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Sunday, February 22, 1998

Big As Life: An American History of 8mm Films

Publication + Screening Party

San Francisco Art Institute





Come celebrate the most comprehensive exhibition/survey of 8mm film and video ever assembled (curated by Steve Anker and Jytte Jensen of NY MoMA), which runs at The Museum of Modern Art in New York from February 1998 through December 1999. Our screening includes work by some of the Bay Area’s most accomplished small gauge artists: Kemia and Shadows of the Son by silt, Right Eye/Left Eye by Janis Crystal Lipzin, Crazy by Scott Stark, Pillow Talk by Danny Plotnick, Near Windows by Ken Paul Rosenthal, Don’t Hang Up the Phone, I’m Freezing by Stuart Sherman, Waiting for X to Happen by Jacalyn White, Fragment by Ellen Gaine, Tootsies in Autumn by Mike Kuchar, and Uncle Evil by George Kuchar, all included in the MoMA series. The accompanying catalog– including original essays and source materials by artists, critics, and other professionals in the field, as well as 125 complete 8mm filmographies–will be available at the screening!

EARLY EVENING EXPERIMENTAL
Sundays, 5:30 pm SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE
ADMISSION FREE

Program #1 – February 22
Prelude: Dog Star Man and Window Water Baby Moving by Stan Brakhage
Eaux D’Artifice by Kenneth Anger