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  • MATINEE ART SHOW//JESSE RIGGINS//RICH GUTIERREZ

    tumblr_ldpiwyw7fK1qf9rxyo1_1280I’m hanging up some photos from my life as a feral photographer. Please don’t be alarmed if you see yourself on the walls. Featuring the graininess that only 35mm film can bring you.

    Rich Gutierrez will also be showcasing some typographical artwork from his life as a sign painter and flyer maker.

    Come say hi to us and pick up a copy of my CATHOLIC GUILT photo zine.

  • PICKLE SURPRISE! THE EYES OF TOM RUBNITZ

    Rubnitz_strawberryDirty Looks NYC presents: NYC QUEER SCREENING SERIES RETURNS TO THE WEST COAST WITH SF PREMIERE OF EAST VILLAGE DRAG VIDEOGRAPHER’S LOST TAPES

    In person: Bradford Nordeen – director, Dirty Looks NYC.

    Associated with New York’s East Village drag scene of the late 1980s, Tom Rubnitz (1956-1992) crafted low-budget, candy-colored video fantasies, mingling pop culture and counter-culture in outlandish conceptions including mock infomercials and cooking shows, such as Strawberry Shortcut and the infamous Pickle Surprise. This evening’s program includes numerous, never-before seen works featuring performance luminaries like RuPaul, Ann Magnuson, Lady Bunny, and David Wojnarowicz, and is curated by Dirty Looks NYC, a traveling, New York- based queer experimental screening series.

    PROGRAM:
    Midnight Lullaby, video, 1982 – 9mins.
    Made for TV (with Ann Magnuson), video, 1984 – 15mins.
    From the Files of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge, video, 1983 – 6.5mins.
    John Sex: The True Story, video, 1983 – 4mins.

    and more.

  • Periwinkle Cinema: recLAmation with live narration by Hilary Goldberg

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    recLAmation is a feature length experimental film with live narration in which capitalism in contemporary Los Angeles is overthrown, and queer superheroes navigate a possible future. recLAmation illuminates connections between so-called private and public systems of oppression, and explores how worldview shifts caused by personal trauma can foster healing through social-justice art and activism.  66 Minutes. Super 8 Film (2010). Starring: Irina Contreras, Clint Catalyst, Joy Anderson, Jessica Gudiel, and Jessica Hoffmann.
    Live Narration by Hilary Goldberg.