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SF Cinematheque presents:

Working collaboratively since 1994, Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby create provocatively genuine video works which explore (and evoke) of states of emotional tenderness, empathy and grace. In their complexly confrontational use of such taboo tropes as cuteness, earnest direct address, emotive identification with animals and pop-cultural fixation, Duke & Battersby disarm viewers with sincere gestures of connection while reflecting on such topics as personal identity and empowerment, the social value of fragility and the withering of the concept of the divine in contemporary life. (Steve Polta)

SCREENING: Dear Lorde (2015) a young-adult saga of self-exploration, involving fan mail sent to primatologist Jane Goodall, bishop Desmond Tutu and the New Zealand teen pop Star Lorde (among others); Here is Everything (2013) a video missive from the future (narrated by cat and rabbit) featuring deep thoughts on death, god and the attainment of grace; Dear Britney (2013), an epistolary repurposed music video by Ms. Spears and will.i.am; Perfect Nature World (2003) which explores a young girl’s sense of unworthiness in the face of the resplendent wonder of the natural world and a special work-in-progress screening of You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born, and You Are an Amazement Now.

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MICRO-ARCHIVES/ ANOMALIES + JOE DANTE’s MOVIE ORGY

With Civil Defense crackers on offer, this Atomic Age retro-romp sets off a feisty trifecta on the high stakes and high art of Motion Picture Archiving, with tonight’s celebration of Collectors and Collectionsoscillating between behind-the-scenes and in-front-of-screens. Our favorite four human-scale “folk archives” share both their anomalous sources and their masterful re-mixes, including several on 16mm! Adam Dziesinski remembers Oddball Films(Stephen Parr RIP) with his 275 Capp Street; Albuquerque’s Basement Filmsbrag about their post-War industrials buttressing a CD fallout shelter, parlaying a remix by Kamila Kuc, North Carolina’s Skip the AV Geek Elsheimer fills halls with sublimely ridiculous “orphans”; and Alessia Cecchet (in person) unveils her own WWW {the whale who wasn’t} collage coming out of the Internet Archive, based in our own Richmond district! ALL FOLLOWED by the most famous 16mm compendium in film history, Joe Dante’s Movie Orgy!! Tho the reels were once rumored to top 7 hours, it’s a much later cut screened here (and off video), but we promise to show more than half of this irresistible Olympian assembly of monsters, sci-fi, and Trash that Dante spliced together as a late-60s grad student