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Amy Halpern In person.

GAZE is honored to be hosting the San Francisco premiere of Amy Halpern’s feature film FALLING LESSONS (1992) coupled with two of her recent short films.

Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called FALLING LESSONS, “a stunning, life-affirming experience from a major experimental film artist.”

Amy Halpern is an independent New York filmmaker working in Los Angeles. Her films are abstract in their concern with light, movement and the film medium, but they are also human in their elements and themes. One theme which persists throughout her work is that liberation––from social, political, psychological, perceptual and even bodily constraints––is indeed possible.

Artist website: http://amyhalpern.com/

 ROURKE + GALLAGHER + PUPPETS FACING WEST +
A star-studded lineup is showcased for this latest in our series of engagé experimental animation! In person is Dee Hibbert-Jones with her (and Nomi Talisman’s) rotoscoped tour de force Last Day of Freedom, following films from Martha Colburn, Jodi Mack, Nancy Jean Tucker, and the Quay Brothers. Kelly Gallagher is represented with a few of her feminist flame-throwers, while regional genius Jeremy Rourke embodies and embellishes his two new pieces with glockenspiel and harp, and maybe a trapeze, and surely a trampoline. PLUS Facing West, Lydia Greer’s plucky puppet troupe, performing their live-musical shadow-show. AND Gerry Anderson, talking ostriches, and Brother Gilbert’s Temescal home-brew!