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Free Tuesday ScreeningBay Area Lens: SECA Film Awards
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Tuesday, January 03, 2012
noon
Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator of media arts, SFMOMA
Tanya Zimbardo introduces a program of films culled from the SECA Film as Art Awards, which ran from 1973 to 1998, and discusses the role of the awards in relation to the museum's…
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Film ScreeningSharon Lockhart Films: Program 1
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Thursday, January 05, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Pine Flat, Sharon Lockhart, 2005, 135 min., 16mm
Filmed over the course of three years in the Sierra Nevada foothills, Pine Flat explores the interactions of children with their local surroundings. A quiet intimacy between camera…
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Film ScreeningSharon Lockhart Films: Program 2
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Podworka, Sharon Lockhart, 2009, 31 min., video
No, Sharon Lockhart, 2003, 34 min., 16mmPodworka observes children in Lodz, Poland, as they transform parking lots, storage units, and other abandoned urban structures into centers of play. Views of a cold and…
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Film ScreeningLuminaries: SECA Film Awards
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator of media arts, SFMOMA
VALSE TRISTE, Bruce Conner, 1978, 6 min., 16mm
Testament, James Broughton, 1974, 20 min., 16mm
Vital Signs, Barbara Hammer, 1991, 10 min., 16mm
Decodings, Michael Wallin, 1988, 15 min., 16mm
Frame Line, Gunvor Nelson, 1984, 22 min., 16mm
Total running time: 73 min.In tribute to the Bay Area's role as an epicenter of experimental film, this program centers on constructing autobiography. The selection of films is drawn from SFMOMA's SECA Film…
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San Francisco Cinematheque ScreeningOn Photography: Elisabeth Subrin's The Fancy
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
7:00 p.m.
The Fancy, Elisabeth Subrin, 2000, 36 min., video
In conjunction with the exhibition Francesca Woodman, SF Cinematheque presents Subrin's oblique portrait of the late photographer. Based on explorations of places where the artist…
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Film ScreeningPanorama
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator of media arts, SFMOMA
Mel Henderson (with Joe Hawley and Alfred Young), Yellow Cabs, 1969, 16mm transfer to video, 7:30 min.
Will Rogan, Sweeter as the years roll by (part 3), 2003, video, color, sound, 1:45 min.
Michael Rudnick, Panorama, 1982, 16mm, color, sound, 13 min.
D-L Alvarez, Sentry, 2007, video, b&w, sound, 4:36 min.
William Allan (with Bruce Nauman and Robert Nelson), Fishing for Asian Carp, 1966, 16mm, color, sound, 2:30 min.
Kota Ezawa, Home Video 2, 2010, video, color, sound, 5:57 min.
Shaun O'Dell, Silent Tree Liftoff, 2003, video, color, silent, min.
Dennis "Sky" David Pies, Sonoma, 1974-77, 16mm, color, sound, 6:12 min.
Desirée Holman, Troglodyte, 2005, video, color, sound, 7 min.
This screening brings together short contemporary and historic film and video works by artists affiliated with either SFMOMA's SECA Film As Art Award series or its ongoing SECA Art…
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Film ScreeningUn Banquete en Tetlapayac (A Banquet at Tetlapayac)
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Introduced by Dominic Willsdon, Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Programs, SFMOMA
Olivier Debroise, 2000, 110 min., video
Un Banquete en Tetlapayac is Debroise's contemporary reenactment of the events surrounding the filming of director Sergei Eisenstein's Que Viva Mexico (1931). Eisenstein's…
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San Francisco Cinematheque ScreeningTexts of Light: A Mid-career Retrospective of 14 Films by David Gatten
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Thursday, April 05, 2012
7:00 p.m.
David Gatten, filmmaker
Four Films Toward Part V of Secret History of the Dividing Line, A True Account in Nine Parts
For 15 years David Gatten has explored the intersection of the printed word and the moving image. His work illuminates an array of historical, conceptual, and material concerns…
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SF International Film Festival ScreeningMarina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present
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Saturday, April 21,2012, 4:15 p.m. Kabuki
Saturday, April 28,2012, 3:30 p.m. Kabuki
Sunday, April 29,2012, 5:40 p.m. PFAMatthew Akers, 2011, 105 min.
See the many selves of artist Marina Abramovic, the self-described "grandmother of performance art," in this handsome, persuasive documentary that frames her celebrated…
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Free Tuesday ProgramBuckminster Fuller Meets the Hippies in Golden Gate Park
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Tuesday, May 01, 2012
noon
Sam Green, filmmaker
Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, assistant curator of architecture and design, SFMOMA1967, 44 min., video
This film, by an unknown director, eavesdrops on a conversation between Fuller and a group of people assembled on Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park. Taking place at the height of the…
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Live CinemaThe Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller
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7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.
