Eric Baudelaire / MATRIX 257

2/4/15 to 2/21/15

MATRIX 257 features the work of French-American artist Eric Baudelaire, who explores intricate facets of representation through a keen unraveling of entangled narratives. The exhibition comprises film screenings at the PFA Theater and an installation, film screenings, and public conversations at Kadist Art Foundation in San Francisco.

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  • The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years Without Images

    Wednesday, February 4 7pm
    Eric Baudelaire (France/Japan/Lebanon, 2011). Introduced by Apsara DiQuinzio. Eric Baudelaire and Joseph del Pesco in conversation. Revolution, exile, landscapes, and memory: the parallel tales of notorious Japanese New Wave filmmaker Masao Adachi, a scriptwriter for Oshima and radical leftist who joined the extreme Japanese Red Army in Beirut, and May Shigenobu, the daughter of the JRA's founder. With short, The Makes, an adaptation of an unmade Antonioni film. (92 mins)
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  • The Ugly One

    Thursday, February 5 7pm
    Eric Baudelaire (France/Lebanon/Japan, 2013). Introduced by Joseph del Pesco. Eric Baudelaire and Apsara DiQuinzio in conversation. Masao Adachi narrates Baudelaire's fragmented tale of war-torn Beirut, built around the travails of two lovers and former resistance fighters. (101 mins)
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  • Letters to Max

    Saturday, February 7 3 pm
    Eric Baudelaire (Abkhazia, 2014). Off-site screening at Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco. Admission Free. Shot in Abkhazia, where Baudelaire has been traveling intermittently since 2000, Letters to Max explores the fraught existence of a region caught between the polarizing, post-Soviet narratives of East and West. The related installation, the Anembassy, will be open prior to the screening, from 1 to 3 p.m. Screening followed by a public program at 5 p.m. (103 mins)
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  • Letters to Max

    Wednesday, February 11 3pm
    Off-site screening at Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco. Admission free. The related installation, the Anembassy, will be open prior to the screening, from 3 to 5 p.m. Screening followed by a public program at 6 p.m.
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  • Letters to Max

    Saturday, February 14 3 pm
    Off-site screening at Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco. Admission free. The related installation, the Anembassy, will be open prior to the screening, from 1 to 3 p.m. Screening followed by a public program at 5 p.m.
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  • Letters to Max

    Wednesday, February 18 3pm
    Off-site screening at Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco. Admission free. The related installation, the Anembassy, will be open prior to the screening, from 3 to 5 p.m. Screening followed by a public program at 6 p.m.
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  • Letters to Max

    Saturday, February 21 3pm
    Off-site screening at Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco. Admission free. The related installation, the Anembassy, will be open prior to the screening, from 1 to 3 p.m. Screening followed by a public program at 5 p.m.
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