Week of October 23, 2016

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Sunday, October 30

Sunday, October 30, 2016
11 AM-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

Sunday, October 30, 2016
2 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Sunday, October 30, 2016
4 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1962,
(112 mins)
Chishu Ryu once again plays a widowed father planning to marry off his daughter in Ozu's beautiful, bittersweet last film. "Quietly tears your heart to pieces” (Terence Davies).
Sunday, October 30, 2016
6:30 PM
Marcie Begleiter,
Germany, United States,
2016,
(108 mins)
An inspiring, heartbreaking profile on the artist Eva Hesse, one of the most significant American artists of the last century. “An indispensable aid to understanding and appreciating a fascinating artist” (A. O. Scott,  NY Times).
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Monday, October 31

Tuesday, November 1

Wednesday, November 2

Wednesday, November 2, 2016
12:15 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
7 PM
(68 mins)
Introduced by Susan Chainey and Janis Crystal Lipzin.A program of films by Roger Jacoby, a key transitional figure of gay experimental film.
  • Susan Chainey
    Introduction
    Susan Chainey, Roger Jacoby’s sister, appears in Pearl and Puppet.
  • Janis Crystal Lipzin
    Introduction
    Janis Crystal Lipzin knew Jacoby well during the last ten years of his life; former chair of the San Francisco Art Institute film department, she is a Bay Area intermedia artist and filmmaker.

Thursday, November 3

Thursday, November 3, 2016
4-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

Thursday, November 3, 2016
7 PM
Alanis Obomsawin,
Canada,
1993,
(119 mins)
Alanis Obomsawin in conversation with Joanne Barker and Corinna Gould.The 1990 fight for First Nations members to protect their burial grounds from a golf course expansion is chronicled in this moving documentary on native rights, resistance, and courage.  
  • Alanis Obomsawin
    In Conversation
  • Joanne Barker
    In Conversation
    Barker is professor of American Indian studies at San Francisco State University and author of Native Acts: Law Recognition and Cultural Authenticity.
  • Corrina Gould
    In Conversation
    Corrina Gould is cofounder of Indian People Organizing for Change and the Segora Te Land Trust
Thursday, November 3, 2016
All Day
Galleries free all day.
Admission free

Friday, November 4

Friday, November 4, 2016
12:15 PM
Friday, November 4, 2016
4 PM
Satyajit Ray,
India,
1955,
(125 mins)

Digital Restoration

The first film in the Apu Trilogy. Ravi Shankar provided the score for Ray’s debut film, the tale of a young boy in an impoverished Bengal village. The film won a special prize at Cannes: Best Human Document.
Friday, November 4, 2016
4-9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

Friday, November 4, 2016
6 PM

Programmed by Ava Koohbor

Included with admission
Series Readings 2016
Friday, November 4, 2016
7 PM
Alanis Obomsawin,
2014,
(84 mins)
Alanis Obomsawin, Joanne Barker, and Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie in conversation. Obomsawin’s powerful documentary is about both tracing and making history, looking back at Canada’s notorious Treaty No. 9 (which led many First Nations communities to lose their sovereignty) and chronicling contemporary indigenous struggles. 
  • Alanis Obomsawin
    In Conversation
  • Joanne Barker
    In Conversation
    Professor of American Indian studies at San Francisco State University and author of Native Acts: Law Recognition and Cultural Authenticity.
  • Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie
    In Conversation
    Director of the Gorman Museum and professor of Native American studies at UC Davis

Saturday, November 5

Saturday, November 5, 2016
11 AM–9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

Saturday, November 5, 2016
5:30 PM
Jean Renoir,
France, Italy, United Kingdom,
1952,
(103 mins)
Renoir’s graceful comedy revolves around Magnani as the star of a commedia dell’arte troupe in eighteenth-century Peru. François Truffaut called it “the noblest and most refined film ever made.”
Saturday, November 5, 2016
8 PM
Spike Lee,
United States,
1989,
(120 mins)
Spike Lee’s frequently hilarious but hard-hitting drama charts mounting racial tensions on a hot summer day in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. “The funniest, most stylized, most visceral New York street scene this side of Scorseseland” (J. Hoberman, Village Voice).