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Free Tuesday ScreeningRocky
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Tuesday, January 05, 2010
noon
John G. Avildsen, 1976, 119 min., 35mm
This 1970s classic follows its title character, Rocky Balboa, a struggling small-time boxer, as he makes a go at the big time. When given a chance at a professional fight with…
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Film ScreeningRussian Ark
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Thursday, January 07, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Alexander Sokurov, 2002, 96 min., 35mm
In Russian with English subtitles.Considered Sokurov's finest film, Russian Ark tells a three-hundred-year Russian history within the confines of the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Renowned for…
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Film ScreeningHow to Steal a Million
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
7:00 p.m.
William Wyler, 1966, 123 min., 35mm
In this museum heist film with a twist, Nicole must steal Cellini's Venus from a prestigious Paris museum to avoid its being revealed as a forgery made by her grandfather. She is…
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Special ScreeningAn Evening with the Prelinger Archive: Know Your World
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Rick Prelinger, archivist, writer, filmmaker, and founder, Prelinger Archives
Beginning in 1943, SFMOMA presented hundreds of now mostly forgotten films in a seven-year-long series called Know Your World. Drawing from art films, government propaganda,…
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Film ScreeningDressed to Kill
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Brian De Palma, 1980, 105 min., 35mm
De Palma's film weaves a macabre tapestry of horror, mystery, and suspense centered around the brutal murder of a sexually frustrated New York City housewife (Angie Dickinson)…
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Film ScreeningThe Europeans: Creating a Context
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
7:00 p.m.
The Smiling Madame Beudet, Germaine Dulac, 1922, 35 min., 16mm
Study No. 7, Oskar Fischinger, 1931, 3 min., 16mm
Rain, Joris Ivens, 1929, 15 min., 35mm
Composition in Blue, Oskar Fischinger, 1935, 4 min., 35mm
Carmen, Lotte Reiniger, 1932, 11 min., 16mm
A Colour Box, Len Lye, 1935, 5 min., 35mm
The Vampire, Jean Painlevé, 1945, 9 min., 35mm with English subtitles
Swinging the Lambeth Walk, Len Lye, 1940, 3 min., 35mm
Curated by Scott MacDonald, film historian
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Film ScreeningSome American Experiments
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Thursday, February 18, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Gertie the Dinosaur, Winsor McCay, 1914, 9 min., 16mm
Le retour à la raison, Man Ray, 1923, 5 min., 16mm
Steamboat Willie, Ub Iwerks/Disney Studio, 1928, 5 min., 16mm
The River, Pare Lorentz, 1937, 30 min., 16mm
Ritual in Transfigured Time, Maya Deren, 1946, 15 min., 16mm
Light Reflections, Jim Davis, 1949, 15 min., 16mm
The Bells of Atlantis, Ian Hugo, 1953, 9 min., 16mm
Zig Zag, Frank Stauffacher, 1948, 8 min., 16mm
Curated by Scott MacDonald, film historian
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Film ScreeningThe Bay Area Arrives
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Zig Zag, Frank Stauffacher, 1948, 8 min., 16mm
Mother's Day, James Broughton, 1948, 23 min., 16mm
No. 2 and No. 3, Harry Smith, 1947, 5 min., 16mm
Sausalito, Frank Stauffacher, 1949, 10 min., 16mm
Lead Shoes, Sidney Peterson, 1949, 17 min., 16mm
Notes on the Port of St. Francis, Frank Stauffacher, 1952, 20 min., 16mm
Mandala, Jordan Belson, 1953, 7 min., 16mm
Allures, Jordan Belson, 1961, 8 min., 16mm
Curated by Scott MacDonald, film historian
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Free Tuesday ProgramOn Film at SFMOMA: 75 Years in the Dark
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Tuesday, March 02, 2010
noon
Dominic Willsdon, Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Programs, SFMOMA
Notes on the Port of St. Francis, Frank Stauffacher, 1952, 20 min., 16mm
Zig Zag, Frank Stauffacher, 1948, 8 min., 16mmIn 1937, SFMOMA's first director, Grace McCann Morley, set up a screen and some chairs in the rotunda of the War Memorial Veterans Building (the museum's first home) and showed…
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Film ScreeningMaterial and Illusion
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Thursday, March 04, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Introduction by Steve Anker, Dean Film/Video, CAL ARTS
Arnulf Rainer, Peter Kubelka, 1958-60, 6.5 min., 16mm
Mothlight, Stan Brakhage, 1963, 4 min., 16mm
A Man And His Dog Out For Air, Robert Breer, 1957, 3 min., 16mm
Colour Flight, Len Lye, 1938, 4 min., 16mm
Surfacing On The Thames, David Rimmer, 1970, 8 min., 16mm
Reverberation, Ernie Gehr, 1969, 23 min., 16mm
Castro Street, Bruce Baillie, 1966, 10 min., 16mm
Saugus Series, Pat O'Neill, 1974, 18 min., 16mm
A Study In Choreography For Camera, Maya Deren, 1945, 3 min., 16mm
Take The 5:10 To Dreamland, Bruce Conner, 1977, 6 min., 16mm
Frame Line, Gunvor Nelson, 1984, 22 min., 16mmTotal running time: 107 min.
