Matt McCormick's Great Northwest + 433 Pictures' American Nobodies

On Sat. Nov. 24, ATA Gallery’s OTHER CINEMA welcomes to San Francisco our longtime microcinema accomplice Matt McCormick, who personally introduces the Cali premiere of his 70-min. experimental travelog, The Great Northwest. Fifty years after four Seattle women undertook a 3,200 mile road-trip through 4 Northwest states, McCormick by happy chance discovered their scrapbook in a thrift store. He set out on the road, following their route as precisely as possible. His patient observations constitute a lyrical time-capsule, revealing how the landscape, architecture, and culture of the Northwest has changed over the past half-century.

ALSO: Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck present their 433 Pictures project, American Nobodies, a half-hr. suite of poetic miniatures, finding complexity and meaning in small moments and overlooked details.

Doors at 8:00; showtime is 8:30 PM. Admission is $6.