Litquake

Co-presented by San Francisco Dance Film Festival 

Born in San Francisco, the “mother of modern dance” Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) shattered boundaries and stereotypes for women, set the dance world on fire—and lived a life of scandal and drama. Tonight Amelia Gray discusses her new novel Isadora Duncan (NPR: “a stunning meditation on art and grief”) with filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, directors of the 1989 documentary Isadora: Movement from the Soul. Conversation will be followed by film screening and book sales. $15 adv / door

Co-presented by Third Space Media

Grab the truffle popcorn and enjoy this screening of the mid-season premiere episode of Season Two of Oprah Winfrey Network's Queen Sugar, based on the bestselling novel by San Francisco writer Natalie Baszile. Then stick around for a conversation between the author and series director Cheryl Dunye, as they discuss the process of adapting and creating this acclaimed project. Book sales and signing to follow. $15 adv / door. Sorry this event is sold out.

Based on Clane Hayward’s memoir The Hypocrisy of Disco, the feature film Lane 1974 tells the true coming-of-age story of a counterculture girl, living off the grid and surviving a series of dangerous events before setting out alone on a 600-mile journey in search of the "normal" life she always imagined. Screening features a pre-show conversation with author Clane Hayward and director SJ Chiro. $15 adv / door

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Co-presented by Center for the Art of Translation, Goethe-Institut San Francisco, and Unnamed Press

Inspired by a short cellphone video of a raft of refugees, shot by a tourist from the deck of a cruise ship, Merle Kröger and Philip Scheffner created both a feature film and a novel, Havarie (Collision). Scheffner’s film loops the original clip into a haunting 90-minute “slow cinema” hallucination and meditation on the nature of refugees, while Kröger’s book unspools a crime story from the same collection of characters. Kröger reads from her book, followed by a screening of Havarie, and then an onstage discussion with both Kröger and Scheffner. Moderated by CCA film professor Nilgun Bayraktar. $15 adv / door