Friday Happenings

Still from Oh Man courtesy HFA.

Berkshire Mountain Distillers makes booze right here in Massachusetts, which means that even the most pedantic of locavores can now have cocktails. Sample the distillery's gin, vodka, and rum today for free at Marignetti Liquors. Martignetti Liquors, 1650 Soldiers Field, 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Free.

Movies

Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi are Italian experimental filmmakers who edit found footage from the early twentieth century into haunting meditations on war, colonialism, violence, authoritarianism, and statelessness. Oh! Man (2004) is an atrocity exhibition: disfigured orphans and veterans in the blood red shadow of World War I. The Flower of the Race (1991) presents the human body, as viewed by Fascism. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, 7 p.m. $10.

Burt Lancaster's first role saw him playing a hapless ex-boxer, the quarry of a pair of hit men in the Richard Siodmak's classic film noir The Killers (1946). The newly restored print will surely do wonders for Elwood Bredell's landmark cinematography. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge, through Sunday. Showtimes and tickets.

Electronic Music

Paul Lansky pioneered the art of composing music for computers, but his work is seldom performed. (There aren't that many computers in conservatory, even today.) Ensemble Robot and Loud Objects will redress the wrong by performing the world premiere of Lansky's Concert Aria for Obbligato Violin and Robots, which is probably the most notable composition for robots you are likely to see this month. The performance also includes Evan Ziporyn's Belle Labs and works by the ensembles themselves. Part of MIT's Beeline Festival. Broad Institute, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, 8 p.m. $15.

Ballet

There's no reason to hate everything that comes out of Montreal. Since 1972, Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal has performed a fusion of street dance and modern art dance that has redefined the boundaries of both. Now calling itself "[bjm_danse]," the ensemble performs two pieces tonight. Institute of Contemporary Art, South Boston, 8 p.m. $35/$31.50