A universal story of loss and absolution set around the last four years of a 54 year marriage. This documentary is both a hard portrayal of Alzheimer’s disease and of marriage. Calvin tries to make up for his shortcomings as a husband and father when faced with the deterioration of his partner. filmmaker, Jon Fletcher, will be present for Q&A
* Winner, Best Documentary, Boston Film Festival
Filmmakers are often drawn to explore the face of where they live, and San Francisco offers a field of contrasting and visually arresting locations that has inspired experimental films and videos for more than fifty years. This program of work made between 1979 and 2005 includes Dominic Angerame’s Freedom’s Skyway, a blend of Chinatown and film emulsion fireworks; Michael Rudnick’s elegant cinematic paean of shadow and light, Panorama; Mark McGowan’s ethereal and mystifying contemplation Fog; Toney Merritt’s whimsical mystery By The Sea; Abigail Child’s Pacific Far East Line, a cinematic re-presentation of downtown movement and rhythm; Ken Paul Rosenthal’s I My Bike, a poetic rumination on life lived on the street; Tomonari Nishikawa’s Market Street, a concentrated mosaic of patterns encountered on the city’s main thoroughfare; Scott Stark’s delightful visual conundrum of urban spaces, SLOW; and Anne McGuire’s verité fantasy on the urban mundane, Joe DiMaggio 1, 2, 3. Thanks to Steve Polta. (Steve Anker)
Employing the “cut and paste” language of urban advertising, local artists Carling McManus and Jen Susman relocate San Francisco’s Apple Store by adhering it directly to the windows at ATA on Valencia Street. Using a large photograph of Apple’s storefront display, “Apple of my eye” masquerades the slick commercial aesthetic of Union Square within the hip non-profit art space of the Mission District. By rendering the ATA storefront as two contexts in one, McManus and Susman construct a subtle shift in geography, hinting at the socio-economic expectations of each neighborhood and highlighting ubiquity of mediated visual experience.
Jen Susman & Carling McManus are artists based in San Francisco. For more information, please visit http://www.jensusman.com/ and http://www.carlingmcmanus.com/.