Fringe Binge at the 4th annual DOc Fest 200

Fresh on the heels of the SF FilmSociety's International Festival , a lot of film feinds are in a kind of culture glutton's darkroom food-coma, but SF Doc Fest may have something that cannot be fully satiated by the big reel biz and its increasingly fetishized worldly fare. Sure you get The Palindromes , Wong Kar Wai, Herzog , the big predictable names somehow Kabuki-zed in the smorgasbord multi-plexes of fashionable and high-financed spectacles. But what happens to some of those brilliant oddities of cinema that don't make it thru the checkpoints of high-salaried juries and committees? Or the ones that may have some sort of copyright and politically incorrect and radical in-your-face blemishes ? Like maybe some topic that might just be too fricking HOT for a bigger festival to touch ?

They appear on the menu/radar of IndieFest producers and are brought to you down-home Mission fresh at 2 of our hood's favorite community-culture living- rooms, the Roxie and The Women's Building.

And hey, in a world where documentaries are beginning to bleed into
the passive Spectacle as a reverse-order consumerist band-aid, there's
some antidote in reaching for a scaple of the real bizarre before it reaches you !

Some films that hit the indybay intuitive radar with upcoming or 2nd screenings: Trudell, POPaganda, Occupation Dreamland, ScaredSacred

Unfortunately the one film I caught that got me inspired to write this blurb will not have a second screening , but check out the site for Awake Zion:
http://www.awakezion.net
Jewish culture goes in search of the deep rasta roots and does it's own phat remix !

And be sure to scan for your own peculiar palate's desire the list of Doc films here:
http://www.sfindie.com/docfest05

Just be sure not to overeat the infotainment. In other words once you've seen the fliks that get you inspired, rise up and make your world before it's too late !