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Artist and filmmaker TR Ericsson, whose work is on view in the Cleveland Museum of Art Transformer Station exhibition “Crackle & Drag” through 8/23, will introduce tonight’s screening of Harmony Korine’s polarizing directorial debut. Set in post-tornado Xenia, Ohio, the movie is a bizarre freak show in which a bunch of juveniles kill time by engaging in a variety of outré activities. Condemned by many but admired by Lukas Moodysson, Gus Van Sant, and Werner Herzog (who especially liked the bacon taped to the wall of the bathroom), Gummo is at once daring, disturbing, and surreal. With Linda Manz, Max Perlin, and Chloë Sevigny.