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Screening in conjunction with “Boxers and Backbeats: Tomata du Plenty and the West Coast Punk Scene,” an exhibition of paintings by the frontman of early LA synthpunk band the Screamers, Population: 1 is a punk- and new wave-infused musical delivering a twisted lesson on American history. Tomata du Plenty stars as the sole survivor of a nuclear holocaust, who in the solitude of his subterranean bunker full of electronic gadgets begins constructing a revisionist history of the U.S. by recounting his own warped memoirs through song. The film, which experiments with chroma-key techniques and video synthesis, includes early appearances by 12-year-old Beck, Vampira, Avengers frontman Penelope Houston and Carel Struycken (Giant in “Twin Peaks”).

7 p.m. · FREE! · www.georgiamuseum.org

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