Twin Peaks

In 1977 Al Wong, who taught at the San Francisco Art Institute for almost thirty years, had a view of Twin Peaks from his home. For him it was “a truly magical place.” He describes the making of the film that takes its name, during which he drove the figure eight road of Twin Peaks repeatedly over a year, in different seasons and times of day: “I slowly gathered material and started to see all the natural elements—the sky, the earth, the water in the distance. . . . The infinity loop road representing [the] continuous pattern of life. . . . The road is shifting. Life is like that.” The resulting film intuitively reflects his Zen meditation practice and is stunning, surprising, and magical. It is screening with Wong’s installation Screen, Projector & Film, which he describes as dealing “with film (taking) and (giving) projecting into the same space of present and past.”