A festival of films that put the "CULT" in culture! This season’s selection of films “rigorously curated” by Sydney Skybetter and guest-curator Raja Feather Kelly includes: Cats, Black Swan, Ex Machina, Hedwig & The Angry Inch, Twilight, Suspiria (1979), Annihilation, and Arrival.

*Films and dates subject to change.

Wednesday, October 1, 2025 | 7:00 PM
Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Introduction by Sydney Skybetter and Raja Feather Kelly

The classic Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, now with CG tails! The Jellicle cats come out tonight…

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Wednesday, October 8, 2025 | 7:00 PM
Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Introduction by Raja Feather Kelly

Ballerinas, swans, a pinch of psychological horror—what else do you need?

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Wednesday, October 15, 2025 | 7:00 PM
Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Introduction by Sydney Skybetter

Is this a Turing test or a Tinder date? A coder at a tech company wins a week-long retreat at the compound of his company's CEO, where he's tasked with testing a new artificial intelligence.

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Tuesday, October 21, 2025 | 7:00 PM
Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Post-screening conversation with writer, director, and star John Cameron Mitchell and Raja Feather Kelly
Co-presented by the LGBTQIA+ Thinking Initiative

A gender-queer punk-rock singer from East Berlin tours the U.S. with her band as she tells her life story and follows the former lover/band-mate who stole her songs.

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Wednesday, October 22, 2025 | 7:00 PM
Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Introduction by Sydney Skybetter

Come for the romance, stay for the awkward staring contests. Get your tickets, spider monkey!

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Wednesday, October 29, 2025 | 7:00 PM
Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Introduction by Raja Feather Kelly

A German ballet school, just a few mysterious deaths… nothing to see here.

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Wednesday, November 5, 2025 | 7:00 PM
Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Introduction by Sydney Skybetter

When mysterious spacecrafts touch down across the globe, an elite team is brought together to investigate. Terrifying monsters, secret missions… Pass the popcorn.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 | 7:00 PM
Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
Introduction by Raja Feather Kelly and Sydney Skybetter

How do you communicate with extra-terrestrials? Very carefully… Google Translate wasn’t ready for this.

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Choreographer/Director Raja Feather Kelly is the artistic director of dance-theatre-media company the feath3r theory (founded in 2009).  In 2018 the feath3r theory merged with New Brooklyn Theatre. Raja has been awarded a Creative Capital Award (2019), a National Dance Project Production Grant (2019), a Breakout Award from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (2018), Dance Magazine's inaugural Harkness Promise Award (2018), the Solange MacArthur Award for New Choreography (2016), and is a three-time Princess Grace Award winner (2017, 2018, 2019). He was born in Fort Hood, Texas and holds a B.A. in Dance and English from Connecticut College.

Raja has been named as the 2022-23 Quinn Martin Director a the University of California San Diego. In 2019–2020 Raja was the Randjelovic/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts and is an inaugural Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. Raja has also been awarded a New York Dance Performance "Bessie" Award, a Bessie Schonberg Fellowship at The Yard, a DanceWEB Scholarship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Choreography Fellowship, a HERE Arts Fellowship, 2018 Creator-in-Residence at Kickstarter, and a Choreography Fellowship at the Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU. 

 Over the past decade he has created fifteen evening-length works with his company the feath3r theory to critical acclaim. Most recently, UGLY (Black Queer Zoo) at The Bushwick Starr, and We May Never Dance Again® at The Invisible Dog in Brooklyn.  Professionally, Raja has performed with Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group, David Dorfman Dance, Kyle Abraham|Abraham.In.Motion, and zoe | juniper. He has also managed a number of dance companies: Race Dance, Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion, zoe | juniper, and Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group.

Since 2016, Raja has choreographed extensively for Off-Broadway theatre in New York City, most notably for Signature Theatre, Soho Rep, and New York Theatre Workshop and Playwrights Horizons. Frequent collaborators include: Lileana Blain-Cruz, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Sarah Benson, and Lila Neugebauer. Other theatre credits include choreography for Skittles Commercial: The Musical (Town Hall), The Chronicles of Cardigan and Khente (SohoRep), Everyday Afroplay (JACK), GURLS (Princeton University, Yale Repertory Theatre), Electric Lucifer (The Kitchen), Lempicka (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The House That Will Not Stand (New York Theatre Workshop), Fireflies (Atlantic Theatre Company), If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka (Playwrights Horizons, nominated for the 2019 Lucille Lortel Award and the 2019 Chita Rivera Award for Outstanding Choreography), The Good Swimmer (BAM), and Faust (Opera Omaha). Most recent work: A Strange Loop (Playwrights Horizons), Fairview (Soho Rep, Berkeley Rep, TFANA and winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama).

Sydney Skybetter is a choreographer. Hailed by the Financial Times as “One of the world’s foremost thinkers on the intersection of dance and emerging technologies,” Sydney’s choreography has been performed at such venues as The Kennedy Center and Jacob’s Pillow. He has lectured at SXSW, Yale, Mozilla and the Boston Dynamics AI Institute, and consulted for The National Ballet of Canada, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Hasbro, and The University of Southern California, among others. His work has been supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and a Creative Capital “Wild Futures” Award. He is a Senior Affiliate of metaLAB at Harvard University, a frequent contributor to WIRED and Dance Magazine, the Founder of the Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces and Host of the podcast, “Dances with Robots.” Sydney serves as the Director of the Brown Arts Institute, is an Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, and was the first choreographer at Brown University to receive tenure.