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Essential SF: Canyon Cinema
Michael Fox
Oct 26, 2011For 50 years, Canyon Cinema has provided crucial support for a fertile avant-garde film scene.
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In Depth
Essential SF: Canyon Cinema
Michael Fox
Oct 26, 2011For 50 years, Canyon Cinema has provided crucial support for a fertile avant-garde film scene.
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November 3, 2011
Essential SF: Canyon Cinema
Michael Fox
Oct 26, 2011For 50 years, Canyon Cinema has provided crucial support for a fertile avant-garde film scene.
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October 28, 2011
Essential SF: Canyon Cinema
Michael Fox
Oct 26, 2011For 50 years, Canyon Cinema has provided crucial support for a fertile avant-garde film scene.
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Events
Paul Sharits: An Open Cinema
Oct 12, 2011PFA finishes a short program of experimental films by teacher, multi-genre artist and Fluxus collaborator Paul Sharits this Thursday with a screening of his later work on Thursday. The Berkeley institution also screens a selection of Sharits' midcareer work this Wednesday. More info bampfa.edu.
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October 11, 2011
Paul Sharits: An Open Cinema
Oct 12, 2011PFA finishes a short program of experimental films by teacher, multi-genre artist and Fluxus collaborator Paul Sharits this Thursday with a screening of his later work on Thursday. The Berkeley institution also screens a selection of Sharits' midcareer work this Wednesday. More info bampfa.edu.
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Slade Channels Broughton’s ‘Big Joy’
Michael Fox
Sep 28, 2011Artistic integrity is always in short supply, which makes Broughton an inspiration for every successive generation of poets and filmmakers.
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Slade Channels Broughton’s ‘Big Joy’
Michael Fox
Sep 28, 2011Artistic integrity is always in short supply, which makes Broughton an inspiration for every successive generation of poets and filmmakers.
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September 29 2011
Slade Channels Broughton’s ‘Big Joy’
Michael Fox
Sep 28, 2011Artistic integrity is always in short supply, which makes Broughton an inspiration for every successive generation of poets and filmmakers.
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Slade Channels Broughton’s ‘Big Joy’
Michael Fox
Sep 28, 2011Artistic integrity is always in short supply, which makes Broughton an inspiration for every successive generation of poets and filmmakers.
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In Production
Slade Channels Broughton’s ‘Big Joy’
Michael Fox
Sep 28, 2011Artistic integrity is always in short supply, which makes Broughton an inspiration for every successive generation of poets and filmmakers.
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September 29 2011
Slade Channels Broughton’s ‘Big Joy’
Michael Fox
Sep 28, 2011Artistic integrity is always in short supply, which makes Broughton an inspiration for every successive generation of poets and filmmakers.
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Kuchar, Belson Bid Adieu
Michael Fox
Sep 8, 2011San Francisco loses two of its cinema icons, pioneering 'camp humorist' George Kuchar and seminal experimental filmmaker Jordan Belson. George Kuchar, the beloved San Francisco filmmaker, teacher, mentor and friend, died Tuesday night, September 6, at the age of 69. He passed away at Coming Home Hospice in the Castro, where he resided for the last month. Kuchar had been diagnosed with cancer a year and a half ago, but the sad news was not conveyed beyond a circle of close friends until recently. Kuchar and his twin brother, Mike, began making movies in their teens in their Bronx neighborhood in the late ’50s. Inspired by the florid emotions of Hollywood melodramas, they made 8mm narratives that were funny...
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September 8 2011
Kuchar, Belson Bid Adieu
Michael Fox
Sep 8, 2011San Francisco loses two of its cinema icons, pioneering 'camp humorist' George Kuchar and seminal experimental filmmaker Jordan Belson. George Kuchar, the beloved San Francisco filmmaker, teacher, mentor and friend, died Tuesday night, September 6, at the age of 69. He passed away at Coming Home Hospice in the Castro, where he resided for the last month. Kuchar had been diagnosed with cancer a year and a half ago, but the sad news was not conveyed beyond a circle of close friends until recently. Kuchar and his twin brother, Mike, began making movies in their teens in their Bronx neighborhood in the late ’50s. Inspired by the florid emotions of Hollywood melodramas, they made 8mm narratives that were funny...
