A selection of animations and clips inspired by the work of M.C. Escher.
Category Archives: short films
Curating Films Year Around
A candid conversation with the film programmers at the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA).
Eat My Shortstroths ymtae- Palindrome Shorts
With the Premiere of the new documentary The Palindromists, we thought our readers would be intrigued to see a variety of short films that are structured as palindromes.
They look the same forwards and backwards.
Sometimes Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
By Frako Loden
The tagline for DocFest, the 19th San Francisco Documentary Festival, is “Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction”—a saying we all appreciate more than we’d like during these days of COVID-19, wildfires, racist domestic terrorism and unhinged presidential campaigns. But however much we might want to hide from some of these truths, we still relish a good documentary that tells it like it is—or at least when we’re feeling more fragile, brings back fond memories or confirms our biases. SF DocFest gives you a chance to do all that with 49 new documentaries, easy to watch from home with the website’s clearly worded instructions. Here are ten that you might choose from.
Healing The World One Film at a Time: Black Films Matter
By Gary Meyer
Celebrate African American cinema and the African cultural Diaspora through a diverse collection of films – from emerging and established filmmakers. The San Francisco Black Film Festival presents movies reinforcing positive images and dispelling negative stereotypes while providing cinema artists from the bay area in particular and around the world in general, a forum for their work to be viewed and discussed.
For more than 20 years audiences have gathered to experience these movies but this year the festival has been reinvented as “Virtually, It’s Possible” uploading new movies twice a day through August 2, 2020 on the San Francisco Black Film Festival website.
EAT MY SHORTS: Ella & Kim Sing & Swing
The wonderful sounds of Ella Fitzgerald and Kim Nalley are even more fun if you can watch them perform.
There is no way we can include all the great material one can find on the Internet. We offer a sampling that will keep you happy for hours featuring both Ella and Kim.
EAT MY SHORTS: Laughter is the Best Medicine
During the Coronavirus – Covid 19 lockdown there is much uncertainty but the creative spirits of people rise to keep us smiling and laughing in the most unlikely of circumstances. We thought you could enjoy some of the humor appearing on social media.
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