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Film Screening and DiscussionA Fire in My Belly
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Tuesday, January 04, 2011
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Rudy Lemcke, artist
Rudolf Frieling, Curator of Media Arts, SFMOMA
Dominic Willsdon, Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Programs, SFMOMADavid Wojnarowicz, A Fire in My Belly, 1986-87, 13 min.
David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) was a New York-based artist and AIDS activist whose work was famously targeted as obscene in the late 1980s and early 1990s by Jesse Helms and the…
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Film ScreeningCinemania
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Thursday, January 06, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Introduced by Stella Lochman, education and public programs assistant, SFMOMA
Angela Christlieb and Stephen Kijak, 2002, 83 min., video
Christlieb and Kijak's engaging documentary dives deep into the culture of cinephilia by examining the lives of five extreme movie fans in New York. "Film is a form of…
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Film ScreeningHenri Cartier-Bresson and the Spanish Civil War: Program 1
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Victoire de la vie, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Herbert Kline, 1937, 47 min., video
L'Espagne vivra, Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1938, 44 min., video
With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Herbert Kline, 1938, 21 min., videoThese films evidence Cartier-Bresson's committed support for the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War. The photographer's first foray into motion pictures, Victoire de la vie…
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Film ScreeningHenri Cartier-Bresson and the Spanish Civil War: Program 2
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Thursday, January 27, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Introduced by Peter N. Carroll, Chair Emeritus, Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, Lecturer of History, Stanford University
Le retour, Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1944-45, 33 min., video
The Spanish Earth, Joris Ivens, 1936, 52 min., 16mm
Guernica, Alain Resnais and Robert Hessens, 1950, 13 min., 35mmMade at the end of World War II, Le retour (The Return) follows the repatriation of former prisoners of war — like Cartier-Bresson himself, who escaped from a Nazi labor camp…
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Free Tuesday ScreeningVoyeurism and Early Cinema
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Tuesday, February 01, 2011
noon
With the emergence of the moving picture in the late nineteenth century, the theater quickly became a new space for voyeurism and cinema became a vehicle for exhibitionism —…
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Film ScreeningThe Continuing Story of Carel and Ferd
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Thursday, February 03, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Arthur Ginsberg, filmmaker
Introduced by Rudolf Frieling, curator of media arts, SFMOMAArthur Ginsberg with Video Free America, 1970-75, 58 min., video
A tribute to exhibitionism and experimental living, this fascinating televised reunion chronicles several years in the lives of Carel, a porn actress, and Ferd, a drug addict.…
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Film ScreeningSurveillance Then and Now
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
7:00 p.m.
How Little We Know of Our Neighbors, Rebecca Baron, 2005, 49 min., video
Il finish delle figure (Photofinish Figures), Paolo Gioli, 2009, 9 min., 16mm
Posers, Scott Stark, 2000, 12 min., videoMass Observation was an astonishing long-term social research project founded in Great Britain in 1937 by a small collective of creative anthropologists, writers, photographers,…
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Artist Talk and ScreeningWilliam E. Jones
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
7:00 p.m.
