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  • Other Cinema: BORDER DYSTOPIA

     ALEX RIVERA’s SLEEP DEALER +
    In his first feature, our long-time ally Alex (PapaPapa) Rivera oh-so-artfully turns speculative fiction into a terrifying critique of a paranoid future. This Sundance-winner spins a fantastic narrative on the dystopian outcomes of globalization, particularly the privatization of water and the place of immigrant labor in the neo-liberal economy. Rivera’s wildly imaginative fable is set in tomorrow’s fearfully militarized world, a technological work-camp marked by closed borders, virtual labor, and a worldwide cyber-network that joins minds and experiences. When a Mexican youth’s family is wiped out by a misguided drone, he must head North. But migrant workers cannot cross the new world border–it’s been sealed off! Instead, he ends up in a human/cyborg “virtual” factory on the frontier, where he connects his body to a robot in the US. Tragically marginalized upon its ‘08 release, Alex recently regained control of his potent parable, and immediately dispatched it to OC with his blessings.

  • 2 solo acoustic guitars, 1 solo organ

    Preston Swirnoff (San Diego / Mexico City)
    Joshua Emery Blatchley (San Diego)
    Solo Organ 
     
    San Diego-based musician and composer Preston Swirnoff will play music from his new solo project ‘Haunted Sea Songs of Bahia’ – dark, eerie Brazilian folk ballads about the power of the ocean, disappearing fishermen, and lost love. Features versions of songs from the 1940’s by the legendary Dorival Caymmi, played on classical guitar and sung in Portuguese, along with Swirnoff’s instrumental originals.  Preston’s background in punk, acid folk, and midnight jazz all come through in these mesmerizing, otherworldly sea shanties.  The album will be released on vinyl/cassette/digital this spring.

    Preston released ‘Maariv’, a solo album of electroacoustic compositions on Last Visible Dog records in 2008.  He has an extensive discography over the past 10+ years with Monosov Swirnoff, Shining Path, Habitat Sound System, Seesaw Ensemble, and others.  Swirnoff has also composed original scores for films, theater, art installations, and modern dance ensembles.  He has toured throughout the US, Mexico, Europe, and South America.  

    http://site.prestonswirnoff.com/music

    Joshua Emery Blatchley

    A new voice in the Ragtime and American Primitive guitar-playing lineage, Blatchley offers a unique interpretation of both new and traditional compositions.

    https://joshuaemeryblatchley.bandcamp.com/releases

    SOLO ORGAN

    The solo Hammond organ project of San Francisco sound artist Douglas Katelus. Deep thick psychedelic minimalist tone.

    https://soloorgan.bandcamp.com/releases

  • University of San Francisco Film Screening.

    usfJoin us for a screening of films from the University of San Francisco’s Film Studies program. Tonight our eyes will feast on documentary projects as well as Experimental emissions. There will be Super 8, there will be live music, there will be snacks (both edible and filmic). FREE! Filmmakers include: De’Andre Armstrong, Alex Canepa, Riley Covington, Yasmine Diba, Sarah Frei, Chevy Lum, David Moreno, Woo Nguyen, Calvin Olivar, Brittany Roker, Nichole Rosanova, Jao Salles Cristofaro, Karen Trinidad, Ellie Vanderlip, Nick Unger, Madison Vassilopoulos, Sage Yockelson.

    Doors 7, Show 7:30 pm