YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS
701 Mission (at Third Street, in Yerba Buena Gardens), 978-2787, www.ybca.org. $8 save as noted. This venue's Screening Room is a home for film and video programs of all sorts.
WEDNESDAY: The Mexican Museum and the Museum of the African Diaspora presents a program of Afrolatino Americas Films with two documentaries on Afro-Latina singers, Toña La Negra and Susana Baca: Memoria Viva. KPFA's Chuy Varela introduces the program 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY: A series of "transgressive documentaries" by Japan's Kazuo Hara screens A Dedicated Life (1995), a portrait of author Mitsuharu Inoue, Communist, womanizer and "shameless liar" 7:30 p.m.
SATURDAY: A program of the dance films of Tanya Pérez-Salas Compañia de Danza made for Mexican television. $7 6:30 p.m.
SUNDAY: Kazuo Hara's Goodbye CP (Japan, 1973) shocked polite sensibilities with its frank depiction of people with cerebral palsy 2 p.m. S.F. Cinematheque offers Sites and Silences, a program of new work by Speculative Archive, shot in Damascus, plus Trevor Paglen's multimedia lecture/performance Tracking the CIA's "Torture Planes"7:30 p.m.
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