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October 17
Memory Film Series: Remembering Our Mothers
Guest Curated by San Francisco Filmmaker Anita Chang
McBean Theater, 2pm, Saturday
Daughter Rite
(1979, 53 min.)by Michelle Citron is
a complex and unsettling piece that explores the psychological
dynamics of the nuclear family. Through the use of home movies
and cinema verite sequences, Citron and her sister remember and
rediscover their mother.
October 18
Memory
Film Series: Remembering Our Mothers
Guest Curated by San Francisco Filmmaker Anita Chang
McBean Theater, 2 pm, Sunday
Across a Paper Ocean
(1993, 11 min.) by
Jean Cheng;
Mommy, What's Wrong?
(1997, 14 min.)
by Anita Chang;
Mother Tongue
(1992, 4 min.) by Irina
Leimbacher;
Pants on Fire: Protection
(1996, 5 min.)by
Devorah Heitner;
Querida Mamãe
(1997, 5 min.)
by Lara Miranda;
The Silence Between
(199?, 10 min.)
by Jacqueline Turnure.
In this evocative series, filmmakers explore the
tender and sometimes difficult territory that exists between the
generations.
October 24
Memory Film Series: Remembering Our Fathers
Curated by Filmmaker-in-residence Gustavo Vazquez
McBean Theater, 2 pm, Saturday
Personal Belongings
(1996,
63 min.) by Steven Bognar is a candid portrait of the filmmaker's father, Bela
Bognar, who participated in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and
then immigrated to Ohio in 1961. Over the course of 30 years,
Steven combines his home movies with archival footage to examine
his father's intricate life.
Letters to a Stranger
(1997, 13 min.) by Ray Wang weaves
together educational films about China with footage of Wang's
elderly father and images of the Angel Island internment center
to comment on the Chinese in America and his relationship with
his father.
Flight
(1996, 5 min.) by Greta Snyder, is an experimental
montage of fleeting, ghostly images in a tribute to the filmmaker's
father and to the fragile, temporal nature of life.
October 25
Memory Film Series: Remembering Our Fathers
Curated by Filmmaker-in-Residence Gustavo Vazquez
McBean Theater, 2 pm, Sunday
The Paternal Line
(1995, 80 min.) by Jose Buil and Marisa
Sistach , chronicles his family's past through the amazing discovery
of 300 films that the filmmaker's grandfather shot over the course
of 15 years, from 1923 to 1938. Besides capturing the rituals
and festivities of the family and the surrounding village, this
poetic documentary also captures the longing and sentimentality
that comes with nostalgia.
October 24 & 25
Family Memory Making
Near the Exploratorium Cafe, 12 noon-4 pm, Saturday
& Sunday
Capture images and share your memories with photographer Corwin
Hankins. Hankins has developed a three-phase workshop that will
give you the tools to evoke memories from the past, record experiences
at the museum, and share them for others to enjoy. Bring in slides
and transform them into beautiful image transfers, or bring in
objects or clothing of significance and make a portrait of yourself.
You can also create instant memories by checking out a camera
and photographing images of your visit.
October 31 & November 1
Special Memory Event: "Plays at an Exhibition"
McBean Theater, 2 pm, Saturday & Sunday
In collaboration with the
Magic Theatre
, the Exploratorium
presents
"Plays at an Exhibition
,
"
the first in
a series of two weekend readings by local playwrights. To develop
these plays, writers will go through the Exploratorium's Memory
show and create plays based on their experiences with the exhibition.
A team of eight actors and two directors will rehearse and read
the pieces during the first weekend. Audiences will have an opportunity
to share their own personal observations about the exhibition
and respond to the plays. The playwrights will rewrite the plays,
which will presented on the second weekend, Saturday and Sunday,
November 7 & 8. Refreshments will be served.
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