Roxie Mixtape #7: Side A

Roxie Mixtape #7, an on-going series celebrating diverse and engaging short works by Bay Area filmmakers. Join us for a night of unique, provocative and inspiring movies. An eclectic mix of comedy, drama, documentary, experimental and ‘other’, there is sure to be a little something for everyone in this program.

Featured on Side A

Night Light – Elizabeth Adamson: While out on a late night coffee run, a young woman comes face to face with a cryptid stalker.

Tracing History – Jalena Keane-Lee: A Chinese American filmmaker invites her mother on a journey of self-discovery and reclamation as they tour the railroad sites built by their ancestors six generations ago.

Fortune – Shirley Yumeng He: Through an embodied camera eye that moves freely in the in-between place that is an alley connecting two streets, the film evokes a sense of magical realism which gives texture to the meditation on the Chinese-American identity, which can also be characterized as a liminal space.

Headshot – Dominic Yarabe: A meditative essay film ruminating on image-making and the historically fraught relationship that Black Americans have with the camera and the land.

Biopixels – Kristina Dutton: Shot at two cutting-edge research labs which specialize in the evolution of butterflies and moths, Biopixels is a short film exploring the world of evolutionary biology on the microscopic scale. Using the latest light microscope technology, butterfly wings become micro-mosaics.

Dreamer – Loretta Stern: Dreamer explores the whimsical and psychedelic world of dreams.

Senility – Sabrina Ghidossi: A visual poem about loss, grief, and the haze of dementia.

Artists Live Here – Aggie Schuman and Nora Janowski: Film highlighting some of the graffiti in the Bay Area, focusing on the work as an artistic process and a form of public art.

Elevator to Stardom – Danny Plotnick: Crackling with the energy of a 1980s punk rock, totally wired DIY production, Danny Plotnick’s Elevator to Stardom is a return to his filmmaking roots. Raw and unfiltered, it’s a blast of fun. Set in a film school, Elevator to Stardom chronicles a student group film shoot gone horribly wrong.

Doubles – Clio Gevirtz: Kelsey and Mica are best friends and tennis doubles partners, but when Mica gets her first boyfriend, Kelsey begins to worry.