light slants in the wrong direction
Program 4 of San Francisco Cinematheque’s CROSSROADS 2023
Saturday, September 9, 2023 | 3:30pm - 5:00pm
at Gray Area | 2665 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110
Register for PROGRAM TICKETS ($12 General/$10 Cinematheque Members, Gray Area Members & students with ID) or full FESTIVAL PASSES
TLM is thrilled to be the community partner for light slants in the wrong direction, program 4 of San Francisco Cinematheque’s signature CROSSROADS festival celebrating artist-made cinema.
Founded by filmmaker Bruce Baillie in 1961, San Francisco Cinematheque is the Bay Area’s premier venue for avant-garde/experimental, underground and personally expressive film, video and media performance, inspiring aesthetic dialog among artists, stimulating critical discourse, and encouraging appreciation of artist-made cinema across the broader cultural landscape.
CROSSROADS 2023 is the 14th manifestation of Cinematheque's annual film festival. CROSSROADS 2023 consists of 10 programs featuring 62 works of film, video and performance by 61 artists representing 20 countries and territories. Cinematheque is proud to announce that, of these 61 featured artists, 31 are receiving their CROSSROADS debut this year.
SF Cinematheque was a key collaborator on Dale Hoyt’s 2022 exploration of punk & performance in the Tenderloin for TLM, plus this storied presenting organization is a neighbor: SF Cinematheque keeps an office at 55 Taylor St., one of the Tenderloin’s many former movie houses with an X-rated past (now known as Center 4 New Music).
Tenderloin Museum is proud to be the community partner for program 4 of CROSSROADS 2023, light slants in the wrong direction! SF Cinematheque has this to say about the program:
Wafting across the blue of distance and embodying tentative positions of emotional precarity and strength these films explore internal landscapes, hauntings of childhood, distanced erotics and subterranean unravelings. The mirror is a placeless place, as tears go by.
The screening will feature the following works: Test Objects (2023) by Sam Drake (US); digital video, color, sound, 10 minutes. There, Where She is Not (2022) by Sarah Ballard (US); digital video, color, sound, 8 minutes. Exterior Turbulence (2023) by Sofia Theodore-Pierce (US); digital video, color, sound, 12 minutes. My Home (2022) by Azar Saiyar (Finland); digital video, color, sound, 12 minutes, exhibition file from AV-arkki. Heliotrope (2023) by Janie Geiser (US); digital video, color, sound, 8 minutes. tectum argenti (2022) by Joanna Byrne (UK); digital video, color, silent, 9 minutes. Tarot Portrait: Faith (2023) by Brittany Gravely (US) & Ken Linehan (US); 16mm, color, sound, 9 minutes.