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 WASTEDLAND + BATMAN CULT/YOUTUBER +

On this irrepressibly pagan Halloween eve, creature spirits crawl up to the surface of the skin–so come in costume! Featured is outsider Andrew H. Shirley‘s picaresque Wastedland2, on a trio of animal-costumed graffiti artists who, by animal instinct, migrate from one dystopia to the next, tagging the walls as they inquire into selfhood! Co-hit is Youtube ruler Ernest Ramon‘s “critical-paranoiac” conspiracy-rant on Batman‘s origins, Dark Night Rising. PLUS the epic 16mm ending of Toho‘s 60s Turtle-Monster, Gamera the Invincible. ALSO other Godzilla goofs, a King Kong cameo, and a rare 16mm peek at the ’65 animal-costumer Bremen Town Musicians! Tricky treats amidst scary smoke machines!! $6.66

 DOORS OPEN AT 7:30PM FOR THE 8:00PM SHOW. ADMISSION IS $6.66

Proof of vaccinations and masks are required.

ROURKE + D.JOHNSON + LIPMAN’s OWLS +

An ornithologist‘s dream show! Lovers of birds demonstrate the pleasures of attending to our feathered friends, in all their beauty and odd behavior. Master pixillator Jeremy Rourke lets fly a animation/performance, Birds and Movements, as well as his earlier Jazzy Birds and Ashland Birds. Complementing his stop-and-go motion is Dan Johnson‘s video update on the California Condors of nearby Pinnacles Peaks, an intimate account of their precarity he calls TheLost Crowd. AND conservationist Mark Lipman offers a delightfully detailed diary of the now-famous Glen Canyon owlettes. PLUS Jake Scott/Mitch Stallman’s flute/shadow-play on Murmurations, Penny Lane’s The Commoners, Lauren DeFilippo‘s post-Hitchcockian Life of Birds, and Disney’s It’s Tuff Being a Bird!

 DOORS OPEN AT 7:30PM FOR THE 8:00PM SHOW. ADMISSION $8.88

Proof of vaccinations and masks are required.

BRECKE + MCCORMICK + RIVERS + U5

Local hero Mark Brecke introduces an exquisite exemplar of his enormously ambitious, planet- spanning quest, Somalia in the Picture. He shares the back-story of that country’s founding father, then to the fate of the tragically lost internationally epic that would narrate that history. From Spokane, Matt McCormick sends in his Deepest Hole, on the Cold War contest to dig the biggest! UK auteur Ben Rivers affords to California the debut of his Distant Episode, his giddy meta-cinematic take on an Moroccan movie shoot. Oaxacan-based Charles Fairbanks maps out the cultural reverberations  of his Meso-American Volcan, while the Swiss two-women crew U5 also focus their Double Bind  on volcanoes, and bottom-up agricultural in Indonesia.  PLUS a pair of premieres, one from Turkey (Merve Çaşkurlu’s Happy Fishbowl, on Istanbul gentrification), and the other from Chile (Anto Astudillo’s Golpes, their hi-con perspective on the architecture of power in Santiago).

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

Proof of vaccinations and masks are required.