Screenings & Films
Bay Area Now 9 Looping Film Program |
December 1–30, 2023, 11 AM–5 PM
Experience an hour-long program of select expanded cinema performances that have been presented by Shapeshifters Cinema over its 11-year history. The program illustrates the different ways artists have worked with time-based media by combining various forms of live, improvised, and/or mediated performance that push past the traditional confines of the film screen to create ephemeral, one-of-a-kind experiences that defy categorization.
Illusion (Minoosh Zomorodinia; 2014, performed 2019; image and sound)
Drum Piece (Andy Puls; 2021; image and sound)
Proxima (Kerry Laitala (image) and Kenneth Atchley (sound); 2019)
Song for the Pain Body (Tommy Becker; 2014, performed 2019; image and sound)
In dehydration melts (excerpt) (Keith Evans (image) and The Rae Diamond Long Tone Choir (sound); 2019)
Mobility: Diagnostic (Killer Banshee; 2008, performed 2020; image and sound)
Untitled performance (excerpt) (Dennis Keefe and Jim Baldocchi (image) with Agnes Szelag & Kanoko Nishi (sound); 2018)
My First Word (Jeremy Rourke; 2019; image and sound)
Dream It Forward (excerpt) (Kit Young (image) with Tonya Powell and Tina Combs (dance), Royland Lobato (choreography), and Joel Mulen (sound); 2017)
Shapeshifters Cinema
Shapeshifters Cinema is an experimental microcinema located in Oakland, CA. Their mission is to provide a venue and support for contemporary artists working with experimental and artist-made film, video, sound, music, and other types of mediated performance. They host regular live events, offer workshops on experimental moving image and sound production, and operate a storefront shop specializing in print publications, DVDs, sound recordings, and other artist-made media.
Gina Basso
Gina Basso is a San Francisco-based independent film programmer of experimental, artist-made, and non-fiction film and video works and thematic narrative film series. She has organized film programs for local cinemas including The Roxie Theater, The Castro Theater, and Alamo Drafthouse New Mission Theater. She has curated programs for McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, Design Within Reach, Hunter’s Point Shipyard and the Northwest Film Forum and is the former film curator for San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In her creative practice, she uses video to explore transitional or altered states of being. Through moving collage, handmade animation, and sound she draws on a rich tradition of experimentation with various forms, materials, and processes, combining found and original footage to harness the energy of poetic montage. Her video work has been presented at CROSSROADS Festival, Artist Television Access, HAXAN Film Festival, and Antimatter Experimental Film Festival.
Bay Area Now 9 is curated by Martin Strickland, Director of Curatorial Initiatives, and Fiona Ball, independent curator; under the artistic leadership of Amy Kisch, Head of Art + Public Programming; and developed with the inaugural YBCA Curatorial Counsel of curators, artists, activists, and cultural workers working across the Bay Area’s creative disciplines and communities: Erina Alejo, Gina Basso, Jason Bayani, Mina Girgis, Candace Huey, José Ome Navarrete Mazatl, Aay Preston Myint, and Lehua Taitano.
The BAN9 YBCA project team also includes Yoni Asega, Manager of Exhibition Design; David Tim, Head Preparator, Project Design; Bella Manfredi, Senior Preparator, Multimedia + Graphics; O Soo Vegh, Exhibition Project Manager + Registrar; Rea Lynn de Guzman, Manager of Public + Educational Programs; Flavia Mora, Public + Educational Programs Coordinator; and Cori Lucas, Community + Program Event Manager.
YBCA is grateful to the preparator team who made this exhibition possible: Isaiah Acosta, Amy Bergstein, Micha Dudgeonwood, Owen Goodwin, German Hoyle, Calvin Jones, Linden Julien-Lehr, Lauren Kenwood, Benjamin Leon, Maren Mouhanna, Éamon McGivern, Christian Neill, David Prigge, and Kelsey Westphal.
YBCA Programs are made possible in part by the City and County of San Francisco, MacKenzie Scott, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC), #StartSmall, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Marilyn Conrad Trust, New England Foundation for the Arts, California Arts Council, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, William G. Irwin Charity Foundation, The Bernard Osher Foundation, The Sato Foundation, Gaia Fund, Office of Mayor London N. Breed, San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development, Headlands Center for the Arts, ICA San Francisco, Bay Area Mind and Music Society, GitHub, Harvey and Leslie Wagner Foundation, McNabb Foundation, Raymond James Charitable, Savant Group Charitable Foundation, The Building Works, Fremont Group Foundation, and YBCA Members.
Lead image: Drum Piece (Andy Puls; 2021; image and sound)
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Screenings & Films
Bay Area Now 9 Looping Film Program
December 1–30, 2023, 11 AM–5 PM
Screenings & Films
A showcase of expanded cinema
Saturday, December 9, 2023, 12–2 PM