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MAY 11: THE NET: THE UNABOMBER, LSD, AND THE INTERNET +
By popular demand, from a City eviscerated by the pernicious effects of Big Tech, here's a cult movie about cult thinking! Lutz Dammbeck's break-out stunner was considered dangerously paranoid when first released some 20 years ago, and, despite its absence from DVD and streaming platforms, it has never since ceased to feverishly incite anti-authoritarian skepticism from an international underground of dissidents, dropouts, crackpots, and trolls. True to its title, The Net excels at the hyperlink-style essay format in which pulling the threads of seemingly disparate modern phenomena—electronic art, technology, armed conflict—reveals a single tight-knit system. As Dammbeck becomes evermore fascinated with Ted Kaczynski, he digs deeper into his Neo-Luddite ideology and victims in academia and technology. His search brings him into contact with figures including Stewart Brand, editor of the self-sufficiency countercultural publication Whole Earth Catalog, and art/literary agent John Brockman, who draws connections between Norbert Wiener’s Cybernetics and avant-garde figures including John Cage, Jonas Mekas, and Nam June Paik. Gradually the narration begins to pull in Dammbeck’s own correspondence with the incarcerated Kaczynski. “The Net is not merely a diagram of the lines and nodes that form a secret history of the 20th Century, but an unsettling examination of the morality of the architects of contemporary society” (Screen Slate). OPENING the evening: Short tangles of related conspiracy knots: a clip from Craig Baldwin's Tribulation 99, the whole trembling 9 mins. of Rodney Ascher's legendary S from Hell, and a very rare peek at Dammbeck's follow-up, the never released Overgames, partially shot right here at ATA! $9.99.
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7/3/20 Other Cinema Benefit Livestream Plague Time Play Time
2/6/21 Plague Time Play Time III Good Riddance!
5/1/21 Plague-Time Play-Time IV: Mayday! Anarchism, Autonomy, and Artwork
5/29/21 Shapeshifters Benefit - Animation Extravaganza
OtherZine Issue #33
“PINK VS. ORANGE”
This issue #33 of OTHERZINE incorporates the DNA of another San Francisco Bay-born radical publication, Bad Subjects. This is its issue #92 too, settled in to occupy some of Other Cinema’s comfy seats here until its own website undergoes reconstruction. We hold hands as the movie unspools.Viva Pink, standing up against Orange! In the January 2017 Women’s March, Pink Pussy hats asserted female leadership and activism. The 2016 Presidential campaign of pinko (OK, socialist Democrat) Bernie Sanders excited and involved many voters, especially millennials. President Donald Trump, his hair and skin alternating between various shades of orange/lemon yellow/yogurt pink, has galvanized American and global opposition to his policies, his insults, his general demeanor. And as “Orange is the New Black” reminded us, incarceration is always a risk for the disobedient and, perhaps, dissident.
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