This sweet little DIY idea invites film lovers into the homes and onto the couches of other film lovers, to love films together. This year's fest—the first ever—features 200 short films (all less than five minutes) screening in private residences around town, each with its own dedicated genre. The movies play all day long, while moviegoers wander from house to house, chatting, snacking, making friends, getting in fistfights maybe, touching each other surreptitiously on the thigh maybe, and watching films. Awwww. (Miscellaneous couches, visit www.couchfestfilms.org for details. 11 am–7 pm.) LINDY WEST

After jazz, the next intellectual art form to emerge wholly from the black-American experience is techno. Hiphop could have become intellectual, but it never evolved to the level of theory, abstraction, and difficulty. Techno, which was born around the same time as hiphop, became an intellectual art form in the early '90s, and Carl Craig was at the center of this transformation. The techno he and his generation produced (and continue to produce) is not about reality (or salary) but concepts—concepts in the mode of music. (Neumos, 925 E Pike St, 709-9467. 8 pm, $20 adv/$25 DOS, 21+.)