Events on Sunday, November 11

Pioneers of Bay Area Experimental Filmmaking

Film: Shorts

Pioneers of Bay Area Experimental Filmmaking

Sunday 11/11 @ YBCA Screening Room

Bruce Conner's appearance in Fog City Mavericks, Gary Leva's recent survey of San Francisco as a hotbed of cinematic ingenuity, represents... 

Emma Pollock w/ the Old-Fashioned Way and the Harbours

Music

Emma Pollock

Sunday 11/11 @ Rickshaw Stop

The indie darling's indie darlings, the Delgados made a string of ambitious, critically acclaimed albums. They also helped put other Scottish... 

<i>Too Late for Tears</i>: A Radio Noir Thriller

Art

Too Late for Tears

Sunday 11/11 @ Artists' Television Access

Close the YouTube clip your friend just forwarded you, power down your iPod, and settle in for a good mystery courtesy... 

Celebration w/ Kill Me Tomorrow and LoveLikeFire

Music

Celebration

Sunday 11/11 @ 12 Galaxies

Baltimore-bred Celebration are all for the well-fitting name: as far as indie rock goes, their sound (think Animal Collective as a... 

Ongoing Events

<i>after the quake</i>

Theatre

after the quake

Sunday 11/11 @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Given the Bay Area's propensity for seismic activity (residents need only think as far back as October 30 for the latest... 

Tony Labat: <i>Bulk</i>

Art

Bulk

Sunday 11/11 @ Queen's Nail Annex

Queen's Nails Annex presents the work of multidisciplinary artist Tony Labat, who combines elements of installation, sculpture, performance, and video, not... 

Jeff Wall

Art: Photography

Jeff Wall

Sunday 11/11 @ SFMOMA

Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not... 

The X-Ray Project: <i>Inside Terrorism</i>

Art

Inside Terrorism

Sunday 11/11 @ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library

Artist Diane Covert compiled scores of X-rays and CT scans from Jerusalem's two largest hospitals as a response to the doublespeak... 

JTAF 5

Festival: Fair

JTAF 5

Sunday 11/11 @ Fort Mason Center

Drawing over 1,200 people from all over the Bay Area and beyond, JTAF 5 promises anything but an average day in... 

Douglas Gordon: <i>Pretty Much Every Film and Video Work from About 1992 until Now</i>

Art

Douglas Gordon

Sunday 11/11 @ SFMOMA

The ultimate in one-stop viewing, Scottish multimedia artist Douglas Gordon's cheekily titled installation is a veritable retrospective: the work's title serves... 

<i>Blame It on Fidel!</i>

Film

Blame It on Fidel!

Sunday 11/11 @ Roxie Theater

Julie Gravas' debut feature works best as a bottom-up portrait of the confused, morally high-strung reality of living leftist in the... 

Second San Francisco International Animation Festival

Film

Int'l Animation Festival

Sunday 11/11 @ Embarcadero Center Cinema

D. Jud Jones and Risto Topaloski's feature animation, Film Noir, is a prototypical hard-boiled thriller, with not-so-good good guys, truly bad... 

Tranny Fest: Transgender Multi-Arts Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Transgender Multi-Arts Festival

Sunday 11/11 @ Various locations

San Francisco has long been an enclave for the genderqueer and fabulous, from Coit Tower benefactress Lillie Hitchcock Coit to disco... 

<i>A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection</i>

Art

A Legacy of Art: The Ted and Ruth Nash Collection

Sunday 11/11 @ Oakland Museum of California

Joan Brown's large, figurative paintings of the local landscape, Wayne Thiebaud's inspired renditions of gumball machines and cafeterias, and Peter Voulkos'... 

<i>Sweet Sunny Temper</i>

Art

Sweet Sunny Temper

Sunday 11/11 @ Double Punch Toy Store

  With prints, illustrations, drawings, and constructions, this exhibition consists of all the modern girly girl's necessities: long eyelashes, pink nails,... 

New Italian Cinema

Film

New Italian Cinema

Sunday 11/11 @ San Francisco Film Society

More than most national cinemas, Italian film is dominated by its ghosts — Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini (whose work is... 

<i>Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten</i>

Film: Documentary

The Future Is Unwritten

Sunday 11/11 @ Lumiere Theatre

Despite being a proud soldier of the first wave of English punk, Joe Strummer's iconic everyman stance was always more Bruce... 

RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA

Art

RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA

Sunday 11/11 @ Berkeley Art Museum

Like a new-media update on Marcel Duchamp's mustachioed Mona Lisa, the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive's latest show exhibits contemporary artists'... 

Chim: <i>The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)</i>

Art

The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)

Sunday 11/11 @ de Young Museum

Until he was killed by Egyptian machine-gun fire while covering the 1956 Suez War armistice, Polish-born David Seymour (also known as... 

11th International Latino Film Festival

Film

Int'l Latino Film Festival

Sunday 11/11 @ Various locations

With Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón entering the upper echelon of the Hollywood elite in recent years, a lot more... 

San Francisco Jazz Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

SF Jazz Festival

Sunday 11/11 @ Various locations

Celebrating 25 years as the leading festival of its kind, the 41-day-long San Francisco Jazz Festival brings together leading lights of... 

Edward Gorey's <i>Dracula</i>

Art

Dracula

Sunday 11/11 @ Cartoon Art Museum

Edward Gorey (1925-2000) remains one of the most admired and emulated illustrators to date, each meticulous shade and line of his... 

<I>The Gun Show</I>

Art

The Gun Show

Sunday 11/11 @ Root Division

As Russian playwright Anton Chekhov noted, a gun introduced in the first act of a play draws attention and builds expectations... 

<i>GROUNDED?</i>

Art

GROUNDED?

Sunday 11/11 @ Intersection for the Arts

In celebration of its new home on 14th Street, the innovative Southern Exposure gallery is launching a joint interdisciplinary show with...