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San Francisco State Universities Visual Anthropology Program, under the guidance of Cade Bursell and Peter Biella, presents 8 student ethnographic videos. After nine months of fieldwork, research, and production, SFSU’s cinema and anthropology student collaborations have produced a series of 15 minute videos focusing on topics of : Tibetan youth in the Bay Area, migrant motherhood and paid childcare, transgender issues, SFO airport screeners, Mexican farm workers in Napa Valley, a portrait of a Death Valley father/son mining team, drum circles and surrounding culture, and a portrait of a Palestinian- American woman. Discussion will follow and all videomakers will be present.

The presenting filmmakers are : Adam Fuhrman, Clare Bakota, Nicole Lucchesi, Danielle Muldoon, Suzanne La, Ryan White, Jacob Walker, Peter Orth, Shay Cannedy, Mindy Gross, Justin Dubois, Henry Ramos Jr., Harjant Gill, and Jesse Cortez.

Looking for something out of the ordinary, we asked local animators for the video tapes they prefer to hide under their beds, perhaps thinking it wrong to screen such work at a public screening. These animations are some of the funniest, strangest and just off the deep-end experimental works I’ve seen spring up among local San Francisco artists.

Featuring animations by: Todd Bever, Nate Boyce, Charles Chadwick, Todd Fiore, Doug Freeman, Josh Hare, Mike Minor, Johnny Rogers, Chian Sesen, Brian Traylor, Matt Woods, Jud Yalkut,  plus others.  Live music by Flail.

Presented by: Experimental Synapses
www.experimentalsynapses.org

A night of shorts inspired by the themes from the television series
“Connections,” created by Science Historian, James Burke. .Burke our virtual
host, will present a series of film and videos including “Worms” a film by
Sharif Nakhleh, showing what some of us are willing to do for the almighty
dollar; “Cafe”, a film by Jess Fulton, depicts an Oakland in the
mid-nineties; and “Haunt,” by Nick DiSessa a mix of shorts, one can
literally find the “connections.” Other filmmakers include Tina Eislinger,
Jeremy Roylance, and Matt Levie. We hope to encourage the filmmakers and
viewers to make new connections, new links, or new possibilities for the way seemingly disparate concepts interconnect.
Other filmmakers that night:  Emmanuelle Antolin, Jen Covens, Sam Young,
Mark Solario, Joseph Skorman, Tina Eislinger, Jeremy Roylance, Phoenix
Stephens, and Edward Rosenblum.