This November Periwinkle Cinema presents our yearly all Trans/Gender Queer/Gender Non-Conforming/Gender Fluid/ Agender screening. We are here and we won’t be erased. We shall continue to fight to build our future and give voice to those most silenced. Come be with us to experience this program, celebrate who we are, be with community. As always there will be free popcorn and fun door prizes.Submissions
accepted until Nov 10th via our facebook page send us a link or submit@periwinklecinema.com
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Other Cinema: GIRLS’ CHOICE (CHRISTIAN DIVINE’s THE BLUE AGE OF VIDEO GAMES)
He’s back! Our homeboy who hit it big with the world’s first chart-topping video game played through a female protagonist! From Pong to Doom and beyond, the cultural expansion and global reach of games has ushered in a new era of diversity, story-telling and representation, along with cautionaries over their social impact. Games from around the world now explore issues of war, abuse, poverty, racism, sexism, even colonialism. Generations raised with computer games as an organic part of a media diet now accept and embrace them as a valid aesthetic force and all that implies. Christian Divine, writer for Life is Strange, the first video game to win a Peabody Award (along with a BAFTA), explores this strange new world with behind-the-scenes insights and interactive audience gameplay! Come early for a 25-min. opening set of choice clips from “classic” computer-geek teen flicks from the 80s. *$9
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Spaces and Places
In his first solo show, Javier Briones will screen The Color of Time and El Soñador, two short optically-printed experimental documentaries about San Francisco. One mid-length documentary, The Earth Did Not Speak, exploring human rights and Indigenous people’s resilience in Guatemala and a preview of a work-in-progress, Yo Soy Fidel, a two-channel film that follows Fidel Castro’s ashes through Cuba during the 9 days of mourning following his death in 2016.Bio:Javier Briones is a Guatemalan-born filmmaker and curator primarily working in non-fiction cinema. Motivated by social and personal concerns, he makes documentaries that are complex, layered explorations of history, memory and subjectivity. His films focus on people from Latin America and the places, spaces and moments where social, political and cultural structures take on visible and tangible forms. His practice is grounded and bearing witness rather intervening, bringing forth what is hidden and untold through a lyrical, non-conventional documentary style. His works include El Soñador, The Color of Time, and The Earth Did Not Speak, which was nominated for a 2016 International Documentary Association Award. In 2018 Javier was an Artist in Residence at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Some of his most notable recognitions include the JustFilms Princess Grace Award, The President’s Award at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, and the Delphic Art Movie Award. He is the co-founder of 32K Productions, a full-scale film production company based in San Francisco that has made films for SFMOMA, The Asian Art Museum, and The San Francisco Ballet among others.