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Swarm Gallery

May 30 - May 30, 2009

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560 Second Street Oakland, CA 94607
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Filmnight 2.0 (left) Jae-Min Han, Homo Symbious (2008), 33mm still (right) Sandhya Kumar, Light Falling on White Flowers (2009), digital video still.
Swarm Gallery is pleased to announce the second in a series of monthly screenings of experimental, documentary, short, feature-lenth and animated film, video and all formats in between, curated by filmmakers and film enthusiasts from the Bay Area and beyond. Our first Film Night, earlier this month, was such a success that we're coming back with more. There is a new home for film in Oakland! This program presents premiere works from the San Francisco Art Institute’s 2009 Master of Fine Arts graduates in film and video. In the tradition of the experimental work for which the SFAI Film department is known, these works exhibit varied sensibilities, yet share a commitment to exploration and to expanding the expressive potential of the moving image. From the lighthearted to the sublime, the personal to the political, and the spiritual to the perceptual, these films and videos eschew easy categorization and, in turn, offer a context for rethinking the ways in which meaning is found and how we come to perceive. These films and videos were screened at the San Fransico Museum of Modern Art on Sunday May 17th, and we are proud to host the formal East Bay release of these works. Please join us for this screening and a healthy serving of popcorn. Featuring work by: David Yun, April Grayson, Sandhya Kumar, Andrés García Franco, Ching Yi Tseng (aka Baodao) Sarah Wylie Ammerman, Kevin Joseph Laccone, Ruth Marie Hodgins, Kai-Ting Chuang, Milena García, and Jae-Min Han