CAAM at the 2014 SF Green Film Festival

The 4th Annual San Francisco Green Film Festival starts tonight with the San Francisco premiere of the feature documentary DamNation at Aquarium of the Bay. CAAM is excited to partner again with the San Francisco Green Film Festival to co-present TELOS: The Fantastic World of Eugene Tssui on Friday, May 30 and Mondo Banana on Saturday, May 31. We hope you will join us in supporting these films and the other films and events spotlighting the world’s most urgent environmental issues and as well as innovative solutions.

The 2014 San Francisco Green Film Festival runs from May 29– June 4 at the Roxie Theater. Visit the San Francisco Green Film Festival website or call (415) 552-5580 for more information.

Mondo Banana (Ryan White, USA/Canada/Thailand/Finland, 2013, 53 min)
Friday, May 30 at 9:00 pm (West Coast Premiere)
Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St., San Francisco
Tickets: $15 (General), $14 (Student/Senior/Disabled)

Still from Mondo Banana (2013), playing at the San Francisco Green Film Festival on May 30.
Still from Mondo Banana (2013), playing at the San Francisco Green Film Festival on May 30.

“Journey to the world of bananas! Deep in the forests of Sumatra, a Finnish sea captain seeks an elusive banana. In a Kolkata kitchen, Bengali chefs prepare scrumptious banana stalk curries. As the sun blazes in Kuala Lumpur, a Chinese exorcist calls forth an evil banana spirit…. Embarking on an international journey through the vibrant world of human-banana relationships, Bay Area filmmaker Ryan White explores the personal, cultural, and environmental importance of one of the world’s favorite fruits. A delicious blend of video art and ethnographic film, Mondo Banana is a wild medley of shadow puppetry, culinary demonstrations, exorcisms, scientific research, performance art, anthropology, underground film, and dragon-dancing that peels away the secrets of human-banana relations and celebrates the age-old connection between people and plants.”

 

TELOS: The Fantastic World of Eugene Tssui (Kyung Lee, USA, 2014, 55 min)
Saturday, May 31, 4:45pm (SF Premiere):
Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St., San Francisco
Tickets: $15 (General), $14 (Student/Senior/Disabled)

Still from TELOS: The Fantastic World of Eugene Tssui (2014), playing at the San Francisco Green Film Festival on May 31.
Still from TELOS: The Fantastic World of Eugene Tssui (2014), playing at the San Francisco Green Film Festival on May 31.

“TELOS chronicles the unorthodox life of Emeryville-based architect Eugene Tssui in this directorial debut for Bay Area filmmaker Kyung Lee. Tssui is an eccentric visionary and a maverick architect, who questions traditional building standards and puts nature and the environment at the forefront of his designs. If you have seen the unconventional home he built for his parents in Berkeley, California, you will understand the challenge he faces to receive mainstream approval. Lee composes a portrait of Tssui as a “Renaissance man”: an athlete, designer, and singular visual artist, as well as architect. Showing his influences from his childhood to his formal education (including three expulsions from architecture school) and his relationship with his mentor the “organic” architect Bruce Goff. Rejected by the status quo and embattled to defend his futuristic, yet naturalistic visions, Tssui finds unexpected allies in the small mountain town in Mount Shasta where he hopes to build his architectural fantasia.”