Friday Happenings

Gentle Sounds

A Hawk and a Hacksaw is a band from Albuquerque that mines the folk musics of the world for gentle melodies to turn into indie rock. Damon and Naomi, the local masters of gentle rock sounds, will open. Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre, 820 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 8 p.m. $15.

Movies

The HFA begins its retrospective of the work of experimental filmmaker and photographer Sharon Lockhart with a pair of her most recent films. Lunch Break (2008) finds Lockhart in the Bath Iron Works factory in Maine, filming workers while they eat. Exit (2008), a companion piece, watches the shifts change at the factory, revealing "the subtle differences and symmetries that sustain the rhythm of factory labor." Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, 7 p.m. $10.

More Movies

The MFA continues its series of classic Mexican cinema with a pair of doozies, El Compadre Mendoza (1934), Fernando de Fuentes's film about opportunism and political commitment in revolutionary Mexico, and Luis Buñuel's Susana (1951), a movie about how sexy ladies will disrupt your happy home. Museum of Fine Arts, 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. $10/$8, each film.

Dancing Hipsters

The Thunderdome dance party has been on hiatus for the past 10 months, but it returns tonight, albeit across the River from its old digs. Djs Mistaker, Baltimoroder and Dev/Null will be behind the wheels of steel, and the VJs, Robotkid and Matt Boch, will be handing out 3D glasses to all comers. Villa Victoria Center for the Arts, 85 W. Newton St., South End, 10 p.m. $10.