Saturday, November 25, 2017, 8:30 pm, $7
TRUMP/PUTIN + POITRAS + MANNING + KHALIL + PIÑATA!
A communal Trump–piñata-pounding (!) joins the two hemispheres of this double-header—powerful and poetic film commentaries, sounding out contemporary issues in both the international relations sphere and in the Americas. The opening “global” set premieres Max (Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer) Pozdorovkin’s hilarious Our New President, Laura Poitras’ chilling Project X, and Elizabeth Lo’s soul-shattering Hotel 22, plus briefs by Kelly Gallagher and Dominic Gagnon. Post-piñata, the program rallies under the No-Thanks Giving rubric, with four enlightened cine-essays by and on Native Americans: Caitlin Manning’s (in person) Zapatista-centered Dispatches from Mexico, Jackson Polys & Adam and Zach (Inaate/Se) Khalil’s Violence of a Society without Secrets, Sky Hopinka’s Visions of an Island, and Bochay Drum’s anti-DAPL Spotlights and Bonfires. Come early for Thad Povey‘s partisan busking!