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Sunday

An Evening with Filmmaker Fabian Euresti.. Thursday, March 28th 8pm

On Thursday, March 28th at 8pm..

Filmmaker Fabian Euresti

will be screening his documentary

~ Everybody's Nuts ~

Gallery opens at 7:30pm

Film starts at 8pm!

A little About Fabian :

I am a writer/director based in Los Angeles.

The son of immigrant Mexican farm laborers, I was born

and raised in the San Joaquin Valley. My work is informed by my

formative years in rural California. This incredible fecund

valley that lies between San Francisco and Los Angeles

seems to be all but forgotten. The stories I am compelled to

tell should be heard too. Ultimately, my stories begin their

journey at the intersection of landscape and history.

Fabian Vasquez Euresti was born in Bakersfield and raised
nearby in McFarland. He holds a B.A. in English Literature
from California State University, Bakersfield, and a M.F.A.
in Film Directing from California Institute of the Arts.

His works has been screened at nearly twenty-five
film festivals worldwide. Not content with writing and
directing, he dabbles in curating film screenings at Concord
in northeast Los Angeles. Recently, he helped program short
and feature documentaries for Slamdance Film Festival.
Fabian is editing several non-fiction short films and has a
feature-length script in development.

Filmography :

Dos, Por Favor (Two, Please) 2010

and Everybody's Nuts 2010

*bring a beach chair or a pillow if you'd like

*free parking out front

10.00 suggested donation

*8pm

*refreshment bar

Thursday

An Evening with Filmmaker Mark Street.. Tuesday, March 12th 8pm

On Tuesday, March 12th at 8pm..

Filmmaker Mark Street

will be screening his documentary

Hasta Nunca!

Gallery opens at 7:30pm

Film starts at 8pm!

‘Hasta Nunca’ follows Mario Ligetti, a middle-aged DJ in Montevideo, Uruguay whose call-in radio show exposes the city’s “Secrets and Stories”. As Mario’s life becomes more entangled with that of his callers and listeners, his public and private personas are blurred and the intimate nuances of a city and its residents are revealed.

The film is the product of a close collaboration between North American filmmaker Mark Street and an Uruguayan cast and crew, led by producer Uzi Sabah and lead actor Rufo Martínez, a real life DJ and television personality. Shot in cinéma vérité style, ‘Hasta Nunca’ takes a deeper look at one of Latin America’s under represented countries, carefully touching upon local themes like the lingering effects of the dictatorship and the illegality of abortion. The film interweaves documentary and fiction, scripted narrative and improvisation, and is as much a portrait of Montevideo as it is the story of one of its chroniclers.

~Mark Street graduated from Bard College (B.A, 1986) and the San Francisco Art Institute (MFA 1992). He has shown work in the New York Museum of Modern Art Cineprobe series (1991, 1994), at Anthology Film Archives (1993, 2006, 2009), Millen- nium (1990,1996), and the San Francisco Cinematheque (1986, 1992, 2009). His work has appeared at the Tribeca (5 times), Sundance, Rotterdam, New York, London, San Francisco, New York Underground, Sarajevo, Viennale, Ourense (Spain), Mill Valley, South by Southwest, and other film festivals.

His projects has been supported by a number of grants from foundations, including the JeromeFoundation, the Film Arts Founda- tion, New York State Council on the Arts, the Maryland State Arts Council and the NY Experimental TV Center. In 2006 he was asked to participate in the Hallwalls Artists Residency Program in Buffalo, NY.

He has curated and judged several film and art exhibitions including Ventana al Sur: An Evening of Argentine Experimental Film (with Lynne Sachs) at Anthology Film Archives and Pacific Film Archive in 2009 as well as Video Landscapes (2005) and Real Abstractions (2007) both at Fordham University’s Center Art Gallery.

Two of his personal essays “Film is Dead: Long Live Film” and “Festival of Flight” appeared in Film Arts Magazine in 2008. An essay about film funding “Who’s Asking?” appeared Millennium Film Journal # 51 entitled Experi- mental Documentary. Cinema Argentina – An Argentine excursion: film frames and talk therapy (with Lynne Sachs and Pablo Marin) appeared in the Spring 2009 issue of Gonzo Circus.

He has led community workshops a variety of venues (Echo Park Film Center in LA, Cucalorus Film Festival in Wilmington, NC, Fondacion d’Arte Contemporaneo in Montevi- deo Uruguay)on a variety of topics, includ- ing “The Devil is in the Details: Urban Street Videography.”

He is Associate Professor of Film in the Visual Art Department at Fordham University - Lincoln Center where he teaches film/video produc- tion and other courses that engage contempo- rary artistic practice.

*bring a beach chair or a pillow if you'd like

*free parking out front

10.00 suggested donation

*8pm

*refreshment bar

Tuesday

a story about a dilapidated bath house

‘TUVALU’

{ Chulpan Khamatova as Eva }

One of our favorite bath house films! It's a 1999

experimental film from Germany directed by Veit Helmer.

{Denis Lavant as Anton }

The style evokes early 20th century silent movies and motifs commonly found in German expressionism. The sparse dialog is presented in a mix of European languages. It's a story about keeping a dilapidated

bathhouse a float in the midst of a desolate landscape..

{ an action scene! }

Saturday

In a squat, in a dodgy suburb...

A Perfect get together for the holidays...

{my personal favorite film for all seasons} ...

'Dogs in Space'

The place is Melbourne, Australia 1978. The punk phenomenon is sweeping the country and Dogs In Space, a punk group, are part of it. In a squat, in a dodgy suburb, live a ragtag collection of outcasts and don't-wanna-be's who survive on a diet of old TV space films, drugs and good music. And the satellite SKYLAB could crash through their roof at any moment...