Calendar Results:

Film (14)

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  Film Screening

  The Films of Robert Beavers

  Thursday, October 08, 2009
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Robert Beavers, filmmaker

  Beavers's films are exceptional for their visual beauty, aural texture, depth of emotional expression, and poetic sensibility. They occupy a distinct place in the history of…

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  Exhibition Spotlight and Screening

  Vincent Fecteau Selects . . .

  Thursday, October 29, 2009
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Vincent Fecteau, artist
  George Kuchar, filmmaker

  Temple of Torment, George Kuchar, 2006, 18 min., video
  Interiors, Woody Allen, 1978, 93 min., 35mm

  Fecteau exhibits nothing of his own making in his Not New Work show. Instead, the artist works against expectations and mines SFMOMA's collection for overlooked gems. In the same…

• Screening and Q&A

  Power to the Puppets: Films by Martha Colburn

  Thursday, November 05, 2009
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Martha Colburn, artist
  Frank Smigiel, associate curator, public programs, SFMOMA

  The result of a painstakingly slow and hand-driven production process, Colburn's animated films nonetheless teem with speed, their paper puppet stars running, tumbling, and falling…

• Film Screening

  Martha Colburn Selects . . .

  Saturday, November 7, 2009
  1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.

  Martha Colburn, artist

  Colburn presents an afternoon of special screenings focusing on works by friends and collaborators. Titles to be announced.

• Performance

  Puppets of the Apocalypse, or Martha Colburn: Live Cinema

  Thursday, November 12, 2009
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Martha Colburn, artist
  Haleh Abghari, musician
  John Dieterich, musician
  Michael Evans, musician
  Jad Fair, musician
  Thollem McDonas, musician
  Laura Ortman, musician
  Ryan Sawyer, musician

  Long involved in experimental music scenes as both a musician and a filmmaker, Colburn has honed a live practice of multiprojector, manipulated film and music shows. As she…

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  Film Screening

  Safe

  Sunday, November 15, 2009
  1:00 p.m.
  

  Todd Haynes, 1995, 119 min., 35mm

  Set in an affluent suburb in the San Fernando Valley in 1987, Safe tracks the physical and psychological breakdown of Carol White (Julianne Moore), a housewife suffering from…

• Screening

  Freaks and Geeks

  Sunday, November 15, 2009
  3:00 p.m.
  

  James Franco, actor

  Episodes: "Tests and Breasts," "Noshing and Moshing," "Discos and Dragons"

  Franco himself selects favorite episodes of the TV show Freaks and Geeks and introduces the screening.

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  Film Screening

  Seconds

  Sunday, November 15, 2009
  6:00 p.m.
  

  John Frankenheimer, 1966, 107 min., 35mm

  Frankenheimer's riveting film unfolds as a disillusioned middle-aged business man is given the opportunity to be reborn as someone else through a mysterious organization known only…

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  Film Screening

  Erased James Franco

  Sunday, November 15, 2009
  8:00 p.m.
  

  Carter, artist
  James Franco, actor
  Frank Smigiel, associate curator of public programs, SFMOMA

  Carter, 2008, 63 min., video transfer from 16mm

  Riffing on Robert Rauschenberg's iconic Erased de Kooning Drawing (1958), multimedia artist Carter presents actor James Franco stripped of the sureties of his craft and transformed…

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  Film Screening

  Deborah Stratman: O'er the Land

  Thursday, November 19, 2009
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Deborah Stratman, filmmaker

  Stratman's epic film O'er the Land channels the dark side of the American psyche, presenting a savagely poetic meditation on the contemporary culture of violence and patriotism by…

• Free Tuesday Program

  Postwar Japanese Films

  Tuesday, December 01, 2009
  noon
  

  This program of short films offers a rare opportunity to view experimental Japanese films and videos created since 1960. Presented in conjunction with The Provoke Era: Postwar…

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  Film Screening

  The Cockettes on Film, at 40!

  Thursday, December 03, 2009
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Syd Dutton, director
  Sebastian, director
  Bill Weber, director
  David Weisman, director
  Harlow Hasse, Cockettes member
  Fayette Hauser, Cockettes member
  Scrumbly Koldewyn, Cockettes member
  Rumi Missabu, Cockettes member
  Sweet Pam, Cockettes member
  Tahara, Cockettes member

  Tricia's Wedding, Sebastian, 1971, 33min., 16mm
  Palace, Syd Dutton, 1970, 25 min., 16mm
  Elevator Girls in Bondage, Michael Kalmen, 1972, 56 min., DVD

  It's been 40 New Year's Eves since the legendary performance, drag, and hippie ensemble the Cockettes first began staging their glitter-draped spectacles in North Beach. To…

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  Film Screening and Reception

  George and Mike Kuchar: Recent Preservations

  Thursday, December 10, 2009
  7:00 p.m.
  

  George and Mike Kuchar are the twin darlings of the experimental film world, makers of hundreds of films and videos, and legends in their own time. But back in the 1950s and 1960s…

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  Film Screening

  Kenneth Anger: Restored Prints

  Thursday, December 17, 2009
  7:00 p.m.
  

  Kenneth Anger, filmmaker

  Fireworks, 1947, 15 min., 35mm
  Rabbit's Moon, 1950/1971, 16 min., 16mm
  Scorpio Rising, 1963, 29 min., 35mm
  Kustom Kar Kommandos, 1964, 3 min., 35mm

  Films by Kenneth Anger, American underground cinema's dark star, ignite the screen with occult symbolism and lush baroque sensibilities while smashing the atoms of pop culture. The…