still from Hitler’s Hat by Jeff Krulik

Thursday July 2 * 7 pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

Treasure Island on San Francisco Bay 1939 
Footage of the Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE), a World's Fair held at Treasure Island in San Francisco, California. The exposition operated from February 18, 1939, through October 29, 1939 (10:00).

Civil Rights Demonstration for Fair Employment and Housing Legislation, from the National Archives
This unedited film shows scenes from a demonstration in Washington, DC, organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), to protest labor and housing discrimination in the city and to mourn the death of civil rights activist Medgar Evers, who was assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi two days earlier. (12:00)

GUESS WHERE YOU’RE GOING by Khwaja Hamzah Saif
Muralist and painter Herberth Romero entered a local art competition to win a cash prize. Instead, he won a solo exhibition at the Workhouse Arts Center, formerly the notorious and violent Lorton Reformatory where Herberth’s father began his life sentence. A collage of archival and original footage, GUESS WHERE YOU’RE GOING is a film about the discomforts of preserving memory. (14:56)

The House That Dripped Blood by Paul Bishow (5:00)

Hitler’s Hat by Jeff Krulik
The story of Jewish American GI Richard Marowitz and his I&R unit of the 42nd Rainbow Division. On April 29, 1945, they take part in the liberation of Dachau. The next day, they sweep through Munich, and in one particular apartment, Rich finds Adolph Hitler's ceremonial top hat, stomps on it, and brings it home as a war souvenir, where it stays buried in the magic trick closet in his Albany, NY basement for the next 50 years, until he brought it to a Rainbow Division Reunion. (47:00) 

Special guest Sad Veiled Bride will perform protest songs between films.

Bios: 
Hamzah is a filmmaker finding humor on both sides of the empire’s gun.

Paul Bishow is an experimental and documentary filmmaker who co-founded the I AM EYE Film Forum, which ran an underground film series from 1982-1997, and he has worked as a motion picture projectionist in Washington DC with IATSE local 224 projectionist union at theaters including the legendary DC art house cinema, the Biograph, and the Smithsonian's IMAX Theater. Paul has made dozens of films, both feature-length and short subject, including Anarchy and Chaos Prelude, Wet Streets at Night, and It’s a Wonderful Horrible Life, and he is co-director of Punk the Capital, a documentary film about the DC music scene in the 1980’s. 

Washington DC-based director/producer Jeff Krulik has screened at the Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center, the American Film Institute and on PBS. His resume includes work for Errol Morris, Discovery Networks, and National Geographic Channel. His honors include guest filmmaker at the 48th Annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, participant in WGBH/PBS Producers Academy, and inaugural recipient for the Peter C. Rollins Award for Achievement in Documentary Film, given by the Popular Culture Association. His commissioned work includes a one-hour documentary on carnival sideshow history for The Travel Channel. Krulik is also co-producer of cult documentary 'Heavy Metal Parking Lot' which was turned into a reality TV series for pop culture network TRIO called Parking Lot.' Other documentaries include ‘Tales of Belair at Bowie’, ‘Led Zeppelin Played Here’, 'Hitler's Hat,' 'Ernest Borgnine on the Bus,' and the award winning 'I Created Lancelot Link.' In 2008, he produced the Emmy Award-winning documentary Eatin' Crabs for Maryland Public Television's Chesapeake Bay Week. And last August, here at Rhizome, he workshopped some of his ideas in a presentation called Jeff Krulik, Official Junk Collector, that then became his latest project nearing completion, Billy Luck.

Bev Stanton, performing as Sad Veiled Bride, blends acoustic and electronic elements to create introspective soundscapes that lead the audience on a journey through personal grievances and ennui. She has won over a dozen Washington Area Music Awards in the Electronica category. Her music has appeared in shows on the Discovery Channel, VH1, MTV and other cable television networks, and her electronic project Arthur Loves Plastic has been featured in the background of late night cable TV programs.