Film / Video
YBCA curates a series of monthly film/video screenings with a focus on experimental and alternative films and documentaries. YBCA also hosts screenings for a select group of community partner organizations. Click the link at left for a list of our current partners.
Seating in the YBCA Screening Room is limited and screenings often sell out. Guarantee your seats by purchasing in advance online or by calling 415.978.2787. Otherwise, plan to arrive early or call ahead for seating availability.
We are currently working on integrating members discounts into single ticket purchases online. We apologize for the inconvenience, however, member tickets can be ordered by calling the Box Office at 415.978.2787 between 11 am–6 pm
Aug 7–24, 2008
A look at different approaches to extreme states of consciousness through experiments with light, music, drugs or even filmmaking …
Aug 16, 2008
Beautiful Losers was one of the most popular and provocative art exhibitions YBCA has ever had … and now it’s a documentary film. The film celebrates a loose-knit group of like-minded outsiders emerged from the underground youth subcultures of skateboarding, surf, punk, hip hop and graffiti in the 90s …
Sep 13, 2008
Jesse Hawthorne Ficks programs specialize in revivals of the cinema of the 1980s, with a particular focus on underrated gems, disreputable and strange genres and dubiously talented movie stars …
Sep 18–21 2008
Performer and poet Taylor Mead is one of Andy Warhol’s most humorous, and perhaps unsung, "superstars." Mead will make his first San Francisco appearance in decades, and will present some of the films he did with Warhol, in addition to a new documentary about his life …
Sep 24 & 28 2008
Though best known for his derriere-obsessed erotica, Italian filmmaker Tinto Brass' earliest films are hallucinatory, experimental oddities. Though they always contain sexy undertones, these early works show a more avant-garde side of this unique artist …
Sep 25, 2008
Don’t miss this West Coast premiere of Euphoria!, a surreal and effervescent insight into the high conscious states of cinematic perception and pop culture sensation. Be fascinated by the silly whimsy of Submarine Circus, the ecstatic states of Indian Kathakali dancers, the squidish tactility of a Jello Pudding commercial …
Sep 27, 2008
Charge your soul with films that glow with passion and humor. From the impish shock of kink to amped-up camp to lightning-quick chases, these action-packed films will stimulate all your senses. Program includes work by Thu Trinh, Rui Bing Zheng, Jennifer Lin, Monifa Porter, Letesa Bruce, Alexis McCrimmon, Trina Espinosa and Jinky de Rivera …
Oct 2, 2008
Join us for an eclectic program of superb new short documentaries at YBCA selected from the upcoming San Francisco Documentary Festival (Oct 17-30 at the Roxie and Shattuck Theaters). This program of short docs from around the world will prove once and for all that truth is definitely stranger than fiction …
Oct 9–11, 2008
This three-part retrospective focuses on softcore sex films made in San Francisco in 1968, at that fleeting moment when censorship barriers were collapsing. Just about anyone with a 16mm camera who could convince their friends to take their clothes off could make films and get them shown to a paying public …
Oct 16, 2008
The 10,000 Mile Bike Race is a performance based on a text adapted from Le Surmâle (The Supermale), the first cyborg sex novel, by Alfred Jarry. The text is narrated by poet Brent Cunningham, interpreted on 16mm film by a collection of local filmmakers (Jerry Hiler, Michelle Silva, Bill Basquin and Kerry Laitala) and accompanied live by the jazz ensemble of composer Graham Connah …
Oct 18, 2008
San Francisco's underground drag phenomenon Peaches Christ is an award-winning filmmaker currently immersed in pre-production work for her first feature. But she's better known for her Midnight Mass movie series and no-budget short film collection including her "Tran-ilogy of Terror" …
YBCA's programs are made possible in part by:
The Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund
LEF Foundation
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