If loss were a currency
One sometimes wonders if silence speaks loudest not only because it signals to an absence, or an inability to articulate despite wanting to, but that it reminds us that even in whatever is said,...
View ArticleRose Lowder Bouquets
The Bouquets of Rose Lowder’s Bouquets (1994–2002) are among the most alluring bodies of work in contemporary moving image art. Made at intervals over three decades, the Bouquets chronicle Lowder’s...
View ArticleA Companion to Mekas’ Walden
When Mekas’s Diaries, Notes and Sketches (also known as Walden), premiered in New York in 1969, it opened a new chapter in the history of artists’ film. A new generation suddenly discovered that the...
View ArticleOn Films 1976-1998
The artist yann beauvais was perhaps the single most significant contributor to the history of experimental film in France in the last quarter of the 20th century. When he withdrew from the Paris scene...
View ArticleInvisible Fisherman: The Art of Bill Brand
The name of artist Bill Brand is so well known and admired in the field of moving image art that it is hard to believe that many of his most notable achievements have up to now remained almost...
View ArticleMy Life is the Cinema
My Life is the Cinema brings to English readers for the first time the memoirs and selected writings of Esfir’ Shub, the pioneering Soviet filmmaker whose archival works transformed the practice of...
View ArticleThe Autobiography of Jane Brakhage
In The Autobiography of Jane Brakhage, Jane Wodening—writer, naturalist and longtime collaborator of legendary avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage—tells her own story at last. Speaking with candor, wit...
View ArticleKen Jacobs: I Walked Into My Shortcomings
I Walked Into My Shortcomings is the first book to gather the writings, teachings and interviews of Ken Jacobs (1933–2025), a towering and singular figure in American art and experimental film....
View ArticleShe Follows No Progression
She Follows No Progression reflects on the plurality of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s (1951–1982) work and legacy, collecting essays, personal narratives, poems, conversations, letters and the extratextual...
View ArticleNowhere Near
Nowhere Near follows the author’s psychogeographic journey from Los Angeles to Pangasinan to Mexico City after his departure from the United States, where he lived undocumented for twenty-six years....
View ArticleRobert Beavers
RELATED EVENTS: Robert Beavers: Filmmaker in Residence (January 30 – February 7, 2026) at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Berkeley CA. This career-spanning retrospective and...
View ArticleWhen It Was Blue (Blu-ray)
RELATED EVENTS: Celebrate the release of When It Was Blue with two special public events featuring Jennifer Reeves! On Wednesday, January 14, 2026 at 7pm, join us at Shapeshifters Cinema for the...
View ArticleHand Book: A Manual on Performance, Process, and the Labor of Laundry
Hand Book: A Manual on Performance, Process, and the Labor of Laundry is a collection of writings and images from a performance and film set within a neighborhood laundromat, a microcosm of service...
View ArticleThe Archival Impermanence Project
How do classic films remain alive and authentic amidst the shifting sands of time, societal upheaval and technological advance? The Archival Impermanence Project is a unique work integrating detailed...
View ArticleOn Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures
Reviled, rioted over and banned as pornographic even as it was recognized by many as an unprecedented visionary masterpiece, Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures is one of the most important and influential...
View ArticleThe Red Thread: Larry Gottheim and his Films
The definitive work on Larry Gottheim, a key figure in the history of American experimental film. Gottheim’s account of the evolution of his work over the decades provides an extraordinary window onto...
View ArticleCinematheque Membership
Become a Member of San Francisco Cinematheque and support Cinematheque’s Mission to cultivate the international field of artist-made film. See membership levels and benefits below. Payments can be made...
View ArticleTape Number One: Side One (2013–2016)
… a kaleidoscopic candy-colored cavalcade of speculative/pop-psychology and catchy tragicomic sing-a-long. Becker’s pieces sift through contemporary sites of existential malaise with indefatigable...
View ArticleEverything Is Now
A groundbreaking cultural history of 1960s New York, from the legendary writer on art and film. Like Paris in the 1920s, New York City in the 1960s was a cauldron of avant-garde ferment and artistic...
View ArticleKaren Yasinsky: Who’s your true love
… Yasinsky’s films show you what will happen. You will find yourself alone. You will experience the comfort of others. Attraction, repulsion, joy, repressions, indifference—they are the stars of the...
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