Please attend film screening benefit! Proceeds will go to the SFAI Faculty Union's legal fund.

In Los Angeles: Admission sliding scale, starting at $5

Thursday, May 6, 2010, 8pm - 10:20pm

Echo Park Film Center, 1200 N. Alvarado Street, Los Angeles

See L.A. event Facebook page HERE.

In San Francisco: Admission sliding scale, starting at $6

Thursday, May 13, 2010, 8pm to 10pm

Artists' Television Access, 992 Valencia Street (at 21st)

See S.F. event Facebook page HERE.

Description: The San Francisco Art Institute has had a long tradition of fostering the development of artists working with film and video in uniquely personal ways, and who have gone on to become successful artists, educators and curators. For many who have gone through the program, Janis Crystal Lipzin has been a strong mentor and role model. As an interdisciplinary artist committed to filmmaking she has created a body of work that utilizes alternative photochemical processes, installation and performance to explore personal, political and environmental issues. This program features her newest work, a handmade Super-8/digital hybrid entitled De Luce 1: Vegetare, alongside a decade’s worth of work by alumni including Alexis Bravos, Brian Traylor, Chris Kennedy, Christina Battle, Elizabeth DiGiovanni, Jeremy Menzies, John Palmer, Kai-Ting Chuang, Karen Johannesen, Rick Bahto, Tsen-Chu Hsu, and Vanessa O’Neill.  Admission is sliding scale.  Please pay what you can afford.  Proceeds will be donated to the SFAI Faculty Union’s legal fund as they continue their struggle against the unjust layoffs of nine tenured faculty members, including Janis Crystal Lipzin.  Their arbitration will begin soon.   If you can't make it to the screening but would like to lend support to the Faculty Union in their struggle, donations of any size are much appreciated, and can be made directly to the Union at www.fusfai.com.

For more information, including advance program notes, please visit rickbahto.wordpress.com.