Author: Gilbert Guerrero

Wholphin No 11 features: Werner Herzog giving a voice to a lovelorn plastic bag in search of his Maker at the Pacific Trash Vortex, a shocking documentary about a Russian finishing school for the modern-day gold digger, the Sundance 2010 Short Award winner, a time-traveling Viking odyssey, the most humiliating break up of all time, a documentary set the only checkpoint between India and Pakistan where 20,000 people gather daily to celebrate, the world’s most dangerous jog, plus Dock Ellis, Reggie Jackson, Melissa Auf der Maur, Yogi Bear, and much more.

Brent Hoff will host this dynamite screening.

The San Francisco Art Institute has had a long tradition of fostering the development of artists working with film and video in uniquely personal ways, and who have gone on to become successful artists, educators and curators. For many who have gone through the program, Janis Crystal Lipzin has been a strong mentor and role model. As an interdisciplinary artist committed to filmmaking she has created a body of work that utilizes alternative photochemical processes, installation and performance to explore personal, political and environmental issues.

This program features her newest work, a handmade Super-8/digital hybrid entitled De Luce 1: Vegetare, alongside a decade’s worth of work by alumni including Alexis Bravos, Brian Traylor, Chris Kennedy, Christina Battle, Elizabeth DiGiovanni, Jeremy Menzies, John Palmer, Kai-Ting Chuang, Karen Johannesen, Rick Bahto, Tsen-Chu Hsu, and Vanessa O’Neill.

Proceeds from tonight’s program will be donated to the SFAI Faculty Union’s legal fund as they continue their struggle against the unjust layoffs of nine tenured faculty members, including Janis Crystal Lipzin.

A five-course meal of experimental video and performance art that is anything but well mannered.

The menu includes:

A cup of tea prepared by Sashenka Lopez

Spooning T: a video that approaches cultural assimilation through traditional practices that encourage self-modification within systems.

A bit of Milk and Honey prepared by Emily Ritz

Honeycomb: a fanciful video of the honeycomb coupled with the slow consumption and regurgitation of rich liquids.

The Main Steak prepared by Jen Beef

Jen Beef: is a video
turn it on
Press Play
“Re-enact American”
take it out.
flip it over(tape).
eat it
FUCK it.

The Ultimate Surrender of your taste buds prepared by Magic Meals

Magic Meals: An outrageous dynamic duo of punk sounds and wailing voices breaking the threshold of queer, glitter and drums!

Surprise Delight prepared by Elan Dia

Elan Dia : is a colorful explosion of poise and guttural talent

Dessert prepared by Mev Luna

Pronouns for Dinner: a performative video about a monster hell bent on consuming pronoun cakes representing the gender spectrum in an attempt to “undo” gender, but in the process becomes “undone” by the commentary from the curator and the mass amount of cake consumed.

So cum and devour the fanciful, unruly and the grotesque…or just cake and bratwurst!