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Friday, June 1, 2018, 2:00 pm

San Francisco Silent Film Festival: Silent Avant-Garde

Live musical accompaniment by the Matti Bye Ensemble

CASTRO THEATRE

429 Castro Street

San Francisco, CA 94114





Presented in Association with San Francisco Silent Film FestivalCanyon Cinema and the Exploratorium

Admission: $17 General /$15 for Members of San Francisco Cinematheque and San Francisco Silent Film Festival

Advance tickets available here
NOTE: Discount code is required for Cinematheque Members.
To obtain code please email sfc@sfcinematheque.org.


From the collection of Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Films
Included in this program of films from the extraordinary Unseen Cinema collection: Anémic Cinéma (1924-26, Marcel Duchamp); [Pas de deuxLooney Lens (1924, Fox Movietone); a Slavko Vorkapich montage with four sequences (1928–34); A Bronx Morning (1931, Jay Leyda); The Life and Death of 9413–A Hollywood Extra (1927, Robert Florey); Hände (1927, Mikos Bandy and Stella F. Simon); and 1931 Mexican footage by Sergei Eisenstein.


Prints courtesy of Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894-1941, a collaborative film preservation and restoration project by Anthology Film Archive, New York and Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt-am Main, with generous support by Cineric, Inc., Eastman Kodak Company and Film Preservation Associates


Special support provided by the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation and the Consulate General of Sweden in San Francisco