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Kuchar, Belson Bid Adieu
Michael Fox
Sep 8, 2011San Francisco loses two of its cinema icons, pioneering 'camp humorist' George Kuchar and seminal experimental filmmaker Jordan Belson. George Kuchar, the beloved San Francisco filmmaker, teacher, mentor and friend, died Tuesday night, September 6, at the age of 69. He passed away at Coming Home Hospice in the Castro, where he resided for the last month. Kuchar had been diagnosed with cancer a year and a half ago, but the sad news was not conveyed beyond a circle of close friends until recently. Kuchar and his twin brother, Mike, began making movies in their teens in their Bronx neighborhood in the late ’50s. Inspired by the florid emotions of Hollywood melodramas, they made 8mm narratives that were funny...
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September 8 2011
Kuchar, Belson Bid Adieu
Michael Fox
Sep 8, 2011San Francisco loses two of its cinema icons, pioneering 'camp humorist' George Kuchar and seminal experimental filmmaker Jordan Belson. George Kuchar, the beloved San Francisco filmmaker, teacher, mentor and friend, died Tuesday night, September 6, at the age of 69. He passed away at Coming Home Hospice in the Castro, where he resided for the last month. Kuchar had been diagnosed with cancer a year and a half ago, but the sad news was not conveyed beyond a circle of close friends until recently. Kuchar and his twin brother, Mike, began making movies in their teens in their Bronx neighborhood in the late ’50s. Inspired by the florid emotions of Hollywood melodramas, they made 8mm narratives that were funny...
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Radical Light: ‘Movie Factory’
George Kuchar
Sep 7, 2011As an appreciation of George Kuchar's inspired presence, we offer up the filmmaker in his own words, excerpted from 'Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000.'
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In Depth
Radical Light: ‘Movie Factory’
George Kuchar
Sep 7, 2011As an appreciation of George Kuchar's inspired presence, we offer up the filmmaker in his own words, excerpted from 'Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000.'
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September 8 2011
Radical Light: ‘Movie Factory’
George Kuchar
Sep 7, 2011As an appreciation of George Kuchar's inspired presence, we offer up the filmmaker in his own words, excerpted from 'Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000.'
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'Blank City' Looks Back at Underground 'B' Heyday
Dennis Harvey
Jun 3, 2011A documentary digs into New York's 'No Wave' movement that briefly flourished in the late 1970s and early ’80s.
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June 9, 2011
'Blank City' Looks Back at Underground 'B' Heyday
Dennis Harvey
Jun 3, 2011A documentary digs into New York's 'No Wave' movement that briefly flourished in the late 1970s and early ’80s.
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Reviews
'Blank City' Looks Back at Underground 'B' Heyday
Dennis Harvey
Jun 3, 2011A documentary digs into New York's 'No Wave' movement that briefly flourished in the late 1970s and early ’80s.
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April 28, 2011
SFIFF54 Embraces Barney's Unique POV
Carmen Winant
Apr 30, 2011In a quarter century of filmmaking feats, persistence and vision are defining qualities for Matthew Barney.
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SFIFF54 Embraces Barney's Unique POV
Carmen Winant
Apr 30, 2011In a quarter century of filmmaking feats, persistence and vision are defining qualities for Matthew Barney.
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SFIFF54 Embraces Barney's Unique POV
Carmen Winant
Apr 30, 2011In a quarter century of filmmaking feats, persistence and vision are defining qualities for Matthew Barney.
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03.31.11
SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events
Susan Gerhard
Mar 29, 2011SF International's 54th wide-ranging program is announced.
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Festivals
SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events
Susan Gerhard
Mar 29, 2011SF International's 54th wide-ranging program is announced.
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SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events
Susan Gerhard
Mar 29, 2011SF International's 54th wide-ranging program is announced.
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February 17, 2011
On the Making of 'Crooked Beauty'
Ken Paul Rosenthal
Feb 15, 2011A filmmaker delves deep into the process of embodying 'madness' in movie form.
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First Person
On the Making of 'Crooked Beauty'
Ken Paul Rosenthal
Feb 15, 2011A filmmaker delves deep into the process of embodying 'madness' in movie form.
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On the Making of 'Crooked Beauty'
Ken Paul Rosenthal
Feb 15, 2011A filmmaker delves deep into the process of embodying 'madness' in movie form.
