Just got invited to be a part of the #SanFrancisco premier and write a film review for GIFT. As the #wombmanager for an artivists collective, this film def hits home and curious to see what the GIFT has to offer to the dialogue about artivists sustainability.
Doors open at The Castro Theater @ 6:30pm w/ pre-screening bar; GIFT Screening at 7:45pm; Q+A @9:15pm; Post-Screen Party @ The Mezzanine in SF @ 10:00pm
Here a little about the film 🎞 GIFT
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/283716447
Tickets & info: https://giftsf.eventbrite.com
US PREMIERE - with Director/Producer Robin Siobhan McKenna, and special guests John Law, Marina Gorbis, Holly Million, and Michelle Lessans ("Smallfry")
Inspired by Lewis Hyde’s beloved book, "The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World," GIFT is a richly cinematic film exploring the parallels between artists’ work and a gift economy. Interweaving the stories of a young Kwak’wakwala indigenous man undertaking preparations for a potlatch, an Italian living museum occupied by migrant families, a bumblebee art car at Burning Man, and artist Lee Mingwei sharing the "transformative gift” of song, the film is a tribute to something that can’t be measured, counted, bought or sold.