime: 109
Spoddy (Michael Disend) is the arrogant owner of an automotive “chop shop” who discovers he is HIV positive. Rejected by those he’s used, he finds sanctuary with the people he has always despised, the homeless. (US 2003) 109 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