ENDING SOON!
Baldwin’s Other Cinema constitutes one of the longest lasting and most influential microcinema series in the known universe. At its foundation, the stridently subcultural Other Cinema is built upon an ethos of uncompromising self-reliance, creative risk-taking and a vaudevillian approach to confounding the boundaries between high and low culture…
EPHEMERA UNEARTHED!
Anomalies from Baldwin’s Other Cinema
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A sprawling wall-mounted display of countless calendars, fliers and ephemera miscellany. Free admission!
EXHIBITION ON VIEW
March 12 – May 29
Monday–Friday (Holidays excepted) · 9am–5pm
Presented by @sfai_legacy & @sfcinematheque
#SFCinematheque #OtherCinema #EphemeraUnearthed #SanFranciscoArt #FilmCulture
Next Saturday! Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues
Program 15: Women, War & Resistance
Presented by @shapeshifterscinema & @sfcinematheque
Saturday, May 23 • 7:00 pm at @shapeshifterscinema
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Since the beginning of time, women have always been considered the weaker sex. But when it comes to war, they no doubt have the upper hand. The films in this program show the many ways women (as well as non-binary and trans people) have stood up to the tyranny of war and patriarchal violence with little more than a strong sense of justice, a powerful life force and a righteous feminist touch.
Gravitational Lensing is an ongoing film series curated by Kathleen Quillian & Amy Reid and presented by Shapeshifters Cinema in association with San Francisco Cinematheque.
Pictured: Black & White (2019) by Zoe Aiano
#cinema #oaklandfilm #feminist #feministfilm #experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #sfcinematheque
CAAMFest 2026 begins!
Taking place May 7-10 at AMC Kabuki
Visit @caamedia to learn more!
Cinematheque's co-presentation...
Valerie Soe’s THE AUNTIE SEWING SQUAD RESISTANCE PLAYBOOK
Sunday, May 10
4:15pm at AMC Kabuki
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The Auntie Sewing Squad Resistance Playbook looks at the Auntie Sewing Squad, a collective of mostly BIPOC women sewists, organized by performance artist Kristina Wong, who saved the world at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. For the Aunties, sewing and donating masks was not just about meeting a public health need, it was a way to address feminism, anti-racism, allyship, and destroying white supremacy.
@valeriesoe@auntiesewingresistancedoc
#TheAuntieSewingSquadResistancePlaybook #TASSRP #AuntieSewingSquad #Documentary
THIS SATURDAY 9:30pm @ Castro Theatre
Á propos de Nice & Rien que les heures
Presented in association with @sfsilentfilm
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First-time directors Jean Vigo (working with Dziga Vertov’s brother Boris Kaufman) and Alberto Cavalcanti reveal what can get obscured behind polished photographic surfaces in these city symphony films from Nice and Paris. Featuring a live musical accompaniment by Stephen Horne and Frank Bockius!
Cinematheque is proud to co-present these two fresh voices of the motion picture avant-garde movement during the 29th San Francisco Silent Film Festival taking place May 6-10 at the Castro Theatre.
Check out @sfsilentfilm to learn more!
#SFSFF2026 #experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #sfcinematheque
pictured: A Propos de Nice (1930)
Screenings this Saturday–Monday! Don’t miss it.
And catch the ongoing Other Cinema exhibition at SFAI Legacy Foundation.
Head to our website for full details + tickets (link in bio)
Also on view...
@sfsilentfilm — May 6–10 at the Castro Theatre
@caamedia CAAM Fest — May 7–10 at AMC Kabuki
#CraigBaldwin #OtherCinema #FilmHistory #Microcinema #experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #sfcinematheque
1 week away, Monday, May 11!
