September 04 – December 08, 2024
About:
Rick Prelinger is a guerrilla archivist who collects the uncollected and makes it accessible. Prelinger’s “Lost Landscapes of San Francisco” is an eclectic montage of lost and rarely-seen film clips showing life, landscapes and labor in a vanished San Francisco as captured by amateurs, newsreel cameramen and industrial filmmakers.
Curatorial Text:
Rick Prelinger is a guerrilla archivist who collects the uncollected and makes it accessible. Prelinger’s “Lost Landscapes of San Francisco” is an eclectic montage of lost and rarely-seen film clips showing life, landscapes and labor in a vanished San Francisco as captured by amateurs, newsreel cameramen, and industrial filmmakers.
In addition to spotlighting open-source filmmaking, this screening accompanies the exhibition Slow Looking, presenting the visual and urban context of twentieth-century San Francisco where Stuart Coyne lived and gathered the art collection displayed in the next gallery.
Installation Images:
Top image credit: Rick Prelinger, Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 13, 2018