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This month’s episode features a variety of segments from local independent producers with themes ranging from saving old growth forests to remembering the importance of reproductive rights.

Segments:

**”Voices From the Alley” is a performance that took place on January 21, 2005 in a Mission District Alley in San Francisco. It was performed in response to the anti-abortion march that took place in San Francisco the following day. The performance aimed to serve as a reminder and a memorial to women who had suffered from illegal “back alley” abortions in the days before Roe vs. Wade.Produced by: Hillary Baker and William Benham

**”Caterpillar Action”
documents a community action in San Leandro protesting  the Caterpillar corporation’s continuing sales of bulldozers to the U.S. Department of Defense. The action was organized by Jewish Voices for Peace, and took place on the 2nd anniversary of the death of Rachel Corrie, an activist killed by a Caterpillar D9 bulldozer while defending the home of a palestinian civilian in 2003. Produced by:
Ben Flanigan in collaboration with Jewish Voice for Peace

**”ALL Women’s ACTION to Save the Old Growth forests of the SISKIYOU  WILD RIVERS AREA” Produced by: Pat Patterson, Justin Rhode, Mary Dodd On March 14th, 2005 dozens of women prepared their defenses outside the Fiddler Old Growth Reserve to protest the logging of critical areas within the Siskiyou Wild Rivers area in southern Oregon. This all-women’s action was the fourth major demonstration against the Biscuit Logging Plan since logging began within old growth reserves April 7th 2005. Eighteen women on the bridge and Becky White, hanging off the bridge beneath the women sat blocking logging trucks for nearly 7 hours. 3 additional women formed a separate blockade a few miles up the road. Twenty-two women were arrested. A new base camp has been set up on the Illinois River Road a few miles from Selma Oregon. For more info go to
  http://www.cascadiarising.org

**”The Forest for the Trees: Judi Bari vs the FBI” trailer for this upcoming documentary  by filmmaker Bernadine Mellis, about the life of Earth First organizer Judi Bari. In 1990, Bari’s car was bombed and she was accused of transporting the
explosives that had nearly killed her. Still in the hospital, she was arrested, and labeled a terrorist in the national media.”The Forest for the Trees” follows the bombing and arrest of Judi Bari, and her subsequent civil suit against the FBI. Bari died of Cancer before the trial was finished, but was victorious when her pre-recorded video testimony was presented in court.

**”End Old Growth Logging!”
More on the fight to save old growth forests, Produced by: Lodgepole, Storm, Sequoia

**”Reclaim the Commons! June 9th, Mission District, SF”
Shows us how the new wave of urban permaculture gardening is sweeping the nation.
Produced  by: Rudi Bega, Rise Up! News

**”Deporten a la Migra!” (Deport the INS)
Sarolta Jane Cump follows Bay Area activists as they confront the vigil-anti group “The Minutemen” in Arizona. Produced by: Sarolta Jane Cump

**”Revitalization: Hopes and Fears Surrounding the Third St. Light Rail Project”
looks at Muni’s

$600 million  dollar transportation project running through the heart of Bayview-Hunter’s Point.  It juxtaposes the city’s vision of revitalization with some of the serious challenges facing African-Americans in that community and gets local perspectives on how the Bayview is changing. Produced by: Mo Kinberg and Greg Miller

**”Banana Bred” is a personal narrative, commenting on race and cultural identity in America.  Filmmaker Hettie Zhang explores her own identity in this short film.
Produced by: Hettie Zhang

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Five sexworkers — four women and one man — along with the filmmaker/narrator embark on a journey of storytelling. Tales of the Night Fairies explores the power of collective organizing and resistance while reflecting upon contemporary debates around sex work. The simultaneously expansive and labyrinthine city of Calcutta forms the backdrop for the personal and musical journeys of storytelling.

The film attempts to represent the struggles and aspirations of thousands of sex workers who constitute the DMSC (Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee or the Durbar Women’s Collaborative Committee) an initiative that emerged from the Shonagachi HIV/AIDS Intervention Project. A collective of men, women and trans-gendered sex workers, DMSC demands decriminalization of adult sex work and the right to form a trade union.

Direction: Shohini Ghosh (Bengali/English Subtitles, 74 min, 2002)

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Alternate Sight is a collection of the latest work (2002-2004) from three artists of moving imagery and sound. These artists live and work in a city that has come to dominate the world’s idea of “the movies,” but they explore other ways of organizing  the experience of sound and image. Instead of the organizing principle of the story, Andy Kopra employs ideas of visual temporal structure, Audri Phillips presents a visual poetry, and John Adamczyk explores a musical approach to the moving image.

Program

Three Preludes  by John Adamczyk
(3:10)

Theory of Light, Chapter I  by Audri Phillips
(7:20)

In the Moment  by John Adamczyk
(5:30)

Four Songs  by Andy Kopra
(17:50)

Intermission

Canon by John Adamczyk
(2:15)

Freeway Wind by Audri Phillips
(3:18)

Phoenicia  by Andy Kopra
(12:23)

Nocturnes (Live Performance) by John Adamczyk
(15:00)

Alternate Sight: New Abstract Movies from Los Angeles is the collaboration
of the following three artists.

John Adamczyk
John Adamczyk is an interactive designer, filmmaker, graphic artist, video
artist and composer. He has created a number of films, videos, interactive
installations and performances. He has been at the forefront of
interactive art, expanding the uses of interactive graphics into uncharted
territories.  John Adamczyk’s newest works are graphic performances that
combine video, animation, gestural drawing, sculpture, music, and dance
into a new art form.

“I’m exploring the possibilities of musical illustrations, whether that
means simply a graphic illustration of a piece of music, or illustrations
that have a musical quality about them. I make movies that are less like
books and more like music in terms of how they’re constructed and how
they’re viewed.”

Audri Phillips
Audri is a Los Angeles based artist currently working in a variety of
media that range from computer animations, documentaries and video art to
oil paintings and spoken word readings.  She has had many exhibitions of
her paintings and has had digital animations shown at Siggraph, on the
Siggraph Video Review, and at film festivals at various universities and
museums.  She has also worked in the film and games industry for the past
twenty years as art director, digital artist, storyboard artist, painter,
and animator.

“I work in visual poetry in which the outer continues into the inner, the
visible into the invisible and everything is everywhere simultaneously.”

Andy Kopra
Andy works in the collision between computer graphics technology and the
film and animation industry in Los Angeles.

“A film — a beginning is followed by a development that leads to a feeling
at the end that the imagery and sound have completed what they set out to
do. For this I look to the unfolding of simple structures which can, in
their combination, create the suspicion that something meaningful lurks
nearby.”

www.alternatesight.com