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Shapeshifters Cinema
567 5th St.
Oakland CA   

Shapeshifters Cinema is an experimental microcinema located in Oakland, CA. Our mission is to provide a venue and support for contemporary artists working with experimental and artist-made film, video, sound, music and other types of mediated performance. We host regular, live events, we offer workshops on experimental moving image and sound production, and we operate a storefront shop specializing in print publications, sound recordings and other artist-made media.
http://www.shapeshifterscinema.com

Upcoming Events:
Friday, April 24 2026 7:00 PM
ZETI EP Release w/Robert Nance & Roco Cordova + Expanded Film by Ellie Vanderlip
$15.00

ZETI is the experimental minimalist folk project by Margaret Stutt which explores spaciousness - constriction, light- dark, form - formlessness on accordion and keys. Celebrating the release of It is what it is - Prevail EP on cassette.

Robert Nance is a composer and producer creating immersive sonic cocoons through the use of guitars, synthesizers, electronics, and field recordings. His works seek to build lusciously abstract environments that invite listeners to engage as actively or passively as their own experience unfolds.

Roco Córdova is a vocalist, composer, producer and improviser whose music fuses diverse influences with electronic media, chance operations, gradual processes, noise, improvisation, and timbral techniques of composition.

Ellie Vanderlip is an experimental filmmaker who maintains an expanded cinema practice driven by the delights of found midcentury 16mm film, the potency of light, and other discarded visual ephemera.
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Thursday, May 7 2026 7:00 PM
The Do-Over Music Series at Shapeshifters Cinema, organized by Lisa Mezzacappa and Jordan Glenn, is a monthly series of sound performances presented by a rotating cast of local luminaries and special guests. The first set features performances of creative - improvised - composed - electronic - acoustic - music. The second set opens up to a live improvised collaboration of sound and visuals made using images culled from the Shapeshifters 16mm film collection.

Set 1: 7pm sound performance by
Matthew Evan Taylor (reeds + electronics)

Set 2: 8pm expanded cinema +
Nathan Clevenger's Burden of Dreams with
Brett Carson - organ
Mark Clifford - vibes
Jason Levis - drums
NC - bass guitar
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