Bruce Conner, LOOKING FOR MUSHROOMS, 1959-67/1996 (still), collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund purchase, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, with the generous support of the New Art Trust; © Conner Family Trust, San Francisco
Film Screening
Show Business: Film and Expanded Cinema
Friday, Oct 28, 2016
7 p.m.
A riff on a party Bruce Conner threw for himself called “50 Years in Show Business,” this evening celebrates the artist’s cinematic work. Jean Conner introduces her husband’s film LOOKING FOR MUSHROOMS (1996), along with a selection of other works.
Selected films
A MOVIE (1958), 35mm
COSMIC RAY (1961), 16mm
VIVIAN (1964), 16mm
TEN SECOND FILM (1965), 16mm
THE WHITE ROSE (1967), 16mm
REPORT (1963–67), 16mm
MARYLIN TIMES FIVE (1973), 16mm
LOOKING FOR MUSHROOMS (1959–67/1996), 35mm
MONGOLOID (1978), 16mm
AMERICA IS WAITING (1981), 16mm
MEA CULPA (1981), 16mm
TAKE THE 5:10 TO DREAMLAND (1977), 16mm
VALSE TRISTE (1978), 16mm
EASTER MORNING (2008), digital projection