The back room at Western Bridge lately is like the back of the
bus: better. This season there is Takeshi Murata’s Monster
Movie (2005), a four-minute sample of hand-selected frames
from Caveman, the 1981 B-movie. In Murata’s version,
projected at overwhelming silver-screen size, the fight is not between
human and toothy monster but monster and screen. The hairy beast
rushes the screen, but he always dissolves again. You could feel
sorry for him if you didn’t want more. (Western Bridge, 3412 Fourth
Ave S, 838-7444. Noon–6 pm, free.)

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...