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Screenings & Films
Bayview is Alive: Film Screening & Panel
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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Screenings & Films
AFTER LIFE (we survive) presents Rea Tajiri’s LORDVILLE
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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Screenings & Films
Jeffrey Gibson: Nothing is Eternal
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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Screenings & Films
I Hate the Internet
Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque
March 12, 2020, 7:30 PM (Cancelled)
Screenings & Films
Pocket-Size Cinema in Spain: Experiments in Super-8
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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Screenings & Films
let me tell you what home looks like
Presented by SF Urban Film Fest & YBCA
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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Screenings & Films
Diaspora: Identity and the Pathos of Global Labor
Presented by SF Urban Film Fest & YBCA
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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Festival
SF Urban Film Fest 2020
Presented by SF Urban Film Fest & YBCA
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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Screenings & Films
Be Water: Civil Disobedience and the Fight for Democracy in Hong Kong
Presented by SF Urban Film Fest & YBCA
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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Screenings & Films
Interludes: New and Recent Films by Nathaniel Dorsky
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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