Canyon at The Roxie returns this Saturday with a spotlight on acclaimed San Francisco filmmaker and professor Greta Snider!
This wide-ranging survey brings together a selection of Snider’s early – now classic – 16mm autoethnographies, found footage essays, and materialist inventions, and recent projects focusing on human rights issues, especially as manifested in the schism between document and body; culminating with Cult of Compliance, a stereoscopic, two-projector foray into dystopic oppressive structures and the gestures of trying to exist among them. 3D glasses will be provided.
$15 ($12 for Friends of Canyon members)
Tickets and program info: bit.ly/CanyonGretaSnider
Screening line-up: Blood Story (1990), Our Gay Brothers (1993), No-Zone (1993), Quarry Movie (1999), Hard Core Home Movie (1989), Flight (1995), Prayer for the Torture Memos (2015), A Small Place (2019), Cult of Compliance (2019)
Greta Snider has made films since discovering the art form at Antioch College in Ohio, and promptly moved to San Francisco to join a thriving low-budget experimental film scene, where she continues to make, screen, and teach about cinema. In her work, Snider utilizes a combination of original and archival material to create nonfiction art cinema of a personal nature. Her single screen films on 16mm lean heavily on the creative use of montage, interweaving the personal and historical in a number of short essay films. Her stereoscopic performances and installations take the materiality of film and family photos, to reshape themes of memory, loss, and personal histories in a more intimate, affective experience. She has screened in museums throughout the world, and also in bars, alleyways, and once, at an all-night international rave party in a penthouse in the Shibuya. Snider teaches experimental filmmaking at San Francisco State University, where she is faculty advisor to The Archive Project.
ABOUT CANYON AT THE ROXIEBringing into focus visionary Bay Area film artists of past and present, Canyon at The Roxie is a monographic screening series that blends classic, overlooked, new, and restored films from Canyon Cinema’s collection; presented in their original 16mm splendor. For more info, check out tamara suarez porras's article for 48 Hills here.