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LETTER FROM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Dear Friends:

The 2007-08 season at YBCA has once again proven to be one of Not to be overlooked, the financial figures that are here will dem- significant accomplishment. onstrate the fiscal responsibility that is the hallmark of our work at As you will see by looking through this annual report, our artistic YBCA. We take very seriously the responsibility invested in us not endeavors continue unabated. While it is always difficult to select only by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency but also by the only a few highlights from any given season, I would certainly be foundations, individuals and corporations who believe in the work remiss if I did not point to exhibitions such as The Missing Peace: that we do and make their contributions accordingly. I am particularly Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, Anna Halprin: At the Origin of proud to note a major gift from the Novellus Systems, Inc. to name Performance and Dark Matters: Artists See the Impossible, as true the theater at YBCA. This is an amazing gift that will come to us over achievements for YBCA. Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, the next ten years and will be invested in programs at YBCA. Faustin Linyekula and Ilkhom Theatre brought us extraordinary I can say without hesitation that the staff of YBCA are dedicated, performance from around the world and Marc Bamuthi Joseph, a committed and enthusiastic about the work that we do. Without their Bay Area artist with whom we have a long-standing relationship, extraordinary effort, we would not be able to accomplish as much as opened his new piece, the break/s, here at YBCA and it has gone we do. Similarly, we are blessed with an active and engaged Board on to an extensive national tour. We are very proud of Marc and the of Directors whose passion for YBCA is as thorough and important work he has done and look forward to continuing to work with him as that of the staff. Together, we make great things happen. to develop new performances. In film, the Human Rights Watch Finally, it is the artists and the audiences who are the heart and soul International Film Festival continues to be an important part of our of YBCA and who make us the vibrant and exciting arts center that program as does the full range of programs that make us the only I believe we are. repertory film house in the city of San Francisco. As we look ahead, we see many challenges on the horizon, but I feel At YBCA, our Community Engagement program is deeply involved

confident that, with your support, YBCA will continue to grow and YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT / P. 0 in connecting art and the community. I am proud to say that this develop. I hope you will continue to be with us in the years ahead. year, Community Engagement, in collaboration with our Marketing Department, received a four-year $750,000 grant from the Wallace Foundation to develop new audiences for YBCA. We were one of only Sincerely, eleven organizations in the Bay Area to receive this grant and are honored not only to have our efforts recognized but also to be given the resources to further develop and expand that work. Over the next few years you will see a much more aggressive effort on our part, Kenneth J. Foster Cover Image: Bill T. Jones, Chapel/Chapter both online and in person, to connect art and audience. Executive Director MISSION STATEMENT

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presents contemporary art from the Bay Area and around the world that reflects the profound issues and ideas of our time, expands the boundaries of artistic practice, and celebrates the diversity of human experience and expression.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

PRESIDENT VICE-PRESIDENTS MEMBERS

Janis M. Zivic Ronald W. Garrity Stephen Beal Robert C. Goodman Jennifer MacCloskey Stacey Welsh Theodora Lee J.D. Beltran Gary Hall Meridee Moore Ken Wilson Bruce McDougal Mark Cornwell Heather Hartle Alexandra Morehouse E. San San Wong Michael L. Penn, Jr. Jeffrey Filimon Margaret Jenkins Helen Sause Sarah Engs Woodward Petra Schumann Jon Funabiki Priya Kamani Graham Schneider Margaret Youngblood Anthony Gilmore Richard Laiderman Ned Topham YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT / P. 0 THE BIG IDEAS

Artists today are reflecting our crazy world back to us – trying to capture

our attention, make us think, force us to care. We searched the world and 07_08 scoured the Bay Area for artists with something to say and then we listened to them. When we sat back and thought about all the artists and programs we were considering for the 07_08 season, we began to see some common themes running through the works. We talked. We thought. We debated. Out of these conversations we culled three Big Ideas that seem to be top of mind for artists today. Curating around these Big Ideas allows us to draw connections and associations between the works and the art forms. We hope it will help you do the same. An expanded series of public programs this season are designed to get us talking about art and ideas – get us thinking about the world today and about what these artists are trying to tell us. YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT / P. 0 /Big Idea 1: Reality Check /P.05

/Big Idea 2: Making Peace /P.12

/Big Idea 3: Identity Shifts /P.19

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BIG IDEA 1: REALITY CHECK

The contemporary world is one of harsh realities but also one of illusion,

shape-shifting and downright obfuscation. Software plays smoke and mirrors with reality, making the fake appear flesh; while the media edits “truth” in questionable ways, politicians excel at dissembling and geneticists tinker

with reality at its core. In the arts, reality can be even more elastic–and more compelling. The post-modern era dethroned the authoritarian voice, investing in individuals the power to create their own meaning in art and in their lives. Creative, high-tech tools are now in the hands of the DIY millions. The prolif- eration of realities is eye-opening. It can also be numbing, making us sit back,

take a breath and wonder, “What’s real?” The artists in this series play with YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT every angle of this pressing question.

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DARK MATTERS: ARTISTS SEE THE IMPOSSIBLE JOACHIM SCHMID: PHOTOWORKS 1982 – 2007 BIOTECHNIQUE Jul 28–Nov 11, 2007 // First Floor Galleries Jul 28–Oct 14, 2007 // Terrace Galleries Oct 26–Jan 6,2008 // Terrace Galleries Curated by Philip Ross A group exhibition of hi-tech installations, photogra- A self-described “professional looker,” Berlin-based phy, video and conceptual projects that uncover the artist Schmid has scoured archives, the streets around Northern California hosts more life sciences companies unexpected, the invisible and the hidden. Delving into photo booths, and internet webcam sites for the raw than anywhere else in the world. BioTechnique show- the obscure and often sinister, the works allow us to materials out of which he crafts his sly and sardonic cases a visually rich assortment of organisms, semi-living experience what we only suspect exists. Projects include works. He invites us to re-“see” photography, ques- objects, and intricate life support systems, shining YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT the internet-eaves dropping installation Listening Post tioning the nature of authorship and the role of the light on the technologies that are changing the global by Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen; surveillance projects photographer. This mid-career survey includes his economy and the earth itself. The product of biological by artist/experimental geographer Trevor Paglen; signature series Bilder von der Strasse (Pictures from techniques—the artworks in the exhibition have been and multi-channel panoramic videos by Bull.Miletic. the Street) to more recent multi-channel digital photo “grown” rather than manufactured. Shown alongside Additional works by Sergio Prego, Walid Raad, Kambui installations. Exhibition accompanied by an artist booklet these artworks are artifacts made by industrial technolo- Olujimi, Alison Sant, Richard Johnson, Richard Barnes, and a monograph. Organized by the Tang Museum at gists, ecological researchers and biological engineers, in Alex Schweder and Charles Mason. Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York and The an enlightening exhibition that explores the increasingly Photographers’ Gallery, London. fuzzy line between the technological and the natural.

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Screw Netflix: Movies Not Available on DVD

Get off your couch and away from your computer. Seeing films / FILM/VIDEO projected in a theater does not even resemble the experience of watching a video at home. Think about it—would you rather see a painting or look at a picture of painting? This series will showcase films which have not been released on DVD, and will all be presented on 35mm film.

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LOVE STREAMS URGH! A MUSIC WAR THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO By John Cassavetes By Derek Burbridge By Whit Stillman Jul 12, 2007 // Screening Room Jul 14, 2007 // Screening Room Jul 19, 2007 // Screening Room

Cassavetes’ final personal film is a masterpiece and This lost, waiting-to-be-a-cult-classic features 30 non-stop Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny star in this unjustly summation of his entire life’s work. He and wife Gena punk and new wave performances, including Echo and neglected film by Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, Barcelo- Rowlands star as two damaged siblings, and the film the Bunnymen, Gary Numan, 999, X, The Cramps, Oin- na). Set in the early 80s, two recent college grads scrape follows their struggle to find some kind of peace in their goBoingo, PereUbu and tons more. (Please note: There together a living in a Manhattan and spend their nights YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT lives. (Love Streams is YBCA Film/Video Curator Joel is only one known release print of this film in existence, at an exclusive disco. The Jane Austen of the urban yup- Shepard’s all-time favorite film.) (1984, 141 Min) which Warner Bros. rates as a “C+.”) (1981, 96 Min) pie demi-monde, Stillman’s witty and cutting dialogue illustrates these two women’s uncertain passage into adulthood. (1998, 113 Min)

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FREEBIE AND THE BEAN BOYS IN THE BAND politics, and was later championed by counter-culture By Richard Rush By William Friedkin heroes like Patti Smith. (1967, 103 Min)

Jul 21, 2007 // Screening Room Aug 2, 2007 // Screening Room

The definitive 70s low-brow (and rather meanspirited) No one ever shows this in San Francisco, and, well, it isn’t Hollywood comedy. A whacked-out James Caan and a hard to see why. From a historical distance, the film has PAYDAY neurotic Alan Arkin chase a mobster, trashing much of ridiculous stereotypes and a narrow view of gay life. On By Daryl Duke

San Francisco in their wake. This cop buddy action film the other hand, it is a lively, engaging and quite funny Aug 16, 2007 // Screening Room / FILM/VIDEO is relentlessly anarchic, sexist, racist and homophobic relic with some extraordinary performances, and was the Another early 70s lost masterpiece, this is a raw and — and it was a box office smash. (1974, 113 Min) first Hollywood film entirely about homosexuality. The brutally engrossing story of an outlaw country singer on famous gay birthday party sequence is unforgettable. the road. Rip Torn, in perhaps his best role ever, turns (1970, 118 Min) in a superb and totally out-of-control performance as NOTHING LASTS FOREVER Maury Dann who has a voracious appetite for music, By Tom Schiller pills, booze and women. The Saul Zaentz Company has Jul 26, 2007 // Screening Room UNHOLY ROLLERS graciously allowed us to screen the only existing (and By Vernon Zimmerman pristine) archival print. (1973, 103 Min) Director Tom Schiller (a Saturday Night Live alum who Aug 4, 2007 // Screening Room directed many of the show’s popular short films), made his feature filmmaking debut with this fantastic retro-futuristic “A masterpiece of calculated bad taste, this is an exuberant, fantasy. Set in a New York ruled by the Port Authority, preposterously exaggerated celebration of the roller derby TWILIGHT’S LAST GLEAMING (DIRECTOR’S CUT) Zack Galligan quits his job at the traffic department and lifestyle. Director Vernon Zimmerman called it Gun Crazy By Robert Aldrich embarks on a series of surreal adventures in search on wheels…and Claudia Jennings is terrific as the frenetic Aug 18, 2007 // Screening Room of the meaning of life. Along the way he encounters a queen of the derby circuit. The editor was a young Martin Perhaps more timely now than upon its original release, hysterical Bill Murray as the entertainment director of a Scorsese.” —Chicago Reader (1972, 88 Min) this tense thriller stars Burt Lancaster as a renegade Air bus to the moon. (1984, 82 Min) Force general who takes over a nuclear missile silo in an attempt to force the US President to reveal the true moti- DRIVE, HE SAID vation behind the Vietnam War. “A breathtakingly explicit

SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT By Jack Nicholson indictment of Vietnam policy and how war makes a fool of / BIG IDEA 1: REALITY CHECK By Spike Lee Aug 9, 2007 // Screening Room democracy.” —Film Comment We are presenting Robert Jul 28, 2007 // Screening Room Aldrich’s personal archive print. (1977, 143 Min) Jack Nicholson’s forgotten directorial debut combines his Over twenty years ago, Spike Lee directed this landmark love of basketball with ragged, nihilistic angst. The film film on a tiny budget. And with it, he (and colleagues Jim stars William Tepper, who discovers that his dream of bas- Jarmusch and others) kicked off a new wave of American ketball stardom means nothing in the emotional upheaval SUPERTRASH PEEPSHOW “independent film,” a term now drained of all meaning and societal decay of America in the early 70s. Bruce A Slide Show and Screening By Jacques Boyreau and mostly co-opted by Hollywood. It’s long past time for Dern is brilliant as his hard-assed coach. (1971, 90 Min) Oct 4, 2007 // Screening Room a fresh look at this hilarious, though sometimes techni- Tonight we present a one-of-a-kind slideshow and talk cally ragged, comedy. Nola Darling (Tracy Camila Johns), previewing Supertrash, a new book of vintage artwork a charismatic young woman, refuses to be dominated PRIVILEGE from trash films and other forms of disreputable pop by any man. After interviewing a series of losers, Nola se- By Peter Watkins culture. The curator tells us we will “discover secret lects three paramours: Greer, Mars (Lee), and Jamie—a schools of design such as Abstract Beatnikism, Xerox narcissist, a kook and a sincere and caring believer in Aug 11, 2007 // Screening Room Pop and SharpTrash. Also covered will be themes of true love. Her independence and their clashing personali- YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT In the near future, a pop star is being manipulated by the ‘comicbooklook’ and ‘pulp envy.’” Confused? Well, we are ties combine to create a refreshing look at perceptions government in an attempt to control the youth and lull too, but we promise an unforgettable evening. Followed and conventions of sex and relationships in the modern them into conformity with church and state. When he by a 35mm screening of the 1973 ultra-rarity Fleshpot on world. (1986, 84 Min, 35mm) withdraws after realizing he is being manipulated, his 42nd Street by Andy Milligan, a tawdry, nihilistic portrait of fans turn against him and he becomes an enemy of Times Square scum. the state. A box office disaster upon its original release, Privilege is a compelling interrogation of media and / P. 09

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KASSYS BILL T. JONES ARNIE ZANE DANCE COMPANY FAUSTIN LINYEKULA / LES STUDIOS KABAKO KOMMER Chapel/Chapter Festival of Lies Sep 14–5, 2007 // Forum Oct 18–21, 2007 // Forum Nov 8–10, 2007 // Forum

The Bay Area debut of this groundbreaking Dutch theater You’ve never seen Bill T. Jones quite this way before—the The contemporary dance visionary returns to YBCA with company, in a humorous and poignant multimedia world-renown dance company will perform up close and an extraordinary dance theater experience: part installa- performance. The first half of KOMMER is a play about in the round in YBCA’s intimate Forum. In Chapel/Chapter, tion, part party, part community event. In Lies, Linyekula, friends who gather in mourning, struggling comically to Jones asks, “How can we reconcile what we see in the from the Democratic Republic of Congo, evokes the YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT comfort each other. The second half continues as a film media with our personal experience of the world?” Through ruins of his native land. Amid a street-fair atmosphere that follows the actors out of the theater to return to their song and joyful movement Jones invites the “real world” actors tell stories of daily life, lies of a country misled. quiet, lonely lives. Known for their quirky humor, stylized into a freely imagined, contemplative space; both court- Meanwhile, a band plays, the audience eats and drinks, theatrics and nuanced physicality, KASSYS zeroes in on room and sanctuary, a place of judgment and refuge. dancers create and destroy landscapes of urban detritus the tiny to say big things about the human condition. With original score by funk/classical/rock violinist Daniel and propaganda fills the air. Linyekula forces mutually Bernard Roumain. exclusives together in an evening jam-packed with beauty…and deception. Come early or late, minutes or hours, and immerse yourself in this one-of-a-kind performance event.

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ARTISTS INSIGHT: MAKING THE INVISIBLE ARTISTS INSIGHT: PERFORMING ARTS YBCALIVE!: DARK MATTERS – ARTIST AS VISIBLE: TREVOR PAGLEN AND RENÉ DE PRESENTING: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE INVESTIGATOR: STRATEGIES & TACTICS GUZMAN IN CONVERSATION WITH KENNETH FOSTER Sep 26, 2007 // Screening Room Aug 21, 2007 // Screening Room Sep 11, 2007 // Screening Room Artists are invited to join Dark Matters exhibition artist, The realities of foreign wars are constantly concealed Join YBCA executive director Kenneth Foster for a read- activist and experimental geographer Trevor Paglen and or complicated by a barrage of media entertainment ing and signing of his new book, Performing Arts Presenting: investigative journalist AC Thompson in a tour/presenta- outlets. How does one go about trying to see the invisible? From Theory to Practice. Published by the Association tion that offers hi-tech, innovative strategies for gathering YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT What does a visual language of the disappeared look of Performing Arts Presenters, this comprehensive book information kept secret by the government. This hands-on like? Join Dark Matters exhibition artist, activist and establishes the performing arts presenter’s role in workshop will focus on the process, research and discovery experimental geographer Travor Paglen in a presentation creating connections between art, artists audiences tactics for artists who want to conduct their own investi- of his work. Explore the visibility of the unseen, including and community for artists who want to conduct their own gations for underground projects. Paglen’s The Black Sites Series, which unveils top secret investigations for underground projects. military and internment facilities in the United States and Afghanistan. A question and answer session follows with René de Guzman. BILL T. JONES IN CONVERSATION on the intersection of art and genetics and specializes in BIOAESTHETICS / P. 11 Oct 19, 2007 // Forum facilitating and exhibiting new plant hybrids. McDougall Nov 26, 20007 // California College of the Arts is a curator, garden planner and writer on the culture of Join renowned choreographer Bill T. Jones in pre-show scientific research. The Graduate Fine Arts Department of the California conversation with YBCA Executive Director Kenneth College of the Arts hosts a panel presentation and Foster as they explore the sacred, the holy and what discussion on the aesthetic language and landscapes happens when we question the relationship between of complexly regulated biological systems. Oron Catts, being a “passive observer” of the media and the “uneasy TECHNEBIOTICS groundbreaking artist and founder of SymbioticA, the distance” created by the disturbing news events we Nov 2, 2007 // California College of the Arts world’s first collaborative art and science laboratory, / PUBLIC PROGRAMS experience daily. will present the early history of tissue culture laborato- Part science fair, part county fair, this interactive afternoon ries and the guilding ideas that have given them form. event will feature multiple live demonstrations and do-it- Richard Doyle, Professor of English/Science Technology yourself workshops on a wide range of biological techniques & Society at Pennsylvania State University will give a WILLIAM JONES & KEVIN KILLIAN IN and processes. Artists, scientists and educators will dem- presentation entitled “LSDNA.” CONVERSATION onstrate how to spool DNA, extract and cultivate stem cells, construct a home distiller or a hydroponic garden,

Oct 26, 2007 // Screening Room hybridize plants and more. See laboratory equipment Join filmmaker William Jones and poet, playwright and alongside traditional horticultural methods and enjoy GET SMALL critic Kevin Killian for a post-screening conversation hands-on interactivities with each display. Dec 4, 2007 // Screening Room about his films Tearoom and Massillon. A reception fol- lows in the YAWW Lounge. What vast landscapes and dynamic dramas are hidden in the universe that exists beyond what the naked eye can FAUSTIN LINYEKULA/LES STUDIOS KABAKO see? BioTechnique guest curator Philip Ross moderates ON FILM COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS: BIOTECHNIQUE an evening of short films about life under the micro- Nov 10, 2007 // Screening Room – WHO OWNS THE GARDEN?: BIOETHICS AND scope. Featuring work of contemporary microscopists from around the Bay Area, state-of-the-art computer THE ART OF DESIGN In conjunction with the Bay Area premier of Fautin simulations of cell-sized interactions, and a not-to-be-

Linyekula’s Festival of Lies, YBCA and Dance/Screen / BIG IDEA 1: REALITY CHECK Oct 30, 2007 // Screening Room missed presentation of A Protein Primer, an “epic on present two films on contemporary African dance: the cellular level,” in which a 1970s scientist and his Join artist/horticulturalist George Gessert, artist Amy Kwenda Vutukua Kinshasa/Back to Kinshasa (2004), students re-enact a choreographed depiction of protein Franchesini and curator Marina McDougall in a discus- a compelling, impressionistic view of choreographer formation. sion about the history and politics of owning something Faustin Lineykula by Luli Barzman; and Movement that is alive. Franchesini is the founder of Futurefarmers, (R)evolution: Africa, Dance and the 21st Century (2006), an art collective devoted to the design and implementa- an extraordinary view of contemporary African dance tion of interdisciplinary, multimedia work that is relevant featuring nine trendsetting contemporary African to its environmental and special and temporal contexts. choreographers by Joan Frosch and AllaKovgan. Gessert is a writer, artist and plant breeder who focuses YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT 2

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Having glimpsed the abyss–culturally, politically–many artists are forging a

path ahead with great optimism and are making peace not war. Some of the work in this series is, indeed, an overtly political cry to halt violence. Other series artists approach the idea of peace from an individual perspective–creating a sacred sense of well-being that illuminates our humanity. Some reach across political and artistic boundaries to collaborate with others with a sense of humor and a desire to reflect the good and the beautiful in human nature and the world around us. What springs from our engagement with art is a redemptive force that gives us power to re-make our world anew. Join us for this series

and see how artists are pointing the way forward with hope, with imagination YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT and with courage.

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THE MISSING PEACE: ANNA HALPRIN: ARTISTS CONSIDER THE DALAI LAMA AT THE ORIGIN OF PERFORMANCE Dec 1–Mar 16, 2008 // First Floor Galleries Jan 18–Apr 5, 2008 // Terrace Galleries

Works by more than 80 artists from more than 25 from Los Angeles to New York, has an explicitly moral Pioneer of postmodern dance, Halprin is known for the the life-art process. Join us for an audio/visual installation countries in a landmark exhibition that offers up art and educational purpose: to promote engagement with “task,” the idea that everyday activities and gestures were and celebration of Anna Halprin’s work. A catalog available as a lens through which we experience our common questions of values and ethics. Artists include Laurie worthy of exploration—like Marcel Duchamp and John in French accompanies the exhibition. Organized by the

humanity. Artists, established and emerging, have been Anderson, Richard Avedon, Sanford Biggers, and Chuck Cage, she showed us the extraordinary in the ordinary. Di- Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon. YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT invited to create works that capture the essence of His Close, Richard Gere, Bill Viola and many more. Curated agnosed with cancer in 1972, Halprin decided to dedicate Holiness and his mission of peace. The exhibition, which by Randy Rosenberg and organized by the Committee of her art to life, working with cancer and AIDS patients to in- has been attracting large crowds at every tour venue 100 for Tibet and The Dalai Lama Foundation. tegrate creativity into daily existence through what she calls

Image: Anna Halprin, Intensive Care 4 / P. 1 projecting buddha In conjunction with the exhibition The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, the International Buddhist Film Festival with YBCA presents a program of films from around the world / FILM/VIDEO that explore fear and liberation, confusion and compassion.

