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Wed Nov 11 - Sun Nov 15

San Francisco Film Society Presents

Fourth Annual San Francisco International Animation Festival

Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox, Avant-Garde Legend Lawrence Jordan, Early Walt Disney Comedies, and More!

Tel. 415-561-5000
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Location	Date and Time
Apple Store One Stockton Street San Francisco, CA 94108 map cross street: Market district: Union Square/San Francisco Centre	Fri Nov 13 (4pm SF360 Live-Data in Motion: Information Design and Animation (Free)) - Special Live Event
Landmark's Embarcadero Center 1 Embarcadero Center San Francisco, CA 94111 map cross street: Battery Street district: Embarcadero	Thu Nov 12 (7pm Fantastic Mr. Fox Bay Area Premiere, 8pm Opening Night Party, 9:30pm Fantastic Mr. Fox) - Opening Night Fri Nov 13 (7 pm The Breakdown, 9pm A Town Called Panic Bay Area Preniere) Sat Nov 14 (1pm Walt Disney's Alice Comedies, 3:15pm Super Massive Suspension: Nate Boyce vs. Amy Hicks, 5:45pm The Best of Annecy, 7:45pm Musashi: The Dream of the Last Samurai (U.S. Premiere), 9:30pm Play It by Eye) Sun Nov 15 (12pm The Best of Annecy, 1:45pm Somewhere Where I Don't Know Where I Am, 3:30pm Metropia (West Coast Premiere),)
Mezzanine 444 Jessie Street San Francisco, CA 94103 map cross street: between 5th & 6th, between Mission & Market district: SoMa	Wed Nov 11 (8pm A Dream of Lovers and 2 Blessed 2 Be Stressed) - Kickoff Celebration

Description

The San Francisco Film Society presents the fourth annual San Francisco International Animation Festival (SFIAF), a five-day event celebrating one of the most fertile, creative and productive forms of artistic, experimental, commercial and industrial media. This year’s International Animation Festival ranges from the premiere of a major Hollywood feature directed by an Oscar-nominated auteur to historic family-friendly short cartoons and celebrates San Francisco’s preeminence as a hub for one of the most vital forms in cinema today. SFIAF will open at Mezzanine, Wednesday, November 11 and screen November 12–15 at Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema, with a special live event at the Apple Store, Friday, November 13.

Wednesday, November 11
Kickoff Celebration
Mezzanine
444 Jessie St.
8:00 pm
SFIAF kicks off with this very special celebration of live music and animation in a vibrant nightclub environment. American underground avant-garde legend Lawrence Jordan will present live animation and Jacob Ciocci and David Wightman will unveil a variety of media-defying entertainments.
21+

Thursday, November 12
Opening Night Party
One Embarcadero Center, Lobby Level
8:00 pm
Celebrate opening night with filmmakers in attendance. Buy a ticket to either the 7:00 pm or 9:30 pm screening of Wes Anderson’s newest feature Fantastic Mr. Fox and join us either before or after your screening for a the Opening Night party.

Landmark's Embarcadero Center Cinema
Fantastic Mr. Fox 7:00 pm & 9:30 pm
Wes Anderson (USA 2009)
Wes Anderson applies his brilliantly idiosyncratic sensibility to Roald Dahl’s beloved children’s classic, in which Mr. Fox turns his back on a life of crime. George Clooney brings Mr. Fox to life with nimble character voicing, aided by a heavy-hitting cast.

Friday, November 13
SF360 Live – Data in Motion: Information Design and Animation
The Apple Store
One Stockton St
4:00 pm
Visionary information designer Joy Mountford will present a fascinating survey on the different approaches to organizing data using methods of visuality and motion.

Landmark's Embarcadero Center Cinema
The Breakdown 7:00 pm
Animation is especially suited to analysis of all sorts. It probes bodies, investigates movement and questions nature. Animation breaks down the world, love and desire. . . and ultimately the unconscious.

A Town Called Panic 9:00 pm
Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar (Panique au village, Belgium/France/Luxembourg 2009)
This delightful film focuses on a town populated by a random assortment of plastic figurines whose daily activities recall children’s illogical narratives in their herky-jerky disjointedness, celebration of the quotidian and profound brilliance.

Saturday, November 14
Landmark's Embarcadero Center Cinema
Walt Disney's Alice Comedies 1:00 pm
A little girl filmed in live action and placed in a cartoon world—that’s how Walt Disney established his Hollywood studio, producing 56 of these shorts between 1923 and 1927. SFIAF partners with the newly opened Walt Disney Family Museum to present a selection of these charming films.

Super Massive Suspension: Nate Boyce vs. Amy Hicks 3:15 pm
The animation catalogs of Amy Hicks and Nate Boyce will be on display in this animation throwdown. Hicks and Boyce represent two wildly differing approaches to animation, while retaining an independent ethos of personal creativity that is inspiring and challenging.

The Best of Annecy 5:45 pm
Annecy is widely regarded as the most important festival for animation in Europe. SFIAF is pleased to once again present a selection of the best shorts to have appeared in Annecy this year.

Musashi: The Dream of the Last Samurai 7:45 pm
Mizuho Nishikubo (Miyamoto Musashi: Soken ni haseru yume, Japan 2009)
Quite likely the first anime-style documentary, this wholly unique film by master anime director Mamoru Oshii is set in Japan’s early Edo period during the early 17th century.

Play It by Eye 9:30 pm
This year’s program of recent animated music videos—always a Festival favorite—mixes established vets including Roboshobo, Sean Pecknold and Joel Trussell with up-and-comers such as Claire Carré and design stalwart Frater.

Sunday, November 15
Landmark's Embarcadero Center Cinema
The Best of Annecy 12:00 pm
see 11/14

Somewhere Where I Don't Know Where I Am 1:45 pm
The spaces we inhabit can be framed in a myriad of ways. These short animated films describe the humor, confusion, anxiety and poignancy of the many places we encounter, often in the most exceptional ways.

Metropia 3:30 pm
Tarik Saleh (Sweden 2009) In a bleakly beautiful 2024, call-center drone Roger Olafson (Vincent Gallo) begins hearing a voice inside his head that leads him to step out of his dull routine and into a world of would-be espionage.

Tickets $10-$20
For more information visit www.sffs.org