Anselmo (1967) by Chick Strand
Saturday, December 8, 1984, 8:00 pm
The Films of Chick Strand
Strand in person
Anselmo (1967), Waterfall (1967), Mosori Monika (1970), Guacamole (1976), Mujer De Milfuegos (Woman Of A Thousand Fires) (1976), Loose Ends (1979), and excerpts from While The City Sleeps (in-progress).
The Cinematheque is proud to welcome Chick Strand, one of Canyon’s original and most vital forces, for her first appearance in San Francisco since 1980. Strand’s 13 completed films range from personal and expressive ethnographic studies (Mosori…), to more impressionistic fantasies exploring sensuality and female consciousness. Of Mosori Monika, a documentary about women in the Third World, Ernest Callenbach wrote: “One of the best anthropology films I know. It successfully uses sound in a way in which Godard talks about and seldom makes work. It expresses the ambiguous attitudes of the subjects with grace and good faith…” And of Mujer… the filmmaker has written: “Not a personal portrait so much as an evocation of the consciousness of women in rural parts of such countries as Spain, Greece, and Mexico: women who wear black from the age 15 and spend their entire lives giving birth, preparing food and tending to household and farm responsibilities. Mujer… depicts in poetic, almost abstract terms, their daily repetitive tasks as a form of obsessive ritual.” Tonight’ is the first of two evenings highlighting Chick Strand’s work – she will return next year with a program of new films.