Topic: curators
Honor thy neighbor: "Playgirl After Dark" plays in the Superstars Next Door program at YBCA. (Photo courtesy Jack Stevenson)
Jack Stevenson and "The Superstars Next Door"
If John Waters is “the Pope of Trash” (according to the gospel of William S Burroughs) then freelance curator and film fanatic Jack Stevenson is a shoe-in for Cardinal. The last time Stevenson rolled into town in 2006, he arrived with a stack of film canisters that were a veritable Pandora’s box filled with drug scare propaganda, witchcraft and Scandinavian skin flicks. This time he comes bearing amateur blue movies, a gritty portrait of a bisexual hustler, and grainy reels documenting live, nude girls — all shot in San Francisco—for the series “The Superstars Next Door” at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. I checked in with Stevenson via email before he boarded his transatlantic flight. Here’s what he had to say about his hatred of television, why film preservationists have it wrong—and the most depraved flick ever made in Denmark.
topics: curators, digital filmmaking, yerba buena center for the arts
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Getting a Ficks: With BAN5's film component, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts highlights the work of curators like Jesse Hawthorne Ficks, who's programmed for the Castro and other theaters. (Photo courtesy Jesse Hawthorne Ficks)
Curating the curators at Bay Area Now 5
Bay Area Now, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ triennial exhibition, has developed a deserved reputation for presenting an energetic survey of current Bay Area artistic practice. YBCA’s film/video curator, Joel Shepard, programs the film portion of the exhibition, and over the years he’s showcased a survey of contemporary Bay Area film, commissioned new work from locals like Bill Daniel and Ellen Bruno and focused on live cinema. This year Shepard curates Bay Area film curators.
topics: cult cinema, curators, documentary film institute, experimental film, features, genre films, yerba buena center for the arts
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