Wednesday, December 16, 2015, 8:00 pm, $7-$10
Lisa Ganser has been part of the curatorial of Periwinkle Cinema, an established experimental monthly queer movie screening and collective since June 2013.
Tonight’s monthly installment is Ganser’s public send off and a celebration of their short movie works as they and their partner Nomy Lamm are moving to Olympia, WA January 1, 2016. Please join us in celebrating the short movie works of Lisa Ganser.
This program of short movies all address the topics of heart and home, most of them created here in San Francisco.
The showcase includes “Stars Out,” a song and video written by ganser/lamm as a part of the People’s Investigation into the Wrongful Death of Asa B Sullivan. It is a meditative reflection about the trauma that happens when the people we trust abuse their power. It was written while becoming friends with Asa and Idriss Stelley after their deaths, through the stories and love of their moms – Kat Espinosa and La Mesha Irizarry. Both Asa and Idriss with mental illness and both killed by SFPD. Lisa sings the song live to a video.
Also screening tonight the 17 minute experimental documentary “Putting My Heart Where My Home Is” which chronicles via iphone Ganser’s first year and a half living in San Francisco’s Mission District including their relationship and work within the The Movement against police brutality.
A short movie-in-progress called Listen White Neighbor screens tonight as well.
Lisa Ganser is an artist, activist and odd jobber that lives in San Francisco with mental illness and brain injury. They are an established filmmaker, artist and curator that strives for accessibility in all things, putting the crayons back in people’s hands. Ganser provides Access Support for Periwinkle Cinema and volunteers with the Idriss Stelley Foundation. They are part of a Fundraising Team for Sins Invalid, are active with Mission Copwatch and has most recently been using the tool of sidewalk chalk to combat police terror and for social justice. Ganser is a musician and singer and performs in the duo ganser/lamm. Ganser identifies as genderqueer, Sick & Disabled and aspires to be an Elder.
And as always FREE POPCORN!!!!!