Calendar Results:

• Closed Wednesdays

  SFMOMA is closed on Wednesdays.

• Half-Price Admission

  SFMOMA is pleased to offer half-price admission February 4 - March 15, 2013. The museum's fourth and fifth floor galleries are closed during this period for exhibition installation. For a list of exhibitions on view on the date of your visit, please see our calendar.

Film (10)

• Free Tuesday Screening

  This Is a True Story: Short Films by Penny Siopis

  Tuesday, February 05, 2013
  noon
  

  Penny Siopis is one of the most significant artists working in South Africa today. Spanning more than 30 years and shifting across media, her work explores what she calls the…

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  Film Screening

  Dirty Looks Presents Yesterday Once More

  Thursday, February 14, 2013
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Introduced by Bradford Nordeen, curator, Dirty Looks
  With filmmakers Chris E. Vargas and Mariah Garnett in person.

  The New York-based queer cinema collective Dirty Looks heads west to copresent their program Yesterday Once More. The program features four portrait films (by Matt Wolf, Zackary…

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  Film Screening and Discussion

  L.A. Plays Itself

  Thursday, February 28, 2013
  7:00 p.m.
  

  William E. Jones, artist and filmmaker

  Fred Halsted, 1972, 51 min.

  Before there was mainstream gay pornography, there was Fred Halsted and his daring approach to the genre. In L.A. Plays Itself, tracking shots of the gritty landscape of L.A. and…

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  Film Screening

  Northern Lights: FAG Selects

  Thursday, March 14, 2013
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Introduced by Julia Bryan-Wilson, associate professor of art history, UC Berkeley

  This Is Not A Test, Marisa Hoicka, 2012, 30 sec., video

  Woodcarver, Ehren BEARwitness Thomas and A Tribe Called Red, 2011, 6 min., video

  Target, Rehab Nazzal, 2012, 4 min., video

  Beyond the Usual Limits: Part 1, Deirdre Logue, 2005, 3 min., video

  Lesser Apes, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, 2011, 13 min., video

  Covered, John Greyson, 2009, 14 min., video

  Bending Over Backwards, Heather Keung, 2008, 3 min., video

  Afghanimation, Allyson Mitchell, 2008, 6 min., video

  Toronto-based FAG Feminist Art Gallery is a collaboration between the artists Deirdre Logue and Allyson Mitchell. They write: "Through FAG we host, we fund, we advocate, we…

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  Film Screening

  Made in SF: Films by Barbara Hammer

  Thursday, March 21, 2013
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Dyketactics, 1974, 16mm, 4 min.
  Nitrate Kisses, 1992, 16mm, 77 min.

  Barbara Hammer is an experimental filmmaker best known for her groundbreaking works in queer cinema. She first studied film at San Francisco State University in the late 1960s, at…

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  San Francisco Cinematheque Screening

  Devotion: Films by Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler

  Thursday, May 02, 2013
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Nathaniel Dorsky, filmmaker
  Jerome Hiler, filmmaker

  We are proud to present this tandem screening of works by renowned filmmakers and life partners Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler. Acknowledged as a contemporary master of color…

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  Free Tuesday Program

  Al Wong: Twin Peaks

  noon - 5:00 p.m., screenings begin on the hour

  Introduced by Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator, media arts, SFMOMA

  Al Wong, Twin Peaks, 1977, 16mm transferred to video, color, sound, 50 min.

  San Francisco native Al Wong recorded this meditative film over the course of a year. Taking the idea of the journey as its form, Wong's camera is set inside the car as he…

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  Film Screening

  The Last Waltz

  Thursday, May 09, 2013
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Introduced by Stella Lochman, education and public programs assistant, SFMOMA

  Martin Scorsese, The Last Waltz, 1978, 117 min., 35mm

  Often considered to be the definitive live concert film, The Last Waltz is Martin Scorsese's 35mm documentation of The Band's farewell performance at San Francisco's…

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  Film Screening

  The Last Picture Show

  Thursday, May 16, 2013
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Peter Bogdanovich, The Last Picture Show, 1971, 126 min., black and white, 35mm

  Set in lonely Anarene, Texas in 1951, Bogdanovich's evocative portrait of a dying West follows three teens as they navigate late adolescence in the bleak landscape of their…

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  Film Screening

  The Long Goodbye

  Thursday, May 23, 2013
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Robert Altman, The Long Goodbye, 1973, 112 min., 35mm

  Elliott Gould stars as the hard-boiled, wise-cracking private investigator Philip Marlowe who gets caught up with a host of shady and villainous characters — including a…