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FILM: FreeNYC points to the Fusion Film Festival, a student-run film festival at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Tonight they launch their "sixth year of celebrating women filmmakers with a screening and panel discussion of Sundance Selection Good Dick, an unusual fairy tale about a troubled, solitary young woman and the persistent video clerk who draws her out of her claustrophobic world." Director/Writer/Actress Marianna Palka will be on hand for a Q&A. Watch the trailer here.
6 p.m. // Cantor Film Center [36 E 8th St] // Free
ART: Deitch Projects invites you to a conversation with Ann Messner, Kiki Smith and Swoon, with Carlo McCormick moderating. Swoon recently floated into the gallery on her green fleet, and will depart from the LIC space on October 18th.
7 to 9 p.m. // Deitch Studios [4-40 44th Drive, LIC] // Free
MUSIC: WFMU celebrates the big 5-0 tonight with legendary band Wire. The tickets are free, but hard to come by. You can either try your luck for tickets on Craigslist (where there are also some being offered for free), or listen from the comfort of your own home, as the station will be "broadcasting it live over WFMU's radio and netwaves."
7:30 p.m. // Irving Plaza [17 Irving Place] // Free
THEATER: Used to be an immigrant clown from Moldova could come to America and find fame and fortune in the balloon animal art game. But in Romanian playwright Saviana Stanescu's dark comedy Aliens with Extraordinary Skills, that hopeful clown finds her American dream suffocating under the thumb of Homeland Security. Anita Gates at the Times calls it "an enchanting piece of theater, a paean to New York that just happens to include balloon animals...I’ve always believed that the special energy people talk about as New York’s essence comes from all those newcomers’ hopes and dreams in the air. 'Aliens' pays tribute to that energy and at the same time radiates tons of its own." – John Del Signore
8 p.m. // Women's Project [424 West 55th Street] // $42