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IN SEARCH OF KUNDUNBY SATYA: A PRAYER FOR THE ENEMY CHASING BUDDHA ROOTS OF INFINITY By Michael Wilson By Ellen Bruno By Amiel Courtin-Wilson By Ken-IchiOguri Feb 14, 2008 // Screening Room Feb 17, 2008 // Screening Room. Feb 21, 2008 // Screening Room A hard-edged, kindhearted, former feminist street drifter The making of Martin Scorsese’s 1997 film Kundun was In a deeply personal and lyrical style, Satya: A Prayer for and left wing activist, the director of this film is now a North American premiere . Nearly twenty years ago, an historic event, the first feature film treatment of the the Enemy presents the testimony of Tibetan Buddhist Tibetan Buddhist nun who works with addicts, misfits the director spent over a year making this remarkable life of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. The film documents nuns who have survived imprisonment and torture for and prisoners. Venerable Robina is founder and execu- documentary of a Tibetan village in Nepal. With indelible this emotion-filled encounter of Scorsese and his Italian speaking out against the Chinese occupation of Tibet. tive director of the Liberation Prison Project. Chasing images of the full cycle of life in a traditional Buddhist YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT and American team with the Tibetans who portrayed the Q&A with director and activist Ellen Bruno following the Buddha is a vibrant and kinetic work by a then teenage community—birth, marriage, livelihood, religion and key figures in the tumultuous recent history of Tibet. Fea- screening. (2000, 28 min) Amiel Courtin-Wilson, her nephew. (2000, 52 min) death—this film offers an intimate view of a world that tures compelling interviews with Scorsese, His Holiness no longer exists anywhere, as modernity and dislocation — With — the Dalai Lama and screenwriter Melissa Mathison. Q&A take their toll. (1991, 85 min) with director following the screening. (1997, 85 min) 5

COMPASSION IN EXILE PEACE IS EVERY STEP HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INTERNATIONAL THE UNFORESEEN By Mickey Lemle By Gaetano Kazuo Maida FILM FESTIVAL By Laura Dunn / P. 1

Feb 24, 2008 // Screening Room Mar 2, 2008 // Screening Room March 13–30, 2008 // Screening Room A powerful meditation on the destruction of the Filmed on location in India, Compassion In Exile is A portrait of Vietnamese Zen teacher, author and activist The festival, which is a leading venue for distinguished natural world and the American Dream falling Mickey Lemle’s masterful portrait of the Fourteenth Dalai Thich NhatHanh explores his efforts to heal the wounds films with human rights themes, showcases the heroic victim to the cannibalizing forces of unchecked Lama. Includes rare archival footage from Tibet, and of war among war and peace veterans and survivors. stories of activists and survivors from all over the world. development. interviews with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, his brother Includes rare archival footage from Vietnam produced by The films help to put a human face on threats to indi- / FILM/VIDEO and sister and Robert Thurman and Heinrich Harrar him in the 1960s for his School of Youth for Social Service. vidual freedom and dignity, and celebrate the power of ENEMIES OF HAPPINES (author of Seven Years in Tibet). (1991, 62 min) the human spirit and intellect to prevail. — With — By Eva Mulvad and Anja Al-Erhayem — With — THE ANNIVERSARY THE GREATEST SILENCE: RAPE IN THE CONGO Enemies of Happiness centers on Malalai Joya, who became one of Afghanistan’s most famous KING OF THE HILL “WON’T YOU PIMAI by Ham Tran By Lisa F. Jackson and infamous women for challenging the power NEIGHBOR” EPISODE Director in person The Anniversary is a short dramatic work from Vietnamese- of warlords in the country’s new government Written and produced by John Altschuler and American director Ham Tran (Journey From the Fall). The Since 1998 a brutal war has been raging in the Demo- and for running in the country’s first democratic Dave Krinsky film offers a metaphoric vision of child’s play, war, and cratic Republic of Congo, where over 4 million people parliamentary election. The nickname for this episode of the long-running hit forgiveness for victors and victims alike. have died. And there are the uncountable casualties: the animated FOX television series King of the Hill is “He many tens of thousands of women and girls who have RETURNING HOME Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Buddha,” and we learn more about DEMONS IN THE DETAILS: TEN POEMS IN been systematically kidnapped, raped, mutilated and By Andy Abrahams Wilson Buddhism in this 22-minute piece than in many a full- BASILICATA WITH JOHN GIORNO tortured by soldiers from both foreign militias and the Mar 19, 2008 // Screening Room length feature work. It’s a skillful and sweetly funny send- By Antonello Faretta Congolese army. In the film these brave women speak-out, Director in person up of the Kundun story of the identification of the infant Mar 6, 2008 // Screening Room uncovering wrenching testimony from dozens of survivors. A dance documentary in which Anna Halprin, pio- Dalai Lama. Writer/Producer John Altschuler is expected This film gives them dignity, a face and a voice that will : MAKING PEACE 2 to attend for a Q&A after the screening. (2000, 22 min) North American Premiere. John Giorno is a provocative finally break the silence that surrounds their plight. neer of postmodern dance, in collaboration with and passionate poet-performer long associated with performance artist Eeo Stubblefield, uses move- MEDITATE AND DESTROY the New York-based art scene of musicians and artists HOT HOUSE ment as a means of connecting the individual to including William Burroughs, Andy Warhol, Laurie nature, and art to real life. By Sarah Fisher By Shimon Dotan / BIG IDEA Feb 28, 2008 // Screening Room Anderson, Patti Smith and Allen Ginsberg. This new film captures him in his ancestral home in Italy, performing Shot inside various Israeli prisons, Hot House provides a Author Noah Levine (Dharma Punx, Against the Stream) poems that deeply connect to the heart themes of unique opportunity to observe events of historic propor- uses his personal experience and punk-rock sensibilities Buddhism. tions, while shattering the two dimensional stereotypes

to connect with young people within juvenile halls and and the often polarizing commentary presented by the — With — urban centers around the country. Meditate and Destroy mainstream media on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. provides an intimate and dynamic portrait of this uncon- INSIDE THE CUP *Winner of the Special Jury Prize, Sundance Film ventional Buddhist teacher and counselor. Q&A with by Isaiah Seret Festival 2007. director Sarah Fisher following screening. (2007, 80 min) Khyentse Norbu is a renowned Tibetan Buddhist CITY OF PHOTOGRAPHERS — With — teacher. He also makes movies. Inside The Cup explores By Sebastián Moreno Mardones WHAT ABOUT ME? the making of his first feature, about soccer-obsessed During Augusto Pinochet’s long regime, a motley crew By Gesar Mukpo Tibetan monks, and offers a provocative case for a Bud- dhist philosophy of “life as cinema.” of photojournalists shot and framed Chile’s people and What About Me? is a key Buddhist teaching from Shamb- their turmoil from many points of view. In the middle of hala spiritual director the Sakyong, Jamgon Mipham bloody riots and protests, these fearless photographers YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT Rinpoche, in the form of an original music video directed learned their craft and created many of the now legend- by Gesar Mukpo. Both are recognized Tibetan tulkus ary images that helped focus world attention on the (incarnate lamas) and sons of the late Tibetan Buddhist Pinochet regime’s repressive tactics. teacher Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. (2006, 5 min) 6 / P. 1

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COMPANY EA SOLA BANG ON A CAN SHEN WEI DANCE ARTS INKBOAT Drought and Rain, Volume 2 Bang on a Can Marathon and All-Stars Concert Map; Re c(H)ord Feb 6 & 7, 2008 // Novellus Theater at YBCA Feb 9 // Novellus Theater at YBCA Mar 6–8, 2008 // Novellus Theater at YBCA Apr 24–26, 2008 // Novellus Theater at YBCA

Born in Vietnam and trained in Paris, choreographer/ Composers Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe Choreograher Shen Wei is the rare genius who uses Local choreographer Shinichi Iova-Koga, who founded performer Ea Sola creates vital contemporary works created Bang on a Can in 1987 to bring groundbreaking classical techniques to challenge contemporary thinking, the internationally collaborative troupe inkBoat, has grounded in the traditional culture, music, dance and artists from different musical communities together for and integrates artistic disciplines with startling simplicity. earned a devoted following for his hybrid performance history of Vietnam. YBCA brings them to the Bay Area more-than-imagined mind-bending jams. At a Bang on His vision is epic and large-scale and in an era of cynicism style—a synthesis of traditional and experimental dance, for the first time with a new evening-length version of a Can Marathon, anything can happen. Past marathons and grit, the company stands apart as optimistic and Japanese Butoh and physical theater. His environments seminal work that gave birth to the contemporary per- have featured jazz punk, Siberian throat singing, and unapologetically beautiful. To the haunting chants of an are fractured and filmic, delicate and decayed, lightheart- YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT forming arts in Vietnam in 1995. This multidisciplinary a piece scored for a hundred tubas. Artistically inclusive exiled nun, dancers breeze across a Mandela made of ed and rough. For c(H)ord, Iova-Koga has collaborated work refracts the war through the memories of the next and audience-friendly, Bang on a Can has delighted New confetti, which is destroyed to make way for a moment with Seattle’s Joshua Kohl of the big band Degenerate generation and spotlights the unique clash between local York City for twenty years. YBCA is thrilled to bring them to of stirring stillness. Art Ensemble to create a singularly stunning exploration and Western culture in modern day Vietnam. Featuring San Francisco. The FREE all-day festival, features some of of alienation and community. Performers hang from the dancers from Hanoi Opera Ballet, live music composed the All-Stars jamming with a SF’s best musicians in small rafters or slip out from billowing cocoon-like dwellings in a by Nguyen Xuan Son played on traditional instruments groups. The culminating concert features the entire roster of work that reflects on tradition, family and the past. Visual, and performed by two opera singers and four musicians. All-Stars along with headliners Iva Bittova and Don Byron. evocative, provocative, c(H)ord, features a cast from Japan, Finland, Germany, Korea and the US.

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YBCALIVE!: HOLIDAY MEDITATION FOR YBCALIVE!: FREESTYLE MOVEMENT — YBCALIVE!: FREESTYLE MOVEMENT— WORLD PEACE THE ART OF PEACE WITH ENSO CALLIGRAPHY AWARENESS FORM WITH THE LOTUS Dec 20, 2007 // Grand Lobby ARTIST KAZUAKI TANAHASHI SPEECH MANDALA Jan 5, 2008 // YAAW Lounge Jan 19, 2008 // YAAW Lounge

Inspired by The Missing Peace exhibition and the Dalai Celebrate the art of peace through the practice of Enso Join meditation master Osel-Rangzom Tsele and Dr. Lama’s request for harmony among people across painting. “Enso” is a Japanese word meaning “circle Laura Koo, co-founders of Lotus Speech Mandala, in the religious, racial, gender and national lines, we invite you symbol.” As one of the most prevalent themes in Zen dynamic moving meditation practice of Awareness Form, YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT to join us in a holiday group meditation on world peace. calligraphy, Enso symbolizes englightment, strength which synthesizes traditional forms of tai chi, qigong and Enter a contemplative space with Tibetan singing bowls and the universe and is an “expression of the moment.” yoga. This unique and powerful form is fun to practice played by musician Monk Siddiq (from the Warner Bros. Traditionally painted with black sumi ink, Enso was revo- and produces profound results for body, mind and spirit. release The Fountain) then participate in a group medita- lutionized by calligraphy artist Kazuaki Tanahashi who Osel will be teaching the Buddha of Infinite Light, Life tion ritual lead by Making Peace installation artist Derick was the first to bring color to the art form. Join Tanahashi and Love (Amitabha, Amitayus and Avalokiteshvara) Ion (whose work is on view in the Room for Big Ideas). and Minette Lee Mangahas in a group workshop on the empowerment. practice of Enso painting and the art of peace. A question and answer session will follow.