SOLD OUT
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Sam Green presents the world premiere of his "live documentary" on Buckminster Fuller. The piece is a follow-up to his internationally…
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SF Cinematheque ScreeningGregory J. Markopoulos's Galaxie
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
7:00 p.m.
In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H. Auden, Jasper Johns, Susan…
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Film ScreeningSan Francisco Art Institute MFA Screening
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Friday, May 11, 2012
1:00 p.m.
The San Francisco Art Institute presents a program of films and videos created by students in the master of fine arts film program. Steeped in an avant-garde tradition, SFAI's…
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Film ScreeningAmerican Teacher
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Nínive Calegari, co-producer
Brian McGinn and Vanessa Roth, 2011, 81 min., video
Chronicling the lives and sacrifices of four public school teachers, American Teacher highlights an urgent crisis in the American educational system: how little we value our…
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Film ScreeningViva Photofilm
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Friday, May 18, 2012
4:00 p.m.
Gusztáv Hámos, curator
La Jetée (The Jetty), Chris Marker, 1962, 35mm, 28 min.
Der Fischmarkt und die Fische (The Fishmarket and the Fish), Leonore Mau and Hubert Fichte, 1968, Beta SP, 9 min.
Beshin Lug (Beshin Meadow), Sergei Eisenstein, 1935/67, 35mm, 30 min.
Fremdkörper (Transposed Bodies), Katja Pratschke and Gusztáv Hámos, 2002, 35mm, 28 min.Featuring a wide range of work spanning several decades, Viva Photofilm looks at how photographs, when placed in a cinematic context, can create a filmic experience. Photofilms…
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Film ScreeningDescriptive Acts
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Jeanne C. Finley, artist and filmmaker
Rudolf Frieling, curator of media arts, SFMOMAThis screening adds historic perspective to Descriptive Acts by showcasing seminal narrative experiments made between 1975 and 1992. John Smith's early linguistic research in …
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Film ScreeningTen Minutes Older: The Cello
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Thursday, June 07, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Ten Minutes Older, Herz Frank, 1978, 10 min., video
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello, Bernardo Bertolucci, Claire Denis, Mike Figgis, Jean-Luc Godard, Jirí Menzel, Michael Radford, Volker Schlöndorff, and István Szabó, 2002, 95 min., videoIn 1978 Herz Frank released the now-classic film Ten Minutes Older, which consists of a single shot of a child watching a puppet show. In a short time, viewers witness a dramatic…
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Film ScreeningTen Minutes Older: The Trumpet
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Thursday, June 14, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Ten Minutes Older, Herz Frank, 1978, 10 min., video
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet, Víctor Erice, Werner Herzog, Jim Jarmusch, Kaige Chen, Aki Kaurismäki, Spike Lee, Wim Wenders, 2002, 92 min., videoIn 1978 Herz Frank released the now-classic film Ten Minutes Older, which consists of a single shot of a child watching a puppet show. In a short time, viewers witness a dramatic…
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Film ScreeningFuturist Life Redux and New Skin for the Old Ceremony
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Thursday, June 21, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Futurist Life Redux, Trisha Baga, chameckilerner, Martha Colburn, Ben Coonley, George Kuchar, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Shana Moulton, Shannon Plumb, Aida Ruilova, Matthew Silver and Shoval Zohar, and Michael Smith, 2009, 46 min., video
New Skin for the Old Ceremony, Theo Angell, Peter Coffin, Weston Currie, Alex Da Corte, Brent Green, Christian Holstad, Sylvan and Lily Lanken, Lucky Dragons, Brett Milspaw, Kelly Sears, and Tina Tyrell, 2011, 35 min., videoCreated in 1916 and later lost, Vita Futurista was the only official futurist film ever made. In 2009 Performa, along with SFMOMA and Portland Green Cultural Projects, commissioned…
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Film ScreeningSpirits of the Dead
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, and Roger Vadim, 1968, 121 min., 35mm and video
In English, French, and Italian with English subtitles.Spirits of the Dead is based on three supernatural short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, each interpreted by a major director. In Vadim's Metzengerstein, a medieval countess (Jane…
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Free Tuesday ScreeningSeeking the Monkey King
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Tuesday, July 03, 2012
noon
Ken Jacobs, 2011, 40 min., video
An abstract audiovisual masterpiece, Seeking the Monkey King plays mind-tricks on the viewer, who never quite knows what he or she is seeing: a piece of gold foil being crumpled, a…
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Film ScreeningCleo from 5 to 7
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Thursday, July 05, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Agnès Varda, 1962, 90 min., 35mm
In French with English subtitles.At 5:00 p.m. beautiful French pop star Cléo learns that she will know the results of a stomach cancer test at 7:00 p.m. In the intervening hours she wanders the streets of…
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Film ScreeningThe Beaver Trilogy
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Trent Harris, 2000, 83 min., Beta SP
The Beaver Trilogy comprises three segments shot at different times: in 1979, 1981, and 1985. The first, The Beaver Kid, is a mini-documentary featuring "Groovin' Gary," a…
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Film ScreeningSeconds
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Thursday, July 19, 2012
7:00 p.m.
