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  • HÄXAN

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    Our January screening (with live music) of Benjamin Christensen’s silent masterpiece HÄXAN was such a success that we’re bringing it back — so that all those folks who were turned away at the door can see it in all its magnificent, loony glory!  Featuring crazed nuns, flaming witches, and a spectacularly obscene performance by the director himself as Satan, HÄXAN is like no other film ever made: an uncontrolled rampage of feverish, violent images, part historical  recreation, part
    religious satire, all hallucination.

    Once again, Artists Television Access is proud to present HÄXAN in a newly butchered version, prepared especially for these screenings by conceptual artist Dr. Astronaut Body.  Now missing over half an hour of crucial footage and structurally reorganized for maximum impact, HÄXAN will be accompanied by a new score performed live by the San Francisco electronica band
    DR. PRISONER: THE BRAIN!   Including members of The Pine Box Boys and Reagan’s Polyp, DR. PRISONER: THE BRAIN! is part of the same creative team that has premiered new scores for THE MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA, NOSFERATU, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC, THE MAN WHO LAUGHS, KOYAANISQATSI, and the Led Zeppelin film THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME, all at Artists Television Access.

  • DOUGLASS READS 7

    “The Douglass Street Lab,” a private writing workshop is led by SFSU’s Matthew Clark Davison. It focuses on the prose experiment, and is named after the street where the group meets. “Douglass Reads 7” will feature short shots from the works-in-progress of:

    Brent Fluty
    Zach Grear
    Lorena Landeros
    Andria Lessler
    Tanya Milosevich
    Jason Peeples
    Mark Rubnitz
    Stephanie Schenkel
    Anne Schukat
    Kate Simmons
    Charles Smith

  • Taking Root

    Taking Root tells the story of the Green Belt Movement of Kenya and its founder Wangari Maathai, the first environmentalist and first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Through TV footage and chilling first person accounts, Taking Root documents the dramatic confrontations of the 1980s and ’90s and captures Maathai’s infectious determination and unwavering courage. Cinema verité footage of the tree nurseries and the women and children who tend them brings to life the confidence and joy of people working to improve their own lives and ensure the future and vitality of their land.

    The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the US National Committee for UNIFEM (UNIFEM/USNC) was launched in June of 2009.  UNIFEM is the United Nations Development Fund for Women, and it works on women’s rights and development issues across the globe.  We are committed to expanding support and raising funds within the United States for UNIFEM.  Through our efforts we hope to encourage ourselves and others to become involved in advancing women’s rights around the world.

    If interested in learning more, please send us an email at sanfranbayarea@unifem-usnc.org.

    About the Film Series:

    This monthly film series will look at women’s rights and development issues. Each month, a film that touches on one of the four themes of UNIFEM (The United Nations Development Fund for Women) will be selected.  These four themes are:

    – enhancing women’s economic security and rights,
    – ending violence against women,
    – reducing the prevalence of HIV and AIDS among women and girls, and
    – advancing gender justice in democratic governance in stable and fragile states.

    After each film, a discussion will be held that focuses on the issue being highlighted and what local Bay Area organizations are doing to address that issue.