July 26 Wasteland Utopia: Deep Canyon Cinema

David Sherman is a force in the Cali experimental film community. He ran Canyon Cinema, distributor of rare films, has been in the Whitney, taught at Cal Arts and created a low to the ground Total Mobile Home microCINEMA, similar to one Portland had in a basement on SE Clinton which became Four Wall Cinema at Oak Street. Born in Tucson, Sherman now lives in sunny mining town Bisbee. Part of the Craig Baldwin school of samplers, Sherman has made a film Wasteland Utopia from old open source footage. The film is in surrealist style, relating the visions of the real estate developer who invented retirement utopias with endless golf blooming from desert; and an influential intellectual psychoanalyst who became obsessed later in his career with cosmic Orgone Energy. The resulting film is a mashup of historic footage. Presented by Grand Detour grand-detour.org at RECESS Gallery 1127 SE 10th 8PM