END OF HISTORY (2025) + virtual Q&A with director Jacob Gregor
August 15 : 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
“Shot on a shoestring budget of around $5,000 during a 10-day road trip to Deadhorse, Alaska, Jacob Gregor’s End of History has more to say about the bleak state of American culture than most multi-million dollar films. Following an isolated man’s journey, whose mind is being deteriorated by media figures enacting more damage than society may realize, Gregor crafts a feat of American slow cinema, capturing the country in all its loneliness and degradation.” – The Film Stage
A nameless man (Matt Calhoun) obsessed with motivational and right-wing “manosphere” culture goes on a hollow road trip of non-discovery in this hypnotic feature by director Jacob Gregor. A microbudget two-man production made on a road trip from Chicago to Alaska, End of History is a bone-dry, satirically bleak character study about a flattening culture and landscape. Playing like some cursed collaboration between James Benning and Lex Fridman, Gregor’s film is at one hypnotically beautiful, repulsively fascinating, and shockingly funny—the rare film that truly understands our current moment of self-imposed isolation and desiccated masculinity.
A virtual Q&A with director Jacob Gregor will immediately follow the film.
This screening is presented in cooperation with Means TV.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING…
“Jeanne Dielman for incels”
“Jeanne Dielman for red-pilled incels (complimentary). Lot of lines here made me burst out laughing. A lot of other lines made my blood run cold.”
Jacob Farley
“Movie of the year”
Holy shit. My movie of the year. [Todd Haynes’] SAFE for men. Beautiful AFFECTING shots. A lot of bitches be like ‘this movie is so urgent’ but like this movie is so urgent.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Miles
“Really fucking funny”
“What could have been a thin gimmick lends itself cinematically to a lot of potential excavation. The long final shot encapsulates the film’s freewheeling range of formal, durational, comedic, dramatic, mundane, and absurd preoccupations. And it vindicates the entire project as something worthwhile and illuminating and really fucking funny.”
★ ★ ★ ★ ½
Sable
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