NEW ITALIAN CINEMA
Lecture 21
Friday, November 20, 6:30 pm; Saturday, November 21, 1:00 pm
Friday, November 20, 6:30 pm; Saturday, November 21, 1:00 pm
NEW ITALIAN CINEMA
Sea Purple
Friday, November 20, 9:15 pm; Saturday November 21, 6:30 pm
Friday, November 20, 9:15 pm; Saturday November 21, 6:30 pm
NEW ITALIAN CINEMA
Vincere
Sunday, November 22, 5:45 pm & 9:00 pm
Sunday, November 22, 5:45 pm & 9:00 pm
FILM ARTS FORUM
SFFS Film Arts Forum: Sundance Confidential
Monday, December 7, 7:30 pm (7:00 pm door)
Monday, December 7, 7:30 pm (7:00 pm door)
KINOTEK
Catherine Galasso: Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice
December 12–13, 8:00 pm
December 12–13, 8:00 pm
SF360 FILM+CLUB
Steven Severin: Music for Silents
Tuesday, January 12, doors 7:00 pm, show 8:00 pm
Tuesday, January 12, doors 7:00 pm, show 8:00 pm
Current Projects
Family Matters
Eliza Hemenway
Eliza Hemenway
Family Matters reveals the political as deeply personal in a series of short experimental documentary films exploring the filmmaker’s marriage, divorce, and life as a single mother.
Ferlinghetti
Christopher Felver
Christopher Felver
Lawrence Ferlinghett's City Lights Bookshop is the cornerstone for modern political activism. His championing of the 1st Ammendment was the benchmark for America's literary free expression. Our most beloved living poet is the pre-eminent figure of modern political thought and perhaps America's most influential artist. Archival footage, historical photographs and insightful interviews with his peers highlight Ferlinghetti's enormous social, political and artistic impact on American society.
Fifth Form
Adam Orman
Adam Orman
Set during the first Gulf war, Fifth Form is a dark comedy about a prank war that escalates along ethnic lines in a small boys’ dorm of an elite prep school. The story tracks the coming of age of Josh Schuster, a new fifth former, who, while navigating the house cliques, finds that he has become the catalyst of the conflict.
Fiji Time
Alexandra Lacey
Alexandra Lacey
After Leaving Fiji 64 years ago as a war bride, the filmmaker’s 82-year old mother returns to her island birthplace. Aided by the traditions of oral history, Fiji Time documents the women’s struggle to come to terms with memory, secret family histories and the legacy of colonialism. In the process of traveling the island together, the two find greater understanding of their shared history and each other.
For Use & Beauty: The Architecture of Alfred Browning Parker
Holly du Rivage
Holly du Rivage
Alfred Browning Parker is representative of the spirit and genius of America. His humanistic approach to architecture defines American modernism. His buildings illustrate its breadth and depth. For Use & Beauty explores the broad range of Parker's creative endeavors in architecture, alternative energy research, literature and fine art. It presents Parker's practical and elegant solutions for restoring balance to the natural world and adding beauty to the built environment.
Forty Winters
Valarie Jernigan
Valarie Jernigan
In 1969 American Indians occupied Alcatraz Island, beginning the American Indian activist movement. Forty years later, one of the original activists seeks to reignite the movement by putting the political symbol of the occupation, the tipi, back on the island. He looks to his children for support. Now adults, and engaged in their own struggle for survival, his children question the real benefits of the movement and its costs to their family. Forty Winters is a story about the idealism and the aftermath of the American Indian movement as told through one family’s struggle for cultural identity and survival.
Freewheel
Austin Alward, Andreas Burgess
Austin Alward, Andreas Burgess
Set deep within the pedal-driven sub-culture of San Francisco's bicycle and machine-art fringe, Freewheel is a feature-length documentary film which follows Paul the Plumber, a kinetic sculptor, junk re-purposer and father of two. As we see him craft a series of rider-propelled adventure machines and live his life over the course of six years, Paul shows us the value of incorporating creativity into the everyday and of never losing sight of the playful.
From Roses to Rivets
Michel Fraser
Michel Fraser
From Roses to Rivets is a documentary comprised of a one-hour program intended for broadcast television and two extra hours of video for educational purposes. While the material will reflect issues facing working women across the country, California will take center stage as the state has throughout the years led the nation in championing progressive labor standards that were then embraced universally—including breaking down racial and gender barriers. The film traces the history of unionizing women from the Gold Rush to the present and recounts the battles in their quest to win dignity and equality in the workplace.
From the Ground Up
Kristi S. Adams
Kristi S. Adams
From the Ground Up is a feature length documentary that delves into the lives of gardeners in three cities, weaving their stories together to showcase their individual struggles and common goals. The film allows these unique stories to be united through the narrative representation of a garden’s life cycle, paying close attention to the lives of remarkable people who have succeeded at turning the old Victory Garden movement into a new and surprisingly successful reality.