ARTISTS INSIGHT: THE WORLDS OF ANNA YBCALIVE!: FLASHBACKS: ANNA HALPRIN YBCALIVE!: FREESTYLE MOVEMENT— MEDITA- HALPRIN AND BAY AREA ARTS IN THE 1960S TION IN MOTION WITH BEANDREA DAVIS, CYT / P. 18 Jan 31, 2008 Feb 16, 2008 // Forum & Grand Lobby Feb 23, 2008 // YAAW Lounge

YBCA and dance critic/historian/author Janice Ross For nearly six decades, postmodern dance legend Anna Gain access to self-awareness and creative expression present reminiscences and readings from her biogra- Halprin has been dedicating her life to art and her art to through the healing flow of writing and yoga. Together phy Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance. Experience life. Join Halprin and some of her closest associates as in a supportive, non-judgmental environment, we’ll “the Worlds of Anna Halprin” come alive in our galleries they come together in a symposium/happening to pay practice writing and yoga as forms of meditation. Periods as Bay Area artists David Bernstein, Wayne Hazzard, tribute to over fifty years of dance innovation. The day of writing practice will be interwoven with deep breathing, Rhodessa Jones and Sots Hoffman blend passages from begins with a Flashbacks Panel hosted by dance critic/ yoga postures and seated meditation, with an emphasis the biography with personal glimpses into period where historian/author Janice Ross that includes key figures on letting the words flow through a place deeper than

Halprin’s work and their lives intersected. A book signing Charles Amikhanian, Lawrence Halprin and Simone Forti the rational mind. Yoga movement will encourage / PUBLIC PROGRAMS by Halprin and Ross will follow. sharing memories from the early years of Halprin’s illus- opening the body with compassionate awareness and trious career. Then participate in a re-enactment of the deep listening. Appropriate for all levels of experience in Blank Placard Happening, a performance piece originally writing and yoga. presented by the San Francisco Dancer’s Workshop and Anna Halprin in 1968 and 1970. An informal Q&A and book signing by Halprin and Ross will follow.

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Who are you? This question has a whole different meaning in the opening years of the 21st Century. Race, gender, nationality–once concrete identifiers,

are now, to some degree, open to interpretation and we’ve greeted these shifts with both celebration and dismay. The rise of religious extremism, the conflict between cultural identity and national borders, the rejection by many of tra- ditional gender roles and labels, has plunged the world into a clash between embracing strict boundaries or celebrating fluidity and complexity. So we ask, “Who am I and where do I belong?” Is it more liberating to destroy definitions or embrace them? By disrupting the status quo and exploring deeply their

sense of self, the artists in this series ask us to rethink how we know who we YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT are, and what we think we can be.

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THE WAY THAT WE RHYME: TRACING ROADS THROUGH CENTRAL ASIA WOMEN, ART & POLITICS Apr 18–Jul 13, 2008 // Terrace Galleries Mar 29–Jul 13, 2008 // First Floor Galleries A new generation of artists from Central Asia and surround- Organized by YBCA, The Way That We Rhyme show- while also speaking loudly and clearly to the issues fac- ing regions are creating work that is notable for its power- memory in the work of a handful of artists from the cases the politically charged work of a new generation ing women right now. Adhering to the notion that there is ful imagery, original language and a profound political region’s newly developing countries. The works on view of women. Emphasizing performativity, collaboration strength in numbers, the show culls together work from awareness. Co-curated by Elena Sorokina, the exhibition focus on the social and geoeconomic issues facing these YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT and coalition building, the works are influenced by the women of differing backgrounds and disciplines to explores the complex relationship between the process countries and their people, illustrating how societies feminist ideologies and activist movements of the past, highlight the common goals of their practices. of nation building and the political nature of historical change and individuals survive.

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HELVETICA BAKUSHI: THE INCREDIBLE LIVES OF TEAROOM AND MASSILLON: THREE NIGHTS By Gary Hustwit ROPE-MASTERS WITH WILLIAM E. JONES Oct 5–7, 2007 // Screening Room By Ryuichi Hiroki Oct 26–28, 2007 // Screening Room Oct 19–20, 2007 // Screening Room Helvetica is a remarkable new film about typography, Much of William E. Jones’ work explores the margins graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the From one of Japan’s most celebrated independent filmmak- of sexual representation. Jones will present a film he proliferation of one typeface (which just celebrated it’s ers, this film quietly explores the “art of erotic bondage” of discovered but did not direct, in addition to one of his own 50th birthday) as part of a larger conversation about the recent works. Given the increasing reluctance of many

female models by sadomasochistic masters who have turned YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT way type affects our lives. (2007, 80 min, Digital Betacam) rope-knotting into fine art. The centuries-old game of bond- gay & Lesbian film festivals to show experimental cinema, age and ritual chastising exists in several cultures, but the this opportunity to experience Jones’ unique vision is all ceremonial detail and the stunning precision is as Japanese the more vital. as flower arranging and pouring tea. (2007, 94 min, 35mm)

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TEAROOM of the stunning Wes Craven’s Last House on the Left), will THE TRUE MEANING OF PICTURES: SHELBY San Francisco in the early 1970s and formed Ralph By William E Jones personally introduce and discuss the film, a claustropho- LEE ADAMS’ APPALACHIA Records. The Residents cloak their lives and music in

Oct 26–27, 2007 // Screening Room bic, sweaty tale of a lost woman trapped by an incestuous, By Jennifer Baichwal a haze of obscurity; the band’s members never identify murderous backwoods family. (1974, 90 min, 35mm) Nov 11, 2007 // Screening Room themselves by name, always appearing in public in Tearoom consists of footage shot by police during a disguise— usually tuxedos, top hats and giant eyeball crackdown on public sex. In the summer of 1962, the This film is a fascinating introduction to the work of re- masks—and refuse to grant media interviews. Their Mansfield Ohio Police Department photographed men in nowned photographer Shelby Lee Adams. Born in Eastern BLOOD OF JESUS profoundly influential recordings and performances a public restroom under the main square of the city. / FILM/VIDEO Kentucky, Adams has devoted his life to making portraits combine experimental sound and cryptic visuals, The cameramen hid in a closet and watched the activi- By Spencer Williams of families living in Appalachia, those who have been creating a riddle of Sphinx-like proportions. Though the ties through a two-way mirror. The film they shot was Nov 4, 2007 // Screening Room misrepresented in the media and derogatorily referred to “eyeballs” are officially retired, The Residents are still used as evidence against the defendants, all of whom Blood of Jesus is a classic example of the “race film” as “hillbillies.” The film also delves into the controversy that active in many multimedia projects. This retrospective were found guilty of sodomy, which at that time carried genre by African-American directors and casts, shown surrounds Adams’ work amongst those who question his featuresmost of their groundbreaking music videos and a mandatory minimum sentence of one year. Jones and marketed exclusively to an African-American audi- ethics. Preceded by the short Mountain Farmer, directed films, some unseen and unreleased until now. discovered the footage while he was researching this case ence. This visionary morality tale is about a woman who by Shelby Lee Adams and Mimi Pickering, which docu- for a documentary project. The unedited, silent scenes is accidentally shot to death by her husband. Facing ments a visit to an elderly farmer in the hills of Kentucky. PROGRAM ONE: PREVIOUS MILLENNIUM were so powerful that the director decided to present the (2002, 71 min, Digital Betacam; plus short) death, she must choose between Hell, represented as Dec 6, 2007 // Screening Room footage with minimum intervention. Tearoom is a radical urban life, and Zion, represented as pastoral, rural example of film presented “as found” for the purpose of Introduced by a Representative of The Residents America. Preceded by Pitch a Boogie Woogie(1948), a circulating historical images that have otherwise been rare all-black-cast musical short from Greenville, North PHIL CHAMBLISS: THE ARKANSAS AUTEUR Program One includes the following shorts: The Third suppressed. (1962/2007, 56 min, Betacam SP, silent) Reich ’N’ Roll (1976), Hello Skinny (1980), One-Minute Carolina. (1941, 56 min, 16mm; plus short) Nov 15–16, 2007 // Screening Room Movies (1980), Man’s World (1984), Earth VS Flying Phil Chambliss in person. Saucers (1985), Don’t Be Cruel (1990), Harry the Head MASSILLON What if Fellini had lived in a trailer in rural Arkansas? (1990), Stars & Stripes Forever (1986), Vileness Fats CHILD BRIDE

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By William E Jones 3 By Harry Revier Oct 28, 2007 // Screening Room Chambliss. With the help of friends and his co-workers Festival of Death (1979). Nov 7, 2007 // Screening Room at the gravel pit, this self-taught ‘folk art filmmaker’ has Jones returns to his hometown to construct an uncon- The most shocking and licentious exploitation film of the created, for over 25 years, an alternate reality where deer ventional and moving autobiography. Challenging some 1930s, Child Bride is a grossly fabricated illustration of hunting is the sport of choice and phones only work when PROGRAM TWO: CURRENT MILLENNIUM / BIG IDEA of the most entrenched notions of filmmaking,Massillon the illicit ills of child marriage. Down in Appalachia, on under water. These totally unique and often hilarious tells its story without a single human actor, by combining Dec 7, 2007 // Screening Room Thunderhead Mountain, inbred, uneducated girls are films depict life in the Arkansas outback and convey a stunning cinematography with a seductive voice-over swapped among coarse middle-aged menfolk. The people strong sense of place and authentic regional flavor. Direct Program Two includes the following shorts: Ten One- narration. (1991, 70 min, 16mm) from Calhoun County, Arkansas, Chambliss will appear in Minute Movies (2005), Fifteen More Movies (2005), Benny

are portrayed as living in a sequestered world, out of step with modern values and customs. (1938, 62 min, 16mm) person to discuss his work. The program (repeated twice) (2005), Teddy (2001), Viva Las Vegas (2006), Mutts with will feature Shadow of the Hatchet Man, about a rampag- Mustaches (2006), Walking Women (2006), Constantinople RED STATE CINEMA: RURAL AUTEURS ing killer and an inept sheriff, complete with spaghetti (2000), Burn Baby Burn (2000), Kick a Picnic (2000), He western motifs and lesbian overtones; and surprise Also Serves (2000) and The Gingerbread Man (2000). Representations of rural areas in cinema tend to be the DIRTY COUNTRY shorts. For our November programs, we wish to acknowl- condescending and downright mean. This series will By Joe Pickett & Nick Prueher edge Mike Mashon, Library of Congress; Joe Hunsberger Nov 9, 2007 // Screening Room present films made by and about Southern rural artists and Todd Wiener, UCLA Film & Television Archive; John PROGRAM THREE: LIVE VIDEO with unique, individual voices. London; and Brian Gordon, Nashville Film Festival. Meet Larry Pierce: a small-town factory worker and Dec 8, 2007 // Screening Room family man who happens to be the raunchiest country POOR WHITE TRASH II Program Three includes live performance videos from music singer in America. Without the time or money YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT By S.F. Brownrigg; Introduced by David Szulkin to pursue a legitimate career in country music, Larry REICH ’N’ ROLL REVISITED: The Mole Show, 13th Anniversary, Cube E, Freak Show, Nov 1, 2007 // Screening Room is content to lead an ordinary life and moonlight as a A RESIDENTS RETROSPECTIVE Disfigured Night, Wormwood, Icky Flix, Demons Dance dirty country singer. But when he is forced into early Alone and The Way We Were (1973–2005). S.F. Brownrigg is an extraordinary, unsung filmmaker from The Residents are perhaps the most disorienting, Texas. Though his films were marketed with sleazy titles retirement at his factory job of 30 years, Larry faces an uncertain future. That is, until a young band with dirty mysterious and inventive music and visual arts act and distributed mostly on the drive-in circuit, they are deep- of our time. Originally from Louisiana, they moved to ly personal and meticulous Southern Gothic psychodra- songs of its own shows up at his door and offers to take mas. David Szulkin, Brownrigg’s biographer (and author Larry onstage. (2007, 75 min, Digital Betacam)

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SILENT LIGHT: CARLOS REYGADAS IN PERSON FLYING: CONFESIONS OF A FREE WOMAN Dec 13–14, 2007 // Screening Room By Jennifer Fox Part I: Mar 5 & 7, 2008; Director in person Last year, YBCA was honored to host Mexican film- Part II: Mar 8 & 9, 2008 // Screening Room maker Carlos Reygadas and screen his two feature films, Japon and Battle in Heaven. Reygadas is one of Critically acclaimed filmmaker Jennifer Fox’s new film the most gifted, intense and provocative filmmakers begins where Sex and the City leaves off—except it’s of the present moment. Reygadas will join us again real. A seasoned New Yorker struggling to juggle work, for two premiere screenings of his newest film, Silent relationships and her new found desire to have a child, Fox Light(StelletLicht), which won the Jury Prize at the 2007 decides to turn the camera on herself and her girlfriends. Cannes Film Festival. An inciting and visually arresting Not satisfied, she takes off across the globe to investigate work, it centers on the indiscretions committed by the how other women live. Employing a new technique patriarch of a Mennonite family living in rural Mexico. called “passing the camera”, she journeys into the homes

Reygadas has once again combined breathtaking and bedrooms of women in 17 countries, capturing / FILM/VIDEO landscapes and hypnotic performances to produce a secret conversations about love, freedom, children, men masterpiece. (2007, 144 min, 35mm) and sex. Filmed over five years, this epic modern-day road movie asks the questions: What do women really want? Why is sexual freedom so precarious? Does choice ZIDANE: A TWENTY–FIRST–CENTURY PORTRAIT equal happiness, let alone freedom? What does it mean to be “free?” Flying is presented in two three-hour sections.