William E. Jones, artist
Introduced by Rudolf Frieling, curator of media arts, SFMOMAOver the last two decades, Jones has appropriated films, videos, and photographs in an ongoing examination and subtle subversion of the relationships among images, social control,…
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Film ScreeningThe Nude Restaurant
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Thursday, March 03, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Andy Warhol, 1967, 100 min., 16mm
Warhol's typically apt title says it all: The Nude Restaurant is 100 minutes of footage of naked (unless a G-string counts as clothing) male restaurant patrons and one female…
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Film ScreeningsThe Ethical Camera
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Friday, March 4, 2011
7:00 p.m. Medium Cool
9:30 p.m. Blow UpIntroduced by Haskell Wexler
Medium Cool, Haskell Wexler, 1969, 111 min., 35mm
Blow Up, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966, 111 min., 35mmMedium Cool
Notable for its cinema verité style, this 1969 film by Haskell Wexler mixes fictional and nonfictional content to poignantly illustrate the great social tension…
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Film ScreeningsKids on the Boundaries
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Saturday, March 5, 2011
5:00 p.m. Deep End
7:00 p.m. Streetwise
9:00 p.m. Pretty BabyDeep End, Jerzy Skomilowski, 1970, 90 min., 35mm
Streetwise, Martin Bell, 1984, 91 min., HD video, director's restored version
Pretty Baby, Louis Malle, 1978, 110 min., 35mmDeep End
Set in the suburbs of London in the 1960s, Skomilowski's film follows Mike, a fifteen year old dropout who finds a job at a public bath house. Over the course of his…
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Film ScreeningsDouble Exposure
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Sunday, March 06, 2011
5:00 p.m. Anita — Tanze des lasters
7:00 p.m. Lost HighwayAnita — Tanze des lasters (Anita — Dances of Vice), Rosa von Praunheim, 1987, 89 min., Beta SP
Lost Highway, David Lynch, 1997, 135 min., 35mmAnita – Tänze des lasters (Anita – Dances of Vice)
von Praunheim's film celebrates the legend of Anita Berber, the notorious German dancer whose nude…
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Film ScreeningDouble Blind
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Thursday, March 10, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Sophie Calle and Gregory Shephard, 1992, 76 min., video
In this unconventional road trip movie, French conceptual artist Calle heads west with her lover/collaborator Shephard in his Cadillac convertible. Camcorders in hand, they each…
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Film ScreeningLuke Fowler's A Grammar for Listening (Parts 1-3)
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Introduced by Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator of media arts, SFMOMA
Luke Fowler, 2009, 60 min., three 16mm films
In conjunction with Bill Fontana: Sonic Shadows, this program expands on a history of sound artists and musicians exploring ambient noise, environmental sound, and field recording.…
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SF Cinematheque ScreeningIn Search of Christopher Maclaine: Man, Artist, Legend
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Wilder Bentley II, actor
Lawrence Jordan, filmmaker
Curated and presented by Brecht AnderschThe End, Christopher Maclaine, 1953, 35 min., 16mm
The Man Who Invented Gold, Christopher Maclaine, 1957, 14 min., 16mm
Beat, Christopher Maclaine, 1958, 6 min., 16mm
Scotch Hop, Christopher Maclaine, 1959, 5.5 min., 16mm
Sausalito, Frank Stauffacher, 1949, 10 min., 16mm
Trumpit, Lawrence Jordan, 1956, 6 min., 16mm
Moods in Motion, Ettilie Wallace, 1954, 5 min., 16mmThe four films San Francisco Beat poet Maclaine made in the 1950s have had an incalculable impact on the language of cinema. Entwining the ecstatic with the absurd, these works…
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Film ScreeningJerzy Grotowski Workcenter Films
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Introduced by Mario Biagini, Associate Director of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards
The Constant Prince by Jerzy Grotowski: Reconstruction, Ferruccio Marotti, 2005, 48 min., video
Action in Aya Irini, Jacques Vetter, 2004, 70 min., videoGranting primacy to the actor-audience relationship and, above all, to the actor's performance, Polish director Grotowski pioneered a stripped-down, metaphysical style of theater.…
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SF International Film Festival ScreeningThe Mill and The Cross
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Saturday, April 23, 2011
12:30 p.m.
The Mill and The Cross, Lech Majewski, 2011, 97 min., video
At once a detailed social history of 16th-century Flemish life and a keen study of the artistic imagination, Lech Majewski's The Mill and the Cross brings to life before our eyes The…
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SF International Film Festival Screening!Women Art Revolution
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Saturday, April 23, 2011
3:00 p.m.
