Saturday Night
November 21, 2026
6-8 PM
Peoria Riverfront Museum
Films and Runtimes:
”Fine”Art - 4:18
Whackers - 14:07
Penguin With a Sword - 11:00
the refrain - 4:15
Not To Be - 20:00
Learn about the films playing Saturday Night
“Fine” Art
Courtland Sifuentes
4:18
A lonely painting fights for attention in an overstuffed
art gallery.
Whackers
Big Irv Huguenot
14:07
Thad, an unarmed grocery store security guard, becomes a tyrant obsessed with absolute authority to the dismay of Rose, a regular customer and Thad’s only ally. Meanwhile, separated father Wally becomes engrossed in a fringe conspiracy theory and begins a legal battle to regain his freedom and custody of his children. As both men descend into increasingly dangerous behavior, a slow night at work becomes a battleground for life, liberty and the pursuit of power.
Penguin with a Sword
Olivia Nendick
11:00
While Mrs. Claus launches her unethical clothing line of penguin feather merchandise, a sword-wielding penguin finds his home ransacked and his family missing. He sets out to find and rescue the penguin-kind before it's too late but finds that she has reconstructed Santa's workshop into a factory to detain and de-feather penguins. Will 'PWAS' put an end to this plucking madness? Or will he be fashioned into the latest pair of slippers?
The Refrain
DeMar Walker
4:15
If you are your home, what do you bring with you? Director DeMar Walker portrays a traveling performer on a quest for self-acceptance and belonging. the refrain is the second installment of Walker's dance short film series.
Not To Be
Melissa Lorraine
20:00
Formed in 2018 at Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet, IL, the Incarcerated Mass was more than just a theatre troupe of men serving de facto life sentences. It was a community where movement, storytelling, and study made possible—even for a moment—collective dreams of liberation. Not To Be documents their first and last public performance in July 2023, shortly before Stateville shut down and the group was scattered across other facilities. The film is a powerful reminder of how prisons retraumatize and reinscribe racial violence, adding to a growing movement to bring back parole in places like Illinois.