The Refracted City: New Films by Mark Street @ Shapeshifters Cinema, March 13, 2026
Posted February 18th, 2026 in Announcements, Co-Presentations, Events and Screenings, News / Events
The Refracted City: New Films by Mark Street
7pm Friday, March 13, 2026
Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland
Co-presented by Canyon Cinema
Admission: $14 General / Discount for Friends of Canyon & Shapeshifters Members
Event tickets here
NYC-based filmmaker Mark Street presents a program of recent short films rooted in the tradition of street photography. These films toggle between representation and abstraction as he uses magnifiers, lenses, and other objects to twist and bend the urban landscapes of New York City, Paris, Belfast, and other cities. Juxtaposing the familiar and the unexpected, this work reveals an idiosyncratic view of city vignettes captured while wandering, camera in hand, eyes open wide.
Street’s films will be followed by a selection of city-themed shorts from the Canyon Cinema collection curated by Street in collaboration with Brett Kashmere, Zachary Epcar, and Ashley Tacheira. A Q&A and discussion with Street will conclude the screening.
Screening Line-Up:
River of Days (Mark Street, 2025, 7 min, digital file)
all day and all of the night (Mark Street, 2025, 13 min, digital file)
Lunette (Mark Street, 2024, 8 min, digital file)
Clear Ice Fern (Mark Street, 2023, 12 min, digital file)
The Grain of Belfast (Mark Street, 2022, 6 min, digital file)
An Insomniac’s Reward (Mark Street, 2026, 6 min, digital file)
Homage to Jean Tinguely’s Homage to New York (Robert Breer, 1968, 9.5 min, 16mm)
Feriado (Azucena Losano, 2021, 2 min, digital file)
Manhattan One, Two, Three, Four (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2014, 3 min, silent, digital file)
New York Near Sleep For Saskia (Peter Hutton, 1972, 10 min, silent, 16mm)
About the Filmmaker
Mark Street graduated from Bard College (BA, 1986) and the San Francisco Art Institute (MFA, 1992). He has shown work in the New York Museum of Modern Art, at Anthology Film Archives, Millennium Film Workshop, and the San Francisco Cinematheque. His work has appeared at the Tribeca (5 times), Sundance, Rotterdam, New York, London, San Francisco, New York Underground, Sarajevo, Viennale, Mill Valley, South by Southwest, and other film festivals. His work ranges from the abstract to improvised narrative feature films. Still others inhabit the documentary form. He has also explored the diary film with a series of searing, vulnerable personal films. His projects have been supported by a number of grants from foundations, including the Jerome Foundation, Film Arts Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, Maryland State Arts Council, and the NY Experimental TV Center. In 2006 he was asked to participate in the Hallwalls Artists Residency Program in Buffalo, NY. Some of his film work has been performed live with accompanying musicians, including Marc Ribot, Zeena Parkins, Bradford Reed, Guy Yarden and Jane Scarpantoni. Street is also an essayist (his article “In Defense of Street Photography in an iPhone Age” appeared in Filmmaker Magazine in 2016), visual artist, and photographer. He is Professor of Film in the Visual Art Department at Fordham University—Lincoln Center where he teaches film/video production and other courses that engage contemporary artistic practice. markstreetfilms.com
