For nearly 50 years, the Bay Area filmmaker and curator Craig Baldwin has been an inspiring figure in contemporary media arts. His acerbic, densely-packed found footage films have traveled the globe, encouraging scores of nascent collage-essayists, culture jammers, and mockumentarians to action. A welcoming presence and steadfast fixture of San Francisco’s Mission District, Baldwin has been holding it down at 992 Valencia Street for decades, in defiance of sweeping gentrification, presenting his Other Cinema microcinema screenings in its street-level storefront theater while maintaining his legendary film archive/hoarder cave/work studio in the building’s basement. Ever seeking to revise and hybridize existing modes and genres, and invent and name new ones, Baldwin’s filmmaking amalgamates cinephilic literacy and voraciousness, a sharp understanding of political and cultural history, and a sly critical polemics.

As part of the CONTACT series, VISIONS presents, BRIGID MCCAFFREY.

19H : FILMS BY BRIGID MCCAFFREY Bad mama, who cares - Brigid McCaffrey Sun Metal Shadow Signs - Brigid McCaffrey AM/PM - Brigid McCaffrey Paradise Springs - Brigid McCaffrey Doors 18h30 | Projection 19h00 | 84 mins | 35mm, 16mm & digital projection | Brigid McCaffrey in attendance.

Microscope is very pleased to welcome back to the gallery Belgium-based filmmaker Boris Lehman to present the New York premiere of his latest feature film “A Tale of Hair.” The evening will also include a few “surprise” short 16mm films.