2012 marks the 30th anniversary of the establishment of Headlands Center for the Arts, one of the most vital creative organizations in the Bay Area and the country. Headlands’ mission is to support artistic culture by providing the environment and means for artists to produce innovative work and to connect such practitioners to audiences of all sorts. Their residencies are among the most sought-after internationally, bringing artists from around the nation and the world to their beautiful campus just north of the Golden Gate. Ranging from the wonderfully humorous to the devastatingly beautiful, this program of short films consists of works that have been made at Headlands throughout the years. Compiled and presented by Headlands Program Director Brian Karl, this screening is not to be missed.

Complete program:

Means and Ends, Bonnie Begusch (silent, 3 minutes)
Animated typographic patterns generate alternate realities of perception in multiple dimensions.

Soft Materials, Daria Martin (10 minutes)
A fine-focused exploration of naked human bodies in motion as they get to know pre-cybernetic machinery—the beginning and end of unfamiliar ages?

Reifying Desire 3, Jacolby Satterwhite (silent, 17 minutes)
A non-stop spontaneous house party dance meets St. Thomas to yield the birth of something extraordinary as the agony and ectasies of the human body are transmogrified in virtual space.

Untitled Fog Documentary, Sam Green (excerpt, 6 minutes)
A work in progress by Oscar-nominated filmmaker of The Weather Underground focuses on the mistiest parts of San Francisco.

Sunset Scavenger, Bill Daniel (excerpt, 4 minutes)
Handheld glimpses of life on the edge of a disappearing city in stark and beautiful black and white.

Beatles Über California, Kota Ezawa (3 minutes)
The British Invasion returns by lip-syncing Dead Kennedy’s iconic punk tune.

Elowah, Keith Evans and Loren Chasse (10 minutes)
Godhead in a waterfall, commemorating a wedding that is more than just a life cycle event.

Madame and Little Boy, Magnus Bärtas (28 minutes)
This short featuring Will Oldham explores the Cold War era through parallel cultures that might otherwise never be seen to converge: Headlands’ former Nuclear Missile Site vs. North Korean film stars held hostage.


TRT 75 min.