SFMOMA (Venue Partner)
151 Third St.
415-357-4000
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Thursday Feb 25, 2010
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$5 general; free for SFMOMA members or with museum admission (requires a free ticket, which can be picked up in the Haas Atrium). Tickets are available at the Museum (with no surcharge) or online.
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Film Series
No. 2 and No. 3, Harry Smith, 1947, 5 min.
Sausalito, Frank Stauffacher, 1949, 10 min.
Lead Shoes, Sidney Peterson, 1949, 17 min.
Notes on the Port of St. Francis, Frank Stauffacher, 1952, 20 min.
Part of 75 Years in the Dark: A Partial History of Film at SFMOMA.
75 Years in the Dark: A Partial History of Film at SFMOMA:
In 1937, Grace McCann Morley set up a screen and some chairs in the rotunda of the War Memorial
Veterans Building (SFMOMA’s first home) and showed films: D. W. Griffith, Walt Disney, The Jazz Singer, All Quiet on the Western Front, and the first ever Movietone newsreel featuring George Bernard Shaw. She believed that film, the 20th century’s very own visual art form, should have a place in a museum of modern art. From the beginning, it’s been an eclectic and inclusive mix: high- and lowbrow; shorts and features; fiction and documentary; studio, independent, and artists’ films; video and digital media.
For our anniversary, we invited three guest curators to explore film in the context of the history of modern visual arts and assemble programs from three successive eras. In Programs 1, 2, and 3, Scott MacDonald, one of the country’s foremost film historians, looks at 1937 through 1960. Steve Anker, dean of the School of Film/Video at the California Institute of the Arts, covers 1960 to 1985 in Programs 4 through 6 (screening in March and April). Former SFMOMA Curator of Media Arts Benjamin Weil selects from 1985 to the present in Programs 7 through 9 (May).
