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Downtime: Constructing Leisure
Film screening
Friday, May 6, 8 pm

New Langton Arts
1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco
Info: sites.cca.edu/curatingarchive/downtime

New Langton Arts and the Curatorial Practice Program at CCA are pleased to announce a film night that extends the concepts explored in Downtime: Constructing Leisure, an exhibition addressing physical and social structures associated with pastimes, tourism and retreat.

Film program:

Coronet Instructional Films, Better Use of Leisure Time, circa 1950, 16 mm, 10:31 minutes

Melinda Stone, Photo Spot, 1996, video, 10 minutes.

Paul Wong, Prime Cuts, 1981, video, 20 minutes

Lee Walton, Opening Day, 2003, video, 5 minutes

Ari Marcopoulos, El Maestro, 2004, video, 5 minutes

Stephen Sutcliffe, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore, 2000, video, 5:13 minutes, and Shout Out (with El Hombre Trajeado), 2002, video, 3:43 minutes

Followed by a public conversation with Bay Area filmmaker Melinda Stone.

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