This survey primarily features non-local, avant-garde artists (Bay Area filmmakers will be the focus of a major Pacific Film Archive and S.F. Cinematheque series in fall 2010).…
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Film ScreeningBush Mama
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Water Ritual #1: An Urban Rite of Purification, Barbara McCullough, 1979, 4 min., DVD
Bush Mama, Haile Gerima, 1976, 97 min., 16mm
Introduction by Billy Woodberry, filmmaker
Curated by Bérénice Reynaud and Irina LeimbacherEthiopian-born Haile Gerima was not yet 30 when he completed Bush Mama, an early manifesto of the "Los Angeles Rebellion" of black filmmakers who were influenced by…
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Film ScreeningPoetry Meets Politics: The Essay — Chris Marker's Le joli mai
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Thursday, April 01, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Le joli mai, Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme, 1963, 123 min., 16mm
Curated, presented and introduced by Irina LeimbacherPresented at the museum in May 1976, Le joli mai is one of Chris Marker's great but lesser-known essay films. Mixing voice-over commentary with a series of interviews with Parisians…
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Exhibition Spotlight ScreeningStreets of San Francisco: Filmic Journeys
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Thursday, April 08, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator of media arts, SFMOMA
Visions of a City, Lawrence Jordan, 1957/78, 8 min., 16mm
North Beach, Henry Hills, 1978, 12 min., 16mm
Motel L, Dean Snider, 1981, 2.5 min., 16mm
Secrets from the Street: No Disclosure, Martha Rosler, 1980, 12.2 min., DVD
Following an Orange, Felipe Dulzaides, 1999, 1.4 min., DVD
Woodward's Gardens, Katherin McInnis, 2007, 10 min., mini-DV
Untitled No. 4, Greg Sharits, ca. 1975, 9.5 min., R8mmTotal running time: 56 min.
Throughout the 75th anniversary exhibitions, artists take up San Francisco's cityscapes as subject and muse. This program of experimental films and videos from the late 1950s to…
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Film ScreeningPortraits of Women Program 1
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Thursday, May 06, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Zanan-e bedun-e mardan (Women without Men), Shirin Neshat, 2009, 95 min., 35mm
In Farsi with English subtitles.Neshat's first feature film, derived from Shahrnush Parsipur's novel published immediately after the 1979 revolution in Iran, portrays the lives of three women who choose to seize…
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Film ScreeningPortraits of Women Program 2
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Office Killer, Cindy Sherman, 1997, 82 min., 35mm
Sherman's photographic work is rooted in cinema: her careful staging of self-portraits that evoke stereotypical images of women also addresses issues of transformation, fantasy,…
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Special ScreeningTransitions: San Francisco Art Institute MFA Films
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Sunday, May 16, 2010
4:00 p.m.
