Crossroads 2012

Description

Cinematheque’s annual film festival celebrating recent and rediscovered avant-garde film/video work. Established in 2010, CROSSROADS 2012 is this festival’s third manifestation.

Friday–Sunday, May 18–20, CROSSROADS 2012 will present a total of 52 films, videos and performance works by 47 filmmakers from around the world screened over 8 feature-length programs.

FESTIVAL at a GLANCE
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Friday, May 18—7 pm
There is a presence lingering...
SCREENING: Remote by Jesse McLean; Love Rose by Bobby Abate; Leonora by Eliane Lima; With-Me-Not-Me by Olivia Ciummo; Song for the Collectors by Tommy Becker; Craig's Cutting Room Floor by Linda Scobie; One Way to Find Out by Scott Stark; The Pool by Christine Lucy Latimer; Araneae by Paul Clipson; The Ape of Nature by Peggy Ahwesh
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Friday, May 18—9:30 pm
Awe Shocks: Illusion Reigns
SCREENING: rites of alchemy and movement by Moyah Pravda Newsreel; Village, silenced by Deborah Stratman; Penumbra Blind by Christina McPhee; Snakes and Ladders by Katherin McInnis; Awe Shocks by Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy; Seeking the Monkey King by Ken Jacobs
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Saturday, May 19—2pm
Woman with Flowers: Celebrating Chick Strand
SCREENING: Kristallnacht (1979); Soft Fiction (1979); Angel Blue Sweet Wings (1966)
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Saturday, May 19—4:30 pm
Contemplation is a monstrous task…
SCREENING: Don’t Look Directly into the Sun by Kathleen Rugh; Dark Enough by Jeanne Liotta; …These Blazeing Starrs! by Deborah Stratman; End Transmission by Yin-Ju Chen and James T. Hong; Landfill 16 by Jennifer Reeves; Curious Light by Charlotte Pryce; Valleys of Fear by Erin Espelie
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Saturday, May 19—8:30 pm
APPARENT MOTION: Projection Arts!
Live projection-performance works: Myth of Persistence by Gerritt Wittmer and Paul Knowles; The Color Red Bleeds Blue by Kerry Laitala with live score by John Davis; Cipher Screen by Greg Pope with live score by John Hegre
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Sunday, May 20—3 pm
…for there our captors demanded songs of joy
SCREENING: Man Is Always on the Stairs Between the Pleats of Matter and the Fields of the Soul by Jing Niu; L’eau, l’air et les songes (Water, air and dreams) by Cécile Ravel and Jean-Marc Manteau; Their Bird by Rei Hayama; Crusts by Alexander Stewart; Last Time by Julia Shirar; Light Licks: By the Waters of Babylon: This May Be the Last Time by Saul Levine; A Child Goes Burying Dead Insects by Rei Hayama
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Sunday, May 20—5:30 pm
California Dreaming: Films by Laida Lertxundi
Laida Lertxundi In Person
program sponsored by the Cultural Office of the Consulate General of Spain, San Francisco

SCREENING: Farce Sensationelle!; Footnotes to a House of Love; My Tears Are Dry Llora Cuando Te Pase/Cry When It Happens; and A Lax Riddle Unit all by Laida Lertxundi. Also screening: Lemon (1969) by Hollis Frampton; All My Life (1966) by Bruce Baillie; and Picture and Sound Rushes (1973) by Morgan Fisher
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Sunday, May 20—7:30 pm
Voices for New Atlantis
SCREENING: 9214 by Takahiro Suzuki; The Voice of God by Bernd Lützeler; Sounding Glass by Sylvia Schedelbauer; FF by Deborah Stratman; River Rites by Ben Russell; Slow Action by Ben Rivers
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Festival pass available: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/247246
($50 general/$25 members)

More Info

Link

http://www.sfcinematheque.org/#/news/201204180/