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Film (68)

• Daily Video Screenings

  Ant Farm: Early Underground Adventures with Space, Land, and Time

  Daily (except Wednesdays), 1:30 p.m.

  Elizabeth Federici and Laura Harrison, 2008, 30 min.

• Daily Video Screenings

  The World of Lygia Clark

  Daily (except Wednesdays), 2:00 p.m.

  Eduardo Clark, 1973, 27 min.

• Daily Video Screenings

  A Tribute to John Cage

  Daily (except Wednesdays), 2:30 p.m.

  Nam June Paik, 1973/1976, 29 min.

• Daily Video Screenings

  Art:21: Art in the Twenty-First Century: Time

  Daily (except Wednesdays), 4:30 p.m.

  Featuring Martin Puryear
  Art:21, 2003, 60 min.

• Daily Video Screenings

  The Misfits: 30 Years of Fluxus

  Daily (except Wednesdays), 3:00 p.m.

  Lars Movin, 1993, 76 min.

• Film Screening

  Chantal Akerman Shorts

  Saturdays, January 03 and 10, 2009, 1:00 p.m.

  Saute ma ville
  1968, 11 min.
  
  La Chambre
  1972, 11 min.
  
  Hôtel Monterey
  1972, 65 min.

  Chantal Akerman's shorts explore interiors — the psychological interiors of people, and the spatial interiors of places. Saute ma ville — which can be seen as a…

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  Film Screening

  News from Home

  Saturday, January 10, 2009, 3:00 p.m.
  Saturday, January 17, 2009, 1:00 p.m.

  1977, 85 min.
  French, no subtitles

  In News from Home Akerman juxtaposes the reading of letters from her Belgian mother with images of the New York cityscape. The film presents a fragmented look at urban life in the…

• Video Screening

  Tony Labat's "I Want You: Auditions"

  Thursday, January 22, 2009
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Tony Labat, 2008

  Riffing on "I Want You" army recruitment campaigns, Labat asked Bay Area residents to make their own demands of the public in closed auditions. The resulting video is a…

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  Film Series

  Golden Eighties

  Saturday, January 24, 2009
  1:00 p.m.
  

  1986, 96 min.
  French, no subtitles
  A PDF of the dialogue in English is available by request: public_programs@sfmoma.org

  Golden Eighties follows three women at a beauty salon who are pining over the hunky son of the neighboring boutique owner. Set entirely in a Parisian shopping mall, this…

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  Film Screening

  Histoires d'Amérique

  Saturday, January 24, 2009
  3:00 p.m.
  

  1988, 92 min.

  Histoires d'Amérique tells the informal history of Jewish life for the past century. Linking cultural identity with storytelling, Akerman explores immigration, family,…

• Film Screening

  Je, tu, il, elle

  Thursday, January 29, 2009
  7:00 p.m.
  

  1974, 90 min.

  Akerman directs and stars in this film, which focuses on two days in a woman's life. The story centers around the lonely woman's creative struggles and her emotional distance from…

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  Film Screening

  Nuit et jour

  Saturday, January 31, 2009
  1:00 p.m.
  

  1991, 90 min.

  Jack is a taxi driver by night and spends his days with Julie in their Parisian flat. Julie begins an affair with Joseph, the man who drives the same taxi by day. Julie's world is…

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  Film Screening

  D'Est

  Saturday, January 31, 2009, 3:00 p.m.
  Thursday, February 12, 2009, 7:00 p.m.

  1993, 107 min.

  Often shown as a series of installations, D'Est journeys across Eastern Europe as the Soviet Union disintegrates. Akerman's images move across screen and through time, uninterrupted…

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  Free Tuesday Screening

  Gordon Matta-Clark: Food

  Tuesday, February 03, 2009
  noon
  

  Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator, media arts, SFMOMA

  This documentary program looks at a landmark collaborative project by the artist Gordon Matta-Clark that address ideas of social space evident in The Art of Participation. Food…

• Daily Video Screenings

  Style Wars

  Daily (except Wednesdays), 3:00 p.m.

  Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant, 1983, 70 min.

  This historic PBS documentary tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti (or tagging) in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The film features extensive interviews with…

• Daily Video Screenings

  Street Art — Painting the City: London, Paris, Madrid

  Daily (except Wednesdays), 4:30 p.m.

  Tate Media, 2008, 22 min.