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February 17, 2011
Stone Tour Cultivates the City
Susan Gerhard
Feb 14, 2011Film professor and farmer Melinda Stone tours San Francisco community centers with film and food for thought.
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Stone Tour Cultivates the City
Susan Gerhard
Feb 14, 2011Film professor and farmer Melinda Stone tours San Francisco community centers with film and food for thought.
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Stone Tour Cultivates the City
Susan Gerhard
Feb 14, 2011Film professor and farmer Melinda Stone tours San Francisco community centers with film and food for thought.
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Rudolf Frieling Looks to Technologies New, Old for SFMOMA's Screens
Michael Fox
Jan 3, 2011SFMOMA's Rudolf Frieling talks about media arts, chance encounters and low/high-tech transformations.
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January 6, 2010
Rudolf Frieling Looks to Technologies New, Old for SFMOMA's Screens
Michael Fox
Jan 3, 2011SFMOMA's Rudolf Frieling talks about media arts, chance encounters and low/high-tech transformations.
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Rudolf Frieling Looks to Technologies New, Old for SFMOMA's Screens
Michael Fox
Jan 3, 2011SFMOMA's Rudolf Frieling talks about media arts, chance encounters and low/high-tech transformations.
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Radical Light: 'A Haven for Radical Art and Experimental Film and Video'
Steve Anker
Nov 19, 2010Pacific Film Archive offers the second of three excerpts from its monumental work, 'Radical Light.'
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In Depth
Radical Light: 'A Haven for Radical Art and Experimental Film and Video'
Steve Anker
Nov 19, 2010Pacific Film Archive offers the second of three excerpts from its monumental work, 'Radical Light.'
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November 24, 2010
Radical Light: 'A Haven for Radical Art and Experimental Film and Video'
Steve Anker
Nov 19, 2010Pacific Film Archive offers the second of three excerpts from its monumental work, 'Radical Light.'
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Home
Radical Light: 'A Haven for Radical Art and Experimental Film and Video'
Steve Anker
Nov 19, 2010Pacific Film Archive offers the second of three excerpts from its monumental work, 'Radical Light.'
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In Depth
Radical Light: 'A Haven for Radical Art and Experimental Film and Video'
Steve Anker
Nov 19, 2010Pacific Film Archive offers the second of three excerpts from its monumental work, 'Radical Light.'
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November 24, 2010
Radical Light: 'A Haven for Radical Art and Experimental Film and Video'
Steve Anker
Nov 19, 2010Pacific Film Archive offers the second of three excerpts from its monumental work, 'Radical Light.'
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August 26 ,2010
Medina Stokes SF-set ‘Furnace’
Michael Fox
Aug 25, 2010Dolissa Medina uncovers more ashes in a new, historical piece on San Francisco and its many great fires.
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Medina Stokes SF-set ‘Furnace’
Michael Fox
Aug 25, 2010Dolissa Medina uncovers more ashes in a new, historical piece on San Francisco and its many great fires.
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Medina Stokes SF-set ‘Furnace’
Michael Fox
Aug 25, 2010Dolissa Medina uncovers more ashes in a new, historical piece on San Francisco and its many great fires.
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August 24, 2010
The Factory Year-End Screening
Aug 24, 2010Oakland's youth video-production collective The Factory showcases more than a dozen documentary, narrative, and experimental films made by students at the Pacific Film Archive on August 24. A panel discussion with student filmmakers follows.
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Reviews
Conner Forever Moving Forward
Dennis Harvey
May 10, 2010Bruce Conner, the sculptor, painter, photographer and filmmaker who loomed large in the Bay Area's shifting avant-garde currents for 50 years, resurfaces with Three Screen Ray.
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Reviews
San Francisco Cinematheque's Spring Action
Max Goldberg
Feb 10, 2010The spring edition of the Cinematheque calendar is making the rounds, and my copy is dog-eared with wishful thinking. Grab your datebook for a rundown.
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Reviews
Holiday Film Preview, Part II
Dennis Harvey
Dec 11, 2009Dennis Harvey weighs in on the upcoming films of the holiday season.
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Q & A
Catherine Galasso's 'Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice'
Michael Fox
Dec 7, 2009Catherine Galasso talks about her performance piece Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice, which features dance, theater and projected video.
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Catherine Galasso's 'Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice'
Michael Fox
Dec 7, 2009Catherine Galasso talks about her performance piece Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice, which features dance, theater and projected video.
