Other Cinema: Shapeshifters Benefit + Kit Young + Lori Varga + Ellie Vanderlip

Closing out this month of Other Cinema in-person pop-ups, here’s a hybrid livestream/embodied benefit for this plucky East Bay microcinema, with live film performances by Ellie Vanderlip, using 6(!) projectors to tell of her grandmother’s internment in the open spaces of the Sierra Nevada. Kit Young and Lori Varga also appear in the flesh with a 15-min. set of bawdy expanded cinema and howling volumes. The live acts are sandwiched within an hour of experimental animation, featuring three new works from Kathleen Quillian herself, a co-director of Shapeshifters, and brief beauties from Barney Google, John Knecht, Martha Colburn, Sally Cruikshank, Salise Hughes, George Melies, and Ray Harryhausen. Note, earlier 7:30PM start, $6.66, donations encouraged!