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Hail Lucifer! Remembering Kenneth Anger

Rabbit’s Moon (1950/1972) by Kenneth Anger Hail Lucifer! Remembering Kenneth Anger Thursday, October 12, 7:30pm @ CounterPulse 80 Turk St, San Francisco, CA 94102   Admission: $15/12 Cinematheque Members Event tickets here This program is presente …

 

The Film Foundation: Preserving the Avant-Garde

Ophelia/The Cat Lady (1969) by Tom Chomont The Film Foundation: Preserving the Avant-Garde Monday, September 18 at 7:30pm 4 Star Theater 2200 Clement Street San Francisco, CA 94121   presented in association with the 4 Star Theater and the Nationa …

 

Carbon Song Cycle by Pamela Z & Christina McPhee

Carbon Song Cycle by Pamela Z & Christina McPhee Presented in association with The Exploratorium and Shapeshifters Cinema The Exploratorium’s Kanbar Forum Pier 15 San Francisco, CA 94111   NOTE: This performance will be presented three times. …

 

CROSSROADS 2023 – program 10

Surrounded by Colors We Could No Longer See (2023) by Abinadi Meza perpetuum mobile Sunday, September 10 | 8pm at Gray Area   Opening with two films on familial displacement and solitary inward questing, CROSSROADS 2023 concludes with notes of bel …

 

CROSSROADS 2023 – program 9

Two Palermo (2022) by Antoinette Zwirchmayr sympathetic bodies Sunday, September 10 | 5:45pm at Gray Area   Echoing CROSSROADS program 7, works in this program ponder geological eternity and the enduring human impulse toward mark-making, communica …

 

CROSSROADS 2023 – program 8

The Newest Olds (2022) by Pablo Mazzolo water and fire (a seasonal beast) Sunday, September 10 | 3:15pm at Gray Area   Bookended by two works of masterfully alchemical printing and layering by Alexandre Larose and Pablo Mazzolo, the works in this …

 

CROSSROADS 2023 – program 7

Last Things (2023) by Deborah Stratman welcome to the aftermath Sunday, September 10  | 1pm at Gray Area   Citing J.-H. Rosny, Clarice Lispector, Donna Haraway and others, Deborah Stratman’s Last Things ruminates on geological time, stretching our …

 

CROSSROADS 2023 – program 6

E’aux d’Artifice (1953) by Kenneth Anger burning from the inside Saturday, September 9 | 8:30pm at Gray Area   Visceral, volatile, eruptive, explosive and seething, alternatingly confrontational and tender, this program presents slow dives and jag …

 

CROSSROADS 2023 – program 5

Ruling Star (2019) by Jerome Hiler upheld in rolling air by finer gravitations Saturday, September 9 | 6pm at Gray Area   To the lighthouse. Devotional films on dailiness and intimate exploration—searching, finding, breathing in and breathing out. …

 

CROSSROADS 2023 – program 4

Tarot Portrait: Faith (2023) by Brittany Gravely & Ken Linehan light slants in the wrong direction Saturday, September 9 | 3:30pm at Gray Area   Wafting across the blue of distance and embodying tentative positions of emotional precarity and s …

 

CROSSROADS 2023 – program 3

In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun (2022) by Sylvia Schedelbauer potential energies Saturday, September 9 | 1pm at Gray Area   Like dialogues drifting across decades, personal archival explorations lead to visceral meditations on transgenerationa …

 

CROSSROADS 2023 – program 2

Coyote (2023) by Colectivo los ingrávidos thickened light / underground pulses Friday, September 8 | 9:30pm at Gray Area   CROSSROADS opening night capstone is presented on the occasion of partner organization Canyon Cinema’s Cine-Espacios, a bili …

 

CROSSROADS 2023 – program 1

giroscopio (2021) by John Muse & Brendamaris Rodriguez the brick and the mirror Friday, September 8 | 7pm at Gray Area   CROSSROADS 2023 opens with ringing, circling bouquets of ecstatic gestures, oscillations of kinetic song, mechanical delir …

 

Loss Angles: about dead projects

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD IN PDF FORMAT Loss Angles about dead projects presented as accompaniment to The World is the Medium: Courtney Stephens’s Terra Femme February 15, 2023 at Gray Area details here

 

Chaos Theory (Remembering Dale Hoyt)

SUPPORT ONLINE PROGRAMS! Pictured: Your World Dies Screaming (1981) by Dale Hoyt Chaos Theory (Remembering Dale Hoyt) Curated by Steve Seid program online January 12–February 7, 2023 PLEASE DONATE TO SUPPORT San Francisco Cinematheque makes it a priori …

 

THOUSANDSUNS CINEMA: INDIGENOUS EDITION

Pictured: Alphabet / A (2013) Colectivo Los Ingrávidos THOUSANDSUNS CINEMA: INDIGENOUS EDITION programs online January 9–30, 2023 at www.mediacityfilmfestival.com Media City Film Festival presents ThousandSuns Cinema, featuring 60+ films and digital ar …

 

CROSSROADS 2022 Program 10

Sometimes a little Sin is good for the Soul (2020) by Alex Beriault CROSSROADS 2022 — program 10 around her the shadows trembled Sunday, August 28, 7:45pm at Gray Area CROSSROADS 2022 closes in the skies and on the ground. Films of ritual, earthly rota …

 

CROSSROADS 2022 Program 9

THAT WAS WHEN I THOUGHT I COULD HEAR YOU (2021) by Matt Whitman CROSSROADS 2022 — program 9 i remember those days (it could have been different) Sunday, August 28, 5:30pm at Gray Area Films as relics, dispatched from alternate futures. Memorials to los …

 

CROSSROADS 2022 Program 1

Polycephaly in D (2021) by Michael Robinson CROSSROADS 2022 — program 1 beauty can fool you Friday, August 26, 7pm at Gray Area CROSSROADS 2022 opens with a fit of pop delirium, lucidly polymorphous studies of precarious emotions, candied poisons, anom …