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Reviews
The Cockettes' Celluloid Afterglow Still Strong at 40
Dennis Harvey
Dec 3, 2009The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art honors the 40th anniversary of The Cockettes with a one-night-only program.
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Q & A
David Sherman and Wasteland Utopias
Michael Fox
Nov 30, 2009In town for the premiere of Wasteland Utopias, the artist, curator and administrative director of Canyon Cinema gives us the scoop on Wilhelm Reich and other shadowy figures.
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Q & A
David Sherman and Wasteland Utopias
Michael Fox
Nov 30, 2009In town for the premiere of Wasteland Utopias, the artist, curator and administrative director of Canyon Cinema gives us the scoop on Wilhelm Reich and other shadowy figures.
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Reviews
Remembering Chick Strand
Max Goldberg
Oct 23, 2009Chick Strand, a crucial pioneer of West Coast experimental cinema, died July 11 at 78.
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Festivals
SFFS's Debut Cinema by the Bay
Robert Avila
Oct 22, 2009A new, four-day showcase of local filmmaking doubles as a forum for the region's influence as subject and setting for filmmakers beyond the bay.
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In Production
Anne, Anne, Anne: McGuire Comes Alive
Michael Fox
Oct 20, 2009Anne McGuire finds the beauty in the strange, and the strangeness in the beautiful. That's not perversity, people; that's poetry.
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Reviews
San Francisco Cinematheque Fall Program Underway
Max Goldberg
Oct 3, 2009A year after Jonathan Marlow took the helm as executive director, the organization is showing fresh signs of life.
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Q & A
Cory McAbee and 'Stingray Sam'
Dennis Harvey
Sep 13, 2009High-concept cabaret-act favorite in the Bay Area who sidelines as a filmmaker, Cory McAbee (The American Astronaut) speaks about his latest, Stingray Sam.
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In Production
Dina Ciraulo's 'Opal'
Michael Fox
Aug 11, 2009Dina Ciraulo's debut feature reconsiders the curious case of nature writer Opal Whiteley, who burst to prominence—and controversy— in the 1920s.
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Q & A
Shelley Diekman Reflects on Well-Spent life
Hilary Hart
Jul 27, 2009Newly-retired Pacific Film Archive publicist Shelley Diekman discusses her cinephile tastes, her past and her future.
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Reviews
An Ample Display of Tilda Swinton's Edge
Dennis Harvey
Jul 10, 2009Tilda Swinton's edge of riskiness is on ample display in Julia, a new film by French director Erick Zonca.
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Festivals
Frameline33: Something Old, Something New
Dennis Harvey
Jun 17, 2009A dose of self-affirmation arrives with Frameline33 (or, if you prefer, the multiple-breath-intake-requiring San Francisco International Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Film Festival.)
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Q & A
Lawrence Jordan: to Infinity and Beyond
Sean Uyehara
Jun 1, 2009Leading light of avant-garde cinema Lawrence Jordan speaks on the occasion of his Gallery Extraña show and his 75th birthday.
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Reviews
'A Wake for Analog'
Jonathan Kiefer
May 21, 2009A Wake for Analog honors analog experimental films like Patrolling the Ether, Bassline Baseline and Zuse Strip.
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Reviews
Walsh sets off on Rainer's parade
Michael Fox
Apr 9, 2009Bringing Rainer's work to a larger audience: Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer, a feature-length documentary about the choreographer and experimental filmmaker.
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Reviews
Box set "Treasures" unearths buried avant-garde
Michael Fox
Apr 2, 2009National Film Preservation Foundation, Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986, is a splendid package of 26 films, drawn from New York and San Francisco.
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Reviews
Box set "Treasures" unearths buried avant-garde
Michael Fox
Apr 2, 2009National Film Preservation Foundation, Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986, is a splendid package of 26 films, drawn from New York and San Francisco.
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Festivals
SF International Film Festival Lineup
Susan Gerhard
Mar 31, 2009The two weeks of programs offers 151 films from 55 countries, awards and prices, and a wide array of San Francisco talent, from legendary names to the fledgling artists.
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Reviews
Back to Nature with Ben Rivers
Dennis Harvey
Mar 27, 2009Ben Rivers makes his Bay Area debut this week presenting in person two programs, both providing a slightly dislocative experience at once tranquil and sinister.
