Alternative Visions
11/4/08 to 12/9/08
PFA's Tuesday evening avant-garde showcase features new video works from Lebanon, experimental pieces from China, a tribute to the Bay Area's own Canyon Cinema, an evening with MATRIX artist Martha Colburn, and a memorial to the great San Francisco–based artist Bruce Conner.
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In the Real of the Senses: New Lebanese Videos
Tuesday, November 4 7:30 PMIntroduced by Peter Limbrick. Four video works look at the very real scars of war in Lebanon, contemplating the way our senses experience them, and how art can represent them. Works by Lamia Joreige, Ghassan Salhab, and Maher Abi Samra.View DetailsCollisions in Forms: Experimental Videos from Shanghai and Beijing
Tuesday, November 18 7:30 PMIntroduced by Steve Anker. Works by Shanghai artists who have become active in the international art world and by M.F.A. students at Beijing's Central Academy of Fine Arts.View DetailsCanyon Cinema: The Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor
Tuesday, November 25 7:30 PMIntroduction and Booksigning by Scott MacDonald. Experience the range, revolutionary spirit, and pleasure of works by Canyon filmmakers of the 1960s and '70s: Bruce Baillie, Ernest Callenbach, Bruce Conner, Robert Nelson, Anne Severson, and Chick Strand.View DetailsMartha Colburn's Collage Animations
Tuesday, December 2 7:30 PMMartha Colburn in Person. An evening with MATRIX artist Colburn, who extends her work in the gallery in a program of films that combine politics and play, paint and puppets with inventiveness and perversity.View DetailsA Tribute to Bruce Conner (1933–2008)
Tuesday, December 9 7:30 PMThis memorial tribute draws presents Conner's seminal film works, ranging from his autobiographical Valse Triste to his last film, Easter Morning, and including the monumental Crossroads in a restored print.View Details
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