Friday Night Weird: The American Astronaut

TICKETS With Cory McAbee’s spacesuit in attendance, and intro by Pablo Kjolseth. This independent space Western musical comedy film is set in a fictitious past in which space travel is pioneered by roughnecks. Samuel Curtis, an interplanetary trader, sets forth through a rustic and remote solar system, unaware that his old friend Professor Hess is trying to kill him. The band Billy Nayer Show, helmed by filmmaker Cory McAbee, wrote and performed the film’s soundtrack. (Cory McAbee, 2001, USA, 1:31, NR)