Altered Images is an innovative and boundary-pushing experimental Film and Music Festival. Their mission is to bring together artists from diverse disciplines, fostering collaboration and creating original, one-of-a-kind pieces. With a focus on expanded cinema, experimental sound, performance, inclusivity, feminism, and queer activism. Altered Images strives to push the boundaries of artistic expression. The showcase welcomes artists whose work embodies an experimental and innovative spirit. Through live music, projections, performances, and art installations.
Artist in person – Q&A following the screening In person & online
Microscope is very pleased to present a solo screening of works in 16mm and video by Sasha Waters, including the New York premiere of her new short video “Ashes of Roses” (2023). Waters will be in attendance and available for a Q&A following the screening, which will take place both in-person and online.
Real-time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by Eric Theise in collaboration with percussionists Darien Baiza and Paul Neidhardt. A visual wash of street grids, land masses, water bodies, and curiosities from built and natural environments. Driving beats. Orphaned labels and free-floating symbology. Auditory roundabouts and redirections. Saturated colors and the subtlest of tints. Sounds symphonic and screeching. Jittery zooms, pans, and traversals.
On the occasion of Bay Area Now 9, Cinematheque returns for two special screenings at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in the month of October. Running October 6–31, CROSSROADS at 14 looks back on the first fourteen years of Cinematheque’s annual festival. San Francisco Cinematheque: Contemporary Views from the Bay Area, featuring work by ten Bay Area filmmakers created 2020–2023, screens October 21.
Light Cone presents the third edition of Scratch Collection, a journey through our catalogue of 6,500 films whose goal is to draw up a great world atlas of experimental cinema and reaffirm Light Cone as an evolving and thriving collection.