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Q & A
SF Cinematheque: New Year, New Direction
Susan Gerhard
Feb 2, 2009SF360.org joined in on a conversation about Cinematheque's past and present when Steven Jenkins lunched with Jonathan Marlow at Caffe Centro.
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Reviews
Warhol's Screen Tests Get Dean & Britta Treatment
Dennis Harvey
Feb 2, 200913 Most BeautifulÉSongs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests offers a cherry-picking of the famous Warhol reels accompanied by live original-soundtracking.
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Reviews
Something Wild: Martha Colburn's Collage Animations
Max Goldberg
Dec 1, 2008Martha Colburn's recent shorts plunge the interstices of Americana for a hidden history of fanaticism and double-faced hypocrisies.
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In Production
Kroot's Planet Kuchar
Michael Fox
Nov 25, 2008Bay Area filmmaker Jennifer Kroot talks about her inspiration to make a documentary on legendary, underground filmmaking twins George and Mike Kuchar.
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Q & A
Scott MacDonald's 'Canyon Cinema' Book--Both History and How-to
Michael Fox
Nov 17, 2008Scott McDonald's Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor, details the formation of the revered Bay Area artists' collective in the early 1960s.
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Q & A
Susan Oxtoby and the Pacific Film Archive
Michael Fox
Oct 24, 2008The PFA senior curator talks about her cinematic influences, curating in Canada and the U.S., and recent additions to the world of film.
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In Production
Straight and Not So Narrow 'Crooked Beauty' In Production
Michael Fox
Oct 1, 2008In 'Crooked Beauty,' mental health is re-imagined and redefined.
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Q & A
Ariella Ben-Dov's Madcat Archives
Matt Sussman
Sep 14, 2008What do women want to watch? With Diane English’s recent unfunny and product placement-filled re-make of The Women hitting theaters last week, Hollywood’s answer, predictably, is more of the same.
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Reviews
Curators at Bay Area Now 5
Sean Uyehara
Sep 11, 2008YBCA's triennial exhibition has developed a deserved reputation for presenting an energetic survey of current Bay Area artistic practice.
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Festivals
Mill Valley's 31st Program
Susan Gerhard
Sep 10, 2008This year's Mill Valley Film Festival shows healthy signs of life for the independent film business.
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Reviews
Chris Marker Comes Home, At Last
Michael Fox
Sep 1, 2008I confess that for a long while I had the misperception, based on almost no exposure to his work, that French essayist Chris Marker made dense, dry films steeped in political theory and inaccessible to anyone but a narrow strata of irrelevant European intellectuals.
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News & Blogs
Second Stage of Film Arts Foundation's Legacy of Advocacy
Michael Fox
Aug 20, 2008Film Arts Foundation, a nonprofit organization formed by 15 independent filmmakers in 1976, joins forces with SFFS.
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News & Blogs
Second Stage of Film Arts Foundation's Legacy of Advocacy
Michael Fox
Aug 20, 2008Film Arts Foundation, a nonprofit organization formed by 15 independent filmmakers in 1976, joins forces with SFFS.
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Q & A
Canyon Cinema's Dominic Angerame
Erika Young
Aug 4, 2008A conversation with the executive director of an experimental/avant-garde film distribution company, who both runs a profitable business and creates dynamic art.
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News & Blogs
A Week at Flaherty
Chi-hui Yang
Jul 18, 2008On curating the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, a social Petri dish that annually brings together a different programmer, a captive and engaged audience, and filmmakers.
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News & Blogs
A Week at Flaherty
Chi-hui Yang
Jul 18, 2008On curating the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, a social Petri dish that annually brings together a different programmer, a captive and engaged audience, and filmmakers.
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News & Blogs
In Memoriam: Bruce Conner (1933-2008)
Steve Seid
Jul 8, 2008Bruce Conner, the great, irascible, and ever-evolving San Francisco-based artist known for his assemblages, films, drawings, and interdisciplinary works, passed away on July 7, 2008.
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Reviews
The World of 'Derek' at Frameline32
Max Goldberg
Jun 25, 2008A documentary tribute to Derek Jarman, Isaac Julien's Derek does not seek to enlarge or complicate the filmmaker's legacy so much as succor its loss.
