Film / Video
YBCA curates a series of monthly film/video screenings with a focus on experimental and alternative films and documentaries. YBCA also hosts screenings for a select group of community partner organizations. Click the link at left for a list of our current partners.
Seating in the YBCA Screening Room is limited and screenings often sell out. Guarantee your seats by purchasing in advance online or by calling 415.978.2787. Otherwise, plan to arrive early or call ahead for seating availability.
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Oct 9–11, 2008
This three-part retrospective focuses on softcore sex films made in San Francisco in 1968, at that fleeting moment when censorship barriers were collapsing. Just about anyone with a 16mm camera who could convince their friends to take their clothes off could make films and get them shown to a paying public …
Oct 16, 2008
The 10,000 Mile Bike Race is a performance based on a text adapted from Le Surmâle (The Supermale), the first cyborg sex novel, by Alfred Jarry. The text is narrated by poet Brent Cunningham, interpreted on 16mm film by a collection of local filmmakers (Jerry Hiler, Paul Clipson, Bill Basquin and Kerry Laitala) and accompanied live by the jazz ensemble of composer Graham Connah …
Oct 18, 2008
San Francisco's underground drag phenomenon Peaches Christ is an award-winning filmmaker currently immersed in pre-production work for her first feature. But she's better known for her Midnight Mass movie series and no-budget short film collection including her "Tran-ilogy of Terror" …
Oct 28, 2008
The mission of the Arab Film Festival is to enhance public understanding of Arab culture and to provide alternative representations of Arabs that contradict the stereotypical images frequently encountered in the American mass media. Tonight’s program showcases experimental documentaries …
Nov 1 & 2, 2008
One of the most influential films ever made and generally regarded as the start of the American independent cinema movement, John Cassavetes’ directorial debut revolves around an interracial romance between a light-skinned black woman and a white man …
Nov 2, 2008
A collection of intimate and erotically charged stereoscopic slideshow portraits. Using spoken narrative and environmental soundscape, the portraits focus on issues of aging, addiction, vitality and other concerns of the physical body. Filmmakers in person. …
Nov 6–9, 2008
A courageous study of a buried chapter of China’s communist history, Fengming consists of a riveting confessional by a woman who survived the horrors of Mao's China. Emotionally devastating, the film is not only a crucial historical document, but a love story and a conceptual art piece …
Nov 9, 2008
The films of Luther Price are among the most intense and visceral in all of cinema. Exploring identity, sexuality, domestic comfort and the extremes of bodily experience, Price's films locate abject horror in the mundane, beauty in the horrific …
Nov 13–15, 2008
In this shocking new film, Perestroika is on the way, the Soviet Era is grinding to an end, and the USSR is trapped in Afghanistan. The daughter of a Communist Party Secretary disappears after having a few too many vodkas …
Nov 19, 2008
Naf (Naftali), an ultra-orthodox boy, is thrown out of his parents’ home; from the age of 14 he wanders the Jerusalem streets and experiences crime, violence, and sexual assault. But he fights the city council as a representative of homeless youth …
Nov 20–22, 2008
From art to sleaze, spice up your holiday season with this trio of erotic treats: Devil in Miss Jones, Teenage Hitchhikers and Sexy Trailer Trash …
Nov 23, 2008
Film historian Scott MacDonald appears in person to discuss his recent book Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor, with a selection of significant films from its vibrant early years …
Nov 30, 2008
A program of short experimental films offering shifting perspectives on the privacy of domestic space, and its relation to the transience and decay of urban architecture. Curated and presented by Jessica Allee and Wago Kreider …
YBCA's programs are made possible in part by:
The Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund
LEF Foundation
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