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Closed Wednesdays
SFMOMA is closed on Wednesdays.
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Koret Visitor Education Center Early Closure
On May 4, 2012, the Koret Visitor Education Center will close at 3:00 p.m. Screenings of Art 21 episodes will resume May 5, 2012.
Film (17)
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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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