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Closed Wednesdays
SFMOMA is closed on Wednesdays.
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Thanksgiving Day
We are closed on Thanksgiving Day.
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Early Closure
The museum will be closing at 4:45 p.m. on Monday, May 23, 2011, for a private event.
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Extended Saturday Hours for The Steins Collect
SFMOMA is pleased to announce extended public hours on Saturdays, August 20 - September 3, 2011, until 8:45 p.m. Advance timed tickets for The Steins Collect are highly recommended. Tickets are available online as well as in-person at the museum.
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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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Film ScreeningCOMMODIFIED CINEMA: Art, Advertising, and Commodities in Film
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Tuesday, December 06, 2011
noon
Introduced by Paul Clipson, filmmaker
Adebar, Peter Kubelka, 1957, 2 min., 35mm, b&w, sound
Schwechater, Peter Kubelka, 1958, 1 min., 35mm, color, sound
Asu no Taiyo (Tomorrow's Sun), Nagisa Oshima, 1959, 6 min., 35mm, 'Scope, color, sound
Lonely Boy, Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor, 1962, 26 min., 16mm, B&W, sound
Les Statues meurent aussi (Statues Also Die), Alain Resnais and Chris Marker, 1953, 30 min., 35mm, B&W, French with English subtitles
Dichtung und Wahrheit (Poetry and Truth), Peter Kubelka, 2003, 13 min., 35mm, silent, colorThis program of short films by international filmmakers working in both commercial and experimental fields investigates the ways in which consumerism, product advertising, and…
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