In bittersweet news, May is the second-to-last month of Hyperreal Film Club’s long-running film series at Hotel Vegas, wherein crackerjack film programmers have brought weird and wild cinematic treasures as well as local short films to the Eastside music venue for the last two and a half years. It’s bittersweet because it’s a metamorphosis, making May’s “mermaid” theme all the more apropos. This week’s feature is Scales (2019, Saudi Arabia), a folkloric feminist parable told in a dystopian black-and-white setting. (Check out “The Off Beat" to find out what’s next for Hyperreal.) – Kat McNevins
