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Sat Nov 21

San Francisco Cinematheque presents

Uncertain Relations: Yvonne Rainer - "Journeys from Berlin/1971"

Yvonne Rainer in-person presented in collaboration with the San Francisco Art Institute Graduate Division, Spheres of Interest


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San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI)
800 Chestnut St.
San Francisco, CA 94133 map
cross street: Jones St.
district: North Beach/Telegraph Hill

Sat Nov 21 (7:30 pm)

Description
Distinguished Professor at UC Irvine, Yvonne Rainer began her career as a dancer and choreographer in the 1950s. In the ‘70s, after nearly twenty years working in modern dance, she turned her attentions to filmmaking. Over the subsequent twenty-five years, she made seven experimental feature films, including “Lives of Performers, The Man Who Envied Women” and “MURDER and murder.” The films of Yvonne Rainer confront the personal implications of social and political issues with a keen wit, inventive sensibility and uncompromising voice. Interweaving narrative and non-narrative elements while challenging expectations of fact and fiction, “Journeys from Berlin/1971”, Rainer’s fourth feature, is a groundbreaking exploration of the personal and political realms of psychiatry, feminism, terrorism and power.