  This film follows street artists working in London, Paris, and Madrid — including cult figures Blek Le Rat, Nano 4814, Nuria, Sweet Toof, NoNose, and Eine — as they…

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  Film Screening

  Toute une nuit

  Saturday, February 14, 2009
  1:00 p.m.
  

  1982, 90 min.

  Toute une nuit follows individuals and couples in their journeys through romance and human interaction. Through a series of vignettes with fragmented narration and minimal…

• Film Screening

  Là-bas

  Saturday, February 14, 2009
  3:00 p.m.
  

  2006, 78 min.

  In this documentary of sorts, Akerman creates a conglomerated sense of exile, voyeurism, belonging, and hope. Là-bas covers the filmmaker's time spent in a Tel Aviv…

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  Film Screening

  Sud

  Saturday, February 21, 2009
  1:00 p.m.
  

  1999, 71 min.

  Inspired by the literary works of William Faulkner, Akerman set out to make a film about the beauty of the American South. However, after arriving on location (in Jasper, Texas)…

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  Film Screening

  From the Other Side

  Saturday, February 21, 2009
  3:00 p.m.
  

  2002, 99 min.

  In this documentary, Akerman examines the dualistic nature of illegal immigration, presenting long static shots of the land on both sides of the U.S.–Mexican border and…

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  Film Screening

  Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

  Thursday, February 26, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
  Saturday, February 28, 2009, 1:00 p.m.

  1974, 201 min.

  Jeanne Dielman is Akerman's most well-known film, and it is certainly considered a masterpiece of cinema. It follows a widowed mother and housewife through three days of her life.…

• Film Screening

  Nathaniel Dorsky: Three Songs

  Thursday, March 05, 2009
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Commentary by Nathaniel Dorsky in person
  Program introduction by Bill Berkson

  The films of San Francisco-based Dorsky blend a celebration of the sensual world with a deep sense of introspection and solitude. They are occasions for reflection and meditations…

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  Film Screening

  Westworld

  Saturday, March 07, 2009
  1:00 p.m.
  

  Michael Crichton, 1973, 88 min., 16mm

  Two people travel to a high-tech amusement park and choose a Wild West adventure for their fun vacation. But the computer system that runs the parks suffers a meltdown, and a rogue…

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  Film Screening

  Logan's Run

  Saturday, March 7, 2009, 3:00 p.m.
  Thursday, March 12, 2009, 7:00 p.m.

  Michael Anderson, 1976, 120 min., 16mm

  By the year 2274, war has destroyed the surface of the earth, and the survivors seal themselves into a domed city. Logan is a police assassin whose mission is to hunt down…

• Film Screening

  Crossroads: The Films of Bruce Conner

  Thursday, March 19, 2009
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Introduced by producer Henry S. Rosenthal

  A seminal, deeply American artist, Conner (1933–2008) was a master of irony and juxtaposition. Arguably the inventor of the found-footage film genre, Conner created films…

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  Film Screening

  Soylent Green

  Saturdays, March 21 and April 4, 2009, 1:00 p.m.

  Richard Fleischer, 1973, 97 min., 16mm

  In 2022 the population of New York is starving due to fading food sources. People survive off a product called Soylent until a detective finds out the awful truth about its…

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  Film Screening

  A Clockwork Orange

  Saturday, March 21, 2009, 3:00 p.m.
  Thursday, March 26, 2009, 7:00 p.m.

  Stanley Kubrick, 1972, 136 min., 16mm

  Kubrick's film, based on the novel by Anthony Burgess, is a stunning visualization of the tale of Alex, a charming sociopath and his fellow "droogs," who revel in the…

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  Film Screening

  Fantastic Planet

  Thursday, April 2, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
  Saturday, April 4, 2009, 3:00 p.m.

  René Laloux, 1973, 72 min., 35mm
  French, with English subtitles

  This psychedelic science-fiction animation takes place on a planet where alien giants called Traags rule over the Oms, a tiny race of humanlike people. The film is a parable of…

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  Film Screening

  Stalker

  Thursday, April 9, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
  Saturday, April 11, 2009, 1:00 p.m.

  Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979, 163 min., 35mm
  Russian, with English subtitles

  The Stalker is a man with a burdensome talent: he is the only one who can lead people to an alien terrestrial place known as the Zone, an area with the potential to fulfill one's…

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  Film Screening

  Alphaville

  Thursday, April 16, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
  Saturday, April 25, 2009, 1:00 p.m.

