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Digital Gym Cinema San Diego's #1 home for one-of-a-kind independent & foreign cinema located in downtown San Diego, CA (Park & Market).
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Media Arts Center San Diego's DIGITAL GYM CINEMA presents the best independent & foreign cinema in San Diego! Independent/Foreign MOVIES & EDUCATION programs available for all ages.

Coming soon. THE GREAT EXPERIMENT plays with limited showtimes beginning Friday, October 23 at Digital Gym Cinema. Join ...
10/14/2026

Coming soon. THE GREAT EXPERIMENT plays with limited showtimes beginning Friday, October 23 at Digital Gym Cinema. Join us for a special introduction by filmmaker Eric Daniel Metzgar before the 6:30 PM screening on Friday, October 23, with a Q&A to follow the screening. 🎟️ You can get tickets now at our 🔗🔝 or in person at our box office.

More than 200 years after George Washington described the United States’ new system of democracy as the last great experiment in promoting human happiness in civil society, filmmakers Steve Maing (2x Oscar-shortlisted director for Union and Crime + Punishment) and Eric Daniel Metzgar check up on how that is unfolding for our indivisible Republic. Traversing the nation over a four-year period during the tenure of the nation’s 45th president, Maing and Metzgar observe deep and often fractious conflict among citizens, many of whom hold deeply personal interpretations of the founding fathers’ vision. Yet through their objective, calm, and even-handed approach, the filmmakers offer a counterpoint to the daily hysteria of public discourse. Each morning marks a new dawn in America, and the great experiment endures—sustained by the optimism, hopes, and dreams of its people.

10/14/2026

Tonight, Wednesday, October 14 at 7:00 PM is your final chance to experience Reed Van Dyk's moving anti-war drama ATONEMENT on the big screen. 🎟️ You can get tickets now at our 🔗🔝 or in person at our box office.

Displaced from their home by U.S. military action during the early days of the Iraq War, the Khachaturian family finds refuge with relatives, gathering their three generations together under one roof. But when another bombing erupts nearby, they decide to return to their home across the city. As they navigate the war-torn streets of Baghdad, the family is trapped in a firefight between U.S. Marines and insurgents, and one Marine’s split-second decision devastates the family. Years later, haunted by his time in Iraq and aided by a New Yorker journalist, the Marine seeks to reconcile with the Khachaturian matriarch and her surviving family members. Anchored by moving, unforgettable performances from Boyd Holbrook, Hiam Abbass, and Kenneth Branagh, Atonement is a powerfully human story about the immeasurable costs of war, exploring universal questions about guilt, redemption, and the nature of forgiveness.

10/14/2026

🎬 Two more chances to catch Paula Andrea Gonzalez-Nasser's THE SCOUT at Digital Gym Cinema. It plays today, Wednesday, October 14 at 4:45 PM and Thursday, October 15 at 7:00 PM. 🎟️ Get tickets now at our 🔗🔝 or in person at our box office.

A location scout is tasked with finding the perfect interiors for a television pilot. Over the course of a single day, she drives around New York City, interacting with strangers, taking photos of their cozy apartments and eclectic shops, while attempting to satisfy the demands of her erratic employers. For her debut feature, filmmaker Paula González-Nasser draws on her own experiences as a location scout to capture the poetry and costs of being a young creative in a commercialized industry.

Our final showing of the nightmarish cult film BEGOTTEN is this Thursday, October 15 at 9:10 PM at Digital Gym Cinema. 🎟...
10/14/2026

Our final showing of the nightmarish cult film BEGOTTEN is this Thursday, October 15 at 9:10 PM at Digital Gym Cinema. 🎟️ Tickets are still available at our 🔗🔝 or in person at our box office. Gather your friends for a chilling theatrical experience you will never forget.

When it debuted in 1989, E. Elias Merhige’s Begotten fascinated and shocked those who witnessed it. Never before had the screen depicted such a primal, existential drama, and it became one of the must-see films of the 1990s. The intervening decades have not diminished the power of this unique motion picture experience. This new 4K restoration reveals the full photographic body of Begotten, preserving its otherworldly organic texture and retaining its visceral impact, a previously unknown life form captured in cinematic amber.

Join us next Tuesday, October 20 for our DGC Video presentation of Maya Annik Bedward's illuminating documentary BLACK Z...
10/14/2026

Join us next Tuesday, October 20 for our DGC Video presentation of Maya Annik Bedward's illuminating documentary BLACK ZOMBIE at 7:00 PM. 🎟️ You can still get tickets now at our 🔗🔝 or in person at our box office.

Black Zombie digs beneath the blood-soaked spectacle of modern horror to uncover the zombie’s buried origins. Born from enslavement, spiritual belief, and resistance, it first emerged in Haiti before becoming one of pop culture’s most profitable monsters. The film traces its evolution from the cane fields of colonial Haiti, to White Zombie, Night of the Living Dead and The Serpent and the Rainbow. Part cultural reckoning, part horror remix, Black Zombie is a bold reexamination of one of horror’s most iconic figures.