The San Francisco Art Institute presents a wideranging selection of films and videos created by this year's graduating master of fine arts students. SFAI's 2010 class of emerging…
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Film ScreeningPortraits of Women, Program 3
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Pepperminta, Pipilotti Rist, 2009, 80 min., 35mm
In German with English subtitles.Rist's first name is a conflation of her given name, Charlotte, and that of Pippi Longstocking, a feisty children's book character who has been a longtime inspiration for the…
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Film ScreeningCalifornia Highs, California Lows Program 1
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Thursday, May 27, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Bucky (episodes 1 and 2), Paul Clipson and Adam Heavenrich, 1996-98, 2 min. each, 8mm
Model Shop, Jacques Demy, 1969, 97 min., 35mmDirector Demy's only American film, Model Shop tracks a day in the life of Los Angeles native George Matthews (Gary Lockwood). Unemployed and unhappy in love, George's bleak future…
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Free Tuesday Film ScreeningHardcore
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010, noon and 12:30 p.m.
Hardcore, Walter De Maria, 1969, 28 min.
Hardcore was made in the spirit of cinematographic experimentation. Director De Maria, who also composed the film's soundtrack, explores video as a medium for aesthetic observation…
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Film ScreeningCalifornia Highs, California Lows Program 2
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Thursday, June 03, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Bucky (episodes 1 through 6), Paul Clipson and Adam Heavenrich, 1996 - 98, 2 min. each, 8mm
East Coast, West Coast, Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, 1969, 22 min., digital video
Man With a Gun, Railroad, and Food for Working, Reece Camp Carter, 2010, 12 min., video
Gas Station, Robert Morris, 1969, 33 min., 16mmIn East Coast, West Coast, earthwork artists and real-life couple Holt and Smithson play-act as cliché East and West Coast artists. Holt argues for pragmatic, systematic…
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Film ScreeningCalifornia Highs, California Lows Program 3
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Thursday, June 10, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Bucky (episodes 3 and 4), Paul Clipson and Adam Heavenrich, 1996-98, 2 min. each, 8mm
Play Misty for Me, Clint Eastwood, 1971, 102 min., 35mmAgainst the backdrop of California's beautiful Carmel-by-the-Sea, radio disc jockey Dave Garver (Clint Eastwood) faces the unforeseen repercussions of a one-night stand with a…
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Film ScreeningCalifornia Highs, California Lows Program 4
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Thursday, June 24, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Bucky (episodes 5 and 6), Paul Clipson and Adam Heavenrich, 1996-98, 2 min. each, 8mm
The Cool School, Morgan Neville, 2008, 86 min., digital videoThe Cool School traces the emergence of Los Angeles' artistic avant-garde during the mid-20th century. Artists such as Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, and Frank Gehry were inspired by…
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Film ScreeningA Portrait of the Artist, or Fisher-Inspired Films: Program 1
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Thursday, July 01, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Dreams That Money Can Buy
Hans Richter, 1946, 96 min., 16mmIt took Richter three years to complete Dreams That Money Can Buy while teaching at the Institute of Film Techniques at the City College of New York. The result is a blockbuster of…
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Film ScreeningA Portrait of the Artist, or Fisher-Inspired Films: Program 2
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Thursday, July 08, 2010
7:00 p.m.
The Chelsea Girls
Andy Warhol, 1965, 200 min., 16mmThis art-house classic, Warhol's most commercially successful film, features 16mm films projected split screen with a single audio track. In choreographed scenarios at the Chelsea…
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Film ScreeningA Portrait of the Artist, or Fisher-Inspired Films: Program 3
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
7:00 p.m.
A Bigger Splash
Jack Hazan, 1974, 105 min., 16mmIn this hybrid of documentary and fictional filmmaking, actors play themselves in situations that may or may not have occurred in real life. Originally banned for its homosexual…
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Film ScreeningA Portrait of the Artist, or Fisher-Inspired Films: Program 4
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Gabriel
Agnes Martin, 1976, 72 min., DVDIn this rarely screened film directed by Martin, the artist delves into a theme that has long predominated in her paintings: nature. With no dialogue, the camera follows a young…
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Film ScreeningA Portrait of the Artist, or Fisher-Inspired Films: Program 5
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Thursday, August 05, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Part 1 of the Louise Bourgeois Trilogy
Agnes Martin: With My Back to the World
Mary Lance, 2002, 57 min., DVDChère Louise
Brigitte Cornand, 1995, 50 min., videoIn French with English subtitles.
