Room Temperature (2025) by Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley
Friday, June 20, 2025, 8:30 pm
Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley: Room Temperature
Presented by Frameline49
Presented in association with Frameline49
Admission: $19.50 General / $18 Cinematheque Members
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The world is watching—and so are we. Get your tickets now for Frameline49— eleven days of world-renowned queer films, singular performances and must-attend parties. When you show up for queer and trans stories on screen, you’re showing up for the LGBTQ+ community’s past, present, and future. This year, as part of Frameline49, San Francisco Cinematheque is proud to co-present Room Temperature by Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley.
Room Temperature (2025): In the desert of southern California, every year a family dutifully works to convert their prefabricated home into a haunted house spectacle for neighbors to explore. But as the mundane slowly gives way to the macabre, the family’s own personal problems are laid bare as the father’s infatuation increasingly begins to take its toll on everyone. Room Temperature marks the third feature-film collaboration between the iconic cult writer Dennis Cooper and visual artist Zac Farley, offering up a uniquely uncanny and distressing portrait of American life. Though often abrupt and unpredictable in its tonal shifts, Room Temperature‘s twists are always measured and meticulous, aided by Cooper and Farley’s wonderful troupe of non-professional actors who imbue their characters with a mix of drollness and poignance. As the haunted house comes to completion, the film beautifully captures the eddy of swirling ineffable emotions surrounding it, along with the undercurrent of dread bubbling just below the surface.
The cast of Room Temperature includes Charlie Nelson Jacobs, John Williams, Chris Olsen, Ange Dargeant, Stanya Kahn and Virginia Adams Expected Guests: Dennis Cooper, Director; Charlie Nelson Jacobs, Actor.
As part of Frameline49, Cinematheque is also proud to co-present Jim Bidgood’s Pink Narcissus. Details here.