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  • Curbside ***CANCELLED***

    ***With apologies, due to unforeseen circumstance, ATA has to postpone this screening to a future date****

    COME OVER FOR OUR HOMEGROWN, PREMIERE SCREENING OF CURBSIDE.

    “Curbside” is a character study of young millennials disguised as a dark comedy. We follow two post-punk 20 somethings: Darren and Josh as they face conflict ranging from mental breakdowns to complacency that comes with growing up. “Curbside” takes place over the course of seven nights, every night introduces new subplots, conflict, and characters all while delving deeper into Darren and Josh’s perspective psyches.”

    Written/Directed by Andrew R. Hamed

    Produced by Esther Santamaria

    https://vimeo.com/183231724

  • Periwinkle Cinema: MAJOR!

    MAJOR! follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a 73- year-old Black transgender woman who has been fighting for the rights of trans women of color for over 40 years. Miss Major’s personal story and activism for transgender civil rights, from mobile outreach and AIDS prevention to fighting the prison industrial complex, intersects LGBT struggles for justice and equality from the 1960s to today. She is a veteran of the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion and was incarcerated at Attica months after the 1971 Uprising. Most recently, Miss Major has served as the executive director of the San Francisco-based Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP), a grassroots organization advocating for trans women of color in and outside of prison that is led by trans women of color. Miss Major’s extraordinary life and personal story is one of resilience and celebration in a community that has been historically traumatized and marginalized. While mainstream gay rights and marriage equality dominate the headlines, Miss Major’s life is a testament to the fierce survivalism and every day concerns of transgender women of color, who so often live in the margin of the already marginalized.

  • Other Cinema: SONIC ODDITIES (INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC)

    An *expanded* version of the 16mm show that sold out the Roxie a couple months ago, this cult-music compilation–-in addition to that mountain of sublimely ridiculous performance—in fact doubles down on its fanboy gambit, topping it with 3 sonic circus rings of particular interest: Mid-Century Anomalies, Black Music of the ‘70s, and Experimental Turntablsm. And amongst all the sideshows, the Retro, the Camp, there’s still some hearty Avant-Garde—Sun Ra, Harry Partch, a 24-year-old Michael Tilson Thomas on prepared piano! AND Marie Osmond reciting Schwitters, George Clinton hailing the Mothership, the Dead Boys at CBGB’s!! PLUS Spike Jones, Liberace, Tiny Tim, Village People, Heino, Cpt. Beefheart, the Residents, Christian Marclay, GG Allin, Hawaiian exotica, Soundies, Scopitones, tons more…and beer for a buck!