Beth Custer Ensemble

While the galleries await the installation of our fall exhibitions, roam the museum’s open spaces recharged by artists. In the Phyllis Wattis Theater, San Francisco Cinematheque presents films by Alexander Hammid, a significant if underappreciated figure in 20th-century cinema who collaborated with Maya Deren on perhaps the avant-garde’s most influential work, Meshes of the Afternoon. The Beth Custer Ensemble premieres new scores for some of Hammid’s earliest films, then performs an original score to a long-banned Soviet silent film My Grandmother in the Haas Atrium. San Francisco’s Muistardeaux Collective presents a site-specific work in the galleries, and Meatpaper magazine is back with food on the roof.