Femina Potens goes ghoulish for DOWN N DIRty this Halloween! October 28, 2006

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Please join us in the 6th Down N Dirty, Behind the Scenes of Queer Filmmakers as we go ghoulish for Halloween with recent work from Trina Lopez & Siobhan O'brien. With their films, zombies meet up with San Francisco's notorious graveyard mysteries, in a short film night that is sure to spook you!
WHEN: Saturday October, 28, 2006
WHERE: Femina Potens Gallery, 465 S. Van Ness btwn 15 &16th streets
SHOWTIME: doors at 7:30 pm / show 8pm
TICKETS: $5-10 sliding scale no one turned away for lack of funds.
INFO: www.feminapotens.com / (415) 217-9340

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Femina Potens Gallery showcases its innovative monthly film series Down & Dirty: the Intimate World of Queer Filmmaking Saturday, October, 28, 2006, featuring selected shorts from queer filmmakers Siobhan O'brien & Trina Lopez.

The ongoing series features film and dialogue with Bay Area Queer Filmmakers as part of Femina Potens 2006 Film Screenings, this new series is programmed by guest curator, and local filmmaker Shani Heckman. Celebrate and promote local queer, trans, and women video artists as we feature intimate and interactive conversations with local filmmakers, a shot-by-shot analysis of their filmmaking process, stories from behind the scenes, and the inside scoop on San Francisco's filmmaking community each film is followed by an intimate Q&A with the audience.

Trina Lopez's A Second Final Rest: San Francisco's Lost Cemetaries, is a fine dedication to a world left behind, literally. Why aren't there any graveyards in San Francisco? Lopez's beautiful short documentary reveals the spooky story behind our cities dead. Siobhan O'brien dominates the local feminist zombie scene with four, yes FOUR, short zombie films with some of the cutest zombies around. Rumor has it zombies from the film will be in attendance and giving blood-based autographs to lucky souls. Start your night off right with a bit of halloween short film fun and support your local trans/feminist arts-space in the Mission!!

ARTIST BIOS:

SIOBHAN O'BRIEN
Siobhan O'brien considers herself to be an average zombie. by day she attends a graduate program in media arts at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, by night she eats brains and pens manifestos. Drawing on classical hollywood genres she manipulates the conventions of horror films to create works that express the alienation and malaise of an urban/queer/feminist existance, tempered by the solidarity achieved through community and the comfort found in mundane pleasures. trapped in a state of perpetual transition, engaged in compulsive cycles of un-satiating consumption, the hot zombies escape shallow graves of misogynistic media practices by forming a gang and conquering the city, the suburb, and the countryside.

TRINA LOPEZ
A resident of Tucson, Arizona until 1997, Trina Lopez relocated to San Francisco, California to pursue her Master of Fine Arts degree in Cinema Production at San Francisco State University. She completed her degree in Fall 2004 and currently teaches at UC-Berkeley.
While still residing In Arizona, Ms. Lopez came across an eclectic book entitled Dr. Weirdes Weirde Tours: A Guide to Mysterious San Francisco. Within its covers were tales of the removal and relocation of nearly all of the citys graveyards. The idea of pursuing a film on this grisly yet compelling topic was one that sat dormant until Ms. Lopez gained a greater familiarity with the geographic and historical background of the city. The film is the result of many hours of archival research, numerous interviews, and countless days of exploring San Franciscos waterfront and park spaces and the adjacent town of Colma, a vast necropolis known to many as The City of Souls, where nearly all of San Franciscos dead are laid to rest.
Ms. Lopez possesses a keen interest in unusual historical sites and tales, and textures of the beauty of decay. She hopes to continue exploration into these areas in future documentary/experimental endeavors, including a short film that will serve as a study of bird skeletons, soils, and plants.
MORE INFO ON THE EVENT:

Shani Heckman, Guest Curator is a long-time activist, publicist and creator of Shanestar Productions, winner of the Best of the Bay by SF Weekly in 2006 and recipient of the Film Arts Foundation's STAND grant for first time film directors in 2003. She has curated popular short film screenings for the past three years. Her recent short doc "Wrong Bathroom" won the Best Local Voice award at the San Francisco International Women's Film Festival this past summer and is currently touring the festival circuit. www.shanestar.org

Femina Potens is a nationally recognized art gallery and performance space dedicated to the advancement of women and trans-folk through art and winner of the San Francisco's Bay Guardian's Best of the Bay, 2006. Sponsored by the Queer Cultural Center, with support from the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Femina Potens is one of the leading queer organizations in San Francisco. Femina Potens has been featured on the Australian television show, Out and About, Q-Television, the documentary TranArchy, Japan's Foil Magazine, Bitch Magazine, and the San Francisco Guardian, which called Femina Potens a crucial bit of justice.

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