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Q & A
Strand's Marcus Hu and Frameline's Michael Lumpkin
Marcus Hu
Jun 16, 2008Strand Releasing President Marcus Hu speaks with Frameline Artistic Director Lumpkin about Frameline, queer cinema and the future of this niche festival.]
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Festivals
SFIAF: 'Mordake' and Week Two -- Reviewed, Previewed
Robert Avila
May 28, 2008Composer Erling Wold's solo chamber opera enjoys a thrillingly intimate world premiere this week under the banner of the San Francisco International Arts Festival.
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Festivals
S.F. International Arts Festival
Robert Avila
May 23, 2008In addition to bringing a host of worldwide performers to the Bay Area for the first time, the San Francisco International Arts Festival (May 2-June 8), now in its fifth year, has become an indispensable showcase for collaborative work by leading Bay Area artists and their peers across all manner of geographical, cultural and disciplinary borders. The more than 40 performances in this year’s lineup, taking place at 14 separate venues across the city and in Berkeley, span the worlds of dance, music, opera, theater, visual arts and multidisciplinary work. The following four highlights are all hybrid productions with strong film and/or video components.
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Reviews
Finding Warren Sonbert
Max Goldberg
May 14, 2008Unlike most experimental filmmakers, Sonbert's collected works have had the benefit of full retrospectives at major museums (SFMOMA, NYMOMA, Guggenheim) and a strong preservation effort.
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Reviews
Finding Warren Sonbert
Max Goldberg
May 14, 2008Unlike most experimental filmmakers, Sonbert's collected works have had the benefit of full retrospectives at major museums (SFMOMA, NYMOMA, Guggenheim) and a strong preservation effort.
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Q & A
SFIFF51: Katherin McInnis Cues the Carnival Music
Jennifer Preissel
Apr 28, 2008The longtime Bay Area resident, who recently relocated to Brooklyn, screens Woodward's Gardens in the shorts program "In A Lonely Place: New Experimental Cinema."
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Q & A
SFIFF51: Craig Baldwin Shoots the Moon, and the Desert
Michael Fox
Apr 18, 2008The Mission filmmaker has slaved in the underground for some three decades, a guide and shaman for other artists working on the fringes.
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Festivals
"Palestine: Interior/Exterior"
Robert Avila
Apr 9, 2008Two films at the Arab Film Festival's program Palestine: Interior/Exterior map physical, personal and ideological terrain.
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Q & A
Thomas Beard exposes "Live Cinema"
Michael Fox
Apr 7, 2008Bodies of work have emerged from the intersections of performance, film and electronic art. Cinematograph 7ÑLive Cinema: A Contemporary Reader, edited by Thomas Beard's provides thoughtful writing on the subject.
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Q & A
Thomas Beard exposes "Live Cinema"
Michael Fox
Apr 7, 2008Bodies of work have emerged from the intersections of performance, film and electronic art. Cinematograph 7ÑLive Cinema: A Contemporary Reader, edited by Thomas Beard's provides thoughtful writing on the subject.
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Festivals
Earthdance Short-Attention-Span Environmental Film Festival
Robert Avila
Apr 2, 2008The fifth annual EarthDance Short-Attention-Span Environmental Film Festival screens a juried compilation of 20 short films in two 90-minute installments.
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Reviews
"Warts & All: The Films of Danny Plotnick"
Michael Fox
Mar 3, 2008Warts & All: The Films of Danny Plotnick: 10 short comic narratives are exemplars of an unpolished, unpretentious school of moviemaking that aims at every moment to be audience-friendly.
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Q & A
Bollyhood, a Concept, a Cafe
Laura Irvine
Dec 19, 2007Ivan Jaigirdar's joint offers a screen filled with Bollywood eye candy, plates filled with South Asian food, and drinks to warm both.
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Reviews
"Hannah Takes the Stairs"
Dennis Harvey
Nov 27, 2007A perfect example of the emerging genre of improv-based, digitally shot, minimally budgeted seriocomedies about twentysomethings stumbling through, you know, relationship stuff.
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Reviews
Phil Chambliss, Arkansas Auteur
Dennis Harvey
Nov 15, 2007Meet Phil Chambliss, a 54-year-old, recently retired gravel pit nightwatchman who makes what might be termed cinematic folk art.