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A startlingly original and audacious portrait of one of DAY IS DONE the greatest players in the history of soccer, Zinédine By Mike Kelley Zidane. Seventeen synchronized cameras were used, May 29, 2008 // Screening Room each focusing on Zidane in real time, from the first kick of the ball to the moment he was given a red card A major new video work by Los Angeles artist Mike Kelley, and ejected from the game. The match, between Real Day is Done is a twisted semi-musical that examines / BIG IDEA

Madrid (Zidane’s team) and Villarreal, was played on American subcultures. It is composed of 31 sketches, April 23, 2005, and was witnessed by eighty thousand each a reconstruction of photographs found in high screaming fans. Zidane himself recounts, in voiceover, school yearbooks, with such familiar events as dress-up what he can and cannot remember from his matches. days, memorial speeches, religious spectacles and Magnificently edited and accompanied by a majestic fashion shows. Kelley disrupts the traditional structures score from Scottish rock heroes Mogwai, this is perhaps of such events to construct a dizzying daisy chain the best sports films ever made, but also one of the of performances resulting in an institutional landscape finest studies of man in the workplace, an ode to the populated by dancing Goths, singing vampires, hick loneliness of the athlete and the poise and resilience storytellers, horse dancers and the Virgin Mary. of the human body. (2006, 92 min, 35mm) (2005/6, 169 min, video) YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT

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URBAN BUSH WOMEN/COMPAGNIE ILKHOM THEATER JANT-BI CREATIVE EXCHANGE Ecstasy with the Pomegranate Beauty Of Little Things May 15–17, 2008 // Forum Apr 3–5. 2008 // Novellus Theater at YBCA A visual street theater of metaphor and clownery, the This unique project is setting the performance world acclaim. Urban Bush Women has, since 1984, brought internationally acclaimed Ilkhom Theatre of Uzbekistan obliterated all Islamic traditions, effectively erasing abuzz for two acclaimed dance companies—one all-male the stories of disenfranchised people to light through began as a renegade theater under the strict Soviet Bacha. Under Stalin, Mumin memorialized the form in and one all-female—and two powerhouse choreogra- dance inspired by African-American traditions. This regime. Now citizens of an independent republic, their sensual, spiritual paintings and Ecstasy reenacts these YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT phers. Germaine Acogny, the “mother of contemporary groundbreaking collaboration brings artists from Africa work is no less subversive. Ecstacy with the Pomegran- extraordinary images, capturing a male eroticism once African dance,” joins forces with Brooklyn-based, together with the children of the Diaspora on a work that ate is inspired by the iconographic 1930s “Bacha Boys” embraced by a culture that now outlaws homosexuality. BESSIE Award–winning choreographer, Jawole Willa Jo explores the crossroads between culture and ethnicity, paintings by Alexandr “Mumin” Nikolayev. Bacha, Beautiful, funny, experimental, Ecstasy revives history to Zollar, of Urban Bush Women. Acogny’s all-male troupe, history and modernity. danced by young boys and men, was Turkistan’s only illuminate contemporary issues of identity. Jant-Bi, performed at YBCA in 2005 to widespread traditional dance form. When the Soviets invaded they

Image: The way that we rhyme. Given over to want. Artist: Nau Bustamante. Photo: Marissa Hernandez

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IDENTITY SHIFTS: BAY AREA RESPONSE May 8–10, 2008 // Forum / PERFORMANCE Once again, YBCA offers up shared evenings of extra ordinary local performance artists. This time, we’ve asked them to develop work that respond to our visual art exhibition, The Way That We Rhyme, on view in our galleries from March 29–July 13, that examines the politically charged work of a young generation of women who use creativity as a form of empowerment and to bring about social change. Artists include:

Jane Chen and Kazumi Kusano; Jennifer Locke; Gigi Otaluaro-Hormillosa; Paige Starling/Blindsight; Jacinta Vlach/Liberation Dance Theater.

MARC BAMUTHI JOSEPH

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YBCA has long been committed to supporting the work of electrifying storyteller Marc Bamuthi Joseph. / BIG IDEA

We’re proud to present Joseph’s newest multimedia journey through verse, contemporary dance and video that interweaves his personal story with the history of hip-hop. Inspired by Can’t Stop Won’t Stop by Jeff Chang, the critically acclaimed book about hip-hop music history, Joseph digs into the politics surrounding the creation myth of this provocative music form. With two turntables, live feed, a digital video jockey and a spoken-word virtuoso, the break/s is one gigantic live mix. Featuring collaborations with Chay Yew, Eli Jacobs- Fantauzzi, Brian Freeman and Danny Hoch. YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT

Artist: Marc Bamutni Joseph. Photo: Umi Vaughn

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THE WAY THAT WE RHYME IN MOTION ARTISTS INSIGHT: URBAN BUSH WOMEN IN ARTISTS INSIGHT: CENTRAL ASIA Mar 29, 2008 // Galleries and Forum CONVERSATION Apr 13, 2008 // Silk Road House,944 University Apr 5, 2008 // Novellus Theater at YBCA Ave, Berkeley, CA Join us for a full day of events and evening performances to accompany the exhibition The Way That We Rhyme. Join us for a pre-show conversation with Jawolle Willa Jo A new generation of artists from Central Asia are mak- Our gallery hours will be extended to 8 pm to accom- Zollar of Urban Bush Women and YBCA Executive Direc- ing moves on the international art scene. Join curator modate a marathon schedule of exhibition tours, panel tor Kenneth Foster. Elena Sorokina in a conversation with artists from Tracing

discussions, film screenings, workshops and interactive Roads through Central Asia as they share the recent YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT performances by the likes of such leading ladies as success of artists from the region. Delve deeper into the Vaginal Davis, MK Guth, Stephanie Syjuco and others, emerging themes and issues around creative expres- culminating in a one-night only performance with Nao sion in Central Asia with artists Gulnara Kasmalieva and Bustamante and Julie Atlas Muz. Muratbek Djoumaliev, who will share details about their practice in Bishkek; scholar Zhanara Naunuzbayeva will present her research on the history of “contempo- rary art” in Kazakhstan.

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ARTISTS INSIGHT: SHINICHI IOVA-KOGA IN THE COUNTERFEIT CROCHET WORKSHOP COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS: WOMEN, ART / P. CONVERSATION Apr 19, May 10, May 24, Jun 14, 2008 // & POLITICS – WOMEN IN HIP-HOP SUMMIT

Apr 15, 2008 // Screening Room Galleries May 10, 2008

Join local choreograph Shinichi Iova-Koga in conversa- This event convenes key community stakeholders to tion about inkBoat’s most recent work c(H)ord. Explore Participate in the Counterfeit Crochet Ring organized by create and drive a “town hall” conversation that ad- themes of tradition, family and the past; and learn more Stephanie Syjuco whose work is featured in The Way That dresses women in hip-hop. about Iova-Koga’s process of collaboration with Seattle We Rhyme. Syjuco and friends will teach visitors how to music director, Joshua Kohl of the big band Degenerate crochet their own luxury brand accessories. Art Ensemble and a cast of nine performers hailing from

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OTHER SPECIAL YBCA PROGRAMS YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT / P.

Shen Wei, Map;Re Bill Viola, Bodies of Light, 2006 Useless. Dir. Jia Zhange-Ke Gabriela Morawetz, Regarde, 2005

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VISUAL ARTS puppetry created by Jim Henson. See a classic episode IN SEARCH OF MOZART STATE OF THE WORLD US Premiere of The Muppet Show, with Harry Belafonte singing an Af- By Phil Grabsky Jan 24–25, 2008 // Screening Room FREEDOM OF ART rican song with puppets derived from traditional masks. Sep 28–30, 2007 // Screening Room An exceptional lineup of international directors—includ- Feb 12–20, 2008 // Grand Lobby Another kind of puppetry is used in The Storyteller: The ing Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Chantal Akerman and Heartless Giant, in which an evil giant—who has hidden In Search of Mozart is by far the most comprehensive film Pedro Costa—contribute to this ambitious and layered Famed poet and painter Lawrence Ferlinghetti claims his heart so he will feel no emotion—tricks young prince ever made about this genius. The composer is brought to omnibus project. Six of the most provocative and fasci- “it’s an insult” that his eleven paintings were removed Leo into releasing him from his dungeon life through stories, excerpts from letters, through tours of recently from a San Francisco office building. These present-day locales important to his story, and fascinating nating filmmakers from around the globe were invited to paintings will be installed in YBCA’s lobby to honor DOG CITY AND THE STORYTELLER commentary. The film is seamlessly interwoven with contribute a short film, on the theme of global change. and celebrate freedom of expression, an undeniable selections from over seventy of Mozart’s sublime works. The result is an incredible panorama of the world’s have- Jul 1, 7:30 2007 // Screening Room American privilege. The largest expressionist paintings (2006, 128 min, Digital Betacam) nots, and an indelible snapshot of the present moment in were painted on tarps from 1992 to 1993 and include Dog City features one of Henson’s most fully realized world cinema. (2007, 105 min, 35mm) some insignificant nudity and an abstract Christ figure. puppet universes—an entire 1940s film noir city popu- “It feels like we’re regressed to the 50s,” Ferlinghetti said, lated by wise-cracking dogs. Followed by The Storyteller: ODD REELS NIGHT pointing out that this fall a New York-based radio station The Soldier and Death, which recounts the tale of a Jan 10, 2008 // Screening Room NO BORDERS, NO LIMITES: refused to air a recording of Allen Ginsberg reading Howl soldier being given three magic objects he uses to outwit 1960S NIKKATSU ACTION CINEMA because it feared fines from the FCC. otherworldly creatures. “To kick off 2008, let’s try an experiment. I own a small collection of 35mm feature films, mostly 60s and 70s Presented for the first time in the US, this series of / P. MUPPET, MUPPETS and the Muppets Characters are registered trade- trash. Over the years, I’ve acquired a bunch of individual super-stylized action films celebrates the golden age marks of The Muppets Studio, LLC. All rights reserved.© The Muppets reels from films—but not the complete films. So, tonight, of Japan’s oldest and boldest film studio, Nikkatsu. Studio, LLC. Sesame Street ® and associated characters, trademarks FILM/VIDEO and design elements are owned and licensed by Sesame Workshop. we’ll show a 90-minute movie—except it will be com- Influenced by both Hollywood and the French New © 2007 Sesame Workshop. All rights reserved. TM & © 2007 The Jim posed of four or five different films. The titles we’ll mash Wave, these films reflect the Westernization that swept MUPPETS™, MUSIC & MAGIC: Henson Company. JIM HENSON’S mark & logo, characters and ele- together include Snuff, Love Camp 7, Sexy Proibitissimo away old values, while teaching an entire generation a JIM HENSON’S LEGACY ments are trademarks of The Jim Henson Company. All rights reserved. and other oddities. I have no idea if this is going to new Japanese meaning of cool. All films are presented Photography: Courtesy of The Jim Henson Company, The Muppets Studio, LLC, Sesame Workshop Series produced by The Jim Henson work, so we’re reducing the admission price to an el on 35mm film with new digital subtitles. Series In conjunction with The Jim Henson Legacy and the Legacy, www.jimhensonlegacyy.org, and Brooklyn Academy of Music cheapo $5 for all seats…so, wtf, take the plunge!”—Joel organized by Outcast Cinema with Yerba Buena Center Jane Henson Foundation, we conclude our tribute to one www.BAM.org. Tour organizer: Irena Kovarova. Special complilations Shepard, Film/Video Curator for the Arts. of the world’s most inspired and innovative film and pup- provided by Craig Shemin. petry artists, Jim Henson. A visionary TV producer and a A COLT IS MY PASPORT world-class puppeteer who created indelible characters / OTHER SPECIAL PROGRAMS JOY DIVISION By Takashi Nomur like Kermit the Frog, Henson brought a unique combi- HONOR OF THE KNIGHTS (HONOR DE CAVALERIA) Apr 10, 2008 // Screening Room nation of childlike wonder and adult sophistication to his By Grant Gee By Albert Serra groundbreaking work for children and adults alike. Jan 18, 2008 // Screening Room A cool-headed killer (iconic Seijun Suzuki favorite Joe Sep 13, 15 & 16, 2007 // Screening Room Shishido) is desperate to get out of town after pulling off a This fantastic new documentary is a perfect comple- EMMET OTTER’S JUG BAND CHRISTMAS– hit with his partner. The film is brilliantly stylish and noir- We’re thrilled to premiere Honor of the Knights, the ment to Control, the recent fictionalized account of the THE JIM HENSON LEGACY VERSION inspired— a true undiscovered classic. Its lean direction most radical and important Spanish film in many years. life of Ian Curtis and his band Joy Division. In 1976 after and wind-swept, empty locales play perfectly with Jul 1, 2007 // Screening Room “Albert Serra debuts with this reinterpretation of the de- attending a Sex Pistols concert, four young men from lusional adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Shishido’s panache and toughguy cool. (1967, 84 min) Get into the Christmas mood in July. This is the heart- ruined, post-industrial Manchester founded Joy Division. replacing monstrous windmills and regal farm girls warming story of Ma Otter and her son who both secretly Though the group achieved only modest success during with quiet ruminations on the lyricism of nature and the ROUGHNECK enter a talent contest to win money for each other’s their career, they have proven to be one of the most existence of God. Taking an earthbound perspective on By Yas Uharu Hasebe Christmas presents. They are challenged by the rowdy inventive and influential bands of their era. Featuring Quixote’s flights of fancy, the film discovers a grounded Apr 11, 2008 // Screening Room Riverbottom Gang and their wild hard-rock band, The interviews with surviving band members, the film ex- humanity and serene beauty where past interpretations

