EPHEMERA UNEARTHED!
Anomalies from Baldwin’s Other Cinema
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OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, March 12 · 5-7pm
EXHIBITION ON VIEW: March 12 – May 29 · Monday–Friday · 9am–5pm
Presented by SFAI Legacy Foundation + Archive & San Francisco Cinematheque
Attention filmmakers! The CROSSROADS 2026 submission deadline has been EXTENDED to the end of March! Send us your films!
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DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?
Feb 18 · 7pm · Bayfront Theatre, Fort Mason
Free w/ RSVP
A 16mm program of works that shaped Anthony McCall’s practice—plus an early McCall film.
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Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture + @sfcinematheque.bsky.social
We’re thrilled to be co-presenting... ROBERT BEAVERS: FILMMAKER IN RESIDENCE! Opening this Friday at @bampfa.bsky.social
See event details and get tickets here: bampfa.org/program/robe...
Thank you ❤️
Our community helped raise $48,000, making this our most successful year-end fundraiser to date and securing our work for another year. Onward to 2026.
Happy New Year! 🎉
We’ve reached 96% of our $50K goal — thank you! ❤️
We’re almost there! Help us close the gap and carry Cinematheque’s work into 2026!
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We’re now at 76% of our $50K goal — thank you! ❤️
Cinematheque’s year-end fundraiser continues, and we’re close but not there yet.
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#experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm
SFCinematheque rings in the new year with two in-person screenings with Jennifer Reeves!
📅 Jan 14 @ Shapeshifters (Oakland) — When It Was Blue
📅 Jan 15 @ Gray Area (SF) — The Gloria of Your Imagination
Details + tickets: www.sfcinematheque.org
#experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #sfcinematheque
With your support, we’re working out our long-term plan to continue serving the community sustainably, as are our partners at @sfcinematheque.bsky.social, Shapeshifters Cinema, The Lab, and the Roxie Theater. Please keep them in your hearts and wallets!
We’re at 74% of our $50K goal—thank you! ❤️
Cinematheque still needs your support to survive in this post-NEA moment.
Help us reach the finish line and keep our programming alive into 2026
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#experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #sfcinematheque #nonprofit #yearend
Our sincere thanks to Stephanie Barber for her generous words and for the many years she has shared her work with Cinematheque. ❤️
Help us reach our $50,000 goal and keep Cinematheque alive! Make a tax-deductible donation or become a member today: www.sfcinematheque.org/about/suppor...
Want to support the arts with your holiday giving?
Visit our bookstore: www.sfcinematheque.org/bookstore/
Discover rare and micro-published books on experimental, non-commercial, artist-made cinema. Or gift a loved one a Cinematheque Membership — a full year of free or discounted screenings!
This #GivingTuesday, please support SFCinematheque.
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We’re halfway to our $50K goal—your gift helps sustain our screenings, publications & archives into 2026.
#experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #nonprofit
Deep gratitude to Lynne Sachs for her reflection and longtime support of Cinematheque ❤️
Help us reach our $50,000 goal and keep Cinematheque alive! Make a tax-deductible donation or become a member today: www.sfcinematheque.org/about/suppor...
Join us for a tribute screening honoring the late Ken Jacobs — visionary, provocateur, and master of the moving image.
Tuesday, December 2
7:30pm at Gray Area
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SCREENING: Window (1964), Mountaineer Spinning (2004), and Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son (1969)
Deep gratitude to Cauleen Smith for her powerful words and continued support ❤️
Help us reach our $50,000 goal and keep Cinematheque alive! Make a tax-deductible donation or become a member today: www.sfcinematheque.org/about/suppor...
Huge thanks to @sfgate.com and Timothy Karoff for shining a light on San Francisco Cinematheque and the urgent challenges facing small arts organizations like ours.
Read the full article & help us meet our goal of $50,000 and keep Cinematheque alive!
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CALL TO ACTION — SAVE CINEMATHEQUE
The NEA’s collapse cut 25% of our funding. Help us raise $50,000 to keep San Francisco Cinematheque alive! Your support sustains 60+ years of experimental film culture.
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#experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #nonprofit
Larry Gottheim: The Red Thread
A 3-Program Residency
November 5–7
Roxie Theater · Gray Area · Shapeshifters Cinema
Larry Gottheim in person at all screenings
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Cinematheque seeks submissions of recent films, videos, and works of performance cinema for CROSSROADS 2026, the 17th iteration of our annual film festival! See the entry guidelines and submit your films! bit.ly/4nllt49
#XRDS26 #filmfestival #experimentalfilm #CROSSROADSFILMFESTIVAL
JORDAN BELSON: COSMOGENESIS — A Symposium of Transcendental Films, Lectures, Performances and Visual Arts
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3 days, 9 events
September 26-28 at Gray Area
Presented in association with Gray Area and Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
CROSSROADS 2025 program 6
hold me in your arms
Aug 31 — 2:30pm
Gray Area, SF
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Works by Malaz Usta, Guillaume Vallée, Lin Htet Aung, Dianna Barrie & Richard Tuohy, Miranda Pennell and Saif Alsaegh
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CROSSROADS 2025 program 5
shadows between the frames
Aug 30 — 8pm
Gray Area, SF
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Works by Park Kyujae, Tomonari Nishikawa, Sophie Watzlawick, Sidney Gordon and Jerome Hiler
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CROSSROADS 2025 program 4
this isn’t what it appears
Aug 30 — 5pm
Gray Area, SF
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Works by Tori DotNet, Karen Yasinsky, Janie Geiser, Heehyun Choi, Erica Sheu, Alice Bommer, Friedl vom Gröller and Sarah Ballard
#XRDS25 #xrds #CROSSROADSFESTIVAL #sfcinematheque #experimentalfilm
CROSSROADS 2025 program 3
the earth as if it were a dream
Aug 30 — 2:30pm
Gray Area, SF
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Works by @sparklypinecone.bsky.social, Malena Szlam, J.M. Martínez, @kareldoing.bsky.social and Antoni Orlof
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Become a member and save!
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• Discount (or free!) screening admissions
• Invitation to exclusive pre-festival reception
• 20% discount on all bookstore items
• Waived CROSSROADS festival submission fees
[clip by Sam Drake]
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Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues
Program 10: Craft, Tradition & Ritual
Presented by Shapeshifters Cinema & San Francisco Cinematheque
Fri, Aug 22 — 7pm at Shapeshifters Cinema
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#cinema #oakland #feminist #feministfilm #experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #sfcinematheque
CROSSROADS 2025 program 2
certain lights / nothing is stable
Aug 29 — 9:30pm
Gray Area, SF
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Works by Nicole Remy, Linda Izcali Scobie, Karl Lemieux & Daniel Menche
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CROSSROADS 2025
TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW!
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FESTIVAL PASS = 3 days / 8 programs
Buy the pass and save!
Discount admission for Cinematheque members!
Video clip from: Slideshow (2024) by Janie Geiser
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CROSSROADS 2025 program 1
temporary near thing/pulsebeat promises
Aug 29 — 7pm
Gray Area, SF
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Works by Ken Jacobs, Antoinette Zwirchmayr, Sofia Theodore-Pierce, Kevin Jerome Everson, Scott Stark and Zachary Epcar
#XRDS25 #xrds #CROSSROADSFESTIVAL #sfcinematheque #experimentalfilm
