Cinema
Upcoming Programs & Events
Makeshift Winter Market + Brunch
Saturday, December 7, 2024 (rain or shine)
Brunch, 10am-2pm
Makeshift Market, 1-6pm
Free Admission
Join us on Saturday, December 7th for food, drink, music, vendors and more, happening all day long at Shapeshifters.
Brunch will be served in the café, from 10am-2pm featuring house-made pastries, seasonal toasts, breakfast burritos, coffee & espresso drinks, house-blended teas and more.
From 1-6pm our cinema space will open up for the Makeshift Winter Market where
local artists and organizations will be on hand to sell an array of handmade, small batch and one-of-a-kind items, including San Francisco Cinematheque (experimental film books), Dogbotic (DIY electronics books + kits), Anna Firth (riso prints and zines), Nico Charuza (riso prints), Jim Granato (vinyl records), Layla Chamberlin (lino prints & jewelry), Danny Plotnick (original photographs), Amonda Kallenbach (riso prints & comics), and Octavia Veeder (gemstone jewelry).
Get crafty at the material cinema worktable where you will find all the supplies you need to make your own hand-painted/hand-scratched 16mm film loops. When you're done we'll throw it on the projector to watch it come to life! No filmmaking experience necessary. Fun for kids of all ages!
Browse the A/V rummage sale where you will find a hodge-podge of film projectors, editing equipment and a variety of other A/V tools and resources. You might get lucky and find just what you need to make that next creative project!
Bring home some foliage from the plant sale. We'll have some potted starter plants as well as fresh mistletoe that you can use to decorate for your own holiday festivities.
There will be two kinds of house-made beer on tap—Not So Solid Earth Wee Heavy Scotch Ale and At Land IPA—(+ some canned that you can take to-go) as well as Winter Garden Soup (+ fresh bread) for purchase. Complementary cups of Cinnamon Apple Vanilla Tea and Mexican Coffee will be available as well + a steady stream of grooved vinyl audio gems on the hi-fi, selected by DJs Jim G, Johnny Whatevs & Billy Z.
Come spend the day with us!
Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues
Program 6 - Reproductive Health & Justice
Friday, December 13, 2024
7pm
Admission: $18 (discount for members)
This program explores the topics of reproductive health and justice through the work of filmmakers grappling with the relationships between gender, reproduction and societal expectations. These films consider the economic, personal and political factors around menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth and the freedom to choose.
Program 6 - Reproductive Health & Justice includes Hemorrhage (2023, DV) by Ruth Hayes, Menorrhagia (2023, 16mm film shown on DV) by Claire Maske, Reversal (2023, DV) by Diane Nerwen, Other Reckless Things (1984, 16mm film) by Janis Crystal Lipzin, Self-Health (1977, 16mm film) by SF Women's Health Collective, The Gallery That Destroys All Shame (2021, DV) by Aurora Brachman & Jessie Zinn, Light On a Path, Follow (2020, DV) by Elliot Montague, Sing, O Barren Woman (2001, SV shown on DV) by Susan Mogul and others TBA.
This screening is part of the Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues weekend-long focus on Reproductive Health & Justice which also includes the Urgent Action Video Making Workshop on Saturday, 12/14 and Films from the Abortion Clinic Film Collective: Documenting Reproductive Justice on Sunday, 12/15.
Find out more about Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues.
Promotional Image from Reversal by Diane Nerwen.
New & Recent Animated Films by Lewis Klahr
Co-presented by San Francisco Cinematheque
Saturday, December 14, 2024
7pm
Admission: $10 (discount for members)
LA-based filmmaker Lewis Klahr will join us to present an evening of 8 recently finished and in-progress animated films created between 2020 to 2024. Notable, perhaps, for their genre hopping, none of these films have screened in the Bay area and most have yet to screen before an audience. Klahr has curated this “preview” program to test the effectiveness of various sequences and combinations. All of the included films are from Klahr’s ongoing, multipart series From 45 to 33 whose first completed section, "The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness, had a memorable screening at BAMPFA in September.
Screening: Interstitial Romance (Warm Novelette) (2024), Thin Rain (2023), Five Days Till Tomorrow (2022) w/music by Michael Pisaro Liu, Railroad Bill (2023) Music by Dick Connette, Small Town Rain (2024), Crayon Angels (2021) w/music from producer Lorenzo Wolf's tribute album to Judee Sill, Repast (2020), 3 Friends of the Cold Season (2024) w/music by Dick Connette.
Klahr's Circumstantial Pleasures program will also be presented by SF Cinematheque at The Lab on Wednesday, December 12, 2024.
Films from the Abortion Clinic Film Collective: Documenting Reproductive Justice
Sunday, December 15, 2024
7pm
Admission: $12 (discount for members)
In the Abortion Clinic Film Collective series, we hear from medical directors and staff, mothers and daughters, criminal defense attorneys and advocates from across the country, about how their personal and professional lives have been affected post-Dobbs. Each portal provides a window into the broad and life-threatening ramifications of that Supreme Court decision and its devastating legacy for the health and well-being of our country and people.
Featuring films by Lynne Sachs, Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Đoan Hoáng Curtis, Kelly Gallagher, Lindsay Opoku-Acheampong, Raymond Rea, Ruth Hayes, and Sasha Waters.
This screening is part of the Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues weekend-long focus on Reproductive Health & Justice which also includes Gravitational Lensing, Program #6: Reproductive Health & Justice on Friday, 12/13 and the Urgent Action Video Making Workshop on Saturday, 12/14.