amines their story through never-before-seen live perfor- YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT Nightmare. Note: This is a special version of this classic, In this tough yakuza (Japanese gangster) film, Akira have found only futility and disillusionment. Captivating mance footage, personal photos and newly discovered which contains the Kermit scenes cut out of the DVD Kobayashi plays Yuji, a hoodlum who becomes involved landscapes offset by the iconic duo’s wry conversations audio tapes. Courtesy of The Weinstein Company. Q&A release! with an ototobun (younger gang brother) trying to go further transpose the knight-errant’s aimless wander- with Tom Atencio, co-producer and New Order’s North straight. Yuji soon takes up with a hot springs geisha, the lust into an unforgettable cinematic and existential American manager. (2007, 93 min, Digital Betacam) THE ART OF PUPPETRY AND STORYTELLING lover of a local boss, whose gang is facing stiff competi- experience.” (LA Film Festival). In Catalan with English tion from an outside rival. (1969, 86 min) Jul 1, 2007 // Screening Room subtitles. (2006, 110 min, 35mm) Go behind the scenes to witness the magic of the Mup- pets in this compilation of rare footage of the variety of

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GANGSTER VIP WE’RE A HAPPY FAMILY: I’LL BE YOUR MIRROR: WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES By Toshio Masuda FILMS ABOUT BAD PARENTS RARE FILMS BY PHILIPPE GARREL By Benjamin Christensen Apr 11, 2008 // Screening Room May 23, 2008 // Screening Room From funny to ghastly, this two-part series looks at films Though barely known in the US, Philippe Garrel is widely After spending three years in prison for stabbing a hit about dysfunctional parents. If you thought your family considered a filmmaking genius and “the Rimbaud of An assault on the eyes, this film is a portrait of witchery, man from a rival gang, Goro comes out disenchanted was bad, wait until you see these. French cinema.” We present two of his most intense possession and sadism. Using animation, creature with yakuza life. When he decides to abandon gangster works, both in new 35mm prints. J’entends plus la effects, nightmarish sets, reenactments of satanic rituals life entirely, tragedy intervenes and he sets out for FRANK AND CINDY guitare is a dramatized version of his traumatic love affair and intense sexual imagery, it weaves a tale both darkly revenge. (1968, 93 min) By G.J. Echternkamp with his muse, musician Nico, made three years after humorous and quite disturbing. Narration by William S. Apr 3, 2008 // Screening Room her death. And Le lit de la vierge, a minimalist, psyche- Burroughs. (1922/1968, 77 min,35mm) RED HANDKERCHIEF Filmmaker in person delic retelling of the Christ story shot in Brittany, Morocco By Toshio Masuda and Rome under the influence of LSD. As a companion THE WITCHMAKER This brutally honest documentary starts off as a portrait of Apr 12, 2008 // Screening Room screening, we present Andy Warhol’s raw The Velvet By William O. Brown Frank—a drunken, oafish has-been relegated to pulling Underground and Nico: A Symphony of Sound, live at May 24, 2008 // Screening Room A perfect distillation of all that was Nikkatsu noir. weeds and peeing in cans in the basement. But Frank the Factory in 1966. Big-shot cop Mikami (Yujiro Ishihara) fatally shoots a isn’t the only one with issues. Enter Cindy, the filmmak- Though not without some schlocky elements, The Witch- witness during a drug investigation and moves to the er’s mother, whose daydreams have devolved into white J’ENTENDS PLUS LA GUITARE makeris considered by some to be the fi nest witchcraft country to forget his tainted past. Years later, he returns lies, drug-abuse, put-downs and procrastinations. We (I DON’T HEAR THE GUITAR ANYMORE) f lm ever made. Psychic investigators go into the bayou / P. to Yokohama to unravel the truth about the unsolved watch as desperation, humor and a little self-reflection (1991, 98 MIN, 35MM) where several murders have been committed. They find case and his shady ex-partner, now married to the start to bring this unusual family closer together. May 15- 16, 2008 // Screening Room themselves in peril from a coven of witches headed by a woman he loves. (1964, 98 min) man called Luther the Berserk. (1969, 97 min, 35mm) THE SAD, THE FUNNY AND THE DARK SIDE GLASS JOHNNY: OF PARENTING LE LIT DE LA VIERGE (THE VIRGIN’S BED) SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS LOOKS LIKE A BEAST Apr 19, 2008 // Screening Room (1968, 114 MIN) Produced By Walt Disney By Koreyoshi Kurahara May 18, 2008 // Screening Room May 25, 2008 // Screening Room Archivist and raconteur Dennis Nyback appears in Apr 12, 2008 // Screening Room person to present three rare, ultra-bizarre vintage films “Mirror, mirror on the wall…” Disney’s unforgettable clas- THE VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICO: Inspired by Federico Fellini’s La Strada and a sharp about bad parents. First up is the slapstick Mr. and Mrs. sic tells the story of a jealous evil queen who tries to kill A SYMPHONY OF SOUND departure from the Nikkatsu action norm, Glass Johnny Gump (1928) in which the Gumps toss their son around her beautiful stepdaughter, Snow White. By Andy Warhol (1966, 67 MIN, 16MM) stars Joe Shishido as a bicycle track tipster whose and use him as a human tow rope for their motor home. / OTHER SPECIAL PROGRAMS mission in life is to make a winner out of a struggling Much darker is The Case of the Kitchen Killer (1974), May 15-16, 2008 // Screening Room DAY OF WRATH rider and become rich as a result. Before he can achieve directed by high school students, in which a child is By Carl Theodor Dreyer this, he becomes the unwilling savior of a pure-hearted, rejected by his parents with lethal results. The program May 25, 2008 // Screening Room simple-minded prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) on the run finishes with the weird and miserable The Summer We HOMOCCULT & OTHER ESOTEROTICA from her pimp. (1962, 108 min) Moved to Elm Street (1966) about a nine year-old girl Filmed during the Nazi occupation of Denmark, Day Curated By Daniel Mckernan & Richie Rennt and her alcoholic father. of Wrath is a harrowing drama about the church’s per- May 17, 2008 // Screening Room THE VELVET HUSTLER secution of women for witchcraft in the 17th century. Daniel McKernan in person. By Toshio Masuda The film has immense power and an overwhelming sense of torment, yet the filmmaker never loses sight of Apr 13, 2008 // Screening Room SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS Satan, queers and psychedelic wild boys unite! For ex- treme tastes, this gay-themed shorts program examines the eroticism inherent in the concept of witchcraft. By Sergei Parajanov A pop art-colored romance between two doomed loners artists and filmmakers dealing with sex, violence, the (1943, 97 min, 35mm) May 8–10, 2008 // Screening Room set amidst go-go dancing kids, tough yakuza and Ameri- occult, magic, erotic rituals and other mystic esoterica. It can soldiers on leave from the Vietnam War. Hiding out A masterpiece of modern cinema, finally available in a includes works by and about Peter Christopherson, Ron

in Kobe, life spices up for reckless gangster Goro (Tetsuya YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT new 35mm print. To describe the film simply as a love Athey, Breyer P-Orridge, Todd Verow and many others. NEW WORKS BY JIA ZHANG-KE Watari) when he meets a gorgeous rich girl investigating story between a son and daughter of two feuding families her fiancé’s disappearance. (1967, 97 min) does not convey this achievement in cinematic folklore. Jia Zhang-ke is perhaps China’s most important Infused with Ukrainian folk music, religious symbolism, WITCHCRAFT WEEKEND contemporary film-maker, and the leading figure of what dazzling colors and dizzying camerawork, the film is a is known as the “Sixth Generation.” We present his two chaotic and lyrical tour de force. (1964, 97 min, 35mm) A weekend of occult and witchcraft-themed films, from newest films, both local premieres. the deranged to the sublime.

