“Streets of San Francisco” Experimental Films from 1957-2007 | SFMOMA

Throughout the 75th anniversary exhibitions at the SFMOMA, artists take up San Francisco’s cityscapes as subject and muse. This program of experimental films and videos from the late 1950s to the present offers evocative records of individual experiences of street life

These psychogeographic tours look at North Beach’s Broadway strip and the window reflections of a Beat poet protagonist. We examine the Mission’s storefronts for evidence of larger neighborhood shifts, from gentrification in the 1980s to the current neighborhood use of the former site of a 19th-century amusement park. Works by Lawrence Jordan, Katherin McInnis, Martha Rosler, and Greg Sharits are included, among others.

Streets of San Francisco: Filmic Journeys
Tanya Zimbardo, assistant curator of media arts,
Phyllis Wattis Theater

$5 general; free for SFMOMA members or with museum admission (requires a free ticket, which can be picked up in the Haas Atrium).

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