The San Francisco Cinematheque presents
INFRARED: In Celebration of the Compton Transgender District
Guest curated by Malic Amalya
Program 3: Slow / Sheltering / Shattering
CounterPulse: San Francisco, CA
October 30, 2018
All that Sheltering Emptiness, Joey Carducci & Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, 2010
About Program 3 - Slow/ Sheltering / Shattering:
The films in Slow / Sheltering / Shattering unpack moments of seismic shifts, trace the intricacies of prolonged permutations, and make demands for immediate social restructuring. Dance and doubling become explorations of self-fluctuation. Pearls and bricks become tools for anti-police riots, military abolition, and handing the Centers for Disease Control over to ACT UP.
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.