San Francisco Weekly August 1, 2012 : Page 15

Flying Tiger Circus starts at 9 p.m. at DNA Lounge, 375 11th St. (at Folsom), S.F. Admission is $20; call 626-2654 or visit www.dnalounge.com. ANNA PULLEY MON /8.6 [FILM] French Ennui opera’s favorite photographer John Martin interprets Stravinsky’s morality tale The Rake’s Progress . Art has often been likened to a mirror for the soul; prepare to get an eyeful. “Sin and Redemption” starts at 10:30 a.m. (and continues through Aug. 23) at SFMOMA’s Artists Gallery at Fort Mason, (Laguna and Buchanan), S.F. Admission is free; call 441-4777 or visit www. sfmoma.org. SILKE TUDOR sfweekly.com It was a very punk year, 1977. Bands like the Germs, Crass, Bad Brains, and Black Flag were freaking out parents everywhere, and new albums by the Sex Pistols and Richard Hell and the Voidoids crystallized the angst of a generation. These were the kids who wondered where the promise of the ’60s had disappeared to as they lived in a world threatened by environmental destruction and nuclear warfare. In France, a certain 70-something filmmaker named Robert Bresson tapped into these exact worries of his much younger contemporaries in The Devil, Probably . Bresson is renowned for his sparse style that refuses to play to either human feelings or the traditional conventions of cinema, and here he cast non-actor Antoine Monnier as Charles, a teenage student whose unease with con-temporary society is not cured by dabbling in sex, drugs, or psychoanalysis. Charles and his friends barely let emotion flicker across their faces as they wander around Paris and discuss deep philosophical con-cepts in an oh-so-French manner, and his apathy (not to mention fashion sense) could give today’s hipsters a run for their money. That is precisely why the film maintains its power. Here we are again in a world that seems to teeter on the brink of col-lapse, where opportunities for escapism are plentiful but ultimately unsatisfying. Bresson already nailed it 35 years ago. The Devil, Probably screens at 3, 5, 7, and 9 p.m. (and continues through Aug. 9) at S.F. Film Society Cinema, 1746 Post (at Webster), S.F. Admission is $9-$11; call 561-5000 or visit www.sffs.org. HEIDI DE VRIES WED /8.8 Spun silk and wire , Yasuko Iyanaga 40 90 -% OFF | Contents | Letters | suCka Free City [VISUAL ART] Knitty Gritty free admission | Night+Day TUE /8.7 [ART] Sinsational For most people, prayer and meditation, even in a group setting, is a singular and solitary experience, and public confession would be unthinkable, but that is exactly what artist Victor Cartagena invites us to do with Confesiones y Hostias . Step up to the microphone, declare a sin over the loud-speaker, and win a communion host. Taken seriously, one might expect a lot of dead air, but as the audio installation Radio With Sin Us suggests, divulgence in the era of reality TV is hardly spectacular, even if it pushes your buttons. Both pieces can be investigated at “Sin and Redemption,” a large exhibition that asks local artists in all mediums to con-template spiritual rites, religious history, and sacred symbols. Here, among others, desert temple-builder David Best creates an altar and invites people to leave notes about their loss and longing to be burned along with the structure later this year; Donald and Era Farnsworth tackle the hidden meaning of ge-ometry in their large tapestry Mythos 5 ; and Leave it to the country that invented ori-gami to completely transform how we view fabric. “Fiber Futures: Japan’s Textile Pioneers” explores the mind-bending world of extreme textile-making, an emer-gent aesthetic movement that combines artisanal craft with modern developments such as microfilaments and recycled materials. In general, the mediums are remarkable — snippets of antique paper, cocoons taken directly from silk factories, delicate gauzes spun from stainless steel fibers — but it is the arresting structures and observable flights of fancy that make this young art form worthy of two distinct shows. “Fiber Futures x2,” which begins in the fall, promises to highlight achromatic subtleties, while the recently opened “x1” is an explosion of color: Chemical pulp forms yolk-yellow chrysalides that cling to a wall, a small hemp temple endeavors to teach us the architecture of red, a pale blue cascade gives body to the spirit of mulberry fiber, a curtain of silk sea flowers undulates with shifting light, a golden screen of aluminum and polyphenylene sulfide holds fire cap-tive, and a torrent of cotton waffle-weave elicits a craving for whipped cream. If you’re looking for the easy comfort of quilts, this is not your textile show. “Fiber Futures” opens at 11 a.m. (and continues through Oct. 6) at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art, 51 Yerba Buena (at Fourth St.), S.F. Admission is $5; call 227-4888 or visit www.mocfa.org. SILKE TUDOR | FiLm | eat | musiC | SF Weekly A ugust 1-A ugust 7, 2012 C alendar submissions can be mailed or delivered to 55 Francisco, Suite 710, San Francisco, CA 94133; or e-mailed (no attachments please) to calendar@sfweekly.com at least three weeks in advance of your event. Earlier is, as always, better than later. We make every effort to include all appropriate events in our online listings, available at www.sfweekly.com. 15

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