You haven't experienced the full power of documentary filmmaking until you've seen Leilah Weinraub's Shakedown (2018).
A film that feels like it's redefining the standard for the medium with every frame, Shakedown takes you inside a series of parties by and for black queer women in Los Angeles in the early 2000s, where strippers and go-gos would dance for other women to showers of dollar bills and pulsating Hip Hop.
Weinraub's mini DV footage is as gorgeous and evocative as any peak Michael Mann film, and combined with unlimited access and insider insight immediately marks this a priceless essential.
Underground, unapologetic, and - like so much great night life - unrepeatable, Shakedown is a celebration of lesbian sexuality, and an ode to the magic and melancholy of the kind of places you know you'll never get back.
Join guest programmer Astrid Johnson downstairs at Dalston Superstore for an unmissable second week.
Some places are just hard to find
Unfortunately subtitles are unavailable for this showing.
Seating is a mixture of benches, backed chairs, bar stools, and floor space, and is first come, first served.