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- Herb and Dorothy Vogel redefine what it means to be an art collector.
- Richard Tuttle is an unconventional artist. Many of Tuttle's works are small pieces made of unusual materials, such as wire, or string, and many are both sculptures and paintings. Utilizing a wide variety of materials and possessing a unique sensibility, Tuttle produces works which confound art critics and museumgoers. Richard Tuttle: Never Not an Artist explores Tuttle's work and critical response to it. The film examines Tuttle's art and its impact in several locations: his home in New Mexico, in New York with collectors, and in Miami Beach, where Tuttle was chosen to create a rather large piece of public art.
- Video-installation artist Mika Rottenberg creates mini-factories, farms, and tableaux, which produce products variously made by tremendously fat, tall, muscled, long-haired or long-fingernailed women. Women, who in their own lives commodify their eccentricities, are, in Rottenberg's films, featured as "bearers of production." To make their merchandise, the protagonists have to pedal, squeeze, cry, sweat, massage, dig, push, burrow, morph, cross continents, and use more than a bit of alchemy. Every detail and orthodoxy is taken to its extremes, turned upside down. You smell the flowers and sweat; you hear the sounds of breathing, nails tapping, sweat sizzling, milk hitting tin; you feel the breezes, and the squeezing of flesh, its bursting out of constraints. Yet Rottenberg treats the superabundance with such normalcy it makes me laugh.
- Primarily shot at night with a constantly moving hand-held camera, the images in this large video projection embody forces of destruction, animal intensity, and physical energies.
- Las Muralistas: Our Walls, Our Stories is a 25-minute documentary directed by Javier Briones and edited by Claudia Escobar, in partnership with SFMOMA. The film features women muralists whose works cover the walls of San Francisco's Mission District. The muralism movement that emerged in the 1970s in the Mission District marked the beginning of a tradition of activism, expression, and community building through public art. Hear from artists Juana Alicia, Smokie Arce, Susan Cervantes, Elaine Chu, Priya Handa, Yolanda López, Consuelo Méndez, Irene Pérez, Patricia Rodriguez and more on their experiences, the impact of femmes in the movement and the effort to make space for future muralistas.
- This multichannel video installation incorporates found objects, egg cartons, clear tubes, and coffee cup lids, hung from the ceiling to diffuse the light of the video show and create a reflective environment to be navigated by the viewer.
- A full-scale overview of the work of California-based media artist Bill Viola: 15 room-sized video installation works, from 1972 to 1996, and 22 of the artist's single-channel videotape works, shown in a rotating schedule of screenings.
- An overview of the relationship between the United States and Japan from 1846 up to the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941.
- 'Escape Episode' was Anger's first film to be publicly screened, and was available to rent from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It was filmed under the working title of 'Demigods' in 1944 and using Anger's real name (Kenneth Anglemyer). He was just 17. The star was his classmate, Marilyn Granas, who had been a stand-in for Shirley Temple in the 1930s. Described by Anger as a "free rendering of the Andromeda myth" this silent film was a love story, a 'boy meets girl' seaside yarn. The girl is imprisoned in a castle by her clairvoyant aunt, and used as a stooge in fake seances. During secret rendezvous with her new friend, the girl plans to escape - which she accomplishes in the final reel. In 1946, Anger revisited the film, trimming it from 35 to 27 minutes. He also added sound effects, narration and music by Scriabin, the epic 'Poem of Ecstacy'. Although widely shown up to 1967, the film is now considered 'lost', although it is possible that a print exists in a forgotten film archive - perhaps even Anger's own, as the director has previously stated there are a few films of his that he "prefers not to show".
- The Winchester Trilogy is rooted in the architecture and mythology of the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California, an extravagant mansion full of strange Victorian craftsmanship and mazes built by eccentric firearms heiress, Sara Winchester. Blending the legend of the mansion (the widow believed that her home was haunted by victims of Winchester firearms), historic 16-millimeter photographs, and the artist's florid ink drawings and animated imagery, Blake's Winchester Trilogy is a dreamlike experience drenched in pathos.
- In 1992, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opened the first major museum retrospective of the work of Jeff Koons, who, at a boyish 37, was already an art-world sensation. His series "Made in Heaven," a set of photo-realist paintings depicting himself and his wife Ilona Staller-also known as La Cicciolina, a famous porn star-in various acrobatic coital poses, had premiered the past year to enormous controversy, and his collected body of work, with its heavy use of readymades and its assembly-line style production methods, was already inspiring a question that continues to stoke debate: is Koons a canny media critic, or a cynical market-reader trading in re-purposed junk, or something ineffable? Roger Teich and Henry S. Rosenthal's compelling, keen-eyed time-capsule work, filmed on 16mm at and around the opening of the exhibit, gives unprecedented access to Koons, features the last on-camera interviews with Jeff's father, Henry Koons and exhibition curator John Caldwell, and leaves that question tantalizingly open. The result is a multi-sided portrait of a man whose work continues to raise difficult, probing questions about the role of the artist in society.
- Cutting, pasting, gluing, painting, collaging, installing - this documentary captures the grace and handiwork of the casual and sophisticated artist, Rex Ray.
- Take an audio stroll through San Francisco's Mission District and learn about the murals seen throughout the neighborhood and the artists who collaborated to create them. Local writers Olivia Peña and Josiah Luis Alderete interweave their perspectives on the history of the Mission Muralismo movement with stories from the muralists themselves.
- 1985– 1h 52mTV-PG7.9 (135)TV EpisodeHer photo Migrant Mother is one of the most recognized images in the world, a portrait that came to represent America's Great Depression. Few know the story, struggles and body of work of the woman who created the portrait: Dorothea Lange.