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  • DIGNIDAD Y RESISTENCIA: A Night of Antifa Performance Art & Kinetic Sculpture in Honor of René Yañez.

    With Balitronica Gomez – Marshall Weber – Guillermo Gomez Pena – Maria Veronica San Martin

    And a film about Rene’s life by Louis DeMattheis.
    Brought together by their love and respect for acclaimed California artist and curator René Yañez (1942-2018), this
    global dream team of enigmatic artists are performing together, solo and collaboratively, for the first time.
    Chilean activist historian and Booklyn artist María Verónica San Martín comes to S.F. with elements from her recent
    major exhibit at the National Archive of Chile in Santiago, which she uses to symbolicly deconstruct the Nazi run
    Colonia Dignidad cult torture village (now re-branded as Villa Baviera) still operating in Chile.
    ATA and Booklyn co-founder Marshall Weber channels an Antifa curse on neo-Nazis.
    Poet/artist Balitronica Gómez and MacArthur Genius Award Winner Guillermo Gómez-Peña (members of the
    notorious Pocha Nostra performance group) will obliterate normative culture and dismantle political borders.
    Donations at entry will go to ATA and René Presente! an affinity group formed to continue the Mission of René Yañez.

  • Radio Fliers, Blow, and Quenten Wall of Sound

    Please join us for an evening of sonic experience with

    https://quentenwallofsound.bandcamp.com

    https://theradiofliers.bandcamp.com

    $7-$10

  • Left Eye Cinema: State of Emergence/Tribulation 99

    Join the San Francisco Democratic Socialists of America for a found footage double bill, presented by our Immigrants’ Rights and International Solidarity group.
    State of Emergence (2014) is the ultimate zombie movie—minus the zombies. Produced by the Anti-Banality Union, it taps into the societal paranoia of Hollywood disaster movies in its vision of a world suddenly incapable of sustaining its own contradictions. In response to a nebulous foreign enemy that never materializes, martial law is declared, citizens barricade their doors to keep out their neighbors…and a border wall is built. With startling prescience, State of Emergence details the horrors that ensue when people choose passivity over solidarity.
    Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (1991) is the “pseudo-pseudo-documentary” classic by ATA co-founder Craig Baldwin. It presents a factual chronicle of US intervention in Latin America in the form of the ultimate far-right conspiracy theory, combining covert action, environmental catastrophe, space aliens, cattle mutilations, killer bees, religious prophecy, doomsday diatribes, and just about every other crackpot theory broadcast through the dentures of the modern paranoiac. A delirious vortex of hard truths, deadpan irony, and archival mash-ups—industrials, graphs, cartoons, movies from Hollywood B to Mexican Z—Tribulation 99 constructs a truly perverse vision of American imperialism.