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Periwinkle Cinema Presents Queer Ghost Hunters the first season! We brought them back with their whole first season! We get to see if they found the Ghosts they were looking for and find out more about the queer afterlife and those who are trying make contact. Queer Ghost Hunters is an irreverent docu series following the first paranormal investigators to ask, “where are all the gay ghosts?” A lot of entities are answering back, ‘where have you been all my afterlife!’But the lighthearted hunts get serious when this real team discovers hidden stories of what it was like in the past- to be different. The fight for better representation of LGBTQ people spans far and wide: in politics, film, gaming, fashion — the list goes on. And now, a YouTube web series is tackling queer erasure in a space you’ve probably never considered: ghost hunting.“We always assume that ghosts are heterosexual,” Shane McClelland, co-founder of the Stonewall Columbus Queer Ghosthunters, says in the first episode of Queer Ghost Hunting’s second season.

ATA is proud to present an evening of new and other works by Mike Kuchar (in person).

The vibrant, poetic and wild works of Mike Kuchar have inspired generations of filmmakers and artists with their wickedly perverse parodies of pop-culture and abundant creativity. From early 8 mm films made with his twin brother George Kuchar featuring friends from their Bronx neighborhood to the underground sci-fi extravaganza Sins of the Fleshapoids 1965, his films take the language of Hollywood and make it so ‘overblown it’s glorious’. In the 1990s Mike Kuchar embraced video with the same transformative passion that he brought to his early 8 mm films, and created a vast body of work ranging from delirious teleplays to recent digital fantasies, displaying a unique creative sensibility. Relishing the possibilities of the most minuscule budgets his films are radiant and lurid in equal measure, celebrating human creativity with an undiminished passion and humor for over 50 years.

SF Cinematheque presents:

In 1933, at age 33, Harry Alan Potamkin (b. Philadelphia, 1900) died of complications related to starvation, at a time when he was one of the world’s most respected film critics, In his writings, he advocated for a cinema that would simultaneously embrace the fractures and polyphony of modern life and the equitable social vision of left radical politics, “embracing the possibility of social justice during the rise of industrialization (Chris Kennedy).” Nowhere near biography, Stephen Broomer’s astonishing Potamkin (2017) hypothesizes the critic’s matrix of thought as a metallurgical audiovisual amalgam of almost 100 films from cinema’s first three decades (among them Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin, Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc and Lang’s Metropolis) as well as verbal citations of Potamkin’s criticism and poetry. At the Odessa steps, trampling gives breath to the child.

Ivonne Sheen: “The physical interpretation of Potamkin’s spirit is visualized by a disintegrated, contrasted and superimposed filmic material. The scenes repeated along the film are near-death climax scenes. Scenes of an essential suffering caused by the unavoidable death. A metaphor of Potamkin itself, from the mutable and organic vitality of the filmic medium. Broomer amalgamates different scenes, with the superimposition method, to give more intensity and condensation to the sentiment that Potamkin embraced about those films. His spirit pass[es] through them and unifie[s] them. The film starts with one of his verses: ‘Sooner or later all delicate things. Are butterflies with severed wings’. A poetic image that portrays him and his world view, with a tragic destiny, such as the characters resurrected by Broomer, but with the persistence of their unavoidable death.” (Desistfilm, 22, July 2017.)

Admission: $10 General Admission

Admission is $5 for Cinematheque members
Advance tickets available here:https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3235302