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Presented by Canyon Cinema, SF Cinematheque and ATA. Experimental Filmmaking and the Motion Picture Camerais an introductory experimental filmmaking guide focusing on the camera and its possibilities, published by Focal Press. Author Joel Schlemowitz will be on hand to sign copies for a book party and screening, with the book available for sale at a 20%… Read more »
Before Internet dating and hookup apps, The Handkerchief Code was largely used by gay men in the 1970’s to distinguish sexual preferences and fetishes in gay clubs and on the streets of places like San Francisco and New York. In Hanky Code: The Movie, Periwinkle Cinema, San Francisco’s queer experimental film collective brings Queer and Trans* filmmakers from across… Read more »
Zer (Germany/Turkey, 113 min) Kurdish and Turkish with English subtitles Jan, a young man who has grown up in New York, is moved by a song that his grandmother sings to him on her deathbed. She tells him about a recurring nightmare that she experienced as a child in a terrible massacre. After her death, Jan… Read more »
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MILLION BRAZILIANS + IDAHO JOE WINSLOW + ALEX GREY + Tonight’s Incredibly Strange Musicians are none other than cult faves Million Brazilians, back again (last time as White Gourd) with their ecstatic jazzy/tribal/trance vibe. Birthed in Portland in the shadow of Smegma, and here tonight all the way from Maine, they perform in front of the NorCal premiere of their half-hour Urban Fossickated Octave. Their act is in… Read more »
The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series welcomes poet Prageeta Sharma, visiting from Los Angeles, together with Dodie Bellamy, of San Francisco, reading and in conversation. This event, the second of two evenings featuring these two writers, is supported by The Walter & Elise Haas Fund, and is free and open to the public. Dodie Bellamy’s writing focuses on… Read more »