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USELESS brother a shallow materialist who has sold out the legacy and becomes an organ-grinder to earn a few coins a 0116643225059, Ghost of Asia, My Mother’s Garden and Jun 5 & 8, 2008 // Screening Room of their father’s reputable construction business. In this day. To this loyal citizen of the State, the veterans and Luminous People. The Film/Video department wishes to melodrama stripped of sentiment, Haneke creates a bit- firebrands who march in protest against society’s acknowledge the assistance of Yann Kerloc’h, Memento In his haunting and compassionate new film, Jia ter but riveting portrait of postwar Germany, withits eerily neglect are lazy, insubordinate “heathens.” But when Films International; Karin Oehlenschläger, Goethe-Insti- examines the spiritual life of the Chinese clothing indus- repressed normalcy and its gleaming, amnesiac future of an ugly tram incident condemns Pum to a life of penury tut Boston; Jed Rapfogel, Anthology Film Archives. try—the largest exporter of garments in the world. First consumer goods proffered by its former enemy. (1984, and loneliness, his soul is awakened to the bitter waste an assembly line in Canton, where under the thunderous 113 min, digital video) of a life spent in duty to God and Empire. -- Bitter Pills noise of sewing machines women work silently. Next program notes by Josh Siegel, Museum of Modern Art we meet acclaimed Chinese designer MaKe, launching LEMMINGS PERFORMANCES her handmade anti-fashion clothing line in Paris. Finally Jun 14 & 15, 2008//Screening Room we spend a dusty afternoon in Fenyang in a tiny tailor’s THE TOSCA PROJECT: A MOVEMENT-THEATER shop. (2007, 82 min, digital video) YOGA, INC. Lemmings is a two-part drama about the fate of Haneke’s WORKSHOP PRESENTATION CREATED BY By John Philp own generation that came of age after World War II. Each CAREY PERLOFF AND VAL CANIPAROL DONG part is a complete film in itself; it is not absolutely neces- Jun 21–22, 2008 // Screening Room sary to see both films to understand the work. Oct 26–28, 2007 // Forum Jun 5 & 8, 2008 // Screening Room Yoga, Inc. is a witty and cautionary tale of the world of Developed with an extraordinary company of actors A companion piece to his recent film Still Life, in Dong contemporary yoga. World Yoga Champion Esak Garcia LEMMINGS (PART 1): ARCADES and dancers, The Tosca Project is a breathtaking blend (“east” in Mandarin) Jia beautifully explores the possibili- and his guru Bikram Choudhury want yoga accepted into / P. is a dramatic and withering portrait of Austria’s second of theater, movement and music inspired by the rich ties of documenting life and art. Against the stunning the Olympics. Bikram, the “Bad Boy of Yoga,” has also “lost generation” teenagers who grew up in monstrously history of Tosca Café, the famed nightspot locatred in backdrop of the Three Gorges, the film follows one of copyrighted his yoga style, demanding teachers play by repressive bourgeois families, forbidden to speak of San Francisco’s North Beach district that has been a China’s leading painters, Liu Xiao-dong, as he paints two his rules or stop teaching. Now yoga chains (“McYoga?”) wartime collaboration and defeat, indoctrinated with an favorite of opera singers, Beat poets, Russian émigrés portraits: one of laborers at the Three Gorges dam and are popping up everywhere, putting smaller studios out unquestioning obedience to family, state and God, as and other eclectic characters since the 1920s. This is one of young female models in Bangkok. As with much of business. Can yoga survive with its good karma intact? well as taught that kindness is weakness and their own a rare opportunity to view a unique interdisciplinary col- of his other work, Jia examines fantasy, landscape and (2007, 73 min, digital video) sexuality is shameful and abject. Contemptuous of their laboration-in-progress in it early stages of development. the underlying realities of ordinary people caught in a parents’ impotence and hypocrisy, they rebel in destruc- Presented by American Conservatory Theater and Yerba whirlwind of rapid change. (2006, 66 min, digital video) tive ways. (113 min, digital video) Buena Center for the Arts. MYSTERIOUS OBJECTS: THE SHORT FILMS LEMMINGS (PART 2): INJURIES OF APICHATPONG WEERASTHAKUL BITTER PILLS: is a Sophoclean tragedy, where the sins of fathers and It’s no secret to devotees of world cinema that Apichat-

THE WAY THAT WE RHYME IN MOTION / OTHER SPECIAL PROGRAMS MICHAEL HANEKE MADE-FOR-TELEVISION pong Weerasethakul is one of the most radically original mothers—depicted with such frightening clarity in Lem- PERFORMANCES FEATURING NAO filmmakers. But his output extends beyond his feature mings (Part 1)—have been passed on to their children, BUSTAMANTE AND JULIE ATLAS MUZ Long before his well-known films like Funny Games, now living in loveless marriages and bringing unwanted films. From the beginning, he’s produced a steady stream Mar 29, 2008 // Forum Cache and The Piano Teacher, Austrian filmmaker children of their own into the world. It is a world in which of experimental shorter works—films, videos and installa- tions, some of which abandon narrative entirely—an out- Michael Haneke made films for televIsion—and they’re despair and longing are met with cold indifference, dis- Nao Bustamante and Julie Atlas Muz are conceptual per- put he’s maintained even as he keeps creating features. often as ruthless and compelling as his later work. YBCA dain or enfeebled gestures of kindness, and the fleeting formance pioneers whose interdisciplinary approaches This captivating and unpredictable body of work, very presents four of these features, never before seen in San comforts of prayer, pills, alcohol, illicit affairs, television make for challenging and entertaining experiences. little of which has been accessible until now, sheds new Francisco. In a style at once musical and mathematical, and misdirected rage only lead to further injury. (107 Julie Atlas Muz (Miss Exotic World and Miss Coney Island light on Weerasethakul’s artistic identity. Haneke’s films treat themes of alienation and social col- min, digital video) 2006) presents Fecunditatis – the best of her short for- lapse; the exploitation and consumption of violence; the mat work in a performance dedicated to spring, rebirth and PROGRAM ONE bourgeois family as the incubator of fascistic impulse; THE REBELLION the violence of creation. Behold a new genre, post-mortem individual responsibility and collective guilt; and the eth- Thu, Jun 19, 2008 // Screening Room Jun 26, 2008 // Screening Room dance, a mix of populist trash, high art, high kicks, drag, ics of the photographic image. jazz, dance and, yes, body politics. Muz continues to cel- With its silent-era aesthetic of sepia tones and muted Royal anthem, light reflections, the sounds of Bangkok...Pro- ebrate the ever-political lineage of naked ladies in public YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT gram includes The Anthem, Windows, Malee and the Boy, Like FRAULEIN color tints, and its interweaving of realism and fantasy, spaces as set in motion by Lady Godiva. Nao Bustamante the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves and Thirdworld. Jun 12, 2008 // Screening Room Haneke’s haunting adaptation of Joseph Roth’s expres- is an internationally known performance and video artist sionistic 1924 novel is an homage to the great Weimar whose work encompasses performance art, sculpture, After ten years in a Russian prisoner-of-war camp, a Ger- PROGRAM TWO cinema of G. W. Pabst and F. W. Murnau. In a heartbreak- installation and video. man soldier returns home to find his desperately lonely ing performance, Branko Samarovski plays Andreas Jun 29, 2008 // Screening Room wife in an affair with a former French POW; his daughter Pum, a soldier who loses his leg during the Great War Inner and outer space, ghosts, a visit to Nong Khai pregnant by an American soldier; his rebellious son and more. Program includes Worldly Desires, obsessed with rock and roll and James Dean; and his

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PUBLIC PROGRAMS YOUNG ARTISTS AT WORK (YAAW) PROGRAM P.O.D.E.R. (PEOPLE ORGANIZINGTO art with an open house festival of exciting events. Enjoy DEMAND ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC visual art, music, performances, hands-on workshops, In ‘07-’08, we trained 26 young artists from diverse back- RIGHTS) interactive exhibits, guided tours, film screenings CAMPARI TALKS: FROM THE SALON TO THE grounds. As part of their “art as activism” training, our and food and drink! Get an introduction to the diverse MOSHPIT: CREATING SPACES OF ASSEMBLY youth artists served a total of over 500 students through PODER and the Chinese Progressive Association creat- programming that YBCA offers every day. Nov 17, 2007 // Screening Room various internship sites at: ed the Common Roots Youth Organizer Program for low- income Chinese and Latino youth. Through Common This panel brings together a selection of women art- AIM HIGH Roots, youth leaders develop cross cultural solidarity, GUIDE-BY-CELL AND PERFORMANCE-BY-CELL ists, musicians and curators to discuss the legacy of learn critical thinking skills, enhance their leadership feminist art and critique, especially as it affects the work The mission of Aim High is to provide underserved urban and organizing skills, and make significant artistic and Your YBCA experience can start at home, your office, or of a younger generation of artists working locally and youth with challenging, innovative and highly supportive policy contributions to organizing campaigns. Together, anywhere! Guide-by-Cell and Performance-by-Cell make internationally. Panelists JD Samson, of the band Le educational programs, most notably in our exemplary we prepare new leaders for movements for environmen- it possible for you to instantly watch or download video/ Tigre, Emily Roysdon, an artist, writer and member of summer school collaboration where YAAW students tal and economic justice and immigrant rights. the collective LLTR, and San Francisco-based curator taught art classes. audio recordings from artists, artistic directors, curators and scholars about our programs using your cell phone, and educator Jill Dawsey will talk about the process of YOUNG ARTISTS AT WORK CURATORIAL TEAM building collaborative networks of support that feed their MISSION CULTURAL CENTER FOR LATINO computer or digital audio/video player. Whether you are own individual crative practices as well as those of their ARTS (MCCLA) This year we developed a curatorial training class for in the galleries or at home, call in to hear from artists and their collaborators. friends and peers. The panel is organized and moder- our YAAWs. The curators-in-training were hand-picked / P. ated by Associate Visual Art Curator Berin Golonu. MCCLA was established by artists and community and with the support of staff and consulting curator and activists with a shared vision to promote, preserve and artist Jaime Cortez, they are organizing an exhibition of 07_08 FILM/VIDEO CO-PRESENTATIONS develop the Latino cultural arts that reflect the living tradi- regional and national artists. Entitled Through Future ART SAVVY WORKSHOPS tions and experiences of the Chicano, Mexican, Central Eyes: The Endurance of Humanity, the exhibition is Weekly screenings by SF Cinematheque, October to and South American, and Caribbean people. slated to open in April of 2009. Six internships were YBCA presents a ground breaking, interactive, hands-on June. Year-round monthly screenings by California extended an additional 11 months to accommodate the program that provides a safe environment for arts pa- Newsreel and SF Jewish Film Festival. STREETSIDE STORIES curatorial training program. Together, the curators-in- trons to talk about contemporary art with others who are training will study, select and present contemporary just as curious as you are. Tour our galleries, participate In collaboration with YAAW, Streetside Stories, a literacy artists whose work will inspire both general YBCA audi- in a post-tour discussion and deepen your connection arts nonprofit, helped over 100 students to share their life ences and peer artists. with contemporary art through using methods created ADDITIONAL COLLABORATIONS stories, connect with the arts and improve their literacy by Visual Thinking Strategies, one of the most respected skills. Through the power of storytelling, Streetside art education programs in the country. / OTHER SPECIAL PROGRAMS The Arab Film Festival; Bay Area Video Coalition; Cabi- Stories values and cultivates young people’s voices, netic; Film Arts Foundation, Kino 21, and AIASF; Madcat fostering educational equity and building community, THE BIG IDEAS PROJECT – THREE VIEWS Women’s International Film Festival; San Francisco literacy and arts skills. Sep 6, 2007–June 29, 2008 // Room for Big FREEDOM OF ART: A CELEBRATION WITH Presents; Screen 360; Southern Exposure. Ideas CHINATOWN BEACON CENTER LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI AND FRIENDS The Room for Big Ideas (RBI), located on the first floor of Feb 12, 2008 // Forum One of the 8 neighborhood-based Beacon Centers our Galleries and Forum Building, is an interactive space 07_08 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT formed in San Francisco, the Chinatown Beacon Center’s where visitors can learn more about YBCA’s programs Live dangerously by viewing Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s summer programs are based upon a youth develop- and the Big Ideas. Through a proposal process, local art- paintings which were recently removed from the lobby of YBCA’s Community Engagement is a dynamic, multi-fac- ment model which promotes youth leadership, arts and ists were invited to create original interpretations of the a private building in downtown San Francisco because eted education and outreach department that explores recreation, academic enrichment, career development 07_08 Big Ideas using the concept of Tibetan Buddhist of their content . The evening’s program will include a and contextualizes YBCA’s Big Ideas to the broadest pos- and health. Thangka paintings as inspiration. We are proud to pres- reading of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl with literary luminaries sible audience. Our educational and public programs ent three interactive installations by artists Ali Dadgar, Jack Hirschman, devorah major, Janice Mirikitani and work collaboratively with YBCA curators and community MUSEUM OF CHILDREN’S ART Derick Ion and Jennifer K. Wofford on view in the RBI. Khalil Anthony. groups to illuminate the social relevance of contempo- YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT rary art. Through these programs we create a culture of Oakland’s Museum of Children’s Art provides opportuni- WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA? inquiry and curiosity and respond to the diverse needs in ties for children to learn and develop skills through art, by Nov 10, 2007, Feb 9 & May 10, 2008 // Galleries, our communities, from local to global. teaching and advocating for hands-on arts education for Forum, Screening Room children and educators with an emphasize of reaching out to children from low-income communities A FREE all-day for everyone highlighting the Big Ideas. YBCA invites visitors to learn more about contemporary 33

FINANCIAL AND ACTIVITY STATEMENTS GIFTS TO OPERATION FUND FACILITY RENTALS YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT / P.

