An alternate title for “Gut Renovation,” Su Friedrich’s cranky, sarcastic documentary polemic about the gentrification of a Brooklyn neighborhood, might be “The Rape of Williamsburg.” Ms. Friedrich, an independent filmmaker, moved there in 1989 when it was an artists’ haven and a multiethnic, working-class neighborhood with a vibrant street life. After the City Council passed a rezoning ordinance in 2005, an area 6 blocks wide and 17 blocks long became the site of a frantic real estate boom.

—nytimes review, 05.03.13.

playing @the new parkway (oakland) on sun. 16.06 and @the rio (santa cruz) on sun. 23.06. tickets. 12th annual SF DocFest (calendar).

Fuck For Forest. (2012)

This award-winning documentary is the most controversial film at DocFest! It follows Berlin’s Fuck for Forest, who may be the world’s most bizarre charity. Based on the idea that sex can change the world, this NGO raises money for their environmental cause by selling homemade erotic films through its website.

playing @the roxie (SF) on thurs, 13.06 at 7pm, and @the new parkway (oakland) on friday, 14.06 at 9pm. tickets here. 12th annual SF DocFest.

I’ve mentioned and recommended this film earlier in january when i saw it at a young aggies’ event in chicago..

it’s playing @the roxie (SF) tonight 10.06 at 7pm, and @the new parkway (oakland) on sunday 16.06 at 7pm as part of the 12th annual SF DocFest. tickets.

Trash Dance.

playing at the New People Cinema in SF this weds. 8pm on the closing day of the SF Green Film Festival.

When choreographer Allison Orr finds inspiration, beauty and grace in garbage trucks, cranes and in the men and women who collect our trash, she embarks on one her biggest creative challenges…

In Organic We Trust — Change from the soil up.

screening this weds. 05.06.13 @SPUR urban center in SF (645 mission st).
5pm. free for SPUR members, $5 for non-members.

the most captivating and interesting documentary i’ve seen. (and i quite like watching documentaries)

about an alternate reality game in sf and the east bay that lasted for four years, until 2011.

raises questions of where public and private space blend; here and there; real insanity or not-real insanity…

a nonchalance production. (incl. the jejune institute and oaklandish).
“Our mission is to provoke discovery through visceral experience and pervasive play. We achieve this by means of interactive narrative, game design, augmented reality, automated environments, event production, installation art, spatial navigation and cultural curation.”

the institute. screening in SF tonight is sold out. trailer.

Cape Spin: An American Power Struggle tells the surreal, fascinating, tragicomic story of the battle over America’s most scandalous clean energy project.

“The film isn’t for or against the project,” said Josh Levin, one of the film’s producers. “Our focus is on the insane waste of energy” — if you’ll excuse the choice of words, he said — “that went into this 10-year, $70 million battle that still is not resolved while Cape Cod still continues to enjoy the worst air quality and the highest asthma rates in Massachusetts.”

nytimes, 25.06.12.