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 NEW RED ORDER

As is our custom this time of year, OC flips the traditional Turkey Day celebration of white-settler survivalists back into an acknowledgement of the original inhabitants of the land being colonized. This year’s program of Native American media-art is given over to a feisty collective of young makers who’ve made quite an international splash (ArtForum, NYTimes, London Times) with their non-stop stream of critical works–shorts, features, and installations–that take oppositional positions on a wide range of aboriginal issues…and in ways both comic and apocalyptic. Principals Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil (Ojibway) and Jackson Polys (Tlingit) presented here in person to a sold-out crowd two years ago, but this time will be sending in a quiver of indigenous essays from the shooting-set of their in-production Nosferasta…including a sneak peek of that same project! Amongst the many other titles are Culture Capture, Violence of a Civilization, plus trailers for both Empty Metal and INAATE/SE/.

 DOORS OPEN AT 7:30PM FOR THE 8:00PM SHOW. ADMISSION IS $8

Proof of vaccinations and masks are required

MORRISON + MINAX + GHOSTS +

This celebration of film artifacts—both in collections and “found”–focuses on some half-dozen revered re-mix artistes and a quartet of crucial archives. OC‘s beloved ally Bill (Dawson City) Morrison floats in his sublime raft of cursed-sea-cruise newsreels that serve as sidebar to The Village Detective, his tale of sunken cinema treasure now out in theaters nationally! Editor extraordinaire Scott Calonico dares to deconstruct the police-emergency anomaly Sudden Birth. And Angelo (North by Current) Minax offers up his Stay with Me, wherein Dallas TV anchors from 50 years ago are re-imagined as Proclaimers of Doom. That piece, and Michael Morris‘ uncanny The Night in the Last Branches, are part of the West Coast Premiere of the Ghosts of Lost Futures project that radically re-edits Dallas TV holdings from the year 1970! Also represented are the re-mixes of Curt Heiner, Marwa Benhalim, Lisa McCarty, and Zak Loyd. PLUS Mariam Ghani on the stillborn Afghan film industry, Ian Saroka on the Slovenian cinema safe-house, and Sarah Woods on the Palestinian motion picture legacy.

 DOORS OPEN AT 7:30PM FOR THE 8:00PM SHOW. ADMISSION IS $8

Proof of vaccinations and masks are required

Featuring: CANNING’s MOTHERLOAD
Description: Long-time ATA staffer Liz Canning is back in person with an award-wining feature doc! Always an avid cyclist , Liz had to search far and wide to discover the best transportation solution.,.once she had twins!! She stumbled upon a global movement to replace cars with long-frame bicycles designed to carry heavy loads, and joyfully threw herself into the world of cargo-bike inventors,  advocates, and of course riders. The ultimate social revolutionizer, the sturdy and eco-conscious family vehicle connects with the earlier Suffragette cyclists, and women’s seemingly endless fight for bodily autonomy. $8