Lynn Hershman Leeson
!Women Art Revolution, Lynn Hershman Leeson, 2010, 83 min., 35mm
Feminist artists in the late 1960s and 1970s took on the old-boy art establishment in an all-out WAR: Women Art Revolution. Lynn Hershman Leeson was there with her camera and in 40…
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SF Cinematheque ScreeningSan Francisco Cinematheque: 50 Years
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Thursday, May 12, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Crossroads is SF Cinematheque's annual film festival showcasing avant-garde works from emerging and established filmmakers. This year's festival opens with the culminating…
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Screening2011 San Francisco Art Institute MFA Screening
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Friday, May 13, 2011
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
The San Francisco Art Institute presents films and videos by current and graduating master of fine arts students. Inspired by the reading "Po: Splitting Apart" from the…
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Film ScreeningThe Sun Also Rises
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Thursday, June 09, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Henry King, 1957, 130 min., 35mm
King's 1957 interpretation of Ernest Hemingway's novel illuminates the condition and characteristics of post-World War I expatriates in Paris, dubbed "The Lost…
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Film ScreeningThe Moderns
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Thursday, June 16, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Alan Rudolph, 1988, 126 min., 35mm
The Moderns follows Nick Hart, a struggling painter at the center of the expatriate culture of 1920s Paris, as he navigates the Left Bank milieu. From cafe conversations to sordid…
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Film ScreeningI Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Hy Averback, 1968, 92 min., video
Averback's 1968 film stars Peter Sellers as Harold Fine, an uptight lawyer who is uninspired with approaching middle age and his upcoming nuptials. Harold's life is changed forever…
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Film ScreeningThe Virgin Machine
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Thursday, June 30, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Monika Treut, 1988, 84 min., 16mm
With a nod to The Wizard of Oz, German journalist Dorothee (Ina Blum) writes about the perils of finding love. Her research takes her from Germany deep into San Francisco's lesbian…
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Film ScreeningThe Roe's Room (Pokoj saren)
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Thursday, July 14, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Lech Majewski, 1997, 90 min., video
In Polish with electronic libretto in English (subtitles).A young poet living with his family in a cramped, urban apartment meditates on the cycle of life as the interior space around him morphs through the cycle of seasons in this opera…
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Film ScreeningDiva
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Thursday, July 21, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1981, 117 min., 35mm
In French with English subtitles.In this film, a young postman with a passion for opera makes a bootleg of a performance by his favorite diva, a celebrated African American soprano who refuses to make recordings.…
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Film ScreeningThe Future
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Thursday, July 28, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Miranda July, filmmaker
Miranda July, 2011, 91 min., 35mm
The Future tells the story of a 30-something couple who, on deciding to adopt a stray cat, change their perspectives on life, altering the course of time and testing their faith in…
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Film Screening + PerformanceCarmen Jones
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Thursday, August 04, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Introduction and pre-screening performance by Kalup Linzy
Otto Preminger, 1954, 105 min., 35mm
Preminger's Carmen Jones sticks closely to the original score of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen, though the cast, lyrics, and story are modernized in surprising ways: the events are…
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Film ScreeningTommy
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Thursday, August 25, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Ken Russell, 1975, 100 min., 35mm
Its conceit is familiar by now: a deaf, dumb, and blind kid plays a mean pinball. Yet Russell's phantasmagoric realization of The Who's rock opera album is wholly unexpected.…
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San Francisco Cinematheque ScreeningLiving in the World: Films by Helga Fanderl
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Working exclusively with Super-8 film since the late 1980s, Fanderl is a master of cinematic duration and the in-camera edit. Each of her more than 700 short films is a small…
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Film ScreeningQuick Billy
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Bruce Baillie, filmmaker
Bruce Baillie, Quick Billy, 1967-70, 60 min., 16mm
Canyon Cinema celebrates the 50th anniversary of its founding by presenting the newly restored version of Quick Billy by Baillie. Also presented will be a rare screening of…
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Film ScreeningSharon Lockhart: Double Tide
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Sharon Lockhart, artist
Rudolf Frieling, curator of media arts, SFMOMASharon Lockhart, Double Tide, 2009, 16mm transferred to HD, color, sound, 93 min.
Lockhart is known for a formal approach to film and photography that reveals the overlap and limitations of the two mediums. She focuses on the everyday with an ethnographer's eye…
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Film ScreeningRichard Serra Films—Early Works
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Tuesday, November 01, 2011
noon
Introduced by Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator of media arts, SFMOMA
Primarily known for his sculptures, Serra also has worked in film. This screening showcases his early experimental works, including his first film, Hand Catching Lead (1968), which…
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Film ScreeningTacita Dean's Craneway Event
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Tacita Dean, 2009, 108 min., 16mm
Artist Dean offers a film portrait of late choreographer Merce Cunningham as he leads his dancers in three days of rehearsal for one of his dance "events" in the former…
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