A Craig Baldwin Cinematic Sampler: AVAILABLISM & ARTIFACTUALITY
6pm @roxie_theater
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Baldwin's radical fusion of form and content will be on display, showcasing an unabashed embrace of marginality and cultural abjection. Experience his "collage-narrative" films as he utilizes underground and B-movie filmmaking methods which, in the spirit of Jack Smith, George and Mike Kuchar, Doris Wishman, and Ed Wood, revel in their poverty, placing their bargain basement budgets proudly on display...
Craig Baldwin in person with filmmaker Lynne Sachs and Cinematheque's Steve Polta!
#CraigBaldwin #OtherCinema #FilmHistory #Microcinema #experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #sfcinematheque
pictured: Mock Up On Mu (2008)
AVAILABLISM & ARTIFACTUALITY
A Craig Baldwin Cinematic Sampler
Monday, May 11
6pm at the Roxie Theater
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Craig Baldwin in conversation with filmmaker Lynne Sachs and Cinematheque's Steve Polta!
Artifactuality—rests in the belief that archival source materials are permeated with industrial and cultural histories which invariably contribute meaning. This concept also applies to Baldwin’s use, in his “collage-narrative” films, of underground and B-movie filmmaking methods which revel in their poverty, placing their bargain basement budgets proudly on display, and thereby allow their “amateurish” appearances to manifest as inspirational art.
#CraigBaldwin #OtherCinema #FilmHistory #Microcinema #experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #sfcinematheque
pictured: Stolen Movie (1976) by Craig Baldwin
30 days left, closes May 29!
EPHEMERA UNEARTHED!
Anomalies from Baldwin’s Other Cinema
<link in bio>
Monday–Friday (Holidays excepted) · 9am–5pm
Presented by @sfai_legacy & @sfcinematheque
A sprawling wall-mounted display of countless calendars, fliers and ephemera miscellany. Free admission!
Presented on a schedule of thirty-six Saturdays annually, Baldwin’s Other Cinema constitutes one of the longest lasting and most influential microcinema series in the known universe.
#CraigBaldwin #OtherCinema #FilmHistory #Microcinema #experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #sfcinematheque
Á propos de Nice & Rien que les heures
Saturday, May 9
9:30pm @ Castro Theatre
Presented in association with @sfsilentfilm
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Cinematheque is proud to co-present two fresh voices of the motion picture avant-garde. While dazzling with daring compositions and inventive editing, first-time directors Jean Vigo (working with Dziga Vertov’s brother Boris Kaufman) and Alberto Cavalcanti reveal what can get obscured behind polished photographic surfaces in these city symphony films from Nice and Paris.
Live musical accompaniment by Stephen Horne and Frank Bockius
The 29th San Francisco Silent Film Festival takes place May 6-10 at the Castro Theatre. Check out @sfsilentfilm to learn more!
#SFSFF2026 #experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #sfcinematheque
![ANDY WARHOL EXPOSED: Newly Processed Films from the 1960sThursday, June 4 • 6:00pm • San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtPresented by @sfmoma & @sfcinemathequeANDY WARHOL EXPOSED: Newly Processed Films from the 1960s, offering audiences a rare opportunity to be among the first to experience newly debuted films Warhol created in the 1960s, following their world premiere earlier this year.In 2024, Katie Trainor, the Museum of Modern Art’s film collections manager, and Greg Pierce, the Andy Warhol Museum’s then-director of film and video, worked together to process more than 80 one-hundred-foot rolls of unprocessed black-and-white and color film left untouched by Warhol and his associates from the early days of Andy Warhol’s Factory filmmaking.pictured: Andy Warhol, [Beverly Grant, Naomi Levine, Jack Smith], 1964 16mm film transferred to digital file, black-and-white, silent 3 minutes © The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved. Film still courtesy The Andy Warhol Museum.#AndyWarhol #experimentalfilm #avantgardefilm #sfcinematheque #SFMOMA](https://sp1.picnob.com/p/pt_6727207246512257525160_0_462d4e668d83fb418610ac532f6f4a80.jpg?o=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&h=711a0a8e7662d666f3053d52874e1a05)
