City Nights

Tue, Sep 20
6:30pm-11pm
$7-$20

Portraits of an unseen San Francisco. Featuring A Second Final Rest:
The History of San Francisco's Lost Cemeteries (Trina Lopez)
Following the earthquake and fire of 1906, San Francisco rose from
the ashes to become one of the liveliest cities in America. But it
also managed to erase virtually all traces of its dead. Lopez exhumes
this hidden history-how did a modern metropolis manage to
systematically relocate nearly all of its burial grounds to make room
for the living? Through recollections of residents who remember these
forgotten graveyards to reflections on present-day conflicts that pit
the living against the dead, A Second Final Rest provides insight
into the City by the Bay's relationship to death. Open (Katherin
McInnis) An impressionistic slice of night, Open captures the
mundane comings and goings at a strip club. Living Poets (Erica
Filanc) A group of poets reclaim a heroine-trafficked street corner
by staging weekly outdoor poetry jams. Against a harsh background,
Living Poets documents these nightly renegade performances and
questions their impact on the community. Police Blotter (Kristen
Nutile) The buzz and pop of a police blotter is the background for
this profile of poor and middle-class neighborhoods in the Bay Area.
Details of crimes and would-be crimes flash on the screen-quick takes
on the daily doings in these otherwise quiet communities. Green Cross
(Ashley Tindall) A car-crash survivor suffering from chronic pain,
Kevin Reed fought the Feds to open one of the city's first successful
nonprofit medicinal marijuana dispensaries. Artists in person. Free
BBQ at 6:30pm.

Venue:

El Rio
3158 Mission Street
San Francisco
4155 282-3325
http://www.elriosf.com

Bart to 24th Street. Or Mission bus to Precita
The venue is at Precita which is one small block past Cesar Chavez.

Additional Info:

415 436-9523
http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org