Event

San Francisco's The Exploratorium Presents...

The Picture Show is proud to have the curators from The Exploratorium present with a program of short works that are rarely screened outside of the bay area.
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Thursday, October 23, 2014 / 7 PM
Total Run Time: 49 minutes

Since its establishment in 1969, the Exploratorium, self-described as "a museum for art, science, and human perception," has relied on expansive approaches to science education as an institutional framework. Founder Frank Oppenheimer always intended for his museum to consider art and science in parallel; in 1974 a formal Artist-in-Residence program was begun. This was followed by the establishment in 1982 of a film program, Cinema Arts, founded - and still led - by Liz Keim.

Tonight's program focuses on artist works and experimental cinema from the Cinema Arts collection crafted by makers with whom the Exploratorium shares extended cultivated relationships. Either commissioned by, or part of the museum collection - or simply made by friends of the institution - most of these works are rarely shown outside of the Bay Area.

Light Walk (Michael Walsh, 1999, 16mm, 4 min.)

Panorama (Michael Rudnick, 1982, 16mm, 13 min.)

Market Street (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2005, 16mm, 4 min.)

Light Year (Paul Clipson, 2013, 16mm, 10 min.)

Vespucciland (Rock Ross, 1982, 16mm, 3 min.)

Exploratorium (Jon Boorstin, 1974, video, 15 min)
*recently restored by the Academy Film Archive through the National Film Preservation Foundation