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Best of 2023: Spectacle Theater encore
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ODC @ SPECTACLE NYC | BEST OF 2023
Happy New Leap Year!
Screen Slate’s Mark Hanson on OPEN DOOM CRESCENDO
Interview with Comfort Station’s Emily Perez
MAILING LIST SIGNUP
TICKETS DECEMBER 9 + 17
With Wendy Zow at CKUT 90.3 fm
Megamovie Reload Overture
13 June 1PM EST – ODC21 on twitch.tv
ODC 21 willed:
Until the next battlefield
– Crescendo angst gang
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An Interview with MARK HANSON on Open Doom Crescendo and the Art of DIY
Otherwise for the rest and their micro-attention span
<< things are gonna change i can feel it >>
Will keep chilling then in the rain Creed will follow in the sun Those who bet on a hating world will watch We dare them not to feel
Saturday 27 March | 8 PM EST
stream.spectacletheater.com
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Sears catalogue
Wasteland psychosis-sympathetic section
Not applicable season
ODC is an inexplicably brilliantly composed and constructed no-budget sci-fi action tragi-comedy that alternates at a frenetic pace between outright hilarious silly absurdity with kinetic anime-esque action sequences and an unexpected dose of pathos that hits right where it hurts.
Keep your eyes out for the full drop, coming to a future near you.
ADAM COOK
The collective consciousness of human pain has led to an unknown alternate reality wasteland. Appearing are those searching for their answers and somewhere beyond-the entity Embodiment of Angst. It is believed that this mysterious thing can save whoever encounters it from whatever pain they’re undergoing. So of course everyone started battling to the death so that any which one of them may gain catharsis. With only the most hardcore and pain-ridden still standing and a Psycho in the Radio summoning reject objects to crash onto everyone he resents so more or less everyone, the answers to pain don’t wait. The use of “Angst” is repurposed as synonymous with all pain-physical, psychological, spiritual. Jacked into the Wasteland of Angst’s heightened alternate reality, how each person experiences, handles, and expresses their pain is represented as supernatural traits both to their advantage and disadvantage.
IMDb Letterboxd
What if the Power Rangers were stuck in the absurdist purgatory of an existential dirt crawl after realising that they were never actually fighting to save the world, but were mislead into saving the world solely to fight? […] [H]eat death of cinema will be erupting from POV dickcam.
JACK RUSSO
[L]ost souls wander a derelict wasteland searching for the source of the pain but only creating more of it in the process. An overwhelming, frequently baffling, always hilarious, and often gut-punch-moving existential post-apocalyptic mourning scream featuring a very charismatic dog. I cannot recommend it enough, and this was simply the first part of a huge epic.
KAI PERRIGNON, STATIC VISION
OPEN DOOM CRESCENDO premiere October 26, 8PM ET THIS IS IT STAY ALIVE UNTIL THEN AND THEN RESUME A WHOLESOME GENEROUS LIFE AFTER
STREAM LINK: [Vice Village film screenings]
WTFilm Festival / Canzine 2020
People battling to the death in a seemingly endless wasteland searching for the Embodiment of Angst.
TO EVERY WONDERFUL PERSON WHO SOMEHOW GOT SOMETHING OUT OF MANGOSHAKE PLEASE TURN YOUR SUPPORT TO WHAT THE ETHERS HAVE BEEN LEADING TO THE WHOLE TIME.
Tell everyone you know who you actually care about.
OPEN DOOM CRESCENDO 
