Saturday, February 22, 2020, 8:30 pm, $7.77
TOMMY BECKER + JANIE GEISER + SALLY CRUIKSHANK + SALISE HUGHES + OC opens with a dazzling performance and celebration of both new and older pixilated cinema! Our spotlight focuses on SFs own word-image-sound alchemist Tommy Becker, performing FOUR of his musical poems that foreground animation passages. ALSO premiering are two sublime shorts by Janie Geiser–Reserve Shadow and Fluorescent Girl. AND Jeremy Rourke/Rebecca Solnit’s A Fine Initial Act, Salise Hughes’ Witch, Bill Plympton’s Trump Bites, Niles Atallah’s Luis, Stephanie Delazeri’s Wheaties, and Martha Colburn’s Walls & Wills. PLUS a special “legacy showcase”—classic stop-motion from Ub Iwerks (in 16mm), Gumby-maker Art Clokey’s Mandala, Sally Cruikshank’s Quasi at the Quackadero (16mm), and Helen Hill’s Tunnel of Love. Free champagne, toast, and Nutella to ring in the new season, amidst flickers from Bruce Bickford, Nina Paley, and an hilarious hysterically homophobic anti-Disney comic-rant by the American Family Assoc.*$7.77 |