San Francisco Cinematheque’s CROSSROADS Film

Screenings & Films

San Francisco Cinematheque’s CROSSROADS Film

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, gathered by festival curator and co-founder Steve Polta as part of Bay Area Now 9. Inaugurated in 2010 and currently presented at San Francisco venue Gray Area, CROSSROADS is a curated snapshot of contemporary aesthetic trends in non-commercial artist-made film, video, and performance. For program details (and the “online echo” of CROSSROADS 2023) please see sfcinematheque.org →

Curated by BAN9 Curatorial Counsel member Gina Basso, the ongoing BAN9 Film series will span the entirety of the exhibition, featuring acclaimed Bay Area filmmakers, collectives, and new media artists. Offerings will vary monthly, reflecting BAN9’s curatorial themes and diving into the breadth and depth of the Bay Area’s vibrant film scene by highlighting the local organizations and individuals who contribute to the shape and form of the region’s rich cinematic landscape.

Program One: CROSSROADS Festival 2010–2016

The Lonely Chicken Dream (Beverly D’Angelo:, 3 min, 1954)

Boys of Summer (Alee Peoples, 13 min, 2009)

A Child Goes Burying Dead Insects (Rei Hayama, 5 min, 2009)

Gold Moon, Sharp Arrow (Malic Amalya & Max Garnet, 11 min, 2012)

Chroma (Jeremy Moss, 4 min, 2012)

A Set of Miniatures (Jonathan Schwartz, 9 min, 2014)

Hold On (Bettina Hoffman, 6 min, 2016)

Program Two: CROSSROADS Festival 2017–2023

About something that concerns us all (Cristiana Miranda, 9 min, 2017)

Venus Delta (Antoinette Zwirchmayr, 4 min, 2016)

everyday star (Rajee Samarasinghe, 9 min, 2018)

It Matters What (Francisca Duran, 9 min, 2019)

June July (Kevin Jerome Everson, 5 min, 2021)

Dans les cieux et sur la terre (Erin Weisgerber, 5 min, 2022)

Hevn (P. Staff, 5 min, 2022)

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.

San Francisco Cinematheque is a non-profit media arts organization dedicated to the cultivation of the international field of non-commercial artist-made cinema. San Francisco Cinematheque inspires aesthetic dialog among artists, stimulates critical discourse, and encourages appreciation of artist-made cinema across the broader cultural landscape.

Cinematheque is dedicated to presenting and encouraging study and appreciation of film, video and performance works which engage with the histories and traditions associated with forms of cinema identified under various non-commercial rubrics as avant-garde, experimental, underground, personal, graphic, abstract, expanded, and visionary (etc., etc., etc.), including formally innovative narrative and documentary forms, animated works, and other marginalized forms. In its dedication to supporting aesthetically radical cinema from all historical eras and geo-political locales, Cinematheque celebrates the breadth and depth of this vibrant art form. Since its founding in 1961, Cinematheque has supported the careers of thousands of film/video artists and enjoys a strong position as a major nexus in the international avant-garde film community.

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: Chroma (2012) by Jeremy Moss. Courtesy of San Francisco Cinematheque