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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% discount off the list price. The screening will include work by filmmakers written about in the book from the Canyon Cinema collection. Films by Marie Menken, Guy Sherwin, Christopher Harris, Robert Todd, Lynne Sachs, Jon Behrens, Peter Hutton, Paul Clipson will screen. 

Joel Schlemowitz is a Brooklyn-based experimental filmmaker and filmmaking instructor at The New School. His work has shown at numerous festivals and venues, including a screening of his feature film “78rpm” at Other Cinema in 2017.

More about the book and the author can be found at: https://www.experimentalfilmmaking.com

SCREENING:

GO GO GO (Marie Menken, 1957, 5 minutes, 16mm)

Musical Stairs (Guy Sherwin, 1977, 10 minutes, 16mm)

28.IV.81 (Bedouin Spark) (Christopher Harris, 2009, 3 minutes, 16mm)

Evergreen (Robert Todd, 2006, 15.5 minutes, 16mm) 

Drawn and Quartered (Lynne Sachs, 1987, 4 minutes, 16mm)

Light Coins (Jon Behrens, Caryn Cline and Luke Sieczek, 2018, 4 minutes, 16mm projected digitally)

New York Portrait, Chapter I (Peter Hutton, 1979, 16 minutes, 16mm)

Light Year (Paul Clipson, Music by Tashi Wada , 2013, 10 minutes, 16mm)

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 a spectrum of genres, styles, genders, and locations to dissect the code in this epic anthology feature of 25 short films! Each filmmaker or filmmaking team tells a story of a different fetish/color of the code. Films
range from narrative to experimental, erotic to animated, with many films redefining the traditional code with colors, patterns, and fetishes up to creative interpretation of the artist.
Contributing Filmmakers:

Black Flagging Black by Ivy Dykes
Grey – Grey Is For Bondage – Lorin Murphy
Light Blue, White Stripes – Lex Non Scripta
Blue Silver – Marie Walz
Light Blue – Ricky Lee
Teal Blue – Kolmel W Love & Alex Albers
Red – Caitlin Rose Sweet & André Azevedo
Maroon – HEMA by Ashley Monique George
Rose – Ilona Berger
Magenta – Gentry McShane
Purple – Anatomically Incorrect Doll & Char Vortryss
Lavender – L for Lavender by Margarita Femmeinista
Yellow – Pee Colored by Katie Bush
Pale Yellow – Spit by Malic Amalya & Nathan Hill
Gold – 2 looking for 1 by Jamie Evelyn Manzi
Orange – Anything Goes by Stéphane Gérard
Apricot – Apricot 4 Apricot by Courtney Trouble
Lime – Jacqueline Mary & Violette Dentata
White Fur – Neve Be & Nikki Silver
Fur – M. O’Herlihy
Grey Flannel – Austin Boe
Silver Sequins – Flagging 4 Fashion by Moon Ray Ra
Kleenex – Kico Le Strange
Houndstooth – Mouth Wide Open by Siobhan Aluvalot
Indigenous Luvvv – Demian DinéYazhi
Credit sequence – Lisa Ganser
Theme Song – nomy lamm

90 Minutes

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 travels to Kurdistan, searching for the truth behind the song she sang. His journey takes him deep into his own unknown heritage, revealing sad, violently hidden truths and the importance of what his grandmother has left behind. An enigmatic, lyrical and moving meditation on the scars of a troubled region with a beautiful cinematography and mystical undertones.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1iMpoaxlgM&feature=youtu.be

Kazım Öz is an award winning Kurdish director, scriptwriter and producer. His other films include: Fotoğraf (Photograph) (2002), D û r (Distant) (2005), Bahoz (The Storm) (2008), Demsala Dawi: Şwaxan (Last Season, Shawaks) (2010), He B û Tune B û (Once Upon A Time ) (2014), Beyaz Çınar (The White Sycamore) 2016.

The Bay Area Mesopotamia Solidarity Committee was formed as an effort to accompany, organize and act in solidarity with the struggling peoples of the Mesopotamia. As a group, while having diverse ideologies, we share the common goal of total freedom: we are both anti-capitalists and anti-fascists. We understand the fight against capitalism and authoritarianism as global, and as a means for a borderless and classless world, we wish to act internationally, alongside all those who are waging this struggle.

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