Upcoming Events

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Thurs April 18, 6-8pm - Chess & Jazz club - Chess playing and jazz listening, open to all skill levels. Free herbal tea. Every first & third Thursday of the month.

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Tues April 23 - CRAIG BALDWIN (in person!) presents expanded cinema performance 11th Dimension (2024, double-16mm projection, 3-D, 30 min)  San Francisco-based maker/curator and legendary microcinema operator Craig Baldwin, presents a "quirky, mostly 3-D Live A/V set moves through a selection of the best double-projector pieces from the artist’s archive-based repertoire. The featured (title) work is a 12-min. free-fall through holographic space, made possible by lab lasers, Kodak lenses, and cute ChromaDepth glasses. Milk of Amnesia revisits the dark side of mid-century TV commercials, while Hot Pickled Capers hybridizes Italian B’s with Canadian Isotopes for some sexy fission... I mean frission!" ~ plus mid-length historical acid western ¡O No Coronado! (1992, 16mm, 40 min)  In this aggressively reconstructed Conquistador chronicle, Baldwin collages the black-comic restaging of the 1540 European invasion of those lands now known as the American Southwest with wildly diverse 'found' imagery, video-to-film FX, and a time-warped musical mix, to critique not only the genocidal Spanish soldiers-of-fortune but also documentary conventions of historical representation. Animated graphics, collateral material and multiple voices interpenetrate the epic collage, conjugating a delirious, open-ended historiography that updates issues of imperialism, tourism, treaty rights and environmental protection from the 16th century to the present, and beyond.  "Coronado, one of the least successful conquistadors, is perfectly suited to Baldwin’s purposes in part because his motivation is so blatantly delusional. Arriving in Mexico in 1538, he set out on a fruitless quest to find the imaginary Seven Cities of Cibola. Crossing the desert and the Rio Grande, Coronado explored what is now Arizona and New Mexico, stumbling across the Grand Canyon and engaging in numerous needless fights with the Indians. The non-existent cities of gold led his expedition as far afield as present-day Kansas, before returning to Mexico City in sodden disarray.  Baldwin illustrates this empty quest with a melange of images culled from swashbucklers and westerns, classroom movies and museum paintings, Christian cartoons and industrial documentaries. He uses whatever comes to hand. This pragmatism produces a richness of metaphor...  Everything is tied together with generic sci-fi music, strategic sound effects, and two narrators (one specializing in boastful rants), Baldwin is more honest (than regular historical documentaries) in representing the present, interviewing not scholars but tourists and locals: 'Coronado: isn’t that a shopping mall around here?'" - J. Hoberman, Village Voice ~ and the night will start off with a pre-show featuring 16mm shorts from Other Cinema's living archive of Baldwin's Anomolies! (filmmaker in attendance from San Francisco  +  presented on film  +  3D glasses provided!)

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Fri May 3 - OPEN SCREEN v.5 - (Open to all local artists/filmmakers working in experimental, personal, animation and/or non-fiction filmmaking.  Maximum one submission per person, 15 mins or less.  Submissions now open HERE.)

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Sat May 18 - COURTNEY STEPHENS (in person!) presents hour long, archival film live performance Terra Femme ~ "Terra Femme is an essay film comprised of amateur travelogues filmed by women in the 1920s-1950s.  The piece weaves between geographical essay, personal inquiry, and historical speculation, examining these films as both private documents and accidental ethnographies.  The films present a new type of traveler: no longer a male seeker of conquests, she might be a divorcee on a tour of biblical gardens, or a widow on a cruise to the North Pole.  Representing the world through women’s eyes, the films raise questions about female representation in the archive, the role of amateurism in early non-fiction filmmaking, and the politics of the Western gaze.  At once a film about longing for past worlds through cinematic excavation, this force flows in both directions: as women from the past search for self-making in the act of looking." -LightDox, with opening short Ida Western Exile (2014, color and b/w, sound, 9 min) "Using the framework of O’Keeffe’s iconic sojourn to Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, where she lived alone in the latter part of her life and created desert-inspired masterworks, Stephens explores what this sort of elective isolation might look like for a woman living in today’s world of information overload....  Familiar images of O’Keeffe on the ranch are accompanied by an anonymous woman’s tightly-wound phone calls with customer service representatives from places like Expedia and Starkist as she plans a trip alone out west, wondering about everything from mercury levels in tuna to weapons she’ll need for self-defense....  Ghost Ranch was itself the site of several late Westerns, including Silverado and Cowboys vs. Aliens. Here, the American West’s reputation for masculine adventure and reinvention is re-envisioned through Stephens’s eyes as space for female exploration and escape. There’s a tension, however, between this pull toward oblivion, and the knowledge of the inherent risk involved in traveling alone as a woman. These phone calls reveal one woman’s conflicting hopes and fears as she prepares to embark on a journey. It’s unclear whether it’s real, or simply a fantasy of finding one’s own agency in the vast expanses of unfamiliar territory." -Le Cinema Club

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Fri June 7 - MOTORAMA (directed by Barry Shils, 1991, 93 mins) - A ten year-old boy runs away from his abusive parents, steals a Mustang, plays a promotional card game sold at gas stations, and travels throughout a fictional landscape in this obscure, absurdist, post-Americana road movie.

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Fri June 21 - ROBERT FRANK centennial celebration

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JULY (exact date TBA) - SHE FREAK (Directed by Byron Mabe, 1967, Color, Sound, 83 mins) - The carnival has come to town and we're celebrating with an essential weirdo classic!  "A gutter-noir reworking of Tod Browning’s FREAKS and a valentine to the carnival lifestyle that defined the career of producer David F. Friedman (BLOOD FEAST), SHE FREAK is a snapshot of life, love, and revenge on the grounds of a seedy carnival in Smalltown, USA -- complete with crackpot monster make-up effects from Harry Thomas (PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE).  Fed up with waitressing, Jade Cochran (Claire Brennen) embarks on a new life with a traveling carnival. But she discovers that what lurks behind the curtain doesn’t take too kindly to her backstabbing plans." -American Genre Film Archive  (Presented as a 4K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative.)

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JULY (exact date TBA) - DOMINICK RIVERS short films & NNC 16mm SHOWCASE - No Name Cinema's inaugural artist-in-residence (!) presents a night of his work in small gauge film and video, alongside a selection of 16mm prints from NNC's growing film library/archive.  (filmmaker in attendance from Indiana  +  post-screening Q&A  +  presented on VHS and 16mm film!)

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JULY (exact date TBA) - Mordançage Workshop led by No Name Cinema's inaugural artist-in-residence, Dominick Rivers.  All materials provided.  Sliding-scale workshop fees.

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FALL (exact date TBA) - GUY MADDIN short films

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Nov (exact date TBA) - OPEN SCREEN v.6 - (Open to all local artists/filmmakers working in experimental, personal, animation and/or non-fiction filmmaking.  Maximum one submission per person, 15 mins or less.)

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WINTER (exact date TBA) - RANKIN RENWICK short films - (filmmaker in attendance from Portland Oregon + post-screening Q&A)