NOON Projects and Del Vaz Projects are honored to present an intimate screening of Steven Arnold's 1968 short film Messages, Messages—created in collaboration with Michael Wiese when the artist was a student at the San Francisco Art Institute. Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the film is a surreal, psyche-driven work that premiered at the Palace Theater in San Francisco, afterwhich Arnold was invited to host a recurring avant-garde film series there, which he called the "Nocturnal Dream Shows." 

For this one-night program, the film will be shown through Yuval Pudik’s Kaiserpanorama—a cardboard reconstruction of the 19th-century stereoscopic viewing cabinet and precursor to cinema. Pudik’s exhibition reactivates communal, lens-based spectatorship and includes public programs—such as this screening—centered on a custom-built apparatus and social space.

This event also anticipates Del Vaz Projects’ forthcoming exhibition Steven Arnold: Sex & Spirit, opening in February 2026.