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  • Brazil on Screen

    ATA presents Brazil on Screen, an ongoing program of contemporary Brazilian film. The evening opens with the North American premier of A Vermelha Luz do Bandido (The Bandit’s Red Light) followed by  Rogério Sganzerla’s 1968 film O Bandido da Luz Vermelha  (The Red Light Bandit).

    A Vermelha Luz do Bandido (The Bandit’s Red Light), 16:00 min, Video, 2009, English subtitles, Directed by Brazilian filmmaker Pedro Jorge. A Vermelha Luz do Bandido is a short scientific-experimental documentary that pays tribute to Rogério Sganzerla’s O Bandido da Luz Vermelha, and a general reflection on the contemporary film industry in Brazil. Starring: Seu Jorge (The Life Aquatic)

    O Bandido da Luz Vermelha  (The Red Light Bandit), 92:00 min, 16 mm, 1968, English Subtitles, Directed by Rogério Sganzerla
    Based on police records of a famous bandit in São Paulo, the film tracks the rise of an enigmatic pillager of luxurious residences whom the tabloids have named for his technique of using a red flashlight to illuminate his female victim’s faces while talking to them before proceeding to rape and kill them. One of the key works of the Brazilian Cinema Marginal (Underground Cinema) movement, with its “aesthetics of garbage”, the late Sganzerla combines western, detective story, documentary, musical, comedy, science fiction and radical politics. 

     Info: http://www.brazilonscreen.com

     


     

  • Right Window Gallery: Abner Nolan: Babble (opening)

    San Francisco based artist Abner Nolan’s Babble is informed by the wandering creative impulses of his 4 year old son. The installation combines videos documenting the intimate building of temporary structures overlaid by boarded up windows, a contemporary symbol of urban recession and blight.

    Abner Nolan is a San Francisco-based artist. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Nelson Gallery at UC Davis, and the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. He is a former artist-in-residence at the Macdowell Colony, and monographs of his work have been published by Trillium Press and TBW Books. He is currently a teacher in the photography program at the California College of the Arts.

    At Right Window, artist Jason Hanasik has turned November into a running series of individual shows under the general title of You roll away your stone, I’ll roll away mine.

    You roll away your stone, I’ll roll away mine is a series of week long solo exhibitions. Noticing the generative nature of the intergenerational relationships in his own life, Hanasik tasked each invited artist to create a week long solo show with the stipulation that the artists collaborate with someone significantly older or significantly younger than they are. The result is a captivating series of projects which eloquently build on top of each other to collectively explore the themes of isolation, miscommunication, and expectations.

  • Small Press Traffic: A Conversation….

    A conversation with Robin Tremblay-McGaw and Alysia Abbott Poet and critic Tremblay-McGaw converses with writer and radio producer Alysia Abbott about her father Steve Abbott’s relationship to the Bay Area writing scene as the editor of Poetry Flash and Soup and as one of the lead organizers of the LeftWrite Conference.

    Robin Tremblay-McGaw lives in San Francisco where she teaches at the Santa Clara University and edits the blog www.xpoetics.blogspot.com.

    Alysia Abbott is the founder of steveabbott.org, a site devoted to her father. Abbott has always been big into talking and connecting with other people. When Abbott’s father died, she spent many years mourning him in what she describes as an uncomfortable isolation.

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    Steve Abbott was a leading figure of the 1980s San Francisco literary scene, an acclaimed poet, novelist and critic who taught writing at the University of San Francisco and the Naropa Institute. Abbott edited Poetry Flash magazine, and his work influenced countless writers including Kathy Acker and Alice Notley.