Saturday, February 28, 2026, 8:00 pm, classic-editor
BILL DANIEL’s MISSION BAY + BEN WOODS’ BASTION OF MEMORY +
Our annual iteration of local work on SF locales here foregrounds the brave interrogations of changing Bayshore communities by a prodigal photog/filmmaker who’s fortunately returned to roost on the City‘s easternmost side –Bill Daniel unspools two beauties on the Bayshore‘s, uh, beaches, in tandem with a sneak-peak at Greta Snider‘s 16mm paean to the same liminal paddlin’ zone. Fort Point stalwart Ben Wood steps up with his own 18 min. essay on that same shoreline, though at its northernmost, a downright riveting account of the Irish immigrant who manned the Lifesaving Station at the promontory, who details ship-lore in the dangerous days before the Golden Gate. A Fisherman’s Wharf overture celebrates those shallows between those two compass points. This focus on our proud extension into our beloved salt/fresh water pond is complicated by other supporting shorts – from Jim (Angels) Granato, (hopefully) a Thad Povey episode, and, yes, a knee-slapping send-up of Haight/Ashbury stereotypes by decidedly LA-based Damon Packard. Plus a passel of pre-show pieces by the home-team, all to illuminate possible understandings of what “San Francisco” might mean. $12