“Film festival meets live performance in boundary-pushing work.” The come-on sounds perhaps a little grandiose and also a little vague for what turns out to be two performances of a single extended program, but let’s not quibble. Tom C. J. Brown, who has a niche following for his queer-themed animated shorts, screens his latest prize-winner. Brown calls Christopher at Sea, his strikingly moody graphic novelette, “an ode to Schubert,” whose song cycle “Die Schöne Müllerin” inspired the soundtrack. Narrative parallels are hard to see, but maybe Brown’s new staging of the Schubert, set to premiere in Long Beach, will solve some mysteries. Another novelty on tap: The Recital, a film that recalls Luciano Berio’s half-century-old Recital I (for Cathy). The Cathy that Berio had in mind was his wife, Cathy Berberian, an American diva without boundaries who skipped freely from Monteverdi to harpsichord-accompanied covers of The Beatles by way of Victorian parlor songs and God knows what else. She has a kindred spirit in the Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman-Lee, muse on this occasion for the screenwriter-director James Darrah, another who refuses to be fenced in by traditional orthodoxies. —Matthew Gurewitsch