7:30 p.m.	The Brain That Wouldn't Die Joseph Green (U.S., 1962)

A demented surgeon performs experimental organ transplants. When his fiancée is decapitated in a car accident, he manages to keep her brain alive in a tray. He then abducts a disfigured model, so that he can graft his fiancée’s head onto her body. Eventually the mind-mass goes wireless, using telepathy to summon the creatures of experiments past. A mind-expanding film featuring a heroine who can’t believe her boyfriend loves her just for her brain.

—Steve Seid

• Written by Joseph Green. Photographed by Stephen Hajnal. With Virginia Heith, Herb Evers, Adele Lamont, Doris Brent (71 mins, B&W, 16mm, PFA Collection)

Pre-movie mania:
Aaron Harbour, a.k.a. DJ Timber, creates a memory mix accessing music like so many stored mind modules. Artist Dean Santomieri reads a bit of prose about a bullet passing through a brain, accompanied by highly mental music. The indefatigable Tiffany Shlain offers a sneak preview of her newest short film about the brain as it spreads out over the Internet, a virtual nurture.

Pre-movie mania begins at 7:30, with the films screening at twilight. Bring a chair and sit beneath the stars!