  Jean-Luc Godard, 1965, 99 min., 35mm
  French, with English subtitles

  Private-eye Lemmy Caution travels to the outerspace city of Alphaville in search of Professor von Braun, an evil scientist who has created a computer that monitors the citizens'…

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  Film Screening

  Sleeper

  Saturday, April 18, 2009
  1:00 p.m.
  

  Woody Allen, 1973, 89 min., 35mm

  In this science-fiction comedy, an unsuspecting health-food store owner is frozen and brought back to life many years in the future and joins a rebel force to help assassinate the…

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  Film Screening

  Fahrenheit 451

  Saturday, April 18, 2009, 3:00 p.m.
  Thursday, April 23, 2009, 7:00 p.m.

  François Truffaut, 1966, 112 min., 16mm

  This adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic novel explores the extremes of censorship, centering around a society where all printed material is banned. Guy Montag, a fireman whose…

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  Film Screening

  1984

  Saturday, April 25, 2009
  3:00 p.m.
  

  Michael Radford, 1984, 113 min., 35mm

  Based on George Orwell's seminal novel, 1984 takes place in about a totalitarian superstate ruled by Big Brother. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a malcontent who illegally…

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  Film Screening

  SFMOMA Co-presents Rembrandt's J'Accuse

  Sunday, April 26, 2009
  6:30 p.m.
  

  "Just because you have eyes does not mean you can see," challenges the great director-contrarian Peter Greenaway in his new cine-essay, which reveals the mysteries hidden…

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  Film Screening

  SFMOMA Co-presents Rembrandt's J'Accuse

  Monday, April 27, 2009, 9:30 p.m.
  Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 9:15 p.m.
  

  "Just because you have eyes does not mean you can see," challenges the great director-contrarian Peter Greenaway in his new cine-essay, which reveals the mysteries hidden…

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  Film Screening

  Robert Frank Retrospective: Program 1

  Saturday, May 2, 2009, 3:00 p.m.
  Thursday, May 7, 2009, 7:00 p.m.

  Pull My Daisy, Codirected with Alfred Leslie, 1959, 28 min., 16mm
  The Sin of Jesus, 1961, 40 min., 35mm
  O.K. End Here, 1963, 30 min., 35mm
  Total running time: 98 min.

  Made with writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, and with painters Alfred Leslie, Larry Rivers, and Alice Neel, Pull My Daisy is a classic look at the soul of the beat generation.…

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  Film Screening

  Robert Frank Retrospective: Program 2

  Saturday, May 9, 3:00 p.m.
  Thursday, May 14, 7:00 p.m.

  Conversations in Vermont, 1969, 26 min., 16mm
  Life-Raft Earth, 1969, 37 min., 16mm
  About Me: A Musical, 1971, 35 min., 16mm
  Total running time: 98 min.

  Conversations in Vermont, Robert Frank's first overtly autobiographic film, is about his relationship with his children, Pablo and Andrea. Frank follows them to school (in Vermont)…

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  Film Screening

  Robert Frank Retrospective: Program 3

  Saturday, May 16, 3:00 p.m.
  Thursday, May 21, 7:00 p.m.

  Keep Busy, 1975, 30 min., 16mm
  Energy and How to Get It, 1981, 28 min., 16mm
  Home Improvements, 1985, 29 min., video
  Total running time: 87 min.

  Keep Busy is a spontaneous, improvised story of a group of people living on an island off Nova Scotia. Obsessed with daily aspects of their lives and the cycles of nature, the…

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  Film and Video Screenings

  San Francisco Art Institute MFA Screening

  Sunday, May 17, 2009
  12:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
  

  Lynn Hershman Leeson, Chair, Film Department, San Francisco Art Institute

  Long-form program at 12:30 p.m.
  Shorts program at 3:00 p.m.

  These film and video works by SFAI's newest MFA graduates demonstrate commitment to exploring and expanding the expressive potential of the moving image. From lighthearted to…

• Film Screening

  Robert Frank Retrospective: Program 4

  Saturday, May 23, 3:00 p.m.
  Thursday, June 4, 7:00 p.m.

  Hunter, 1989, 36 min., 16mm
  Last Supper, 1992, 52 min., 16mm
  Total running time: 88 min.

