From: Steve Polta (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Oct 03 2008 - 13:11:53 PDT
New season begins in nine (9) days w/ films by Mark LaPore. Now read this...
News from San Francisco Cinematheque
NEW CALENDAR NOW ONLINE
San Francisco Cinematheque is excited to announce the line-up for our new October – December 2008 season. Below is information on the first program on the schedule Remembering Mark LaPore on Sunday, October 12, 7:30pm at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, as well as a listing in brief of our upcoming screenings. Please visit http://www.sfcinematheque.org/calendar.php for complete calendar information. Also keep an eye out for the new printed calendar, out this week. If you would like to be added to our mailing list please send an email with your address to: (address suppressed)
coming soon
Sunday, October 12 at 7:30 pm, at YBCA
Remembering Mark LaPore
Mark LaPore (1952–2005) was an uncanny observer, a profound wanderer and explorer. His work in film applied a fascinated observational patience, akin to that of Lumière and Warhol, to deeply explore the tangled relationships between ethnography and individual subjectivity while elaborating a complex philosophy of visual ethics. In anticipation of a larger screening series commemorating his work and relationships, we present The Sleepers, A Depression in the Bay of Bengal, The Five Bad Elements and The Glass System, four films—variously based on encounters and experiences in Sudan, Sri Lanka, Calcutta and New York—which reveal uncanny similarities between cultures as well as profound, possibly irreconcilable differences.
SFC Announces New Executive Director
San Francisco Cinematheque is pleased to announce the appointment of Jonathan Marlow as Executive Director. Jonathan is a cinematographer, composer, critic and curator whose commitment to unconventional cinema is reflected in his various professional and artistic endeavors. In addition to his relatively recent roles as Director of Content Development and Programming for VUDU and Vice President of Content for the San Francisco-based independent video distributor GreenCine, he is the founder Cabinetic, an organization dedicated to the exhibition and distribution of otherwise unavailable cinematic works. His non-profit experience includes work with the Seattle International Film Festival, the Northwest Film Forum and the defunct multi-disciplinary arts center Consolidated Works. Among other activities, he regularly writes for numerous print and online publications about the film industry and has served as an advisor for Microcinema International and other
like-minded organizations dedicated to film distribution and/or preservation.
Also recently appointed is Cinematheque’s new Operations and Program Manager, Vanessa O’Neill. A filmmaker and artist, Vanessa brings to SFC her own experience with non-profit organizations, including the Boston Jewish Film Festival. She is a recent graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute’s MFA program in Filmmaking, where she was co-curator, along with Chris Kennedy, of the SFAI Film Salon. Both Jonathan and Vanessa are excited to join Artistic Director/Archivist Steve Polta as Cinematheque embarks on a new season of experimental film, video and new media exhibition.
Calendar at a Glance
SUN 10/12, 7:30 PM, YBCA
Remembering Mark LaPore
SUN, 10/19, 7:30 PM, YBCA
Leslie Thornton: Tuned Always to a Shifting Ground
Program One
TUES 10/21, 7:30 PM, YBCA
Leslie Thornton: Tuned Always to a Shifting Ground
Program Two
SUN 10/26, 7:30 PM, YBCA
Leslie Thornton: Tuned Always to a Shifting Ground
Program Three
SUN 11/2, 7:30 PM, YBCA
Johunna Grayson and Greta Snider’s Dimensional Bodies
THURS 11/6, 8 PM, ATA
46th Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour
Program One
FRI 11/7, 8 PM, ATA
46th Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour
Program Two
SUN 11/9, 7:30 PM, YBCA
Nice Biscotts and More: New Films by Luther Price
SUN 11/23, 7:30 PM, YBCA
Scott MacDonald on Canyon Cinema: The Spirit of Canyon
SUN 11/30, 7:30 PM, YBCA
Dark House
SUN 12/7, 7:30 PM, YBCA
Technology, Nature, and Other Matters
THURS 12/11, 8 PM, ATA
bran(…)pos + Wiggwaum: Sound vs. Image
SUN 12/14, 7:30 PM, YBCA
At Sea
Venues & Ticket Information:
YBCA: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street (at Third)
Tickets: $10 general/ $6 Members, Students, Seniors, Disabled
For advanced tickets at YBCA, call: 415.978.ARTS
ATA: Artists’ Television Access, 992 Valencia Street (at Twenty-first)
Tickets: $6
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