A Salon with Zachary Epcar — 6/19/19

A Salon with Zachary Epcar
Wednesday, June 19th, 2019 // 7:30 PM (doors 7:00 PM)
16 Sherman Street
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We are pleased to welcome filmmaker and dear friend Zachary Epcar back to San Francisco for a very special summertime Salon. Repurposing massage-chair unboxing videos algorithmically scraped from the internet’s endless depths, posthuman luxury condominium fly-through tours, the high melodrama of half-remembered nineties soap operas, and other fragments from life under a form of capitalism that has advanced beyond “late” to oneiric new heights, Epcar’s films register the affective experience of the contemporary moment with wit, humor and surprising pathos. His Return to Forms, and a new work-in-progress, Billy, screen alongside films from Canyon filmmakers Dorothy Wiley, Scott Stark, Lynn Marie Kirby, Amy Halpern, and Leighton Pierce that locate alien beauty, ritual significance, rhythmic intensity, and narrative energy in cooking, domestic interior space, Los Angeles municipal landscaping, and unsexy moments captured on pornographic VHS tapes.

As always, this event is free and open to the public, with refreshments served beginning at 7:00 and the doors closed for the start of the show at 7:30. An informal conversation with the filmmaker will follow the screening.

Zachary Epcar (b. 1987, San Francisco) studied at Bard College and is a current MFA candidate in the Film, Video, Animation, & New Genres program at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.

His work has screened at the New York Film Festival – Projections, Pacific Film Archive, Ann Arbor Film Festival, San Francisco Cinematheque’s Crossroads, Images Festival, Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin, the Rotterdam, Edinburgh, San Francisco International Film Festivals, and elsewhere.

He is a co-organizer and co-programmer of the annual exhibition Light Field: www.lightfieldfilm.org.