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Jack Shea’s “Who Owns Jack Kerouac” is a powerful and controversial documentary exploring  the relationship between the author of “On the Road” and his never acknowledged daughter, Jan Kerouac  (“Baby Driver.”)   It is the record of Shea’s cross -country journey searching for answers to the controversy over Kerouac’s estate.   Jack Shea is an American artist who lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland. Beat Poet Ron Whitehead calls “Who Owns Jack Kerouac” “the most important film ever made about Kerouac.”  The movie will also show at 7pm Sunday night.. 

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This month in ATA’s store-front window and in the Gallery, work by Kyle
Knobel.

Increasing in Significance conveys four simultaneous acts of dizzying repetition and combines seemingly disparate sources of inspiration: Johannes Kepler, the mathematician who discovered the elliptical orbits of planets and Buster Keaton, the silent film actor and director. Exploiting the illusionism of relative motion, the camera captures the necessity of an individual trying to keep pace with a constantly moving environment while revealing the ultimate futility, and humor, of that effort.