The Global Social Factory & Supply Chains study/research group of The Public School will screen Still Life by Jia Zhang-Ke (after having shown The Forgotten Spaceand Manufactured Landscapespreviously in our film series) on Friday, May 3 at 7:00 p.m. in Room 302 of the Redstone Building (2940 16th Street).
Chinese film poet Jia Zhang-ke’s 2006 depiction of the massive Three Gorges hydroelectric project and the damming of the Yangtze River that displaced 1.1 million people. Fengjie, with countless other towns and cities, is being flooded and the film depicts abandoned buildings rotting in the summer heat as workers slowly demolish the remaining structures with hand tools. The movie follows two outsiders in search of lost mates who were last seen in the area of the project. The cinematography resonates with captivating images of a society in limbo, in which the past has died and the future has yet to arrive; the air seems moist and palpable, and even the thick, rusted pipes of derelict factories appear to breathe.
108 minutes; group discussion to follow.
Tomorrow Night
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Sunday April 14thPoetry in the Present : Chris Daniels on Josely Vianna Baptista
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2141 BroadwayReading the Bible Very Slowly : Acharei Mot (After the death), Lev. 16:1-18:30 & Kedoshim (Holy ones), Lev. 19:1-20:27
Monday April 15th -
Conversational Spanish via The East Bay Free Skool
Tuesday April 16th
The Holdout -
2141 Broadway
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Anarchists of Color Reading/ Discussion Group
Wednesday April 17th -
Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library
Eskrima via the East Bay Free Skool
The Holdout -
French for Deleuze, Eventually …
Thursday April 18th * -
* all day at 2141 BroadwaySpatial Awareness: Dance/Movement Class
Friday April 19th
Bay Area Public School General Meeting +Potluck
Bring ideas, passions, and interests.
2141 Broadway 7-9pm
Saturday April 20th
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Robert Duncan : Caesar’s Gate
Monday April 22
2141 Broadway -
The Struggle for Knowledge Production
The Holdout
It’s already April and many classes are in full swing. New ones are popping up every week. Here’s a sketch of the next two weeks.
Monday April 1st
Thursday April 4th, 2013
Saturday April 6, 2013
Sunday April 7th, 2013
Monday April 8, 2013
- Robert Duncan : Fragments of a Disordered Devotion
2141 Broadway - The Struggle for Knowledge Production
The Holdout
Tuesday April 9, 2013
Spinoza
2141 Broadway
