Film Screening

Saturday, December 27, 2008
Experimental Shorts

Part of Vegas Highs, Vegas Lows.

Experimental Shorts

Date + Time

Saturday, December 27, 2008
3:00 p.m.

Location

Phyllis Wattis Theater

Overview

Curated by Steve Anker, dean, School of Film/Video, California Institute of the Arts

Las Vegas, a quintessential modern American city, is revealed as a mystifying landscape of elusive, shifting surfaces and distant encounters in this program of short films and videos by Bay Area filmmakers Catherine Borg and Scott Stark, and Los Angeles-based artists Lee Anne Schmitt and Marcel Wepper.

11/9/85/Las/Vegas/NV
Scott Stark, 1985, 6:00 min.

Las Vegas
Lee Anne Schmitt, 2000, 7:00 min.

I only have stars for you; you only hold stars for me
Catherine Borg, 2007, 10:34 min.

Adventure Non-Fiction: Tracking the Void
Catherine Borg, 2007, 7:18 min.

Vega
Marcel Wepper, 2008, 28:00 min

Admission + Ticketing

$5 general; free for SFMOMA members or with museum admission (requires a free ticket, which can be picked up in the Haas Atrium). Double features: films offered on the same date are included in one ticket. Tickets are available at the museum (with no surcharge) or online.

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Image: Marcel Wepper, VEGA (still), 2008; photo courtesy Marcel Wepper

Film at SFMOMA is generously supported by the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation.

Thursday Nights at SFMOMA are sponsored by Banana Republic. Virgin America is the official airline of Thursday Nights at SFMOMA.

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