Dedication: A Salon with Millennium Film Journal

Program Notes.

A Canyon Cinema Salon with Lynne Sachs and MFJ Editor Nicholas Gamso in person!

This selection of short moving image pieces—all discussed in recent issues of the Millennium Film Journal—will celebrate the release of MFJ no. 81, “Dedication.”

The new edition testifies to the grief we’ve felt over the last several months, amid drastic cuts to vital social services, worsening climate disasters (most acutely the LA wildfires), and dimmed hopes of humanitarian justice. These struggles are especially hard to bear in the absence of those artists who’ve helped us to see and better understand ourselves, and whose work remains a comfort even as it challenges and provokes. We want, then, to meet the experience of loss with renewed commitments at the scale of a battered world, certainly, yet also among our community of moving image artists and writers.

The screening will include film and video works by Vincent Grenier, Gunvor Nelson, Lynne Sachs, Steve Reinke, Eva Giolo, Jenni Olson, Chris Kennedy, as well as the West Coast premiere of Kevin Jerome Everson’s Practice, Practice, Practice (2024), which takes place at San Francisco City Hall.

We are pleased to be joined by Lynne Sachs, who will speak on her friendship with Gunvor Nelson.

As always, this Salon event is free and open to the public, with refreshments served beginning at 7pm and the doors closed for the start of the show at 7:30.

Screening Line-Up:

Blue Diary (Jenni Olson, 1998, 7 minutes) – 16mm

Go Between (Chris Kennedy, 2024, 6 minutes)

Practice, Practice, Practice (Kevin Jerome Everson, 2024, 10 minutes)

The Demands of Ordinary Devotion (Eva Giolo, 2022, 12 minutes)

Sundown (Steve Reinke, 2023, 7.5 minutes)

Tabula Rasa (Vincent Grenier, 1993-2004, 7.5 minutes)

Carolee, Barbara, and Gunvor (Lynne Sachs, 2018, 9 minutes)

One and the Same (Gunvor Nelson, with Freude, 1973, 4 minutes) – 16mm

Total running time: ca. 65 min.

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The Canyon Cinema Salon series is made possible with generous support from the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation, the Owsley Brown III Philanthropic Foundation, and the City of San Francisco Grants for the Arts.

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Dedication: A Salon with Millennium Film Journal