  In the words of Robert Frank, Hunter is about ". . . a man whose destiny is not to find a destination. . . . A man who fears that he will never find what his imagination…

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  Film Screening

  Robert Frank Retrospective: Me and My Brother

  Thursday, May 28, 7:00 p.m.
  Saturday, May 30, 1:00 p.m.

  1965–68 (re-edited 1997), 91 min., 35mm

  Frank's first feature-length film places documentary footage of poets Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, and Peter's brother Julius within a fictional framework. Constantly…

• Film Screening

  Robert Frank Retrospective: Program 5

  Saturday, June 6, 3:00 p.m.
  Thursday, June 11, 7:00 p.m.

  C'est Vrai, 1990, 60 min., video
  The Present, 1996, 24 min., video

  Total running time: 84 min.

  C'est Vrai is a one-hour trip through New York City's Lower East Side, produced on video for French television without editing the narrative. It presents a startling juxtaposition…

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  Film Screening

  Robert Frank Retrospective: Candy Mountain

  Saturday, June 13, 2009
  3:00 p.m.
  

  Codirected with Rudy Wurlitzer

  1988, 91 min., 35mm

  Cocreated with writer Rudy Wurlitzer, Candy Mountain was Frank's most widely distributed and expensive productions, and the cast includes several renowned musicians. The tale…

• Film Screening

  Robert Frank Retrospective: Program 6

  Thursday, June 18, 7:00 p.m.
  Saturday, June 20, 3:00 p.m.

  Flamingo, 1990, 7 min., video
  Moving Pictures, 1994, 16 min., color video
  I Remember, 1996, 5 min., video
  Sanyu, 1999, 27 min., 35mm
  Paper Route, 2002, 23 min., video
  Total running time: 73 min.

  Flamingo is Frank's poetic diary (with voiceover narration) recording the construction of a new foundation for his house in a remote area of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia; it silently…

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  Film Screening

  Robert Frank Retrospective: Program 7

  Thursday, June 25, 7:00 p.m.
  Saturday, June 27, 3:00 p.m.

  Run—New Order, 1989, 4 min., video
  Summer Cannibals—Patti Smith, 1996, 4 min., video
  Fernando, 2008, 12 min., video
  Tunnel, 2005, 5 min., video
  True Story, 2004, 26 min., color and black-and-white, video
  Total running time: 51 min.

  Frank made Fernando in honor of a Swiss artist friend of his who passed away.

  Tunnel was created to premiere under the Swiss Alps at an event held during final blasting through the…

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  Film Screening

  Richard Avedon Film Series: Program 1

  Thursday, July 2, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
  Saturday, July 4, 2009, 3:00 p.m.

  Black Natchez
  Edward Pincus, 1965, 61 min., video

  The Children Were Watching
  Robert Drew, 1961, 21 min., 16mm

  With a cinema verité commitment to capturing the life of the moment, Black Natchez filmmaker Pincus and sound engineer David Neuman track the embattled African American…

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  Film Screening

  Richard Avedon Film Series: Program 2

  Thursday, July 9, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
  Saturday, July 11, 2009, 3:00 p.m.

  Behind Every Good Man
  Nikolai Ursin, 1965, 8 min., 16mm

  Portrait of Jason
  Shirley Clarke, 1967, 100 min., 35mm

  Behind Every Good Man — a short from Ursin, then a film student at the University of California, Los Angeles — documents a gay African American man and his meditations…

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  Film Screening

  Richard Avedon Film Series: Program 3

  Thursday, July 16, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
  Saturday, July 18, 2009, 3:00 p.m.

  Seven Songs for Malcolm X
  John Akomfrah, 1993, 52 min., 16mm

  The Intolerable Burden
  Chea Prince, 2003, 56 min., video

  Perfect Film
  Ken Jacobs, 1986, 22 min., 16mm

  In Seven Songs for Malcolm X, archival footage is combined with interviews and re-creations to evoke the impact of Malcolm X on American politics and culture. The film includes…

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  Film Screening

  Richard Avedon Film Series: Program 4

  Thursdays, July 23 and August 6, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
  Saturday, July 25, 2009, 3:00 p.m.

