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Join us for an evening of cinematic reveries by students from the Motion Graphics fall class from the San Francisco Art Institute! Group works include:

 The “Re-shot Shit-faced Shoot-out” and other collaborative work exploring the edges of live action, animation, and the nature of projected motion itself. Be aware and ready for the diverse personal works explicitly exploring themes with emotional, experimental and controversial natures.

These films exhibit a diverse array of frame-by-frame filmmaking techniques including hand painting, optical printing, hand processing, re-photography and other
processes.

Exhibiting artists include:

Rachael Abernathy
John Alston
Michael Ball
Nathan Boyce
David Castro
Anthony DeSimone
Tiffany Doesken
Jorge Flores
Christian Gainsley
Ryan Glenn
Sarah Hagey
Rotem Linial
Justine Lo
Jessica Lockard
Rachel Manera
Pedro Moreno
Evdoxia Mpras
Jennifer Noland
Lettie Rennekamp
Esther Weng

Also, explore the 170-year old animation technique of the phenakistiscope!

3 Bucks!! Snacks and Beverages!!

Entartete Kunst (German for “degenerate art”) is an anarcho-electro label with a mission: spreading propaganda. Living on the edge of empire, three electronic music artists (Drowning Dog, the Deletist, and Malatesta) plus one poet (Raw Knowledge) are out to make music, poetry, and trouble. Collectively operated, the San Francisco based label puts out thought-provoking electronic music that fuses beats and politics (think dark, slow hip-hop with Noam Chomsky samples). This documentary offers an intimate look into these artists’ lives, and introduces America – as seen through their eyes. Provocative and stimulating, ‘Spreading Propaganda’ features a gritty soundtrack of Entartete Kunst’s finest releases to date.

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Symphony for a Sinner (1979) 56 min 16mm

Symphony for a Sinner was a long, lavishly photographed film generally considered the magnum opus of the class productions. New York critic and coauthor of Midnight Movies J. Hoberman would rank it as one of the ten best films of the year, while Stan Brakhage would call it “the ultimate class picture.” John Waters, who now visited George regularly whenever he passed through San Francisco, envied the lurid photography and wanted George to shoot his next picture (which would have been Polyester and didn’t happen). Symphony, Waters said, had the look he craved for Desperate Living (1977).

Color Me Shameless 1967, 16mm, b&w/so, 30m
Starring Bob Cowan, Gina Zuckerman, Donna Kerness.

This movie was made when I was a bit depressed which is nothing new, but also the main actor, Bob Cowan, happened to be depressed also and so we had a wonderful time working together. One of the actresses was also separated from her husband at this time and the movie solidifies into concrete the repressed desires of everyone who works with me, or more realistically, instead of concrete, the production becomes a frozen, brittle enema bag that slowly thaws and can only be appreciated along channels previously blocked by organic reality.

Prints and projection provided by Canyon Cinema Co-op