Author: Fara

BECKER + 99 HOOKER + RE-MIXERS

Our third iteration of the season’s Optronicas is more about video/performance and re-mixing, with a couple of the country’s heaviest hitters. Local hero Tommy Becker has finally readied his long-form Elective ART performance, an energized video song-cycle about Tommy‘s experiences as a high school Art teacher. AND the second half is anchored by the nationally touring 99 Hooker, who reveals his new h9sh, another crowning achievement by way of quick-cutting live-laptop action. Between the two titans is an assemblage of classic video cut-ups: Animal Charm, EBN, Rodney Ascher, Vicki Bennett/PLU, and Davy Force/Gerald Casale in their breaking music video. PLUS Soda_Jerk, both old and new!Come early for Russ Forster on sidewalk theremin! $10

Join us for an evening of film from the advanced production students at the University of San
Francisco. Tonight, features short films made in our Documentary and 16mm production
classes. Our documentary students take the USF ethos, “Change the World From Here”, to
heart, making passionate films about an array of personal, local and national issues. Our 16mm
students, meanwhile, have been thrown into the deep-end, wrestling with the challenges of
making analog films. It will be a great evening, filled with creative wonders. Please join us!

Jack Aceto
Cencere Baker
Miles Clark
Dylan Divine-Sicherman
Wyatt Fields
Sophie Frey
Justin George
Daisy Guiterrez
Preston Hayden
Jake Jilizian
Ava Klubberud
Kiara Maxino
Veronica Palmer
Chris Rama
Jeremy Goei Videla
Ashley Bohmwald
Jessica Crosby
Khari Dawson
Prestonn Hayden
Ryoto Kaneda
Jose Romaker
Lisa Rudometkin
Sariah Watkins

GREER/FACING WEST’s THE ENDLESS END + REINIGER + BICKFORD +

Following up on their first major museum exhibition at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Lydia Greer‘s shadow ensemble brings its “performative installation” up to big-City SF, for us locals to get a look! In their immersive environment, shadow puppets play with hand-made silhouettes, rear-screen projection, and a multi-dimensional soundscape. Here whole species live and die over the span of a half-hour of looping overlays. This marvelous sculptural environment situates homo sapiens as animals within a larger system, with humans as the primary predator. Supporting Greer‘s shadow theater is The Art of Lotte Reiniger, certainly one of her primary inspirations. ALSO: An opening cast call of hand-made mannequins, including clips from DeeDee Halleck‘s doc on the Bread and Puppet outdoor pageant, the premiere of Max Mueller‘s uncanny Strange Bedfellows, a harrowing 10-min. excerpt from Bruce Bickford‘s Prometheus’s Garden, and the Mission‘s own David Cox with his crafty Puppenhead. The luv-fest is festooned with delightful glimpses of German, Hungarian and Slovakian puppetry. $10