  Jingle Bells
  D. A. Pennebaker, 1964, 16 min., video

  Campaign Manager
  Richard Leacock and Noel E. Parmentel Jr., 1964, 25 min., video

  You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
  D. A. Pennebaker, 1964, 12 min., video

  Lambert and Co.
  D. A. Pennebaker, 1964, 15 min., video

  A Stravinsky Portrait
  Richard Leacock and Rolf Lieberman, 1965, 58 min., video

  This program explores a multifaceted slice of the America also captured in Avedon and Baldwin's Nothing Personal. Stars like Sammy Davis Jr. and high-wattage politicians like Robert…

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  Film Screening

  Richard Avedon Film Series: Program 5

  Thursday, July 30, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
  Saturdays, August 1 and 8, 2009, 3:00 p.m.

  The Atomic Cafe
  Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty, 1982, 86 min., video

  The Family Fallout Shelter
  Edward English, ca. 1960; 14 min., 16mm

  After discovering a catalogue of U.S. government films in a San Francisco bookstore, director Pierce Rafferty worked with his co-directors Kevin Rafferty and Jayne Loader for more…

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  Film Screening

  Richard Avedon Film Series: Program 6

  Thursday, August 13, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
  Saturday, August 15, 2009, 3:00 p.m.

  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  Stanley Kubrick, 1964, 93 min., 35mm

  Released two months after John F. Kennedy's assassination, Kubrick's classic cold war satire paints the United States' political and military establishment as a chain of command…

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  Film Screening

  Richard Avedon Film Series: Program 7

  Thursday, August 20, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
  Saturday, August 22, 2009, 3:00 p.m.

  David L. Brown, filmmaker

  Bound by the Wind
  David L. Brown, 1992, 88 min., video

  Featuring celebrated scientist and Avedon subject Linus Pauling, a Nobel laureate for chemistry and recipient of the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize for his antinuclear activism, Bound by…

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  Film Screening

  Richard Avedon Film Series: Program 8

  Thursday, August 27, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
  Saturday, August 29, 2009, 3:00 p.m.

  Richard Moore, producer

  Take This Hammer
  KQED, 1964, 45 min., video

  Losing Just the Same
  KQED, 1966, 58 min., video

  A project of San Francisco State University, the San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive collects moving images chronicling the social and cultural history of the region.…

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  Free Tuesday Program

  Paul Clipson Presents Subversive Documentaries

  Tuesday, September 01, 2009
  noon
  

  Paul Clipson, filmmaker

  Las Hurdes (aka The Land Without Bread)
  Luis Buñuel, 1933, 30 min., 16mm, b/w

  Hotel des Invalides
  Georges Franju, 1952, 22 min., 35mm, b/w

  Le chant du Styrène
  Alain Resnais, 1958, 19 min., 35mm, color, cinemascope

  In this program of film shorts, experimental filmmaker (and SFMOMA's own head projectionist) Clipson screens high-art takes on low subjects. Luis Buñuel cast a surreal eye…

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  Sold Out

  Film Screening and Performance

  D Tour and Rogue Wave

  Thursday, September 03, 2009
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Jim Granato, filmmaker
  Rogue Wave, band
  Thad Povey, visuals

  2009, 99 min., DV

  San Francisco-based Granato's feature-length documentary debut, D Tour, follows musician Pat Spurgeon, drummer for the Oakland band Rogue Wave, as the group embarks on a tour.…

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  Film Screening

  Contemporary Japanese Avant-Garde Cinema

  Thursday, September 24, 2009
  7:00 p.m.
  

  This program of exciting new work by contemporary Japanese filmmakers offers engaging and complex considerations of the moving image. The meeting of traditional forms and…

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  Film Screening

  The Red Shoes

  Thursday, October 01, 2009
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1948, 133 min., new 35mm print

  A Technicolor classic based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale of magic ballet slippers whose wearer cannot stop dancing, The Red Shoes tracks a ballerina's rise to the lead role in…

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  Film Screening

  The Films of Robert Beavers

  Thursday, October 08, 2009
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Robert Beavers, filmmaker

  Beavers's films are exceptional for their visual beauty, aural texture, depth of emotional expression, and poetic sensibility. They occupy a distinct place in the history of…

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  Exhibition Spotlight and Screening

  Vincent Fecteau Selects . . .

  Thursday, October 29, 2009
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Vincent Fecteau, artist
  George Kuchar, filmmaker

  Temple of Torment, George Kuchar, 2006, 18 min., video
  Interiors, Woody Allen, 1978, 93 min., 35mm

  Fecteau exhibits nothing of his own making in his Not New Work show. Instead, the artist works against expectations and mines SFMOMA's collection for overlooked gems. In the same…

• Screening and Q&A

  Power to the Puppets: Films by Martha Colburn

  Thursday, November 05, 2009
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Martha Colburn, artist
  Frank Smigiel, associate curator, public programs, SFMOMA

  The result of a painstakingly slow and hand-driven production process, Colburn's animated films nonetheless teem with speed, their paper puppet stars running, tumbling, and falling…

• Film Screening

  Martha Colburn Selects . . .

