Radical Archaeologies: Films by Greta Snider
Radical Archaeologies: Films by Greta Snider
Post-screening conversation with filmmaker Greta Snider.
In person: Greta Snider.
Greta Snider emerged as a filmmaker from the 1980s San Francisco DIY/punk scene with a vital and multi-layered perspective, examining the margins of society, identity, and experience. Alternative narratives, subcultures, and lifestyles are explored with great sensitivity, humor, and a genuinely fresh reorientation of vision that engages the audience on numerous emotional, intellectual, and visceral levels. Snider frequently works very materially with the film medium, whether through hand-processing, optical printing, or other tactile approaches. Often exploring difficult and complex concepts such as grief, trauma, sexuality, abortion, death, and pleasure, Snider’s activation of the film material creates an immersive and immediate space for her investigations to unfold. Despite the intensity of her themes, these films are extremely stimulating, deeply insightful, and often incredibly fun.
The Academy Film Archive is home to Greta Snider’s collection, and this program will feature numerous North American restoration premieres from the Archive.
Programmed and note by Academy Film Archive Senior Film Preservationist Mark Toscano.
All films directed by Greta Snider; all restored prints courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
Total program runtime: 72 min. Please note: this program contains some explicit content. No one under 18 admitted.
Hardcore Home Movie | North American Restoration Premiere
1989. 5 min. USA. B&W. English. 16mm.
Blood Story | Restoration World Premiere
1990. 4 min. USA. Color. English. 16mm.
Our Gay Brothers | Restoration World Premiere
1993. 9 min. USA. B&W, Color. English. 16mm.
Futility | North American Restoration Premiere
1989. 9 min. USA. B&W. English. 16mm.
Quarry Movie | North American Restoration Premiere
1999. 10 min. USA. Color. English. 16mm.
Portland | North American Restoration Premiere
1996. 12 min. USA. B&W. English. 16mm.
Flight | North American Restoration Premiere
1997. 5 min. USA. B&W. Silent. 16mm.
No-Zone
1993. 18 min. USA. B&W, Color. English. 16mm.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
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