NOON Projects and Del Vaz Projects are excited to announce an intimate presentation of Steven Arnold's 1968 short film Messages, Messages at Yuval Pudik's current exhibition The Hom(o)stead Act: Kaiserpanorama. For this one-night program, the film will be screened through Pudik’s cardboard reconstruction of the nineteenth-century stereoscopic viewing cabinet. A technology that preceded modern cinema, Pudik’s Kaiserpanorama reimagines communal, lens-based spectatorship—a custom-built apparatus with viewfinders activated as queer lenses and portals for queer sensibility. Created in collaboration with Michael Wiese when Arnold was a student at the San Francisco Art Institute, Messages, Messages is based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. With surreal, psyche-driven cinematography in which the audience confronts close-ups of the actors' piercing gaze, the film's penetrating effect is heightened when projected through Pudik's glory holes. Messages, Messages premiered at the Palace Theater in San Francisco, after which Arnold was invited to host a recurring avant-garde film series there that he called the "Nocturnal Dream Shows”—which included a debut performance by the Cockettes, who became a regular opening act for the late-night screenings. The film was also featured in the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival in 1970. This event anticipates Del Vaz Projects’ forthcoming exhibition Steven Arnold: Cocktails in Heaven, opening in February 2026.