Martin was in the final decade of her life when Mary Lance began interviewing her for Agnes Martin. The sole figure in the film, Martin reflects on her philosophy, inspiration,…
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Film ScreeningA Portrait of the Artist, or Fisher-Inspired Films: Program 6
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Part 2 of the Louise Bourgeois Trilogy
La Rivière Gentille
Brigitte Cornand, 2007, 100 min., videoCornand introduces the screening.
In French with English subtitles.La Rivière Gentille is an unusual narrative biography of Bourgeois. Complementing excerpts from diaries Bourgeois had kept since 1923, Cornand captures understated…
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Film ScreeningA Portrait of the Artist, or Fisher-Inspired Films: Program 7
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Part 3 of the Louise Bourgeois Trilogy
The Whispers of the Whistling Water
Brigitte Cornand, 2004, 92 min., videoIn French with English subtitles.
Ninety-one years old when this film was made, Bourgeois recalls her inspirations and family history while providing a tour of her deeply personal artworks. The film follows her on…
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Film ScreeningDaft Punk on Screen
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Thursday, September 02, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Introduced by Megan Brian, education and public programs coordinator, SFMOMA
Electroma, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo, 2006, 74 min, 35mm.
The directorial debut of electronic music duo Daft Punk (Bangalter and De Homem-Christo), Electroma is the cinematographically stunning chronicle of two robots on a quest to become…
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Film ScreeningReturn to Canyon
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Anticipated guests: Bruce Baillie, Lawrence Jordan, and Robert Nelson
On a summer day in 1961, in the East Bay community of Canyon, California, filmmaker Baillie shined a light on a bedsheet screen and Canyon Cinema was born. Over the years,…
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Sound and Film PerformancePaul Clipson Presents THE ELEMENTS
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Paul Clipson, filmmaker
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and Portraits, musiciansAn evening of multidimensional film, sound, and live performance, featuring short films by Clipson. Clipson's largely improvised, in-camera-edited Super-8mm films often employ…
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Free Tuesday ScreeningCity Symphonies
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Tuesday, October 05, 2010
noon
Manhatta, Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand, 1921, 6 min., 16mm
Berliner Stilleben, László Moholy-Nagy, 1931, 9 min., DVD
Under the Brooklyn Bridge, Rudy Burckhardt, 1955, 15 min., 16mm
San Francisco, Anthony Stern, 1968, 5 min., 16mmCity symphonies are cinematic events that evoke urban space and pace through kaleidoscopic imagery and dynamic visual rhythm. Sheeler and Strand's Manhatta is a quintessential…
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Film ScreeningJordan Belson: Films Sacred and Profane
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Introduced by Cindy Keefer, archivist and curator, Center for Visual Music
Since 1947, Bay Area artist Belson has explored consciousness, transcendence, and light in an extraordinary body of abstract films that has been called "cosmic cinema."…
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Halloween ScreeningWitches!
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Thursday, October 28, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Introduced by Gina Basso, public programs associate, SFMOMA
Season of the Witch, George Romero, 1973, 85 min., 35mm
Suspiria, Dario Argento, 1977, 92 min., 35mmStart the Halloween weekend early with this bewitching double feature of rarely screened 1970s horror classics. In Season of the Witch Romero brings us the engrossing tale of a…
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Film ScreeningBay Area Ecstatic
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Introduced by Brecht Andersch, filmmaker and historian
Triptych in Four Parts, Lawrence Jordan, 1958, 12 min., 16mm
Chinese Firedrill, Will Hindle, 1968, 25 min., 16mm
Filmpiece for Sunshine, John Luther Schofill, 1968, 23 min., 16mm
Invocation of My Demon Brother, Kenneth Anger, 1969, 11 min., 16mm
Looking for Mushrooms (short version), Bruce Conner, 1959-1967, 3 min., 16mm
The Crossing, Timoleon Wilkins, 2007, 7 min., 16mm
Firepage, Bruce Cooper, 1991, 3 min., 16mm
Retrospectroscope, Kerry Laitala, 1997, 5 min., 16mmThe San Francisco Bay Area has for decades been the epicenter of a branch of mystically inclined experimental filmmaking that seeks to induce ecstasy in viewers. Andersch conceived…
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