When you're gone, is anyone going to call you a "trippy dude?" Is anyone going to make a "poetic documentary" about you and your deeply humanitarian, totally weird life, thus resulting in "a far-out ten-minute film?" "Altars for the Spirits/Offerings for the Living" is a Day of the Dead art exhibit dedicated to the memory of local versifier and activist Al Robles. Filmmaker Curtis Choy made the film described above, titled Manilatown Is in the Heart: Time Travel with Al Robles. At the exhibit, every viewer can enjoy or be tortured by the bittersweetness of the altars themselves, as well as by the "trippy dude" conundrum. Rest in poetry, Al!
Oct. 16-Nov. 7, 2009
