Lydia Lunch Presents: Artists: Depression, Anxiety and Rage & The Machinist

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May 3rd Lydia Lunch joins us here at Sun-Ray, programming a double feature: her documentary, Artists: Depression, Anxiety & Rage and The Machinist starring Christian Bale. Items from her cookbook, The Need to Feed will be featured on our menu on this gift of an evening spent with this rabble-rousing icon. More about the documentary Artists - Depression, Anxiety, and Rage 70-minute Documentary Film 2024 Lydia Lunch and Jasmine Hirst Artists - Depression, Anxiety, and Rage is a timely expression of faith that through art, community, and an open dialogue about our darkest experiences, not only can we heal, but our loved ones may come to a better understanding of the struggles so many of us have endured. Jasmine Hirst and I have spent the past two years interviewing musicians, artists, and writers about their lifelong struggles with mental health. The roots of depression run deep. We explore the devastation caused by childhood trauma, neglect, poverty, malnutrition, genetics, chemical imbalance, and existential angst. With this documentary, we strive to present hope to anyone who suffers from depression, anxiety, or rage in the knowledge that they are not alone. There are a variety of methods to be utilized to cope once the darkness does descend. Art is the salve to the universal wound. Artists split themselves open. They are both offering up and seeking salvation with the revelations they share. I feel I was summoned as oracle, giving voice to encourage others to rage against the soul murder of the individual due to the traumas that remain and from which they still suffer. So many of us possess a nagging resistance that prevents us from acknowledging the love and acceptance that is offered up to us now because it was denied to us as children. I strive both as an artist and an individual to bring relief to other people by exposing personal wounds in the hope that they will not feel so alone. Because they are not alone. Lydia Lunch Featured Artists: Shirley Manson Musician (Garbage) Jerry Stahl Writer Permanent Midnight Ron Athey Performance Artist JG Thirlwell Composer Joseph Keckler Composer, Video Artist Adele Bertei Author, Musician Bryan Lewis Saunders Poet, Visual Artist Weasel Walter Composer, Musician Zohra Atash Composer, Musician Eugene Robinson Musician, Writer Roisin Davis Literary Agent for Noam Chomsky Sylvia Black Composer, Musician Tim Stegall Musician, Journalist Slava Mogutin, Photographer, Poet Kier-La Janisse Author Matilda June Poet, Musician Admiral Grey Musician, Puppeteer Sam Ospovot Musician Thor Harris Musician, Visual Artist More about The Machinist Factory worker Trevor Reznik (Christian Bale) suffers from insomnia so severe that his condition has taken its toll on his weight and his mental health. When Trevor unintentionally causes an on-the-job accident that horribly injures a coworker (Michael Ironside), he begins to become even more troubled. Despite a relationship with Stevie (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a pretty prostitute, Trevor descends further into paranoia, blaming his problems on an enigmatic figure named Ivan (John Sharian). Lydia Lunch has been doing what she wants for a long time. Known for her role in No Wave, a sub(anti)-culture genre of expression, Lunch is a musician, self-described predator, spoken word poet, healer, and much more. You can hear it in her voice, see it on the stage, read it on the page same as you feel it in your own body—that infectious anger that rises in you as Lunch tells it like it is and exposes every bruise, cut, and treacherous scar that dares to trap the soul. With a collection of books, photographs, films, albums, and bodies—be curious and dig into them, Lydia Lunch can teach you a couple things-Olivia Sanchez

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