Program 2: I Like to Watch - Mediations on&nbsp;Meditations through the strange and the beautiful visual arts.

A brief escapade into the underground world of urban exploration. Follow Griffin, the filmmaker, and Jesus, a bay area photographer, as they journey into SF's famous abandoned grain silo. Along the way, discovering a world of extensive artwork, hidden away from the eyes of the public.

Art, All Around You

A brief escapade into the underground world of urban exploration.

Photographer William Gottlieb captured some of the most recognizable photos of post war jazz and music in New York City.

On 52nd: The Photography of William P. Gottlieb

Recently returning to New York City after several years of living in Sweden, artist and storyteller Bryan Zanisnik comically chronicles the highs and lows of life as a contemporary artist, discovering a love for mushroom foraging and the pleasures of inner stillness along the way. After more than ten years in New York, the artist is both exhilarated and exhausted—exhilarated by the high visibility exhibition opportunities, but ultimately exhausted by the chronic under-funding and his own labor-intensive process. Describing his mix of photography, sculpture, and performance, Zanisnik explains “I would do projects where I would collect thousands of objects, I would arrange them, photograph them, move them, [and] build an installation.” But the process was bringing diminishing personal returns, prompting the artist to ask, “Do we make our lives more difficult than they have to be?” The solution? Zanisnik pivots and moves to Sweden—spurred on by his partner’s new job there—dreaming of universal health care and government artist support. But the artist soon discovers that Sweden is not quite the promised land he expected and learns that the road to personal and professional fulfillment is not always a straight one. Mirroring Zanisnik’s own tragic-comic style with a playful use of sound effects and archival footage, this documentary portrait is a universal story of one person’s quest for financial stability, creative joy, and the best in Swedish pastry.

Bryan Zanisnik's Big Pivot

Bryan Zanisnik comically chronicles the highs and lows of life as a contemporary artist, discovering a love for mushroom foraging and the pleasures of inner stillness along the way.

A short observational documentary filmed inside The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

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A short observational documentary filmed inside The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

An ancient civilization develops complex computing technologies using only well-trained animals. Told through a psychedelic found-footage slideshow sourced entirely from 100+ year old stereoscopic photographs. Originally created in 3D anaglyph, a black and white 2D version has been created for remote festival audiences due to Covid.

Codex Entropia: 2D

An ancient civilization develops complex computing technologies using only well-trained animals. Told through a psychedelic found-footage slideshow sourced entirely from 100+ year old stereoscopic photographs.

I want to make a film about women is a speculative love letter to Russian constructivist women. The new Soviet Union of the 1920s championed equality for women and great innovation in the creative arts. Until it didn't. Looking back at that time, history remembers the men who were celebrated and then shut down. But women were there, too, and they were influential, powerful and brilliant. I want to make a film about women gazes in to a creative communal kitchen and watches these women transform it into a workshop, then a stage set, then a film, all the while juggling noisy men and the wolves of history. It imagines what the revolutionary women artists of the 1920s said, what they did, and what they might have created had it not been for Stalin's suppression.

I want to make a film about women

'I want to make a film about women' is a queer, speculative love letter to Russian constructivist women.

Finnish engineer Eric Tigerstedt solved the dilemma of sound-on-film already before the First World War. All images and sounds in this short film are produced from the surviving test materials originally created in 1914.

Patent Nr. 314805

Finnish engineer Eric Tigerstedt solved the dilemma of sound-on-film already before the First World War. All images and sounds in this short film are produced from the surviving test materials originally created in 1914.

Program 2  I Like to Watch Q&A

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