  Saturday, November 7, 2009
  1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.

  Martha Colburn, artist

  Composition in blue
  Oscar Fischinger, 1935
  3 min., 16mm, color

  Breathdeath
  Stan Vanderbeek. 1964
  15 min., 16mm, b/w

  Leda und der Schwan (Materialaktion: Otto Muehl)
  (Leda and the Swan: An Otto Muehl Happening)
  Kurt Kren, 1964
  3 min., 16mm, color

  Breakaway
  Bruce Connor, 1966
  5 min., 16mm, b/w

  Straight and Narrow
  Tony Conrad, 1970
  10 min., 16mm, b/w

  Robot Movie
  Jim Sharpe, 1986
  3 min., 16mm, color

  
  Evolution of the Red Star
  Adam K. Beckett, 1973
  7 min., 16mm

  Soul City
  Henry Jones, 1979
  2min., 16mm, color

  Joe Dimaggio
  Anne Mcguire, 1991
  4 min., video

  Spirit
  Jem Cohen, With Patti Smith, 2009
  7 min., video

  And more TBA

  Colburn presents an afternoon of special screenings focusing on works by friends and collaborators.

• Performance

  Puppets of the Apocalypse, or Martha Colburn: Live Cinema

  Thursday, November 12, 2009
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Martha Colburn, artist
  Haleh Abghari, musician
  John Dieterich, musician
  Michael Evans, musician
  Jad Fair, musician
  Thollem McDonas, musician
  Laura Ortman, musician
  Ryan Sawyer, musician

  Long involved in experimental music scenes as both a musician and a filmmaker, Colburn has honed a live practice of multiprojector, manipulated film and music shows. As she…

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  Film Screening

  Safe

  Sunday, November 15, 2009
  1:00 p.m.
  

  Todd Haynes, 1995, 119 min., 35mm

  Set in an affluent suburb in the San Fernando Valley in 1987, Safe tracks the physical and psychological breakdown of Carol White (Julianne Moore), a housewife suffering from…

• Screening

  Freaks and Geeks

  Sunday, November 15, 2009
  3:00 p.m.
  

  James Franco, actor

  Episodes: "Tests and Breasts," "Noshing and Moshing," "Discos and Dragons"

  Franco himself selects favorite episodes of the TV show Freaks and Geeks and introduces the screening.

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  Film Screening

  Seconds

  Sunday, November 15, 2009
  6:00 p.m.
  

  John Frankenheimer, 1966, 107 min., 35mm

  Frankenheimer's riveting film unfolds as a disillusioned middle-aged business man is given the opportunity to be reborn as someone else through a mysterious organization known only…

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  Film Screening

  Erased James Franco

  Sunday, November 15, 2009
  8:00 p.m.
  

  Carter, artist
  James Franco, actor
  Frank Smigiel, associate curator of public programs, SFMOMA

  Carter, 2008, 63 min., video transfer from 16mm

  Riffing on Robert Rauschenberg's iconic Erased de Kooning Drawing (1958), multimedia artist Carter presents actor James Franco stripped of the sureties of his craft and transformed…

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  Film Screening

  Deborah Stratman: O'er the Land

  Thursday, November 19, 2009
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Deborah Stratman, filmmaker

  Stratman's epic film O'er the Land channels the dark side of the American psyche, presenting a savagely poetic meditation on the contemporary culture of violence and patriotism by…

• Free Tuesday Program

  Postwar Japanese Films

  Tuesday, December 01, 2009
  noon
  

  Navel and A-Bomb (Heso to genbaku), Eikoh Hosoe, 1960, 12 mins., DVD
  Shinjuku, 1973, 25 pm, Daido Moriyama, 17 mins., DVD
  Me holding a gun: For Andy Warhol, Yasumasa Morimura, 1998, 3 mins., DVD
  Seasons of Passion / A Requiem: Mishima, Yasumasa Morimura, 2006, DVD

  This program of short films offers a rare opportunity to view experimental Japanese films and videos created since 1960. Presented in conjunction with The Provoke Era: Postwar…