Allen Ross Double Feature

Sun, Apr 16
7:30pm and 8:50pm
$8 general, $5 Cinematheque members, Seniors, Disabled, Students (w. ID)

Recent Avant Garde Preservations, program one
Allen Ross' The Grandfather Trilogy and Missing Allen: The Man Who
Became A Camera

The 7:30 pm program contains The Grandfather Trilogy, which is
described in the filmmaker's own words as "a radical approach to
portraiture" and plays as a "long sustained accident" and a "record
of a divinely shadowed presence." Made between 1979 and 1981,
consisting of Papa, Thanksgiving 1979, and Buriels, the trilogy is a
unique, unsettling, and moving document of intergenerational
relationships. Through frequent use of disorienting camera angles,
lingering images of stasis and uncomfortable breaks in conversation,
The Grandfather Trilogy embodies the troubled yet ultimately close
relationship between the filmmaker and his subject, allowing them
their own space and time while reflecting on the intimate, yet
intrusive, process of documentation.

The 8:50 pm program contains Missing Allen by filmmaker Christian
Bauer. Allen Ross, experimental filmmaker, co-founder of Chicago
Filmmakers, and cinematographer for numerous television
documentaries, vanished in 1995. After his disappearance, his friend
and fellow documentary filmmaker Bauer decides to try to find him, or
at least understand what happened. Although the deeper questions
raised by this unsettling documentary are never answered, MISSING
ALLEN is a haunting investigation into America's dark side of
religious cults and fringe groups, a tribute to Ross as a person and
filmmaker, and a reflection on how little we sometimes know each
other. It features interviews with Chicago filmmakers Tom Palazzolo,
Bill Stamets, and others.

This program is presented in Association with Chicago Filmmakers

Venue:

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street
San Francisco

Additional Info:

415-552-1990
www.sfcinematheque.org