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Dance
Presented by YBCA & Fresh Festival
Saturday, February 10, 2024, 3:30–5 PM
Watch a recording of experimental dance work Tonic created by Kathleen Hermesdorf and Albert Mathias, followed by a panel conversation featuring Mathias and others who worked closely with Hermesdorf.
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Conversation, performance, and screening presented by YBCA
Saturday, February 3, 2024, 1–4 PM
Explore BAN9 artist Heesoo Kwon’s Leymusoom Garden through traditional Korean games and performance, a conversation with Kwon and her multidisciplinary collaborators, and a screening of Kwon’s most recent video work.
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Presented by YBCA
Saturday, January 13, 2024, 3–5 PM
Experience a selection of films from the past 20 years advancing the causes of health and social justice, led by outgoing co-director Cornelius Moore and incoming executive director Rachel Poulain of California Newsreel.
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Bay Area Now 9 Looping Film Program
January 3–31, 2023, 11 AM-5 PM
A cycle of four films from filmmaker Emily Chao that offer fragments of memories of people and places, experiences both shared and private, and new considerations of familiar views.
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A showcase of expanded cinema
Saturday, December 9, 2023, 12–2 PM
A dynamic film program from Shapeshifter Cinema, featuring three sets of kinetic, multi-projector, and multimedia performances.
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Workshop presented by Shapeshifters Cinema
Saturday, December 2, 2023, 12–5 PM
Learn how to repurpose castaway mid-century 16mm film through scratching, painting, puncturing, boiling, bleaching, and more in this hands-on material cinema bonanza with filmmaker Ellie Vanderlip.
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Bay Area Now 9 Looping Film Program
December 1–30, 2023, 11 AM–5 PM
An hour-long program of select expanded cinema performances that have been presented by Shapeshifters Cinema over its 11-year history.
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Bay Area Now 9 Looping Film Program
November 1–30, 2023, 11 AM–5 PM
A selection of films from the Canyon Cinema collection tracing six decades of experimental filmmaking in the Bay Area.
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In partnership with Kearny Street Workshop
October 29, 2023, 2–4:30 PM
A film showcase featuring Adamu Chan, as a part of Kearny Street Workshop’s annual multi-disciplinary arts festival, APAture.
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In partnership with San Francisco Cinematheque
October 21, 2023, 3–5 PM
Nine works by ten contemporary Bay Area filmmakers, a cross-section of the Bay Area’s ever-vibrant multi-generational community curated by Steve Polta, artistic director of San Francisco Cinematheque.
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In partnership with Canyon Cinema
October 14, 2023, 3–5 PM
An afternoon of contemporary Bay Area works on film and video from the Canyon Cinema catalog, curated and hosted by executive director Brett Kashmere.
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Bay Area Now 9 Looping Film Program
October 6–31, 2023, 11 AM–5 PM
Experience selections from fourteen years of CROSSROADS, San Francisco Cinematheque’s annual film festival in this ongoing daily screening.
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Sunday, June 25, 2023
This new short film shares vibrant stories of migration and resilience.
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Watch in person at YBCA or stream on YBCA.org
August 12–14, 2022
Screenings & Films
Presented by SF Urban Film Fest & SOMA Pilipinas
Friday, June 17, 2022, 6–7:30 PM
Screenings & Films
SF Urban Film Fest
Saturday, October 2, 2021
An afternoon of film programs and artist talks around immigration to the South of Market, the power of mutual aid, and the power of writing a community narrative.
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SF Urban Film Fest
Saturday, September 25, 2021
An afternoon of exploring the social landscapes of the South of Market with artist talks, film screenings, and panel discussions.
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SF Urban Film Fest
Saturday, August 28, 2021
A night of artist talks, one-act plays, and film screenings celebrating Filipinx power in South of Market.
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SF Urban Film Fest
February 14–21, 2021
This year’s festival explores enduring injustices and environmental destruction alongside the resilience of neighborhoods and the communities that fill them.
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Presented by SF Urban Film Fest
December 17, 2020, 4-5:30 PM
Short films based on historic murals highlighting the Bayview’s everyday heroes and a panel discussion featuring Bayview community leaders.
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On view on YBCA.org
December 11, 6 PM–December 13, 2020, 11:59 PM
Watch Tajiri’s documentary and a new conversation between the artist and AFTER LIFE curator Thea Quiray Tagle.
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Presented by YBCA and the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art
October 30–November 3, 2020
Conceived during this pandemic era, the immersive video work depicts the American flag in unsettling stillness, as a marker of territory, and projected onto bodies, while set to a heartrending soundtrack.
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Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque
February 27, 2020, 7:30 PM
A program of contemporary and historic films made in Super-8mm by Spanish filmmakers.
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SF Urban Film Fest
February 8, 2020, 7 PM
As cities gentrify, black artists and activists create new narratives, shift the audience gaze, amplify unheard voices, and showcase their resilience.
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SF Urban Film Fest
February 6, 2020, 6:30 PM
Films and a panel discussion explore personal experiences of diaspora within the global labor market.
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SF Urban Film Fest
February 3, 2020, 6:30 PM
Alex Yong Kang Chow co-curates this event looking at the Hong Kong demonstrations from the lived experience of the student protestors.
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SF Urban Film Fest
February 3–8, 2020
Exploring Place and the Populist Revolt, investigating how cities are ground zero for the struggle to find or hold on to a place, for both incumbents and newly arrived.
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Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque
January 23, 2020, 7:30 PM
New and recent works by the master filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky.
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Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque
December 8, 2019, 5 PM
Cinematheque closes its 2019 exhibition year with a rare screening of Mekas’ legendary film.
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Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque
November 7, 2019
Sylvia Schedelbauer appears in person to present a retrospective of recent films.
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Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque
October 24, 2019
Jodie Mack appears in person to present a collection of works.
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Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque
September 26, 2019
Makino Takashi appears in person to present this digital video work.
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Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque
August 8, 2019
This tribute includes several of Solomon’s greatest films.
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