Event

CROSSROADS program 3

Sponsored by Ninkasi Brewing

To leave out the spirit of the people presents a thin tapestry of the culture, easy to rent, lacking in strength and depth. I want to know really what it is like to be a breathing, talking, moving, emotional, relating individual in the society.-Chick Strand (1931-2009)

In the early 1960s, with co-conspirator Bruce Baillie, Chick Strand was instrumental in the foundation of both Canyon Cinema and San Francisco Cinematheque, presenting guerilla-style underground film screenings across the Bay Area for much of that decade. As a filmmaker known for a sensuous lyricism (frequently seen, paradoxically, in her "experimental ethnographies") Strand's films epitomized "west coast" American filmmaking at its very best, with a matter-of-fact folk wisdom, humor and profound sensitivity embodied in all of her varied works. On the occasion of the completion of her final work, Señora con Flores, Cinematheque is proud to celebrate this inspirational figure.

SCREENING:
Kristallnacht (1979)
Soft Fiction (1979)
Angel Blue Sweet Wings (1966)

Please note that Chick Strand's Woman with Flowers is not available for this screening.

complete CROSSROADS 2012 festival pass available here ($50 general/$25 members)