🚨 LOW TICKET ALERT! 🚨The Burke Revival Film & Discussion series returns next Thursday, October 22 with a screening of Ma...
10/13/2026

🚨 LOW TICKET ALERT! 🚨The Burke Revival Film & Discussion series returns next Thursday, October 22 with a screening of Martin Scorsese's TAXI DRIVER at 7:00 PM. 🚕 Celebrate the film's 50th Anniversary with us. 🎟️ Get tickets now at our 🔗🔝, while they still last!

The Burke Revival Film and Discussion Series returns for its fourth season with Chasing the Sacred, a three-film exploration of belief, conscience, and moral identity through the lens of landmark cinema.

TAXI DRIVER thrives in the urban angst post-Vietnam War, the moral topsy turvy post-Watergate, and the cultural revolution generated by rebellious art. TAXI DRIVER functions as a commentary on a fractured geo-political world scrambling to find its way into the future. It lunges toward the grappling for larger meanings in the flawed characters, the moral decay residing in the streets, and in the frame of the penetrating camera. 50 years after its release, it robustly transports us not only into the past, but in it’s perennially prescient eye into the future. Cinema at its most intrusive gaze, stunning beauty in the cinematography, and simultaneously the way it, in the words of Stephen Spielberg, “crawls up inside you and takes up residence.”

🎹 Our community partner Particle FM presents THE YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA MIXTAPE - AN ORIGINAL VIDEO VOYAGE! on Sunday, O...
10/13/2026

🎹 Our community partner Particle FM presents THE YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA MIXTAPE - AN ORIGINAL VIDEO VOYAGE! on Sunday, October 25 at 2:00 PM and Monday, October 26 at 7:00 PM. THE YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA MIXTAPE is a feature-length big screen celebration of electronic music pioneers and Japanese technopop architects YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA! Originally commissioned by 7th House, for its recent premiere at LA’s Philosophical Research Society, the YMO Mixtape now comes to San Diego! 🎟️ You can get tickets now at our 🔗🔝 or in person at our box office, while they last!

Lovingly assembled from a dizzying array of materials spanning the group’s history, this audiovisual journey tells YMO’s story through classic and rare live performances, music videos, interviews, television and film appearances, commercials, solo and side projects, and all manner of strange and wonderful ephemera — tracing the coming together of Haruomi Hosono, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Yukihiro Takahashi, three extraordinary musical minds who produced some of the most exhilarating and forward-thinking music of their era and beyond, as well as the artists in their orbit, including close collaborator and key live band member Akiko Yano, whose musical presence became an integral part of the YMO story.

10/13/2026

Coming soon. John Turturro steals every scene in Noah Segan's THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK, opening Friday, October 30 at Digital Gym Cinema. 🎟️ You can get tickets now at our 🔗🔝 or in person at our box office.

Harry Lehman is an aging pickpocket who plies his trade with ever-diminishing returns in a drastically changed New York. Wallets stuffed with cash have been replaced by easily canceled credit cards, and Harry struggles to make ends meet as he cares for his disabled wife, Rosie. When he unwittingly purloins and fences a valuable USB stick, Harry finds himself in a race against time to return the loot or face the rage of a vengeful crime family.

🌌 Don't miss your chance to experience GANDAHAR in its breathtaking 4K restoration tonight, Tuesday, October 13 at 7:00 ...
10/13/2026

🌌 Don't miss your chance to experience GANDAHAR in its breathtaking 4K restoration tonight, Tuesday, October 13 at 7:00 PM, as part of DGC Video! 🎟️ Tickets are still available at our 🔗🔝 or in person at our box office.

An entire civilization must confront its destiny in alternative-animation pioneer René Laloux’s final feature, a cult classic of mind-bending science fiction. In a distant world, a merciless army of automata attacks Gandahar, turning its peace-loving people to stone. Hoping to discover the source of these Men of Metal, a council of matriarchs enlists the brave yet inexperienced warrior Sylvain (Pierre-Marie Escourro), who, while journeying through his planet’s outer regions, teams up with the Deformed, a race cast out from Gandahar after failed science experiments rendered them mutants. Soon, Sylvain learns that a gargantuan brain called Metamorphis (Georges Wilson) is responsible for his utopian society’s strife and—together with the beautiful Airelle (Catherine Chevallier)—travels through time to defeat him, in the process risking their lives and Gandahar’s very existence.

10/13/2026

Coming soon. CHRONOVISOR, the beguiling literary thriller from filmmakers Jack Auen and Kevin Walker, plays with limited showtimes on Tuesday, October 20 at 9:15 PM and Wednesday, October 21 at 4:50PM at Digital Gym Cinema. 🎟️ Get tickets now at our 🔗🔝 or in person at our box office.

While writing a monograph on historical theories of memory, Béatrice (Anne Laure Sellier), a respected academic, becomes beguiled by the allegedly true story of the Chronovisor, an occult device said to reproduce visuals from any point in history on a TV screen. Her obsession with the mysterious machine drags her from her Upper East Side apartment through the depths of New York City’s hidden libraries, to the edge of a breakthrough.

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