Guest curated by Malic Amalya

Program 1: Kairos Dirt & the Errant Vacuum, 2017, Angelo Madsen

CounterPulse: San Francisco, CA

October 8, 2018

About Program 1 - Kairos Dirt & the Errant Vacuum:

Because middle school student, TJ Fortune, neither fits within the framework of their age or gender, they are both bullied and revered at school. TJ recoils into an abandoned warehouse where he builds a massive sculptural shrine from discarded objects and trash. Meanwhile, TJ’s lunch lady and confidant, Rosie Cutler, makes initial contact with a transworldly being. Amid the post-industrial decay of the American south, Rosie and TJ seek out a spiritual medium/phone sex operator to help transport them to the apparition. Television monitors, radio frequencies, and orifices become portals to access this alternate, carnal dimension. 

About INFRARED: In Celebration of the Compton Transgender District:

In 2017, the city of San Francisco indicated intention to designate a portion of its Tenderloin neighborhood (a portion which includes CounterPulse and the office of San Francisco Cinematheque Cinematheque) as the “Compton’s Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual District” in reference to a 1966 protest action held at Compton’s Cafeteria, located at the intersection of Turk and Taylor Streets in San Francisco. This pre-Stonewall action is recognized as a significant milestone in queer and transgender political activism. In celebration of this designation—the first legally recognized municipal transgender district in the world—San Francisco Cinematheque is proud to present INFRARED, four nights of experimental films by and about transgender, nonbinary and gender nonconforming artists curated by transgender filmmaker Malic Amalya.