John Frankenheimer, 1966, 107 min., 35mm
Frankenheimer's riveting film unfolds as a disillusioned middle-aged businessman is given the opportunity to be reborn as someone else through a mysterious organization known only…
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Film ScreeningThe Host
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Thursday, July 26, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Bong Joon-Ho, 2006, 119 min., 35mm
In Korean with English subtitles.One of the best creature features of the last decade, The Host displays Bong's signature blend of horror and dark humor. A mutant creature created by human pollution surfaces from…
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Film ScreeningSuture
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Thursday, August 02, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Scott McGehee and David Siegel, 1993, 96 min., 35mm
In this witty and cerebral murder mystery, Vincent Tower plots to kill his long-lost but nearly identical half-brother Clay and pass the death off as his own. Clay survives…
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Free Tuesday ScreeningLa Jetée and Meshes of the Afternoon
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Tuesday, August 07, 2012
noon
La Jetée, Chris Marker, 1962, 28 min., 35mm
Meshes of the Afternoon, Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943/1959, 14 min., 16mmAs part of our film series selected by Sherman, SFMOMA screens two influential experimental films. Composed almost entirely of still photographs and considered one of the most…
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Film ScreeningWanda
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Thursday, August 09, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Barbara Loden, 1970, 102 min., 35mm
Set in the coal mining region of Pennsylvania, this film follows Wanda, an alcoholic who abandons her husband and children for a life of drinking and sleeping with strange men. Her…
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Film ScreeningThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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Thursday, August 16, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Tobe Hooper, 1974, 83 min., 35mm
The horror film classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre follows a group of young travelers whose car runs out of gas — to their misfortune — while on their way to visit a…
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Film ScreeningShadows
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Thursday, August 23, 2012
7:00 p.m.
John Cassavetes, 1959, 81 min., 35mm
Part documentary, part fiction, Shadows explores race relations during the Beat Generation years in New York City. A model of independent film, it was shot with a 16mm handheld…
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Film ScreeningKick-Ass
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Matthew Vaughn, 2010, 117 min., 35mm
Based on a comic book, Kick-Ass follows the adventures of an average teenager, who, without any real powers or training, dons an Internet-bought green-and-yellow wetsuit and sets…
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Film ScreeningNights and Days: A Decade of Lebanese Short Films
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Lamia Joreige, artist
Apsara DiQuinzio, incoming curator of modern and contemporary art, BAM/PFA, and Phyllis C. Wattis MATRIX CuratorReplay (Bis), Lamia Joreige, Lebanon, 2002, 9 min.
Saving Face, Jalal Toufic, Lebanon, 2003, 8 min.
Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright, Akram Zaatari, Lebanon, 2010, 7 min.
In This House, Akram Zaatari, Lebanon, 2005, 30 min.
Nights and Days, Lamia Joreige, Lebanon, 2007, 17 min.Total running time: 71 min.
Whether depicting a partially remembered dream or collecting elements of a story, Lamia Joreige's Replay (Bis), like all of the films in tonight's program, is concerned with the act…
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Film Screening and DiscussionVideograms of a Revolution and Pipe Dreams
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Adrian Ghenie, Lamia Joreige, Victor Man, Ciprian Muresan, and Mihai Pop, artists
Apsara DiQuinzio, assistant curator of painting and sculpture, SFMOMAVideograms of a Revolution, Harun Farocki, Andrei Ujică, 1992, 106 min., 16mm
In Romanian and English with English subtitles.Pipe Dreams, Ali Cherri, 2012, 6 min., video
Videograms of a Revolution documents the overthrow of Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989. The montage of clips, shot by various filmmakers over the course of the regime's…
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Film Screeningwhiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir
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Thursday, September 27, 2012, 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Friday - Sunday, September 28 - 30, 2012, 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.Eve Sussman, 2009-11, running time variable, digital video
Sussman's whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir becomes a new, unique film with each screening. The overarching narrative remains constant — a geophysicist in "City-A", a…
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Panel Discussionwhiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Kevin Messman, editor
Frank Smigiel, associate curator of public programs, SFMOMA
Eve Sussman, director
Jeff Wood, actorSussman and collaborators from the Rufus Corporation discuss the production of whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir — an ever-changing narrative culled from two years of filming, 3,000…
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San Francisco Cinematheque ScreeningThe Lighted Field: Beings and Relations
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Thursday, October 18, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Like the works in Field Conditions, the films and videos in this program imagine the cinematic frame as a locus of diffuse and vibrant energy, a ground from which figures may (or…
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Free Tuesday ScreeningDemonstrations
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012
noon
Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator of media arts, SFMOMA
This program on Election Day considers performances that have held a mirror to society by adopting the visual language of protest. Radio personality Bob Fass asks New Yorkers to…
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