The Grid (Cauleen Smith, 2011)
Urban NATURE - CANYON CINEMA SALON
Thurs, Sept. 15, 2022 • 16 Sherman Street, San Francisco, CA
A suite of landscape étude films, drawn largely from Canyon’s collection, expanding on the tradition of city symphony filmmaking. In these works, the filmmakers collaborate with the urban environment to create works of visual music—forms of lyrical seeing.
Program:
Hand Held Day (Gary Beydler, 1975), Night Train (Guy Sherwin, 1979), A City in Four Parts (Jon Behrens, 2016), Bridges-Go-Round (Shirley Clarke, 1958), New York Portrait II (Peter Hutton, 1981), Untitled (light) (Julie Murray, 2002), Momentum (Samuael Topiary, 2000), The Grid (Cauleen Smith, 2011), Around (Bill Basquin, 2013).
Cinema of the Anthropocene
8-week screening series
The Panorama Collective, Co-curated with Isabelle Carbonell
Wednesday Night Cinema Society, Film & Digital Media Dept, UC Santa Cruz, Fall 2017.
THE URBAN LANDSCAPE
10 week screening series
Wednesday Night Cinema Society, Film & Digital Media Dept, UC Santa Cruz, Winter 2016.
THE HUSTLE
A 12-evening film program
inspired by Samuel Delaney's Times Square Red Times Square Blue.
Co-curated with Marc Francis Newman
UC Santa Cruz, Winter, 2014
ARE YOU TOGETHER?
MIX/NY 2005 | Experimental Queer Shorts program, curated with EE Miller
Anthology Film Archives, 2005.
The shorts in this program share queer relationships between image and sound. The conversations between what you see and what you hear structure explorations of changing landscapes, real and imagined times and places. Featuring New York premieres of Diane Bonder's "You Are Not From Here," Bill Basquin’s “Martin,” two new videos by Paula Cronan, and Samuael Topiary/EE Miller's "Gum and Tea."
CYBERSTROIKA
an exposition of queer visions of the future
Incorporating the work of over 100 artists in six main exhibition areas: the Safer Sex Visitors Center, The Hal 2000 Social Plan, The CyberExpo, ZöLoft, a cyber-pirate space-ship rave installation, and the Bargain Basement.
a special multimedia event of Frameline's 19th San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, 1995.
Co-produced with Jeffrey Winter, Jose Guevara, David Averbach, Cary Boisvert, Bert Green and Nicole Scheller, co-presented by Please Louise Productions, Museo Contempo, Frameline and Southern Exposure