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Film Screening

DGC Video x Pac Arts Present: LOVE & POP

The Official SDAFF Launch Party

Chew the Scene

April 29, 2025

7PM

Digital Gym Cinema

From the visionary Hideaki Anno (Neon Genesis Evangelion), LOVE & POP is a radical, dizzying plunge into late '90s Tokyo youth culture. Shot with handheld digicams and warped perspectives, Anno’s live-action debut is as restless and experimental as the teenage ennui it captures. Based on Ryū Murakami’s novel, this film follows a schoolgirl’s frenetic journey through the city’s underbelly—armed only with a cellphone and a mission to buy a topaz ring before the mall closes.

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Enjoy culinary tastings from over a dozen of San Diego’s top AAPI chefs, restaurants, and vendors, showcasing their take on Asian American cuisine.

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DGC Video x Pac Arts Present: LOVE & POP (1998)
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July 1997. Tokyo schoolgirl Hiromi and her friends spend the summer going on dates with older men for money. Armed with only a cellphone, Hiromi sets out to date her way to ¥128,000 in order to purchase an expensive topaz ring before the mall closes for the day. Based on the novel by Ryū Murakami, LOVE & POP is the live action feature debut from Hideaki Anno, creator of NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, one of the most celebrated anime series of all time. The film is radical in its stylistic approach to teenage ennui, taking to the seedy streets of Shibuya with handheld digicams, distorted lenses, and a barrage of unconventional camera angles. Criminally underseen for years, LOVE & POP remains a singular portrait of Japanese youth coming of age in the approach to the 21st century.
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Tickets: $13 Regular | $11 Students & Seniors | $9 DGC + Pac Arts Members

Digital Gym Cinema

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Digital Gym Cinema

1100 Market St, San Diego, CA

The entrance to the parking garage is on 11th street, between G St. and Market St. on the West Side of the building.

$5 for 3 Hours. The $5.oo dollar parking rate is honored even when signage from ACE indicates other Special Event Pricing. Approach the attendant and let them know you are watching a film at the Digital Gym Cinema. They will honor the $5.00 fee.

Please Note: Parking is limited. Occasionally there are other events inside the building; so although very rare, parking is unfortunately not 100% guaranteed.

Guests must park in spaces labeled “UCSD PARKING”.

You can access the cinema from the second level of the garage (one level below entrance) via two elevators. The Digital Gym is on the 2nd floor.

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April 29, 2025

7PM

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