SFCINEMATHEQUE

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Ethna’s Suite, so long (1982) by Phil Weisman

Thursday, December 2, 1982, 8:00 pm

8mm Films of Ellen Gaine and Phil Weisman

Both artists will be present

SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE

800 Chestnut Street

San Francisco, CA, 94133

Gaine: No. 3 (1980), 28 min., Great Neck (1978), 15 min., both super-8 silent.

Weisman: nothing, but…part I: the wanderer and the shadow; part 2: the wanderer and the real (1979) red. 8mm, 25 min., Ethna’s Suite, so long (1982), 15 min., 16 mm.

Gaine, from Boston, and Weisman, from New York City, are both filmmakers who have embraced the intimate, lyrical potentialities of the small 8mm formats. Each draws material from their daily life to create a visual aesthetic purely their own. Weisman  was co-founder of the Collective for Living Cinema in NYC; Gaine continues to work and still photography as well as super-8.