San Francisco Cinematheque Digital Archives

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    Poster listing film programs offered by the San Francisco Cinematheque from Feb-Mar 1970. Programs were held at the San Francisco Art Institute.
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    Poster listing film programs offered by the San Francisco Cinematheque from Jan-Feb 1970. Programs were held at the San Francisco Art Institute.
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    Poster listing film programs offered by the San Francisco Cinematheque from Dec 1969-Jan 1970. Programs were held at the San Francisco Art Institute.
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    Poster listing film programs offered by the San Francisco Cinematheque from Oct-Nov 1969. Programs were held at Mills College, Calif College of Arts & Crafts, San Francisco Art Institute and Sonoma State College.
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    Poster listing film programs offered by the San Francisco Cinematheque from Nov 1965 - Jan 1966. Programs were held at the Gate Theater.
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    Press release documenting screening of films by Warren Sonbert and Gunvor Nelson, May 6, 1990. Warren Sonbert (June 26, 1947 - May 31, 1995) was an experimental filmmaker whose work began in New York in the mid-1960s, and continued in San Francisco throughout the second half of his life. Sonbert taught filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Bard College at various times, and regularly reviewed classical recordings and opera, as well as film, for periodicals including The Advocate and the Bay Area Reporter. He died of complications from AIDS at his home in San Francisco in 1995. Swedish artist and experimental filmmaker Gunvor Grundel Nelson was born in 1931 in Kristinehamn, Sweden. Some of her most widely known works were created while she lived in the Bay Area in the mid-1960s and early 1970s, where she became well established among other artists in the avant-garde film circles.
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    Program note documenting screening of films by Warren Sonbert and Gunvor Nelson, May 6, 1990. Warren Sonbert (June 26, 1947 - May 31, 1995) was an experimental filmmaker whose work began in New York in the mid-1960s, and continued in San Francisco throughout the second half of his life. Sonbert taught filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Bard College at various times, and regularly reviewed classical recordings and opera, as well as film, for periodicals including The Advocate and the Bay Area Reporter. He died of complications from AIDS at his home in San Francisco in 1995. Swedish artist and experimental filmmaker Gunvor Grundel Nelson was born in 1931 in Kristinehamn, Sweden. Some of her most widely known works were created while she lived in the Bay Area in the mid-1960s and early 1970s, where she became well established among other artists in the avant-garde film circles.
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    Notes on Warren Sonbert's Friendly Witness and Gunvor Nelson's Natural Features. Author unknown. Warren Sonbert (June 26, 1947 - May 31, 1995) was an experimental filmmaker whose work began in New York in the mid-1960s, and continued in San Francisco throughout the second half of his life. Sonbert taught filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Bard College at various times, and regularly reviewed classical recordings and opera, as well as film, for periodicals including The Advocate and the Bay Area Reporter. He died of complications from AIDS at his home in San Francisco in 1995. Swedish artist and experimental filmmaker Gunvor Grundel Nelson was born in 1931 in Kristinehamn, Sweden. Some of her most widely known works were created while she lived in the Bay Area in the mid-1960s and early 1970s, where she became well established among other artists in the avant-garde film circles.
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    "Chick Strand's Recollections of Canyon Cinema's Early Beginnings with Added Commentary from Chick Callenbach." Transcribed conversation between Chick Strand and Ernest (Chick) Callenbach, Gunvor Nelson and Diane [Kitchen?]. Date unknown. Mildred "Chick" Strand (December 3, 1931 - July 11, 2009) was an experimental filmmaker who contributed to the movement of women's experimental cinema in the early 1960s-1970s. Chick Strand studied anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and in the early 1960s organized film happenings with Bruce Baillie. In 1961, Strand established the Canyon CinemaNews, a monthly filmmakers' journal which became a focal point for the West Coast independent film movement and a precursor to the filmmakers' collective called Canyon Cinema founded by others, including Baillie, in 1967.
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    Account written by Doroothy Wiley of her memories meeting Gunvor Nelson and making the film Schmeerguntz together. Written for the San Francisco Cinematheque program, "Gunvor Nelson: A Life in Film."
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