What is it? Debuting for the first time in Minnesota and unavailable on DVD, What Is It? is Crispin Glover [3]'s 2005 directorial debut (lately he played Grendel in Beowulf [4]). The movie is described by its director as "being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are snails, salt, a pipe, and how to get home as tormented by an hubristic racist inner psyche." Starring Michael Blevis [5], a young man with Down Syndrome, and Mr. Glover as a deus ex machina in a fur trenchcoat and flowing locks, the film also features a fellow in blackface, a bevy of naked women in elephant masks, and snails aplenty. What is it? Armed with slideshow and commentary, Glover will be on hand to explain. No one under eighteen will be admitted.
Oak Street Cinema [6], 309 Oak St. S.E., Minneapolis; 612-331-3134.
