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In-Conversation/Book Reading by Sahar Delijani

Sahar Delijani was born in Tehran, Iran in 1983, and graduated in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

Her internationally acclaimed debut novel, Children of the Jacaranda Tree, has been translated into 30 languages and published in more than 75 countries.

One of the most talked about books of London Book Fair 2012, Children of the Jacaranda Tree was the Second Finalist for Elle Gran Premio 2014, a Great Group Read 2014 Selection by Women’s National Book Association, a Kansas City Star’s Top 10 Books of 2013, a July 2013 Indie Next Great Read, La Stampa’s literary protagonist of 2013, Vogue India’s Top 10 Big Reads of 2014, and a candidate for Prix des Lecteurs Sélection 2015 by Le Livre de Poche.

Twice a Puschcart nominee, Delijani’s writings have appeared in a wide range of literary publications and journals including BBC Persian, The Bellevue Review, Corriere della Sera, La Nazione, Read it Forward, Slice Magazine, Perigee Publications and Berkeley Poetry Review.

REVIVAL OF EVIL + UNARIUS + SUB-GENIUS +
Holy crap! For our annual Halloween SPOOKTACULAR, we couldn’t get any freakier than the contemporary hellscape of “alt religion”…and here is a veritable Flood of eschatological SPEW and wide-eyed WHEW!! We’ve got Pat Boone speaking in tongues, clips of Poke Runyon’s Magic of Solomon, Holy Ghost Hysteria, Mark of the Beast, Cult Explosion, the ever-visionary adventures of our flying-saucer/past-lives pals Unarius, and a couple clips (Arise!, X-Day Drill) from the Texas Slack sect with strong connections to SF, The Church of the Sub-Genius! Praise Bob!! The night’s 16mm high/low point is a conspiratorial section from Jeremiah Films’ ultra rare, utterly wicked Revival of Evil, with intro by collector Anthony Buchanan. ALSO the Mormon Ancient America (claiming Jesus preached in Meso-America), the post-Mormon doomsday sect Nesara, 700 Club on Burning Man’s Satanic connections, Joe Schimmel on backward-masking, black magic, sorcery, and witchcraft, and the energized rants and intra-Christian attacks of many other bizarre belief-systems. DJMysterious Music Meister will be spinning the vinyl backwards, of course, as well as dispensing free trick-or-treats!

Home Movie Day is a celebration of amateur films and filmmaking held annually at venues worldwide. Home Movie Day events provide the opportunity for individuals and families to see and share their own home movies with an audience of their community. It’s a chance to discover why these films are important and to learn how best to care for them.

• 1pm – 2pm: Home Movie Inspection
• 1:30pm – 3pm: Open Home Movie Screening
• 3pm – 4pm: Home Movie Jukebox by Megan & Rick Prelinger

We will project 8mm, Super-8mm, 9.5mm, 16mm films and VHS tapes. All home movies will be inspected and prepared for safe projection before being loaded onto our well maintained projectors and decks, so if you would like to see your movies up on the big screen bring them early, during the inspection period from 1pm to 2pm. We’ll screen your home movies from 1:30pm to 3:00pm, followed by the Home Movie Jukebox featuring audience selected home movies from the Prelinger Archives presented by Megan and Rick Prelinger. ”

Megan and Rick Prelinger are internationally recognized experts on non-theatrical and amateur film. Together they co-founded the Prelinger Library, an independent research library focused on 19th and 20th century historical history that is open to anyone for research, reading, inspiration, and reuse. Rick Prelinger’s audience-participatory Lost Landscapes series: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, Lost Landscapes of New York, Lost Landscapes of Los Angeles and Lost Landscapes of Detroit have impressed the value and power of home movies upon thousands of attendees across the country and thousands more online viewers around the world.

Visit the Center for Home Movies or homemovieday.com for more information.

Home Movie Day is a celebration of amateur films and filmmaking held annually at venues worldwide. Home Movie Day events provide the opportunity for individuals and families to see and share their own home movies with an audience of their community. It’s a chance to discover why these films are important and to learn how best to care for them.
We will be projecting 8mm, Super-8mm, 9.5mm and 16mm films. All films will be inspected and prepped for safe projection before being loaded onto our well maintained projectors, so if you would like to see your films up on the big screen bring them early, during the inspection period from 1pm to 2pm. Screenings will begin at 1:30pm and run through 4:00pm.
Visit homemovieday.com for more information.