San Francisco Documentary Festival

Bay Area Shorts 2

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5 films in package
I Think About Birds
I THINK ABOUT BIRDS is a personal desktop documentary exploring the filmmaker's obsession with toxic online dating coaches — an obsession rooted in her existential fear of loneliness in the event that her marriage should end. It’s also about birds.
Oliver
Oliver, a queer man living alone in San Francisco, turns to chatbots for everything from financial advice to intimacy as he navigates disability, debt, and desire.
Love is the Drug
Love is the Drug tells the story of Heather Edney’s drug user organizing which began with the Santa Cruz Needle Exchange Program. The film brings together a trove of archival materials: Edney’s appearances on television, photographs, zines, flyers, and community health education videos with new 16mm footage. Love is the Drug ultimately asserts that the archive is not a scene of redemption, but rather a cinematic apparatus that can teach us about durational love.
as the fires rage on
In a world of escalating wildfires and expanding prison systems, an incarcerated crew fights fires for 70¢ an hour. As the camera observes their daily routines, it examines not just their labor, but the systems of surveillance shaping both their lives and the film’s production.
Half Life
After delaying a routine screening, athlete and artist Kirk Keeler is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Refusing to retreat, he partners with pro climber Kevin Jorgeson to scale Yosemite’s Half Dome and raise awareness so others don’t repeat his mistake.
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Love is the Drug tells the story of Heather Edney’s drug user organizing which began with the Santa Cruz Needle Exchange Program. The film brings together a trove of archival materials: Edney’s appearances on television, photographs, zines, flyers, and community health education videos with new 16mm footage. Love is the Drug ultimately asserts that the archive is not a scene of redemption, but rather a cinematic apparatus that can teach us about durational love.

  • Year
    2025
  • Runtime
    18 minutes
  • Country
    United States
  • Director
    Liz Roberts
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