Faustin Linyukela, Festival of Lies Sergio Prego, Black Monday, 206 Ilkhom Theater, Ecstasy with the pomegranate Robert Parke-Harrison, the Scribe, 2005

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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Statement Statement of Financial Position of Activities and Changes in Net Assets for As of June 30, 2008 the year ended June 30, 2008

2008

Temporarily Permanently Unrestricted Restricted Restricted Total ASSETS 2008 REVENUE AND SUPPORT

CURRENT ASSETS: Support from San Francisco Redevelopment Agency $3,391,927 $163,073 $- $3,555,000 Cash and cash equivalents $2,497,232 Contributions 1,143,581 1,276,220 - 2,419,801 Contributions and grants receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $21,708 557,179 Box office ticket sales and gallery admissions 345,195 - - 345,195 Other receivables 27,097 Subsidized community programs 981,850 - - 981,850 Prepaid expenses 220,414 Commercial rentals 1,120,614 - - 1,120,614 Deposits 49,516 Special events 10,323 - - 10,323

TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS 3,351,439 Naming revenue 272,727 2,127,545 - 2,400,272 / P. Investment income (103,325) 51,146 - (52,179)

Contributions and grants receivable, net of current portion and allowance for doubtful Investment income (endowment) - (123,850) - (123,850) accounts of $628,028 2,276,518 Box office service charges 119,399 - - 119,399 Marketing and advertising sales 152,585 - - 152,585 LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS: Traveling exhibition fees 72,412 - - 72,412

Cash and cash equivalents 326,747 Other income 35,514 - - 35,514 / FINANCIAL Marketable securities 3,496,010 Net assets released from restrictions 942,568 (942,568) - -

TOTAL LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS 3,822,757 TOTAL REVENUE AND SUPPORT 8,485,371 2,551,566 - 11,036,937

Fixtures and equipment, net 336,189 EXPENSES TOTAL ASSETS $9,786,902 Program services Performing arts 1,495,128 - - 1,495,128 Visual arts 1,845,749 - - 1,845,749 Film/video 433,734 - - 433,734 Community engagement 570,498 - - 570,498 Subsidized community programs 1,589,017 - - 1,589,017 Commercial rentals 916,467 - - 916,467 Total Program Services 6,850,593 - - 6,850,593 LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS Supporting services CURRENT LIABILITIES: General administration and operations: Accounts payable and accrued expenses $553,467 Facilities 477,837 - - 477,837 Deposits and refundable advances 268,975 General and administration 516,505 - - 516,505 Total liabilities 822,442 Fund-raising 680,556 - - 680,556

Total supporting services expenses 1,674,898 - - 1,674,898 CA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT NET ASSETS: YB Unrestricted 1,643,355 TOTAL EXPENSES 8,525,491 - - 8,525,491 Temporarily restricted 5,459,891 Permanently restricted 1,861,215 Increase in net assets (40,120) 2,551,566 - 2,511,446 Total net assets 8,964,461 Net assets, beginning of year 1,683,475 2,908,325 1,861,215 6,453,015

TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS $9,786,902 NET ASSETS, END OF YEAR $1,643,355 $5,459,891 $1,861,215 $8,964,461 35

GIFTS TO OUR OPERATION FUND

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts warmly thanks the following generous contributors for making our 2007-2008 programs possible. *Gifts In-Kind We also gratefully acknowledge the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency for its ongoing support.

GIFTS OF $50,000 & ABOVE Individuals Individuals Chris Jay Hoofnagle Stephen Fronk and Brian Garrett Corporations, Foundations & Government Biki Berry Stephen Beal Hedberg Foundation Michele Garside Anonymous Doris and Don Fisher Kenneth J.Foster and Nayan Shah James C. Hormel Lori Grace Columbia Foundation Robert C. Goodman and John Bankston Eleanor Friedman Fund Jon Henry Kouba Nina and Claude Gruen The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation The Grace Trust Mary and John P. Grossmann David Levine Janette Herceg Novellus Systems The Kanbar Foundation Gary and Elna Hall Susan B. Levine and Jim Lauer Kristine Hernandez The Wallace Foundation Richard Laiderman and Jung-Wha Song Ron Mann Merrie and Bill Lightner Thor and Lecia Kaslofsky Rosekrans Fund of the San Francisco Christine H. Russell Fund of the Martin Maguss and Mari Iki Margaret Kavounas

Individuals / P. Foundation Columbia Foundation George and Judy Marcus Peter Lambert The EMIKA Fund Graham Schneider Diane B. Wilsey Corrinne Martin Dixon Long Mike Wilkins and Sheila Duignan TomKat Foundation Bruce and Adrienne Mitchell Carl and Janet Martin GIFTS OF $1,000-$2,499 Lydia and Tony Pugliese Dana Martise GIFTS OF $20,000-$49,999 GIFTS OF $5,000-$9,999 Corporations, Foundations & Government Rabine Family Fund Shanna McBurney and Corporations, Foundations & Government Diane Sanchez David Stanton Corporations, Foundations & Government Delta Dental Plan of California Helen and Sam Sause Karin and Gregory McClune Bank of America Barclays Global Investors Matching NOON * Philip Setchfield John E. McGuirk Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr., Fund Gift Program Tribal DDB The Srinija Srinivasan Fund Diane R. Murakami Walter & Elise Haas Fund Genentech, Inc. Individuals Roselyne C. Swig Jim Newman and Jane Ivory JPMorgan Chase Foundation The Japan Foundation The Swig Foundation Katherine Noble Koret Foundation LEF Foundation Argosy Foundation Tides Foundation Joe Olivo and Jeff Wiggins Multi-Arts Production Fund Mellon Private Wealth Management Janice and Matthew Barger

Charles and Cheryl Ward Suno K. Osterweis / STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES National Endowment for the Arts Morris Stulsaft Foundation J.D. Beltran Ken Wilson Matthew Randle New England Foundation for the Arts, Inc. Samovar * Joseph and Frances Brucia Foundation Margaret Youngblood and Raymond Family Foundation The Bernard Osher Foundation U.S. Bank Laura Brugger and Ross L. Sappenfield Peter Allen Isaias Rodriguez The Rose Group Yerba Buena Alliance Dan Bunker Lois and Steve Chess Damian Smith SF Weekly * GIFTS OF $500-$999 The Sato Foundation Individuals Austin Conkey Winsor Soule and Marcia Tanner Irene S. Scully Family Foundation Carla and David Crane Steven Czekala and Erik Scollon Individuals Jim Stewart Trust for Mutual Understanding Ronald W. Garrity Pamela and Steven Dinkelspiel Anonymous Robert Stone Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation The Grace Trust Patricia S. Dinner Michele C. Anderson Diana Tsoi Theodora Lee Russell J. Drake Joseph Bunker Donald Vandemark Individuals Anette Marweld Saul and Gloria Feldman Gretchen Brosius Kathleen and Bill Volkmann Catherine and Ned Topham Bruce McDougal and Daniel Rey Jeffrey and Deborah Filimon Judith Brown Meyers and Michael Peter Waterloo and Jon Taylor Janis M. Zivic Elaine McKeon Fund Robert and Elizabeth Fisher Meyers Lew Witson H.W. Schumann Foundation Fredric Freund Tom and Carol Burkhart E. San San Wong GIFTS OF $10,000 - $19,999 Christopher Stafford Jon Funabiki Michaela Cassidy and Terry C. Helen Wynne Corporations, Foundations & Government Colin Walsh and Dave Ederick Marisa Gallagher Whitney Florette Yen 7x7 * Sarah and David Woodward Stanlee R. Gatti Jeff Chunn and John Giacomazzi CA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT AAA of Northern California Anthony Gilmore Tyler Costin GIFTS OF $2,500 - $4,999 YB Adobe Foundation Fund John and Marcia Goldman Scott Crosby at&t California Corporations, Foundations & Government Philanthropic Fund David and Sylvia Weisz Family Citigroup Foundation Bloomingdale’s Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund Philanthropic Fund, Inc. Dzine* The Onion * Jeffery and Deborah Griffith Ruth DeYoung Kohler Personality Hotels * The Rocket Fund for Equality of Doug E. Hanlin and Kelvin P. Lynch Colin Fernandes Wells Fargo Foundation Horizons Foundation Heather Hartle David and Victoria Fleishhacker Whole Foods Market * Royal Norwegian Consulate General Helen M.Z. Harwood and Alvaro Leslie R. Foster and Jane Berryman Zellerbach Family Foundation WESTAF, Tour West A. Garcia Denise Frau

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FACILITY RENTALS

YBCA offers its state-of-the-art facilities to non-profit community-based organizations as well as to corporations and individuals who desire attractive settings for a variety of events. Revenues generated from these rentals help support YBCA’s visual art, perfomance, film/video and community engagement programs.

COMMERCIAL RENTALS LIST COMMUNITY RENTALS LIST

ACE USA Edelmann PR San Francisco Planning Department ACT Janice Garrett & Dancers Players Apple, Inc. Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising Saybrook Graduate School Afro Solo Joe Goode Performance Group San Francisco Foundation Australian-American Chamber of Commerce Hartmann Studios SNAP Summit AIGA Kunst-Stoff San Francisco Gay & Lesbian Babcock and Brown Hedge Funds Care, Inc. SPUR Bay Area Dance Awards Lamplighters Musical Theatre Chorus Barclays Global Investors IDSA Terry Hines & Associates Bay Area Flamenco Partnership Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet San Francisco International Bay Area Air Quality Management District Interactive TV Today The Missing Peace Fund California Chinese Orchestra Margaret Jenkins Dance Company Arts Festival Key Events The Outfit Moving Beyond Productions San Francisco Performances / P. Blue Goose Events Center for Cultural Innovation California Public Utilities Commisson & The Massachusetts College of Arts and Design Transbay Joint Powers Authority Chitresh Das Dance Company New Century Chamber Orchestra Self-Help for the Elderly Willie L. Brown Jr. Institute Novellus Systems UC Berkeley School of Public Health Company C Northern California Grantmakers SFJAZZ Organization ChemOil Corporation Oracle Urban Re:Vision Cypress String Quartet ODC Dance SF Taiko Dojo Columbia University Organized Chaos Events Voltage Security Episcopal Community Services Positive Resource Network SF Theater Festival ComCast Orrick,Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Wallace Foundation Film Arts Foundation San Francisco Ballet Smuin Ballet David Perry & Associates Restoration Hardware Yale University Fleishacker Foundation San Francisco Chinese Arts Foundation World Arts West Delphi Productions, Inc. Salesforce.com Yelp Flowers Heritage Foundation San Francisco Contemporary Music / FACILITY RENTALS

YBCA 07_08 ANNUAL REPORT