- February 01 - March 10, 2011
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Exposed on Film
Phyllis Wattis Theater
Presented in conjunction with Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870, this film series offers a cinematic foray into some of the exhibition's salient themes. Catch screenings at SFMOMA as well as The Castro Theatre, one of the city's best places to see and be seen.
Past
- Voyeurism and Early Cinema
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With the emergence of the moving picture in the late nineteenth century, the theater quickly became a new space for voyeurism and cinema became a vehicle for exhibitionism —…
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noon
Phyllis Wattis Theater
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The Continuing Story of Carel and Ferd
Arthur Ginsberg with Video Free America, 1970-75, 58 min., video
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A tribute to exhibitionism and experimental living, this fascinating televised reunion chronicles several years in the lives of Carel, a porn actress, and Ferd, a drug addict.…
Read moreThursday, February 03, 2011
7:00 p.m.
Phyllis Wattis Theater
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Surveillance Then and Now
How Little We Know of Our Neighbors, Rebecca Baron, 2005, 49 min., video
Il finish delle figure (Photofinish Figures), Paolo Gioli, 2009, 9 min., 16mm
Posers, Scott Stark, 2000, 12 min., video -
Mass Observation was an astonishing long-term social research project founded in Great Britain in 1937 by a small collective of creative anthropologists, writers, photographers,…
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7:00 p.m.
Phyllis Wattis Theater
- Buy tickets William E. Jones
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Over the last two decades, Jones has appropriated films, videos, and photographs in an ongoing examination and subtle subversion of the relationships among images, social control,…
Read moreThursday, February 17, 2011
7:00 p.m.
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The Nude Restaurant
Andy Warhol, 1967, 100 min., 16mm
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Warhol's typically apt title says it all: The Nude Restaurant is 100 minutes of footage of naked (unless a G-string counts as clothing) male restaurant patrons and one female…
Read moreThursday, March 03, 2011
7:00 p.m.
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The Ethical Camera
Medium Cool, Haskell Wexler, 1969, 111 min., 35mm
Blow Up, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966, 111 min., 35mm -
Medium Cool
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Notable for its cinema verité style, this 1969 film by Haskell Wexler mixes fictional and nonfictional content to poignantly illustrate the great social tension…Friday, March 4, 2011
7:00 p.m. Medium Cool
9:30 p.m. Blow UpThe Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street, San Francisco
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Kids on the Boundaries
Deep End, Jerzy Skomilowski, 1970, 90 min., 35mm
Streetwise, Martin Bell, 1984, 91 min., HD video, director's restored version
Pretty Baby, Louis Malle, 1978, 110 min., 35mm -
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Set in the suburbs of London in the 1960s, Skomilowski's film follows Mike, a fifteen year old dropout who finds a job at a public bath house. Over the course of his…Saturday, March 5, 2011
5:00 p.m. Deep End
7:00 p.m. Streetwise
9:00 p.m. Pretty BabyThe Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street, San Francisco
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Double Exposure
Anita — Tanze des lasters (Anita — Dances of Vice), Rosa von Praunheim, 1987, 89 min., Beta SP
Lost Highway, David Lynch, 1997, 135 min., 35mm -
Anita – Tänze des lasters (Anita – Dances of Vice)
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von Praunheim's film celebrates the legend of Anita Berber, the notorious German dancer whose nude…Sunday, March 06, 2011
5:00 p.m. Anita — Tanze des lasters
7:00 p.m. Lost HighwayThe Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street, San Francisco
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Double Blind
Sophie Calle and Gregory Shephard, 1992, 76 min., video
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In this unconventional road trip movie, French conceptual artist Calle heads west with her lover/collaborator Shephard in his Cadillac convertible. Camcorders in hand, they each…
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7:00 p.m.
Phyllis Wattis Theater
