Name: “Do You See What I See?”
Start: 2026-02-18T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-02-18T20:30:00+00:00

“Do You See What I See?” Short Films by Anthony McCall, Hollis Frampton, Carolee Schneemann & Paul Sharits

Presented by Fort Mason Art and San Francisco Cinematheque
Fort Mason Art and San Francisco Cinematheque present a one-night-only screening featuring a quartet of diverse works which were inspirational to Anthony McCall’s life and practice during the period of conceiving and creating Line Describing a Cone, works suggested by the artist (all to screen in 16mm).

Hollis Frampton: *Nostalgia* (*H apax Legomena I*) (1971)

EVENT DETAILS

Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture’s current exhibition Anthony McCall: First Light presents seminal works of cinematic sculpture by the pioneering British artist, three “solid light” works including the canonical Line Describing a Cone (1973). These non-theatrical installation works transformed the possibilities of cinema, challenge the boundaries between film, sculpture, drawing, and performance, and invite viewers to step away from the screen and into the sculptural beams of projected light themselves.

In tandem with the exhibition, Fort Mason Art and San Francisco Cinematheque present a one-night-only screening featuring a trio of diverse works which were inspirational to McCall’s life and practice during the period of conceiving and creating Line Describing a Cone, works suggested by the artist (all to screen in 16mm).

There is a pre-screening tour of the exhibition by Chief Curator Frank Smigiel in the gallery. Light refreshments are available for purchase at the screening in the theater.

Carolee Schneemann’s Plumb Line (1972), is described by Schneemann as “a moving and powerful subjective chronicle of the breaking up of a love relationship… a devastating exorcism, as the viewer sees and hears the film approximate the interior memory of the experience.” [Screening: Plumb Line (1972) by Carolee Schneemann; 16mm, color, sound, 18 minutes. Print from Canyon Cinema.] Paul Sharits’ Ray Gun Virus (1966) is a film of pure flickering color, “affirming projector, projection beam, screen, emulsion, film frame structure, etc.,” a film as much projected on the viewers nervous system as on the screen. [Screening: Ray Gun Virus (1966) by Paul Sharits; 16mm, color, sound, 14 minutes. Print from Canyon Cinema.]

Nostalgia (H apax Legomena I) (1971), is Hollis Frampton’s poetic ode to motion and stillness, anticipation, and memory. [Screening: Nostalgia (Hapax Legomena I) (1971) by Hollis Frampton; 16mm, b&w, sound, 38 minutes. Print from the Film-Makers’ Cooperative.] The program opens with McCall’s rarely screened early work Landscape for Fire (1972). {Screening: Landscape for Fire (1972) by Anthony McCall; 16mm screened as digital video, color, sound, seven minutes. Exhibition file from the maker.] Steve Polta, Artistic Director of San Francisco Cinematheque, introduces the films and places them within the context of McCall’s work