Looks great! Congratulations Mark and Stephen One, note: Minyong Jang’s The Dark Room is from 2001, not 2007. I think it’s important historically to note that as it places him in a different cohort of students (cool that he and Richardson were contemporaries) and influence (I think he was one of the first Korean students to come to SFAI and inspired a few more to follow in his footsteps). Also important to note that Ernie Gehr was one of his teachers (Gehr left SFAI the summer of 2006). The similar subject of The Dark Room and Gehr’s video GLIDER (also 2001) speaks to a similarity of interest and the mutually beneficial interaction between teacher and student that was such an important part of the SFAI experience.
All the best with the screening! Chris —- Chris Kennedy (‘06-‘08) > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 16:17:16 -0800 > From: Stephen Anker <[email protected]> > To: Experimental Film Discussion List <[email protected]> > Subject: [Frameworks] San Francisco Art Institute Filmmaking - A > Fifty-Year Survey > Message-ID: > <CAFcKuZb5s=+SO-r+3TC=mgybkmhn5hohqksteg8dqtw3d05...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > 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 * > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://film-gallery.org/pipermail/frameworks_film-gallery.org/attachments/20260108/3c92bcf0/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Frameworks Digest, Vol 258, Issue 3 > ****************************************** -- Frameworks mailing list [email protected] https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org
