For our annual No-Thanks Giving gathering, we host Charles Fairbanks and Caitlin Manning, both filmmaker expats coming up from separate towns in Southern Mexico. Charles shares the West Coast premiere of The Modern Jungle, his hour-long collaboration with Saul Kak–a visual artist from a Zoque village–on a lush but critical allegory of globalization, as filtered though the fever-dream of a Mexican shaman. Ex-Mission sister Caitlin circles back to San Fran with Resistance, Autonomy, and Women’s Rights in Chiapas, on the community craftwork of A.G. Lopez. Oaxacan visionary Bruno Varela is also represented with another of his exquisite experimental essays. AND North-of-the-border Native (now NY-based) Adam Khalil sends in the debut of Cultural Capture: Terminal Addition, on cultural appropriation and the white-washing of indigenous history. Food and drink from the region will be on hand in a festive reception for our much-missed comrades!
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