oTHER cINEMA :: pSYCHOgEOGRAPHY! (feat. D. STRATMAN)

A vehicle of dense, discursive works about the meaning(s) of place: Deborah Stratman's 50-min. meditation on national identity, gun culture, consumption, and personal transcendence reconsiders contemporary tech-enhanced notions of Manifest Destiny. In person, Enid Baxter Blader invites us into her marvelous excavation of the de-commissioned Fort Ord Army base, now the home to California State University at Monterey Bay, where she teaches! ALSO in person, Valerie Soe's Oak Park Story, in its theatrical premiere, recounts the struggles of three very different families who find themselves together in a run-down Oakland slum. PLUS Ben Wood's Rendezvous at Alcatraz, Dara Greenwald's Hay!Market Action, and a new piece by Sylvia Schedelbauer. AND a select 10-min. excerpt from David Sherman's desert essay Wasteland Utopias, for those who missed this masterpiece last (rainy) season. *$7.