AVANT TO LIVE! Book Launch Celebration
Join San Francisco Cinematheque and INCITE: Journal of Experimental Media in celebrating the publication of Craig Baldwin: Avant to Live!, a 508 page publication documenting the life and work of the acclaimed filmmaker, curator and underground legend Craig Baldwin. Meticulously detailed, with contributions from over 50 writers, artists, illustrators and ideologues, Avant to Live! is the first critical text to examine the artist’s films analytically as a coherent and meaningful body of work and critical artist’s statement while also examining the cultural impact of Baldwin’s Other Cinema curatorial project. Craig Baldwin: Avant to Live! is a collaborative project of San Francisco Cinematheque and INCITE: Journal of Experimental Media.
This evening’s event includes a live multimedia tour through the book by co-editors Brett Kashmere and Steve Polta to include excerpts from films, readings by contributors and an appearance by Craig Baldwin himself. JOIN US!
ABOUT THE ARTIST: As a filmmaker, Craig Baldwin’s works appropriate footage from pre-existing films, fusing form and content and embodying a radical vision of media culture as a participatory field. Engaging mainstream media as an adversary, using its languages in ironic opposition, Baldwin talks back to corporately produced media and creates inspiring, wildly imaginative works which profoundly challenge the nature of one-way media consumption. As a curator, Baldwin is known for Other Cinema, a hugely influential series of film/video programs which has been ongoing since the mid-1980s. Like his films, Other Cinema represents a radically expanded approach to film exhibition, media consumption and cultural engagement in which ephemeral forms of film history coexist alongside expanded cinema performance, underground/experimental film screenings, speculative lecture presentations, in-person artists and more.
NOTE: Pre-order Avant to Live! with your ticket and join us at 4pm at 518 Valencia at our pre-event Signing Reception. Bundled pre-orders include admission to the Launch Event, admission to the Signing Reception and one copy (standard or Expanded Edition) of Craig Baldwin: Avant to Live! which can be picked up in person at 518 Valencia Street, beginning at 4pm. Avant to Live! Expanded Edition includes Book + bonus material, including DVD, Craig Baldwin mail art zine, flipbook by artist Jeremy Rourke + more (full details here).
Admission (no book): $15 General / $12 Cinematheque Member
BUNDLES ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE. Books will be available for purchase at the launch celebration that starts at 6pm at The Roxie.
Bundle #1:
Basic Bundle includes admission to Launch Celebration (6pm at the Roxie) + Signing Reception (4pm at 518 Valencia) + Book!
$70 General / $57 Cinematheque Member
BUNDLES ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE. Books will be available for purchase at the launch celebration that starts at 6pm at The Roxie.
Bundle #2:
Expanded Bundle includes admission to Launch Celebration (6pm at the Roxie) + Signing Reception (4pm at 518 Valencia) + Expanded Edition of Book!
$123 General / $97 Cinematheque Member
BUNDLES ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE. Books will be available for purchase at the launch celebration that starts at 6pm at The Roxie.