OTHER CINEMA: (P)Southern Psycho-Geography

A sublime survey of works that explore the country’s southern margins, moving from West to East: Erik ("Visionary State") Davis initiates our drift with a slideshow on Leonard Knight, Charles Manson, and other SoCal desert-rats. Prodigal son Bill Daniel floats back to Frisco, setting up his Sail-van right here on Valencia St., for “field” projections in the urban jungle! After Aptos–based Enid Blader shares her tone-poem on the Salton Sea, Sabrina Alonso shows her "Mischief at 16th and Florida" on the Hamms Brewery vat-rat squat, and Jenny Stark shuttles in from Sacto with her "Floods, Ghosts, & Contamination", on turf issues in her home-state of Texas. Our passage pauses for a moment at New Orleans, where we honor the memory of recently-deceased Helen Hill with a screening of her last composition from Katrina-damaged footage, accompanied by pieces from Thad Povey and Alfonso Alvarez. The final stop on the Southern arc takes us to the Mason–Dixon line and Roger Deutsch’s (in person) deeply moving Dead People. $7.