BAY AREA NOW 9 - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
BAN9 exhibition, member of the curatorial counsel.
Curated film screenings and programs:
Canyon Cinema: Contemporary Bay Area Film, organized in partnership with Canyon Cinema. October 14, 2023.
San Francisco Cinematheque: Contemporary Views from the Bay Area, organized in partnership with SF Cinematheque. October 23, 2023.
Canyon Cinema Across Time and Space, looping film program. November 1 - 30, 2023.
Prismatic Permutations: Expanded Cinema Performances, looping film program. December 1 - 30, 2023.
fragments: films by Emily Chao. January 1 - 31, 2024.
California Newsreel - Forward to the 6th Decade, organized in partnership with California Newsreel. January 13, 2024.
Color in Twelve Parts by Leah Rosenberg, looping film program. February 1 - 29, 2024. Commissioned by Gina Basso in association with YBCA.
These programs were scheduled but were canceled or moved to other locations due to the ongoing controversies at YBCA:
from within a great silence, tamara suarez porras. February 17, 2024. NEW LOCATION TBA!!!
Untitled: Sound & Images, co-organized with Artist Television Access. NEW LOCATION: The Lab, SF. April 12, 2024
This Room is Nothing Without You: Experimental Animation & Expanded Performance. Featuring Jeremy Rourke, Meghana Bisineer, Lydia Greer and Kathleen Quillian. Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland, CA. March 23, 2023.
Updates on the ongoing issues YBCA:
seen only, heard only through someone else’s description
This exhibition has passed.
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts
Jan 14 - April 30, 2022
seen only, heard only through someone else’s description engages filmmakers and artists whose interdisciplinary practices draw from performance, film, photography, research, and writing. The program’s title stems from Audience Distant Relative (1977) by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951–1982)—a poem, performance, and mail art piece that uses language to unravel dynamics of distance, visibility, hearing, and communication. Program includes a rare presentation of Cha’s film Permutations (1976), still featured on the left.
Related screening:
Living in Mirrors: the life that belongs to me — special screening presented on Feb 5, 2022 at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts.
Co-curated with Steve Polta, artistic director, San Francisco Cinematheque
Alfred Leslie. The Last Clean Shirt. 1964.
Film Series: EXHIBITION REFLECTIONS
This event has passed: Oct - Nov 2021
In my final Film series at SFMOMA I decided to celebrate the work of visionary artists with exhibitions currently on view at the museum.
Now Streaming!! December 1 - 31. A rare screening of the avant-garde film The Last Clean Shirt (1964) is a collaboration between filmmaker Alfred Leslie and O’Hara, who wrote the subtitles. Presented in conjunction with Joan Mitchell.
November 1 - 30. Wu Tsang’s 2012 film WILDNESS (still featured above), a non-fiction portrait of the Silver Platter, a Latino LGBTQ bar in Los Angeles. Presented in conjunction with Tsang’s exhibition, Moved by the Motion.
October 14, 2021. Diana Markosian film pick Minari presented in conjunction with her exhibition Santa Barbara, a body of photographic and video work that taps into the artist’s personal experience of immigration, family history, and the American Dream.
Watch Steven Yeun, Diana Markosian and Chris Gayomali in conversation. Recorded at SFMOMA on October 14 following the presentation of Lee Isaac Chung’s film Minari.
More details at SFMOMA Film
untitled (teeming), Gina Basso, 2021. 4 min.
CROSSROADS 2021
Festival of Artist Made Film + Video
past screening: September - October 2021
untitled (teeming), 2021, 4 min. Digital Video. Gina Basso.
Official Music video for teeming by Animated Matter.
Screened in Program 7.
Undulating surfaces, shifting horizons and perspectives merge with layered landscapes shimmering in hyper-saturated color and textured brilliance. Within the liminal space of sea and land, a shapeshifting woman - the mythic Selkie - breaks through the surface in an endless search for her lost love.
This project is a collaboration with ambient duo Animated Matter for their song teeming. Handmade animated sequences and still photography combine with found footage to create a kaleidoscopic, vivid and vibrant video that finds inspiration in early silent film color techniques, microscopic studies and psychedelic abstraction. shot, animated, and edited by Gina Basso.
untitled (teeming) was listed in Ficks’ Picks on 48 Hills!
“Gina Basso’s gorgeously-constructed meditation captures a perfect blend of playfulness and poignancy. Made up of handmade animated sequences, still photography, and found footage, this project is a collaboration with ambient duo Animated Matter for the musician’s song ‘Teeming.’ It screens as part of the livestream program ‘no more carefree laughter’ and the in-person program ‘need falls away.”’ Screens as part of Program 7: ‘no more carefree laughter’…”
If you would like a viewing link, please let me know!
Animated Matter's album Selkie is available here. Their eight track debut interprets the Scandinavian, Scottish and Celtic myth of the Selkie: a tragedy of impossible land/sea romance between a man and a shapeshifting seal/woman.
CROSSROADS 2021 Festival Trailer by Gina Basso + Kim West