Saturday, April 30, 2016, 8:30 pm, $6
NIK NERBURN RETROSPECTIVE +
Erstwhile OC miracle-worker, the now at-large Mr. Nerburn bounces back into our Mission District safe-house for a feature-length review of his “punk-documentarian” practice. In the Shadow of Paul Bunyan criss-crosses the outsized myth of the jolly logger with the hidden history of the US-Dakota Indian War, told from the perspective of a native Minnesotan. Today I Am Going to Kill Myself but First I Am Going to Dance is Nik’s other Midwestern historiography, in this case about an immense insane asylum in Fergus Falls, where he excavated the ghosts in the graveyard and the local community that keeps their memory alive. MANIUM is an abstract exploration of the folk knowledge surrounding the black houses of Olympia, Washington, while Officer-Involved Shooting surveys the landscapes where Trayvon Martin, Walter Scott, and Jordan Davis died at the hands of white policemen.