Thursday, February 8, 2007, 6pm Michael Snow in person! Michael Snow is one of the true giants of the avant-garde. His films, photography, music, painting, and sculpture, take up life and its representation, revolutionizing and revitalizing each medium along the way. Tonight, Snow presents two of his best-known works, including the perpetual motion film « […]
Thursday, February 1, 2007, 6pm Little more than a decade-and-a-half old, Chinese media art is vigorously energizing the country’s rich aesthetic traditions, ushering in new forms of art-making to express China’s rapid social, economic, and political changes. Curated by Li Zhenhua, this program surveys the field with works from Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, including 1201 […]
Thursday, December 7, 2006, 6pm Janie Geiser is at the forefront of today’s experimental animators. Drawing on her renowned work in puppet-theater, her films use the miniaturized scale of paper cutouts, dollhouses, and antique toys to create mysterious, multilayered worlds of cryptic messages, enigmatic women, and half-forgotten dreams. Tonight, she presents an overview of her […]
Thursday, November 30, 2006, 6pm Lewis Klahr in person! Lewis Klahr is “one of the most evocative, accessible, and culturally aware experimental filmmakers alive and working.” (Michael Atkinson, Village Voice) For almost thirty years, Klahr has reconfigured the detritus of postwar America into skip-beat riffs and dreamy meditations on the deferred promises of consumer culture. […]
Read More… from Daylight Moon & the Sunset Strip: Recent Films by Lewis Klahr
Thursday, November 16, 2006, 6pm | Gunvor Nelson in person! Gunvor Nelson, Natural Features (1990). Image courtesy of the artist. One of the few women to emerge from San Francisco’s heady independent film scene of the 1960s, Swedish filmmaker Gunvor Nelson has produced one of the great bodies of work in experimental film. Her works […]
Read More… from Light Years: The Films & Videos of Gunvor Nelson
Thursday, November 9, 2006, 6pm Frédéric Moffet in person! CATE and the Outer Ear Festival of Sound team up to present this special screening of Frédéric Moffet’s award-winning video, Jean Genet in Chicago (2006) and Genet’s only film, the queer masterpiece Un Chant d’Amour (1950). Completed at the Experimental Sound Studio (the organization that puts […]
Read More… from The Outer Ear Festival Of Sound: Frédéric Moffet & Jean Genet
Thursday, November 2, 2006, 8pm | George Kuchar in person! George Kuchar has been working with the moving image for nearly half a century. First, with his twin brother Mike, producing their ultra-low-budget underground versions of Hollywood genre films. And then, on his own, since the 1980s, creating brilliantly edited, hilarious, often diaristic tapes with […]
Thursday, November 2, 2006, 6pm Anne McGuire in person! Anne McGuire is a San Francisco-based video artist whose “private cabarets” expose the formal elements of another era’s media mannerisms and lay bare their cultural mores. Her works contain elements of impersonation and performance, personal exorcism and autobiography, wit and media critique. A survey of her […]
Thursday, October 26, 2006, 6pm Curator Jim Trainor in person! The young animator Adam K. Beckett created a handful of vivid, astonishing films in the early 1970s, but died tragically at the age of 29 at the peak of his creative frenzy. Based on an innovation he called the evolving cycle—whereby an animated image grows […]
Thursday, October 19, 2006, 6pm Akram Zaatari in person! In 1982, 16-year-old Akram Zaatari watched the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon from his balcony in Saida, documenting the bombings in a diary of snapshots. The resulting images—at once beautiful and terrifying—make up his stunning 2004 video Saida, June 6, 1982 and have haunted his work […]