We wrap up our Queer Visions and Cinematic Cities series Tuesday night with a screening of Sean Baker's magnificent TANGERINE. Memorably shot on an iPhone, back when that hadn't been done before, TANGERINE is hilarious and destined to be one of your favorite films of the year, any year you see it. Trans sex worker Sin-Dee Rella is charging through the Christmas Eve streets of LA searching for her no-good boyfriend, who cheated on her with a cis woman while Sin-Dee was in prison. We know it has far more swearing than you're expecting on a Monday morning, but stop what you're doing right now and watch this trailer.
On Wednesday, we welcome Chilean-born, Montreal-based filmmaker Malena Szlam for a program of her short experimental work, including the recent 35mm landscape film ALTIPLANO. Malena's work explores the relationship between the natural world, perception, and intuitive process, often employing multiple exposures and hand-processing, as in her sublime 16mm film LUNAR ALMANAC. ALTIPLANO was shot in the Andean mountains, transforming volcanic deserts and salt flats into a near-alien world, mixed with an entirely natural soundscape generated from infrasound recordings of volcanoes, geysers, Chilean blue whales and more.
Thursday and Friday we're offering FREE screenings of the new humanitarian documentary THE CAVE, directed by Feras Fayyad (Last Men in Aleppo). In it, a group of female physicians operate a subterranean hospital known as the Cave, where besieged Syrian civilians seek treatment and safety from the civil war and the oppressive patriarchal culture that exists above them. There will be a post-screening discussion following Thursday's show.
