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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:
11
Apr
Saturday, April 11 2026 7:00 PM
Kingdom of Not, Plonsey Scheme & Victoria and the Vaudevillains
Saturday, April 11, 2026
7pm
Admission: $16 (discount for members)
Web: https://shapeshifterscinema.square.site/product/kingdom-of-not-plonsey-scheme-victoria-victrola/L5U7RDGD35ZEJBNIPNFONFYF?cp=true&sa=true&sbp=false&q=false
Kingdom of Not is absurdist writer/performer Dan Carbone and surrealistic one-man band, Andrew Goldfarb and special guest performer Baby-Ding-Dong. They sing from their hearts and play from their guts about demon children, demon blackbirds, demon dogs, demon Eskimos and most of other popular demon themes beloved by all the people. THE ONLY EXHIBITION OF ITS TYPE IN NORTH AMERICA! “KoN gets under your skin, and into your brain.” Ben Graham/ The Quietus (U.K.) “It’s magnificent stuff!” – Kramer (Bongwater/ Shimmy Disc) "A Riotously Funny Two-Headed Sideshow Assault!” -SF Weekly
Plonsey Scheme is a collaboration between
Dan Plonsey
(compositions and structures for improvisation) and Mantra Plonsey (words, song), in which neither tells the other what they're going to do until it happens. Dan has a pedigree over which he constantly trips, while Mantra repeatedly fails to prove that she is not a robot. A third collaborator,
Kattt Atchley
, is responsible for projecting images of tableaux of dolls (still or on turntables) with backdrops of art. The three will be joined by
Cory Wright
, reeds; Fred Lonborg-Holm, cello; and Tomek Sinclair, guitar.
Victoria Victrola (she/her) is the front woman of Victoria and the Vaudevillains. She throws the occasional whimsical boozy tea party, the occasional séance, owns 3 Victrolas, surprisingly zero cats, and never enough books. You can often find her standing still, falling down stairs, and pounding on the piano. Her music ranges from soft and whispery to clangy bangy piano rock. She is, much to her own disappointment, not the author of Sweet Valley High.
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24
Apr
Friday, April 24 2026 7:00 PM
ZETI EP Release w/Robert Nance & Roco Cordova + Expanded Film by Ellie Vanderlip
$15.00
ZETI is the experimental minimalist folk project by Margaret Stutt which explores spaciousness - constriction, light- dark, form - formlessness on accordion and keys. Celebrating the release of It is what it is - Prevail EP on cassette.
Robert Nance is a composer and producer creating immersive sonic cocoons through the use of guitars, synthesizers, electronics, and field recordings. His works seek to build lusciously abstract environments that invite listeners to engage as actively or passively as their own experience unfolds.
Roco Córdova is a vocalist, composer, producer and improviser whose music fuses diverse influences with electronic media, chance operations, gradual processes, noise, improvisation, and timbral techniques of composition.
Ellie Vanderlip is an experimental filmmaker who maintains an expanded cinema practice driven by the delights of found midcentury 16mm film, the potency of light, and other discarded visual ephemera.
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