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  • OC: SF PSYCHO-GEO3

     SHERMAN/BARTEN: TOTAL MOBILE HOME
    David Sherman and Rebecca Barten return to OC to unspool underground histories of their DIY exhibition space, Total Mobile Home microCINEMA, and the extraordinary experimental cinema culture that exploded in the 90’s Bay Area. They enact a live cine-essay, mapping a moment in underground film, that began in an illegal basement space, using scavenged technologies, to cultivate intimate connections of makers and audiences. Tis an action-packed journey through the TMH archives of events, including a cine-performance by Luther Price (Clown 3), salons with Bruce Baillie and with Sidney Peterson, and George Kuchar’s video portrait Cellar Sinema. ALSO premiering the TMH Oral History Project, a compilation of annotated interviews with Jeffrey Skoller, Steve Anker, Brian Frye, Steve Polta, Irina Leimbacher, Mark Street, and Timoleon Wilkins, plus pieces by TMH participants, including Harun Farocki’s Parallel II, Emily Richardson’s The Futurist, Lynne Sachs’ Carolee, Barbara & Gunvor, Scott Stark’s Degrees of Limitation, David Sherman’sRoman Chariot, and Rebecca Barten’sAngelpuke. JUST ADDED: the debut of David’s collage-essay on early video art, including considerations of Smithson’s Spiral Jetty.$11 or 12:

  • OC: ZOE BELOFF on EISENSTEIN + BRECHT + AGE

    Zoe Beloff IN PERSON!: A trilogy of works reimagining the unrealized Hollywood projects of three radical 20th Century artists. In 1930, Sergei Eisenstein pitched a science-fiction film Glass House to Paramount Pictures, its theme is the architecture of surveillance. Eleven years later, Bertolt Brecht arrived in Los Angeles, where he wrote notes for a film A Model Family in a Model Home, inspired by an article Life Magazine article about a farm family who win a week’s stage in a model home at the Ohio State Fair. In 1947 writer and film critic James Agee wrote a scenario for his lifelong hero, Charlie Chaplin. Deeply disturbed by the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Agee imagined New York destroyed. In the ruins, Chaplin’s Little Tramp builds a shack in Central Park. Agee’s was a thought experiment about how one might start again in the aftermath of disaster, to go beyond capitalism in the face of our modern technological world. Together, these films portray an alternative history of what might have happened had these figures manned the dream factory for a shift. $12:

  • Lit Crawl: Bay Area Reporter Presents Lucky 13 Fortunate Fictions

    211721Sat Oct 21st 5:00pm – 6:00pm

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    Artists’ Television Access, 992 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA map 

    To celebrate the 13th Bay Area Reporter-sponsored Lit Crawl night, author/editor Jim Provenzano hosts Lucky 13: Fortunate Fictions at Artists Television Access, with authors and poets Andrew Demčák, Diane Glazman, Yume Kim and André Le Mont Wilson.

    LitCrawl BAR 2023 Andrew DemcakAndrew Demčák is a third generation Czechoslovakian-American, poet, and novelist, the author of six poetry collections and eight Young Adult novels. His books have been featured by The American Library Association, Verse Daily, The Lambda Literary Foundation, The Best American Poetry, Kirkus Reviews, and Poets & Writers. He was recently selected to be the keynote speaker at the California Library Association’s annual conference to celebrate his contributions to LGBTQ+ Young Adult literature.

    LitCrawl BAR 2023 Diane Glazman

    Diane Glazman (she/they) is a queer, agender author from San Francisco. Writing as Marie Sinclair, she is the author of eight books that explore queer identities and relationships, and seek to envision a more just and equitable future. Her first book received two Goodreads Readers Choice nominations, and her third was a finalist for the 2023 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Romance.

    LitCrawl BAR 2023 Yume KimYume Kim is a poet, essayist, educator, and author of her debut poetry chapbook, entitled as Reserve the Right. She became a Kundiman Fellow in 2012, Additionally she was a Ruby Fellow recipient for the 2022-2023 year. Some of her works can also be found in the following journals: gesture, Sparkle+Blink, West Wind Review, Transfer, Sugared Water, Writing Without Walls, The Bangalore Review, You Might Need to Hear This, and The Sad Girls Lit Club. Yume currently still resides in San Francisco, where she both tutors and teaches.

    LitCrawl BAR 2023 Andre WilsonAndré Le Mont Wilson received the 2022 Newfound Prose Prize for his chapbook, ‘Hauntings.’ His work queering poetic forms and describing his experiences growing up as a Black Queer has appeared in Ina: A Queer Erotic Anthology, Genre: Urban Arts Queer People of Color Anthology No. 2, RFD Magazine, Isele Magazine, Beneath the Soil: Queer Survivors’ E-Zine, Sparkle & Blink, great weather for Media, and the San Francisco Public Library Poem of the Day.

    LitCrawl BAR 2023 Jim Provenzano

    Jim Provenzano is the author of seven gay fiction novels, including ‘Finding Tulsa,’ the 2012 Lambda Literary Award winner ‘Every Time I Think of You,’ its sequel ‘Message of Love’ (a Lammy finalist), and the stage adaptation of his debut novel, ‘PINS.’ Degrees include a BFA in Dance from Ohio State University and an MA in English/Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Born in New York City and raised in Ohio, he lives in San Francisco. He is the Arts & Nightlife Editor with the Bay Area Reporter.