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SF Cinematheque presents: James T. Hong In Person

With a dark humor and a darker sense of irony the documentary and essayistic film/video and installation work of James T. Hong bristles with anger and irony. On an extremely rare visit to the U.S. soil he once renounced, formerly-SF-now-Taipei-based filmmaker James T. Hong appears in person to present a program of recent films from his confrontationally intense body of work exploring racialism, philosophy and revisionist approaches to history. Screening: Apologies (2012), an ambient installation work examining the ironies of the nation-to-nation apology (“A stiff apology is a second insult…”—G. K. Chesterton); The Turner Film Diaries (2012), a deadpan dystopian depiction of Andrew Macdonald/W.L. Pierce’s infamous apocalyptic white supremacist fantasy (labeled a “bible of the racist right” by the Southern Poverty Law Center); and Cutaways of Jiang Chun Gen—Forward and Back Again (2013), a portrait of an elderly Chinese farmer who, subject to Japanese biological warfare in 1942, has lived and persevered for 70 years with open wounds. (Steve Polta)

ATA’s openscreening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there! Get feedback! Or just come and take it all in! One hour of shorts are accepted monthly on an open revolving basis, anything goes with the screened work, and the refreshments are pretty good too. $5, FREE admissionfor contributing artists. Door:7:30pm Projector: 8pm

An animated documentary web-series about the successes, failures, and incredible confusion trying to date as a genderqueer/trans person. Sam Berliner’s goal as a filmmaker is to provide a positive voice for the trans, genderqueer, androgynous & gender-fluid folks not yet represented on screen, documenting our history, serving as a call to action to be recognized and respected by society at large, and forcing our culture to evolve. Dating Sucks, while focusing on a sub-sub culture, is universally relatable because at its heart it is a search for love and oneself. By recognizing our similarities, Sam’s hope is that all people can find common ground for acceptance and understanding.​

Homocore Minneapolis By Lisa Ganser: A documentary about the musical scene in Minneapolis, focusing on the queer punk groups, whose style is also called Homocore. Lisa Ganser interviews members of groups such as Tribe 8, The Misfires, The Butchies, as representatives of the style.

Second Hand Emotion By Sara Trucker: Second Hand Emotion is a pair of music videos from trans hip-hop artist Rocco Katastrophe. “Wake Me If I’m Dreaming” tracks the rise and fall of a relationship, and “Let Me Go” traces the aftermath and recovery.

The Vagilantes “Black N’ Blue” By Tyler Jensen

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