The Red Shoes

Films

The Red Shoes

Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA |

Saturday, October 31, 2026, 2 PM

Join us for an afternoon screening of The Red Shoes (1948)—cinema’s quintessential backstage drama. A rising star (Moira Shearer) is torn between two forces: the composer who loves her (Marius Goring) and the impresario determined to make her great (Anton Walbrook). With outstanding performances, beautiful cinematography by Jack Cardiff, Oscar-winning music, and an unforgettable central dance sequence, this beloved classic shares with GaHee Park: Behind the Curtain a flair for theatricality, bold color, and the charged relationship between art and life.

Enjoy the film and themed snacks as part of this series inspired by GaHee Park’s exhibition Behind the Curtain. Come early or stay late to visit our galleries—free admission is included with your ticket!

Tickets

Screening Room, YBCA

Tickets: $15

Ticket includes the film, themed snacks—while supplies last—and gallery admission.

About the series: Through an Open Window  

Co-curated by filmmaker Michael Vass and artist GaHee Park, Through an Open Window offers a highly personal survey of cinematic inspirations, as well as a kind of funhouse mirror reflecting various themes and motifs found in Park’s YBCA exhibition GaHee Park: Behind the Curtain.

Some of the films included are direct influences on Park’s paintings, while others provide a more general cinematic parallel to her aesthetic universe, echoing core elements of her practice: layered stories and nested narratives; fantasy and dream sequences; social rituals and taboos; doppelgangers and mistaken identities; voyeurism and theatricality; personae and performance; natural splendour and cocktail charm.

Ranging from silent films to recent releases and spanning several genres and countries of origin, the films featured in Through an Open Window are linked by their psychological sophistication and formal complexity, with a particular focus on the suggestive ambiguities that emerge from the tensions between narrative and pictorial space, which Park explores so memorably in her work.

Print Source: American Film Genre Archive

Film Details

Year: 1948
Running Time: 133 minutes
Format: DCP
Directors: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Country: United Kingdom

Join us for more films in the series Through an Open Window
Saturdays, August 15–October 31, 2026, 2 PM

See the full line up →

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Rear Window

Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA

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Querelle

Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA

Saturday, September 5, 2026, 2 PM

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The Music Room

Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA

Saturday, October 10, 2026, 2 PM

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The Ceremony

Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA

Saturday, October 17, 2026, 2 PM

GaHee Park

Michael Vass

Moira Shearer in The Red Shoes (1948). Courtesy American Film Genre Archive.

YBCA programs are made possible in part by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Blue Shield Of California, Bob A. Ross Foundation, City and County of San Francisco, Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Malia Simonds, Mayor Daniel Lurie, National Endowment for the Arts, Pisces Foundation, The Ron Conway Family, Salesforce, San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The Svane Family Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Yerba Buena Gardens Conservancy, Yerba Buena Partnership, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Board of Directors and Members.