Monday Happenings

Still from Sans Soleil courtesy Harvard Film Archive.

Chris Marker might best be known in the United States for his time-traveling film La Jetée (1967), but his experimental documentaries are what get film professors jazzed. The HFA screens three of them tonight, including Sans Soleil (1983), an "essay film" that makes pastiche out of stock footage, bits of other films, Japanese television shows, and Marker's own work. The film has no synchronous sound, only voiceover, which makes it something of a challenge to the uninitiated. Screening with The Embassy (1973) and The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (1967), a more conventional documentary account of the October 1967 march on the Pentagon made for French television. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., 7 p.m. $8/$6.

Bike Week

Dust off your death urge because Bay State Bike Week begins today, and cyclists are encouraged to bike everywhere. ("Everywhere" does not include the sidewalk, cyclists.) [More information]

Dancing Hipsters

Beat Research is a weekly dance party at the Enormous Room, but it's also a class at MassArt. DJ Flack, also known as adjunct faculty member Antony Flackett, merges the two Beat Research valences tonight when he brings his students' experimental dance music to the Enormous Room. Tapered jeans encouraged but not required. Enormous Room, 567 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 9 p.m. Free.