A Manifestation of the divine feminine, La Mujer Indígena. Experimental films by radical filmmakers Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, from Mexico, curated by Chuli 1312. This program is invitation into the spirit realms of the sacred and the dead • eroded and blood red • flows like water • a trance • the scattered body parts of the… Read more »
MANNING’s PALESTINE REPORT + ARCHIVAL A FIDAI + Inaugurating our 4-week History from Below series, here’s the West Coast premiere of a fabled piece of Palestinian cinema, introduced by long-time Mission ally Caitlin Manning. Kamal Aljafari‘s 2024 A Fidai is a multiple-award-winning response to the 1982 looting of of the Palestinian Film Archive in Lebanon by Israeli Defense Forces, in which the maker has ingeniously inserted new material into gaps in the filmstrip itself! He digitally re-positions… Read more »
99 HOOKER + PACKARD + RETRO TECH Our peripatetic sugar bear/mad meister of Media Re-Mix 99 Hooker trundles thru town once again, here to anchor a carnivalesque compendium of lo-fi apparati, with the premiere of his Incredibly Strange Music Videos – LIVE. His real time breaking and re-making of the music-video genre is preceded by a most-curious collection of early audio technologies, including Rich DeLaup‘s Drum Buddy, Maurice… Read more »