Psycho-Geography: Jeanne Finley + Tar Sands + Slab City +

On Saturday, November 23, ATA Gallery’s OTHER CINEMA presents the final iteration of its 3-week Psycho-Geography series: A sublime cinematic meditation on the nuances of Place, especially the (no-)zones of the American West.

We premiere Jeanne Finley’s Fat Chance, a meditation on a Point Reyes shipwreck. Katherin McInnis seconds the motion with her Bay Area Disaster Drills.

ALSO in its debut, Brigid McCaffrey and Elizabeth Knafo’s De Re Metallica transports us to the scorched environs of Mojave gold mines, updating buried-treasure legends.

PLUS Jonathan (Commune) Berman’s sneak peek at Van Tassel’s Giant Rock, Jordan Blady’s Slab City Prom, Dan Anderson’s Food City, John Warren’s Action on the Strip, and pieces by Pierre Conti, Wago Kreider, Jim Granato, and Enid Blader.

Come early for Peter Mettler’s aerial lyric on Alberta’s Tar Sands.