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Victoria Theatre
April 10 - April 12, 2015Info
2961 16th Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Google Map »
Paul Clipson and Grouper. "Hypnosis Display," 2014; 16mm.
CROSSROADS 2015, curated by Cinematheque Artistic Director Steve Polta, is this festival’s sixth manifestation. Running April 10–12, CROSSROADS will present over 60 films, videos and performance works by filmmakers from around the world, screened in 9 feature-length programs to over 1,200 attendees. Each year our festival continues to grow in scope, influence and reach, locally and internationally.
This year’s festival will open on Friday, April 10 at the Mission District’s historic Victoria Theatre and will include the Bay Area premiere of local filmmaker Paul Clipson’s astounding feature-length experimental film Hypnosis Display, featuring a live sound collaboration by Portland musician Liz Harris (Grouper). The festival will continue on with curated programs of recent artist-made film, video and performance cinema from an international selection of film/performance artists, including Stephen Broomer (Toronto), Guillaume Cailleau (Paris), Abigail Child (New York), Anja Dornieden & Juan David González Monroy (Berlin), Karissa Hahn (Los Angeles), Pablo Mazzolo (Buenos Aires), performance cinema artist Michael Morris (Dallas TX), Ben Rivers (UK), Ben Russell (Los Angeles), Vanessa Renwick (Portland), Sylvia Schedelbauer (Berlin), Deborah Stratman (Chicago), Malena Szlam (Montreal), Naoko Tasaka (Tokyo) and Bay Area artists Tommy Becker, John Davis, Zachary Epcar, Allison Leigh Holt, Kadet Kuhne, Kerry Laitala and Ross Meckfessel.