Films and Food at Cinders
Posted June 21, 2011 by jmacphee in Events
This Thursday I'll be cooking dinner with friends for this free dinner and screening at the new Cinders Gallery in Brooklyn. If you are in town, come by and eat, and watch the crazy new film by SF artist Sara Thustra:
Cinders Gallery: 28 Marcy Ave (Btwn Hope and Metropolitan)
// Thursday June 23 8pm // FILMS AND DINNER//
There will be a rare NYC screening of Sara Thustra’s most recent feature length film, The Treatment, along with two short films, “California is an Island” by Sarolta Jane Cump, and “Performance Spaces” by Heather Rene Russ. Inspired by Sara Thustra’s long time tradition of serving free food at his San Francisco protest and art events, the screening will be preceded by a free dinner for all. Vegans welcome!
This month, Cinders Gallery presents the work of San Francisco artists Sara Thustra and Kyle Ranson in their collaborative show, “Shit. Free Art N Good Times,” their first joint appearance in New York City. These artists are known as much in the Bay Area for their commitment to activism and social work as their colorful and heartfelt art works. Ranson worked for many years as an outreach counselor to homeless youth and Thustra’s screenprinted posters and political graffiti are ever present in the streets at Bay Area protests. Thustra’s images indeed have become emblematic of punk and queer community resistance to gentrification and war in SF in the past decade.In conjunction with their exhibition this month, Cinders is proud to host a series of free events curated by author, Erick Lyle, a longtime San Francisco friend and collaborator of Thustra and Ranson, now relocated to Brooklyn. Lyle’s book, On The Lower Frequencies: A Secret History of The City (2008, Soft Skull Press) relates the adventures and struggles of Thustra, Lyle, and many others as they plan protest and art actions together in a rapidly gentrifying city at the dawn of this wartime era. Some of the better results were a huge art show in a squatted abandoned building downtown, free illegal generator punk shows in the streets, Thustra’s Anti-Capitalist Fashion Show, and the group’s participation in the massive protests that shutdown the entire city of San Francisco when the war in Iraq started in March of 2003. At Cinders this month, in a series of free film screenings, readings, music performances, and dinners, Lyle reassembles members of that San Francisco community and the Utopian spirit of their current art here in Brooklyn.
// Thursday June 23 8pm // FILMS AND DINNER//
There will be a rare NYC screening of Sara Thustra’s most recent feature length film, The Treatment, along with two short films, “California is an Island” by Sarolta Jane Cump, and “Performance Spaces” by Heather Rene Russ. Inspired by Sara Thustra’s long time tradition of serving free food at his San Francisco protest and art events, the screening will be preceded by a free dinner for all. Vegans welcome!
ABOUT THE TREATMENT: Two years in the making, “2010 ‘s Best Art Movie”, The Treatment (60 minutes) is the third movie made by Thustra and Siobahn Alluvalot under the collective name, Lovewarz. The viewer is taken into a world of live performance art filmed across the country, a narrative of historical examples of artists fighting for access to new language. A star cast jumps through vivid scenery exhibiting gutteral attempts at using new voices to address the commonalities in our lives. Not meant for the weary, The Treatment is an experience challenging our culture’s motives, color schemes, storytelling and sense of self through others. 60mins
ABOUT CALIFORNIA IS AN ISLAND AND SAROLTA JANE CUMP:
This debut short (20 minutes) tells the never before told history of the island of California’s discovery and its controversial, queer mapping. Drawing on accounts of the conquistador Hernando Cortes’ attempt to settle Baja California, as well as 16th Century cartographies and a romance adventure novel ripe with Amazons; the nineteen minute experimental documentary ‘California is an Island’ uses lushly shot re-enactments, animations of re-appropriated map graphics, and text to investigate the fantasies, fears and fetishes of European explorers with a post-colonial, queer lens and a bawdy sense of humor to boot. Sarolta Jane Cump uses film, video and other less fancy tools to explore the intersections between public and private histories & interrupt the dominant narrative. She is based in Oakland, Alta California and was recently inspired by collaborating with the Water Underground.ABOUT HEATHER RENEE RUSS AND PERFORMANCE SPACES:
“Performance Spaces” (10 minutes) is a trailer of a longer work in progress, consisting of contemporary video portraits of three individuals, Pedals, Nathann and Tuck who have a certain enigmatic quality to their daily performance. While on quest to present themselves to ‘the other’ each encounter their unicity. Through playful editing understanding is intentionally suspended, calling attention to the viewer’s own performances. Photographer and video artist, Heather Renee Russ is the co-editor of Cutter Photozine and the longtime host of San Francisco’s now-defunct monthly club series, Club Feral. Recently graduated with an MFA in Photo/Video from SVA, she has lived in Brooklyn for two years.
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The film by Sara Thustra was amazing. The trailer was indeed catchy. Are there any more updates about this film?
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Wish I could be there. Pinch everybody's ass for me!
Posted by: Vanessa at June 21, 2011 11:33 PM