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 (discount for Shapeshifters and Friends of Canyon members)

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)