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Q & A
Kerry Laitala and Her New "Muse"
Katherin McInnis
Apr 25, 2007The artist's filmsÑsensual, intricate, tactileÑare a magical combination of optical artistry, snippets of forgotten films, and bits of lace, tape, and glitter.
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Q & A
Weerasethakul Talks Hospitals, Aerobics, and a Boy From Mars
Johnny Ray Huston
Apr 9, 2007One of Apichatpong Weerasethakul Ôs goals as a filmmaker is to simply show what he likes, and what he likes to see.
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Q & A
Video-Diary Pioneer Spencer Nakasako
Michael Fox
Mar 17, 2007Spencer Nakasako gets the credit for starting the still-cresting wave of first-person camcorder documentaries back in 1995, but he claims it was largely an accident.
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Reviews
"Alternative Visions" at the PFA
Johnny Ray Huston
Feb 15, 2007The Pacific Film Archive's standing as a cinema-centric educational institution brings the avant-garde into conversation with a broad program of film history.
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Reviews
James Broughton, and a DVD Eden
Robert Avila
Dec 20, 2006The product of a true cinematic innovator and gloriously individual poet, Broughton's film work remains much too idiosyncratic to be deconstructed,
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Q & A
James T. Hong on Heidegger, Hitler, and His New Film
Cheryl Eddy
Dec 18, 2006San Francisco artist James T. Hong is currently working on a documentary, tentatively titled New History Zero, which explores his interest in revisionist World War II history.
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Reviews
Nathaniel Dorsky's Secret World
Michael Fox
Dec 5, 2006Song and Solitude, is a twilight sojourn to a secret world much like our own, rendered with profound patience and a hint of wistfulness.
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Reviews
Nathaniel Dorsky's Secret World
Michael Fox
Dec 5, 2006Song and Solitude, is a twilight sojourn to a secret world much like our own, rendered with profound patience and a hint of wistfulness.
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Reviews
Things You May or May Not Know About Miranda July
Johnny Ray Huston
Oct 19, 2006For close to a decade now, Miranda July has been exploring and often crossing the traditional boundaries between life and the movies.
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Q & A
Poetic Terrorism and Wholphin #2
Sean Uyehara
Oct 17, 2006When Brent Hoff was checking into a hotel for a film festival, the concierge thrust a business card into his hand, “Remember me next time you’re casting a film." So he asked the biggest directors he knows to cast the concierge in a series of short films.
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Reviews
City Poet Bruce Baillie Returns
Johnny Ray Huston
Oct 10, 2006When onlookers or bystanders disparagingly refer to experimental film as torturous or a bore, it’s a safe bet that they’ve never seen anything by Bruce Baillie.
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Reviews
City Poet Bruce Baillie Returns
Johnny Ray Huston
Oct 10, 2006When onlookers or bystanders disparagingly refer to experimental film as torturous or a bore, it’s a safe bet that they’ve never seen anything by Bruce Baillie.
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Festivals
ZeroOne Through Ten
Susan Gerhard
Aug 4, 2006The List: ZeroOne San Jose Global Festival of Art on the Edge presents an array of = augmented realities, artificial intelligences, and interactive pieces.
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Q & A
Filmmaking in 48 Hours
Susan Gerhard
Jul 19, 2006Leena Prasad talks about making a sci-fi comedy featuring a pillow and a character named Mark Pantagenet, Foreign Ambassador in just 48 hours.
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Q & A
New Executive Director of S.F. Cinematheque on Experimental Film
Michael Fox
May 29, 2006Newly appointed S.F. Cinematheque executive director Caroline Savage discusses the state of experimental film.
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Q & A
New Executive Director of S.F. Cinematheque on Experimental Film
Michael Fox
May 29, 2006Newly appointed S.F. Cinematheque executive director Caroline Savage discusses the state of experimental film.
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Q & A
Choose Your Words
Robert Avila
Apr 27, 2006Memorize these words that supposedly can bring you under government scrutiny when said over the phone, or written in a text message or email.
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Q & A
Choose Your Words
Robert Avila
Apr 27, 2006Memorize these words that supposedly can bring you under government scrutiny when said over the phone, or written in a text message or email.
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First Person
Five Moments on Market Street, 1905-2006
Melinda Stone
Apr 14, 2006I first saw the remarkable A Trip Down Market Street, 1905 at the Exploratorium seven years ago, feeling chills as I gazed into the past.
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