All events on Sunday February 10

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Film: Shorts
An Invention Without a Future
Sunday Feb 10 (7pm) @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Giveaway
Built for recording grainy video footage directly onto cassette tapes, Fisher-Price's PXL video camera is one of the loveliest relics of '80s audiovisual gadgetry. It... View details »
An Invention Without a Future
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Acid Show III
Sunday Feb 10 (7pm) @ Climate Theater
The American experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger (Aleister Crowley's cinematic heir apparent) has often said that his films are, in fact, spells. The local 4-D Dream-a-Thon... View details »
Acid Show III

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RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Sunday Feb 10 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
Free
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' provocative reconfigurations of existing... View details »
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
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Douglas Gordon
Sunday Feb 10 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
The ultimate in one-stop viewing, Scottish multimedia artist Douglas Gordon's cheekily titled installation is a veritable retrospective: the work's title serves as a perfect description... View details »
Douglas Gordon
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The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Sunday Feb 10 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ de Young Museum More times »
Until he was killed by Egyptian machine-gun fire while covering the 1956 Suez War armistice, Polish-born David Seymour (also known as Chim) rubbed elbows with... View details »
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
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Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Sunday Feb 10 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum More times »
Celebrity retreats, situated far from the gossip-hungry public, are anything but a new phenomenon. Marie-Antoinette's Petit Trianon at Versailles was just such a pied-à-terre —... View details »
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Film: Animation
Persepolis
Sunday Feb 10 @ Various locations More times »
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political struggle; naturally, fans of... View details »
Persepolis
Film: Documentary
The Films of Emile de Antonio
Sunday Feb 10 @ SFMOMA More times »
Giveaway
Though often given short shrift in film histories, the political documentaries of Emile de Antonio played a major hand in shaping the radical discourses that... View details »
The Films of Emile de Antonio
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An-My Lê
Sunday Feb 10 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
An-My Lê's stunning Small Wars and 29 Palms series find the photographer capturing Vietnam War enthusiasts who recreate scenes of battle and treading through the... View details »
An-My Lê
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African Film Festival
Sunday Feb 10 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater More times »
Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive has picked the cream of the NYC-based African Film Festival's crop for this monthlong series. Opening night belongs to Abderrahmane Sissako's... View details »
African Film Festival
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Conduits of Labor
Sunday Feb 10 (noon–6pm) @ Queen's Nail Annex More times »
Free
In the new exhibition Conduits of Labor, QNA examines the aestheticization of the laboring body. Ana Teresa Fernandez presents her Sisyphean hausfrau in the digital... View details »
Conduits of Labor
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Caroline Hwang
Sunday Feb 10 (noon–7pm) @ Giant Robot More times »
Free
Reinventing the art of quilting, artist Caroline Hwang brings a selection of quirky new fabric pieces to Giant Robot. Her simple, graphic figures — clad... View details »
Caroline Hwang
Film: Documentary
Quest for Fear
Sunday Feb 10 @ Red Vic More times »
Giveaway
The annual Mavericks surf competition happened a few weeks ago, but shredders hungry for more can head to the Red Vic to catch a weeklong... View details »
Quest for Fear
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Sessue Hayakawa
Sunday Feb 10 (2pm) @ Pacific Film Archive Theater More times »
Silent actor Sessue Hayakawa is one of the more fascinating footnotes of American film history, having chanced into film acting in 1914 and, by the... View details »
Sessue Hayakawa
More Flavor: Festival
SF Indiefest
Sunday Feb 10 @ Various locations More times »
Unlike festivals that screen "independent" films featuring well-known directors and celebrity actors, Indiefest sticks to cinema from fresh international talent. This year, the festival celebrates... View details »
SF Indiefest
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4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Sunday Feb 10 @ Embarcadero Center Cinema More times »
In late-80's Romania, close friends Otilia and Gabita are faced with the urgent problem of Gabita's unwanted pregnancy. Their solution is to seek an illegal... View details »
4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days
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Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Sunday Feb 10 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater More times »
With all the media attention surrounding the upcoming presidential election, the war in Iraq, and Britney Spears' latest breakdown, it's easy to forget there is... View details »
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
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An Equal Playing Field
Sunday Feb 10 (noon–5pm) @ Triple Base More times »
Free
Of his recent paintings, Peter Stegall has exclaimed, "Color has me on the end of a string!" It's a strange statement to reconcile with his... View details »
An Equal Playing Field
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Emory Douglas
Sunday Feb 10 (noon–7pm) @ Babylon Falling More times »
Free
When Gil Scott-Heron proclaimed that "the revolution will not be televised," he could just as well have been referring to Emory Douglas' incendiary graphic-design work... View details »
Emory Douglas
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Leonora Carrington
Sunday Feb 10 (11am–5pm) @ Frey Norris Gallery More times »
Free
Leonora Carrington's paintings are populated by mystics, crones, demons, and damsels with wan, Byzantine faces. There is magic in the air, but also menace, and... View details »
Leonora Carrington
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Taxi to the Dark Side
Sunday Feb 10 @ Landmark Opera Plaza More times »
It's not as if Taxi to the Dark Side tells us anything new about the growing use of torture in US foreign policy; in fact,... View details »
Taxi to the Dark Side