PAN - Film #8 in director Rob Nilsson’s 9 @ Night film cycle.

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.

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.

9 interconnected feature films, spun from the world of the Tenderloin and featuring TL denizens inhabiting their characters and improvising the scripts, are framed by the poetic vision and prolific practice of iconoclast director Rob Nilsson. His ambitious 9 @ Night cycle achieves an deep exploration of the human condition and stands as a rich chronicle of the Tenderloin–the physical place, its people, their existential struggles, sorrows and joys.

Independently produced, the series is an epic feat of cinema in terms of both craft & concept. 9 @ Night is the fruit of Nilsson’s nearly 2-decade collaboration with the Tenderloin yGroup, an acting workshop embedded in the neighborhood and operating with Nilsson’s creative method of “Direct Action,” which he describes as “a cinema of the moment which lives off the land to discover the relationship between what we think we want and what is actually there.” The films and the process that created them (as well as their life after completion) are a tremendous synthesis of art-making, community, and the culture of the Tenderloin both real and imagined.

The Tenderloin Museum is proud to present the 9 @ Night series in its entirety, screened salon-style with Nilsson (and guests) in-person, offering a rare opportunity to see the complete film cycle in “the land” where it was forged. For lovers of San Francisco on-screen, gritty filmic realism, character driven dramas, consider 9 @ Night an essential opus in the canon of Tenderloin-alia! 

PAN is the eigth film in the 9 @ Night cycle. While completists will be rewarded with narrative and visual resonance across the films, each movie can be enjoyed independently. Read more about the series here, and visit RobNilssonArtForms.com to explore the filmmakers full oeuvre.

About PAN / 9 @ Night:

• Winner: San Francisco Film Critic's Circle Marlon Riggs Award for courage and innovation in the cinema, 2008.

“If pressed, many cinephiles would admit a magnetic attraction to truly magnum opuses: whether crafted by Tarr, Rohmer, Rivette or Syberberg, the mere existence of such titanic features or multi-film cycles suggests an important artistic event. There’s nothing quite like the exhilaration of discovering a huge project that in cinematic terms reaches for the extra-wide narrative/cinematic embrace of THE BROTHER’S KARAMAZOV, Proust, even INFINITE JEST. But does anyone work with that kind of scope in contemporary American cinema? Meet Rob Nilsson, who with very little self-promotional zeal has spend the last dozen- plus years creating a fascinating collection of exquisitely shot digital features under the umbrella of 9 @ Night… a sprawling black and white tapestry of separate but overlapping feature narratives that encompass a broad character scroll of homeless, hustling and bourgeois types in San Francisco and environs.” – Dennis Harvey, Film Comment, Sept./Oct. Issue, 2008

• Praise from Ray Carney and the Academy Foundation:

https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/9-night-the-films-of-rob-nilsson-2/

• World Premiere: Mill Valley International Film Festival, 2006.

• The World Premiere marathon screening of all the 9 @ Night Films took place at the Harvard Film Archive in 2007.

Directed by:

• Rob Nilsson

Story by:

• Rob Nilsson

Improvised by the Cast:

• Kieron McCartney – Pan

• Kara McCartney – Barbara

• Nighttrain Schickele – Bobby

• Mantra Plonsey – Baby

• Deniz Demirer – Chuck

• Kevin Woodruff – F

• Mira Larkin – Francesca

• Edwin Johnson – Johnny

• Teddy Weiler – Phil

• Lee Etta Coffer-Anderson – Ma Betsy

• Marianne Heath – Jane Jordan

• Brette McCabe – Lou Jordan

• Baba Garaya – Musician at Bar

• M. Walter Sorao – Musician at Bar

• Iris Morioka – Waitress

• Thomas Matzke – Thomas

• Patrick Maguire – Pat

• Paul Greenberg – Paul

• Michael Crotty – Michael

• Melissa Cybele Sparks – Cashier

• Sally Corkum – Bartender

• Howard Teich – Bar Patron

• Springer Teich – Bar Patron

• Lisa Kang – Passer-by

Cinematography:

• Chikara Motomura

Sound Recordists:

• Ken Huie

• Amber Tisue

Set Decoration:

• Lisa Kang

Costume Design:

• Lisa Kang

Special Makeup Effects Artist:

• Mira Larkin

Production Manager:

• Mira Larkin

Assistant Director:

• Adan J. Faudoa

Music by:

• Al Nelson

Editors:

• Michael Edo Keane

• Larry Lange

• Califa Weiss

Associate Producer:

• Michelle Anton Allen

Producers:

• Chikara Motomura

• Rob Nilsson

• Kevin Michael Winterfield

Thanks:

• Michelle Anton Allen

• Denny Dey

• Carol Richards

• David Richards

• Gail Schickele

• Robindira Unsworth

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