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This is a short open mic film club event. It is an approximate 2 hour program of short films and then a 1 hour meet and greet with fellow filmmakers to connect and create community.

SUBMIT YOUR SHORTS RULES: We encourage all short films submissions to be under 10 min long. Any films that exceed up to 10 mins can still be up for consideration as long as they are incredibly great but for a higher chance of showing that night it’s best to have it under 10 mins. No short films over 30 minutes. Any film that is clearly offensive and shows no artistic integrity or inappropriate will not be considered.

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR SHORT: Email a downloadable link of your short film to thegreatfilmclub@gmail.com in order to be considered. IN THE SUBJECT LINE OF YOUR EMAIL WRITE: BA MAR OPEN MIC SHORT SUBMISSION + the title of your film.

In your email please include your contact information and social media handles so we can stay connected and create community. All filmmakers will be notified if their short was accepted into the open mic by MAR 20th that way there’s enough time and opportunity to invite friends and other filmmakers who will like to watch. If we have an outstanding amount of submission we will add on another open mic night within the month.

It is free to submit but to attend admission fee is 20 dollars for everyone. Since this is fairly a new club still it’s just to cover projection and venue cost so we can do more events like these in the future. We’ll have wine, beer, and concessions for an awesome night!

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BILL MORRISON’s INCIDENT + CALONICO/ELSHEIMER’s SUDDEN BIRTH +

Bill Morrison, thee Archival Film Artiste of our moment, happens to be a beloved friend of the Other Cinema family, and tonight he’s sharing thee West Coast premiere of his masterful half-hour re-working of rather recent and problematic Chicago Police body-cam footage…with Bill‘s personal video intro shot in the Cursed Collector Cave right right under our floor! Co-billed is Scott Calonico/Skip Elsheimer‘s (A/V Geeks) incredible educational-film de-construction Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sudden Birth. Port Costa‘s Ian Saroka kicks in a hefty excerpt about his discovery of a hidden Slovenian Film Archive, Greetings from Free Forests, while media magician Caspar Stracke‘s Zuse Strip anchors an amazing set of four media-archeological anomalies that also boasts IBM‘s ’53 mainframe promo Piercing the Unknown and Walter Cronkite‘s mid-60s internet prototypes. Our curiosity also leads us to the famous lost-and-found S8 reel shot on the Altamont stage, a disco-fuelled Oscar Mayer weiner industrial, and Justin Rhody‘s massively collaborative Potemkin exquisite corpse! PLUS a Bruce Conner rarity, Standish Lawder‘s legendary Dangling Participle, and free cookies!! $9

Join 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 celluloid & there will be snacks (both edible and filmic). FREE! Filmmakers include: Rawan Abdalla, Sanya Ansari, Xavier Chavez, Mekdes Clark, Othello Frazier, Alley Garland, Evan Huskey, Sydney Lee, Ashley Muse-Wilburn, Shanese Richards, Aggie Schuman, Syairah Sims,
Veston Smith, Kendall Block, Jess Crosby, Kate Dillon, Hailey Delia Jose, Ava Klubberud, Kiar Maxino, Reaghan Mulligan, Veronica Palmer, JJ Person, Ethan Ramos, Bria Stokes, Aud Watson.