Ticket stubs and severed limbs
a fortnight in the lifetime of Bay Area arts & media
by Jen Gilomen, Lead Developer of Strategic Initiatives @ BAVC
It was a deliciously gruesome couple of weeks for Bay Area arts and for me. It all started innocently enough, with my friend Judy’s inspired birthday party — a diorama extravaganza. In celebration, Judy made a creepy-beautiful bony hand out of rolled up paper, and thrust it into a box left empty by a less inspired guest. I sat in the corner and strung little black and white archival photos together with thread, wanting to suspend them in space as they were suspended in time, and delighting in a newfound appreciation for the minutiae of craft. I’ve been thinking of my own art as something seen through a lens for some time now, and often as something long-term, expensive, and seemingly impossible, so it was a nice change to see these little worlds in little windows that don’t require finishing funds.
For a few months now, a group of fellow female filmmakers and I have been congregating to dance collectively around the question we’ve been asking ourselves individually for a few years: is it possible to bring “major” film production “back” to the Bay Area? We know this question is about as new as film itself, but we’ve been wondering if we can ask it in a new way. As I roamed the hallowed halls of the SF arts scene these weeks, from our room-sized freezer in SFMOMA to our backyard film festival BBQs, I tried to let the scene blow fresh air into the question. (more…)
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