CROSSROADS 2024
August 30 — September 1
presented by San Francisco Cinematheque
at Gray Area
curated by Steve Polta
#xrds24
CROSSROADS 2024 is the fifteenth manifestation of Cinematheque’s annual film festival. CROSSROADS 2024 features 75 works of film and video by 70 artists representing 19 countries and territories presented in 10 curated programs. Cinematheque is proud to announce that, of these 70 featured artists, 28 are receiving their CROSSROADS debut this year.
Festival passes and individual program tickets here
Download the CROSSROADS 2024 press release here
Download the CROSSROADS 2024 Program Guide here
CROSSROADS programs 1–10
presented in person August 30-September 1 at
2665 Mission Street, San Francisco
ONLINE ECHO
September 26 — October 12
Cinematheque’s CROSSROADS 2024 online echo is a cross-sectional distillation of this year’s festival, refracting its themes and presenting select works in two reconfigured programs.
echo program 1: written on the wind
echo program 2: the haunted sprawl
SAN FRANCISCO CINEMATHEQUE
Director: Steve Polta
Festival Manager/Design: India Nemer
Tech Director: Kent Long
Festival Trailer: Domonik Hernandez
Festival Associates: Katie Walker, Manasa Karthikeyan
Cinematheque Archives Manager: Megan Needles
Archives Interns: Kevin Barbella, Ida Kusanovich
Accounting: Vanessa O’Neill
Web Developers
Sophie Rentien Lando, Julie Peeters, Scott Ponik
Cinematheque Board of Directors
Sage Hirsch, Nellie Killian, Diana Sánchez Maciel, Marie Martraire, Anjali Sundaram, Trinity West
Cinematheque Advisory Council
Steve Anker, Gina Basso, Orit Ben-Shitrit, Steven Jenkins, Mark McElhatten, Brent Miller, Oona Mosna, Carissa Potter, Kathleen Quillian, Anne Stone
San Francisco Cinematheque and CROSSROADS 2024 are supported by contributions from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, California Revealed, the Fleishhacker Foundation, the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund/Grants for the Arts and Cinematheque’s Members and Donors.
Special Thanks for support, assistance and inspiration is extended to: Fara Akrami; Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival; Ann Arbor Film Festival; Anthology Film Archives; Artists’ Television Access; AV-arkki; BAMPFA; Craig Baldwin; Gina Basso; Kornelia Boczkowska; Miriam Campos-Quinn; the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre; Canyon Cinema; Olivia Ciummo; the Center for New Music; CounterPulse; COUSIN; CPH:DOX; Desistfilm; Dobra: Festival Internacional de Cinema Experimental; Elena Duque; Ken Eisenstein; Experiments in Cinema; Courtney Fellion; Gerry Fialka; Jesse Hawthorne Ficks; Jennifer Fieber; Isabel Fondevila; Michael Fox; Gray Area; Dennis Harvey; Images Festival; INCITE Journal of Experimental Media; International Film Festival Rotterdam; KADIST; KALX; Brett Kashmere; Liz Keim; Cristina Kolozsváry-Kiss; Bryan Konefsky; The Lab; LaborBerlin; LA Film Forum; Mary Lattimore; Light Cone; Light Field; Light Industry; LIGHTSTRUCK; LUX; Media City Film Festival; Christine Metropoulos; Microscope Gallery; Milwaukee Underground Film Festival; Seth Mitter; Madeleine Molyneaux; Mono No Aware; Myriad Consulting; Tara Merenda Nelson; Suki O’Kane; Onion City Film Festival; Other Cinema; Julie Phelps; John Powers; Rick Prelinger; Megan Shaw Prelinger; Prismatic Ground; Jill Rogers; the Roxie Theater; Picture Palace Pictures; [S8] Mostra de Cinema Periférico; Screen Slate; Shapeshifters Cinema; Steve Seid; Michael Sicinski; sixpackfilm; Andrew Smith; Courtney Stephens; The Temenos; Telematic Media Arts; TIFF/Wavelengths; Mark Toscano; 25 FPS; Kitty Velvet; Video Data Bank; Videographe; Visual Studies Workshop; Andy Warhol; Tanya Zimbardo.
In Memoriam: Vincent Grenier, Peter Herwitz, Narcisa Hirsch, Anthony Reveaux, Bérénice Reynaud, Willie Varela, Bill Viola, Jane Brakhage Wodening
Festival Graphic Image: Species of Analogy (2024) by J.M. Martínez
Online Echo Graphic Image: ULÍA #1 (2024) by Laura Moreno Bueno