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Shapeshifters Cinema
567 5th St.
Oakland CA   

Shapeshifters Cinema is an experimental microcinema located in Oakland, CA. Our mission is to provide a venue and support for contemporary artists working with experimental and artist-made film, video, sound, music and other types of mediated performance. We host regular, live events, we offer workshops on experimental moving image and sound production, and we operate a storefront shop specializing in print publications, sound recordings and other artist-made media.
http://www.shapeshifterscinema.com

Upcoming Events:
Thursday, May 7 2026 7:00 PM
The Do-Over Music Series at Shapeshifters Cinema, organized by Lisa Mezzacappa and Jordan Glenn, is a monthly series of sound performances presented by a rotating cast of local luminaries and special guests. The first set features performances of creative - improvised - composed - electronic - acoustic - music. The second set opens up to a live improvised collaboration of sound and visuals made using images culled from the Shapeshifters 16mm film collection.

Set 1: 7pm sound performance by
Matthew Evan Taylor (reeds + electronics)

Set 2: 8pm expanded cinema +
Nathan Clevenger's Burden of Dreams with
Brett Carson - organ
Mark Clifford - vibes
Jason Levis - drums
NC - bass guitar
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Saturday, May 16 2026 7:00 PM
Crystal Powers

A journey of discovery in which we wake up together and discover we were never asleep, only to fall deeper into the most delicious dream. Persephone Possum reads from her body of weird-horror prose and queer surrealist theater. Filmmaker Linda Izcali Scobie and musician Beverly Bradley weave together luminous worlds of delight. Sadie Greyduck and Miriam Campos-Quinn gather dried moss for a nest of mirrors and chimes: fairy ambient bass, synth + handmade 16mm film projections.

Sadie Greyduck + Miriam CQ video release! "song which grants wishes for magical superpowers" - a shimmering artifact, a gazing pool, a humid iridescence, a mirror? This video will grant wishes and its live soundtrack performance will endow a listener with magical powers. We believe in the magic of storytelling, love, and hope. We believe in sparkles that swirl through the air.

Linda Izcali Scobie + Beverly Bradley Crystal Palace - Exuberance in neon technicolor, a synthesis between two worlds growing together in unknowable parallel

Persephone Possum - Experimental weird-horror prose and queer surrealist theater, adults only.
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