Tenderloin Museum screens director Rob Nilsson’s epic cycle of 9 Tenderloin feature films in its entirety.
More info on the series coming soon. In the meantime, visit the artist’s website RobNilssonArtForms.com to explore his full oeuvre or click the below links for individual film screening info & tickets!
Thursday January 29, 2026 | 6:30-8:30pm
398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members | Register via Humanitix
$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available at this link.
Film #1 in director Rob Nilsson’s 9 @ Night film cycle. Ben Malafide (Robert Viharo), arrives in San Francisco by ferryboat after 20 years in Federal Prison. He finds a world run by misdirection, euphemism, equivocation, downright lies and which avoids direct answers to any given question. Street raw meets digital glitz and Ben is transported...then thwarted.
Tuesday February 3, 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm
at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members | Register via Humanitix
$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available at this link.
Film #2 in Rob Nilsson’s Tenderloin epic 9 @ Night. USED follows two pilgrimages to Reno. Malafide and Johnny hop trains to seek inspiration from People T, an ex-con Cherokee healer. But St. Tre takes would-be paramour Kenny by plane to play cards. Out in the Nevada desert one voyage ends in reconciliation... then suicide. The other ends empty-handed back where it started. Everyone has used and been used. A latter day WAITING FOR GODOT. but in constant motion.
Thursday February 5, 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm
at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members | Register via Humanitix
$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available at this link.
Film #3 in director Rob Nilsson's Tenderloin epic 9 @ NIGHT. ATTITUDE follows Spoddy, an impossible small time auto thief who alienates everyone. Then he is diagnosed with AIDS. Stunned, and in denial, he confronts his girlfriend, sister of two tough partners in crime. She rages at him. Where did he get it? Spoddy rages back. “I spread what I want." The bottom is about to fall out of his life.
Tuesday February 10, 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm
at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members | Register via Humanitix
$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available at this link.
Film #4 in director Rob Nilsson’s Tenderloin epic 9 @ Night. SINGING follows Perry Truman, an accountant from the suburbs, rejects a tryst offered by his live-in girl friend of 20 years. She wants to rekindle their love. He has just quit his job. Wandering the Tenderloin that night he is drawn into a series of dangerous and erotic street encounters. Everyone sings in SINGING, except the real singer. Perry sings the same song twice but with different meanings. At the end he sings like a man who knows he has failed to live passionately.
Thursday February 12 , 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm
at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members | Register via Humanitix
$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available at this link.
Film #5 in director Rob Nilsson’s Tenderloin epic 9 @ Night. Phil Berkowitz, a 60 year old North Beach poet, survivor of the days of wine and roses, has a stroke. Helpless, he lies in his flea bag Tenderloin hotel room and is found by Johnny, part-time janitor in a seedy strip club run by St. Tre and Malafide, now operating under the name Modisco. Johnny tries to help him regain his speech and plays Cupid, Introducing him to Svetlana, a waitress, and alcoholic. Svetlana feels sorry for Phil, but Phil mistakes kindness for attraction.
Tuesday February 17 , 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm
at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members | Register via Humanitix
$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available at this link.
Film #6 in Rob Nilsson's Tenderloin epic 9 @ NIGHT. A scheme is a dream with street smarts. but doomed to fail. Bid's father is a cop but Bid is an urban outlaw on a motorcycle determined not to need family or society. Yve, his anarchistic girl friend and Grey, his accomplice in stolen auto parts, are part of his scheme to stay one step ahead of the law. Bid invites rebellion but discovers loneliness.
Thursday February 19 , 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm
at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members | Register via Humanitix
$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available at this link.
Film #7 in director Rob Nilsson’s 9 @ Night film cycle. Petite robs johns in order to support Tyrone, a failing pool hustler. Jane works as a stripper in a Tenderloin club. Lou, Jane's mother and a heroin addict, is a renegade aging prostitute who works the streets in defiance of the pimps. Francesca manages an escort service and does phone sex. In a profession which thrives on fantasy and martyrdom these women struggle to hold onto their reasons for caring for each other.
Tuesday February 24 , 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm
at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members | Register via Humanitix
$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available at this link.
Film #8 in director Rob Nilsson’s 9 @ Night film cycle. Bobby is a latch-key kid, a lonely 9 year old boy who plays at home as his single mother works to support them. Pan. an ex-convict tries to father a dysfunctional family of street people in an encampment by the railroad tracks. He tries to teach Bobby about life on the streets but violent consequences await those who challenge society's taboos.
Thursday February 26 , 2026 | 6:30 - 8:30pm
at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy St. SF, CA 94102
Tickets: $10 GA / $6 TLM members | Register via Humanitix
$50 / $35 (TLM members) full series tickets available at this link.
Film #9 in Rob Nilsson’s Tenderloin epic 9 @ Night. The sinking fortunes of an Oakland art cinema mirrors a shaky marriage. Michelle wants to program high minded films while her co-owner husband prefers "vintage porn" promoted by St. Tre, owner of a strip club and escort service. St. Tre's boy friend Ben Malafide, a recent inmate, begins to think life in prison is preferable to the "freedoms" of polite society. Bills pile up, homeless people begin to camp outside the theatre and, oddest of all, the theatre itself begins to speak.
