ADMISSIONS:

Admission to Launch Celebration (no book) — $15 General / $12 Cinematheque Member

Bundle #1: Basic Bundle includes admission to Launch Celebration (6pm at the Roxie) + Signing Reception (4pm at 518 Valencia) + Book! — $70 General / $57 Cinematheque Member

Bundle #2: Expanded Bundle includes admission to Launch Celebration (6pm at the Roxie) + Signing Reception (4pm at 518 Valencia) + Expanded Edition of Book! — $123 General / $97 Cinematheque Member

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CRAIG BALDWIN: AVANT TO LIVE!
Book Launch Celebration

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As a filmmaker, Craig Baldwin’s works appropriate footage from pre-existing films, fusing form and content and embodying a radical vision of media culture as a participatory field. Engaging mainstream media as an adversary, using its languages in ironic opposition, Baldwin talks back to corporately produced media and creates inspiring, wildly imaginative works which profoundly challenge the nature of one-way media consumption. As a curator, Baldwin is known for Other Cinema, a hugely influential series of film/video programs which has been ongoing since the mid-1980s. Like his films, Other Cinema represents a radically expanded approach to film exhibition, media consumption and cultural engagement in which ephemeral forms of film history coexist alongside expanded cinema performance, underground/experimental film screenings, speculative lecture presentations, in-person artists and more.

Join us in celebrating the publication of Craig Baldwin: Avant to Live! Clocking in at 508 pages, Avant to Live! documents the life and work of the acclaimed filmmaker, curator and underground legend. Meticulously detailed, with contributions from over 50 writers, artists, illustrators and ideologues, Avant to Live! is the first critical text to examine the artist’s films analytically as a coherent and meaningful body of work and critical artist’s statement while also examining the cultural impact of Baldwin’s Other Cinema curatorial project. Craig Baldwin: Avant to Live! is a collaborative project of San Francisco Cinematheque and INCITE: Journal of Experimental Media. Full details on this publication here.

NOTE: While copies of Avant to Live! can be purchased at this event but there will be no time for signing. Want a signed copy or just want to beat the crowds? Pre-order a copy here and join us at our pre-event Signing Reception. Full details here.