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A group of Bay Area artists responds to the San Francisco and Oakland waterfront with work in a range of genres: video installations, sound, painting and photography.

Exhibiting artists:

BULL.MILETIC
Ezra Li Eismont
Misako Inaoka
Norman Long
Naomi Miller
Kim Miskowicz
Michael Rauner

curated by: Kathleen Quillian

The exhibition is part of the first ever Bayennale and will be on display along with 12 other shipping containers containing the work of local, national and international artists, near Jack London Square, Oakland, CA (right next to the historic Heinhold’s First and Last Chance Saloon) from July 22 – Aug 7.

Opening reception: Saturday, July 23, 6-9pm, near Jack London Square, Oakland.

The shipping containers are viewable 11-5pm (Wednesdays – Sundays) until August 7.

More information about the Bayennale: http://www.bayennale.com

“In Whose Interest” is a fast moving and powerful 26-minute documentary in response to 9/11. Filmmaker David Kaplowitz leads us on an eyeopening journey, questioning the effects of US foreign policy over the past 50+ years. Revealing a pattern of intervention, the film focuses on Guatemala, Vietnam, East Timor, El Salvador, and Palestine/ Israel. Archive footage, photographs and media tidbits are dynamically interwoven with personal eye-witness accounts, commentary from academics (such as Noam Chomsky), religious leaders and politicians. “In Whose Interest” is informative and disturbingly honest, yet upbeat,
with twists of irony and humor.

Combining his Irish roots with the sprit of punk rock, former Pogues frontman Shane McGowan wrote some of the most passionate, exciting music of the 80s until years of drink and drug began to take their toll. With remarkable candor, a wild-eye, but world weary McGowan discusses his past, his life today and his enduring reputation as a man whose self-destructive streak is matched only by his musical genius.

Dir. Sarah Share, Ireland 2000, 93 minutes.

Preceded by:

Hurt

Dir. Mark Romanek, USA 2003, 4 min

Johnny Cash sings a song by Trent Reznor. This video is is guaranteed to  make you cry.