Hi Frameworkers, I'm excited to announce two programs surveying fifty plus years of filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute that will be held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on January 25, 2026. Curated by Steve Anker and Mark Wilson, the programs include 22 films by SFAI alumni and staff made between 1971 and 2024.
*SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE FILMMAKING* * A FIFTY YEAR SURVEY* *22 Short Experimental Films Surveying Fifty Years of Filmmaking at SFAI * *Curated by Steve Anker and Mark Wilson* *Sunday January 25th 2026 - 1pm and 3pm* SFMOMA 151 Third Street An event related to SFMOMA’s exhibition People Make This Place: SFAI Stories https://www.sfmoma.org/event/personal-voices/ https://www.sfmoma.org/event/orbiting-bodies/ *Program One – Personal Voices**: 1:00pm* *The SFAI Film Department was founded in the late 1960s by Robert Nelson and Lawrence Jordan and for over fifty years attracted young artists who were **who were excited by cinema's potential for personal poetic expression**.** The exceptional faculty — George Kuchar, James Broughton, Gunvor Nelson, Ernie Gehr, Al Wong, Janis Crystal Lipzin, Steve Anker and the department’s founders — encouraged students to find their voices and stretch artistic boundaries that reflected San Francisco’s freedom of lifestyle and radical experimentation. **These two programs of films include films by alumni and others close to the department that can **only begin to suggest the richness of this heritage.* *Luminae** by Dominic Angerame (2023, 4 min., digital, b&w, sound)* *Confessions** by Curt McDowell (1971, 11 min., 16mm, color, sound)* *Florence** by Peter Hutton (1975, 7 min., 16mm, b&w, silent)* *Catch** by Vincent Grenier (1975, 4 min., 16mm, color, silent)* *If X, Then Y** by Jacalyn White (1986, 8 min., Super-8mm, color, sound)* *Visible Inventory Nine: Pattern of Events** by Janis Crystal Lipzin (1981, 12 min., 16mm, b&w, **sound)* *Noema** by Scott Stark (1998, 11 min., 16mm, color, sound)* *The Penfield Road** by Diane Kitchen (1998, 5 ½ min., 16mm, color, sound)* *Ephemerality** by Marian Wallace (1979, 3 min., 16mm, color, sound)* *Alas, Departing **by Dicky Bahto (2022, 7 ½ min., digital, color, sound)* *79 minutes total time* *Program Two: Orbiting Bodies** – 3:00pm* *This program **examines affinities shared in the work of SFAI alumni artists spanning **the decades. Sometimes the bodies are those of the SFAI community flowing together, sometimes the stationary orbit of one’s partner in front of the camera, or a child’s repetitive revolutions around a parent as they both age. Other times these bodies are planetary, keeping ancient celestial time. Threaded through the projector in inventive ways, film can even split off from its usual path and orbit itself. Working with the instruments of this time based medium, these films question our perception of time, occasionally in collaboration with composers of another time based medium — music. The work and community of SFAI artists orbit one another across those decades.* *Retrospectroscope** by Kerry Laitala (1997, 5 min., 16mm, b&w, silent) * *Redshift** by Emily Richardson (2001, 4 min., 16mm, color, sound)* *The Shadow Line** by Toney W. Merritt (1985, 13.5 min., 16mm on digital, b&w, **sound)* *The Dark Room** by Minyong Jang (2007, 4 min., 16mm, color, silent)* *Moebius Strip** by Lúis Recoder (1997, 13 min., 16mm, b&w, silent)* *Shape Shift** by Scott Stark (2004, 3 min., digital, color, sound)* *Poet in Orbit** by Joel Singer (1980, 2 min., 16mm on digital, b&w, sound)* *Same Stream Twice** by Lynne Sachs (2012, 4 min., 16mm on digital, b&w/color, **sound)* *Riverbody** by Alice Anne Parker (1970, 7 min., 16mm, b&w, sound) * *George** by Henry Hills (1976, 2 min., 16mm, color, silent)* *Celestial** by Gregg Biermann (2018, 9 min., digital, color, live score by **John Davis)* * 66 minutes total time *
-- Frameworks mailing list [email protected] https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org
