Feb 22, 2012
SFFILM
An Evening of Wholphin Love, uniquely creative shorts from the Wholphin collection and a live love competition, shows one day only June 2 at San Francisco Film Society Cinema (1746 Post Street).
The locally-based Wholphin DVD magazine series, which each quarter presents an array of wonderful and engaging work, has become one of the most respected and relevant short film collections currently available. And, along the way, the magazine has always produced terrific original content. Wholphin editor-in-chief Brent Hoff has often used his background as a science editor at McSweeney’s to create unexpectedly humorous and poignant documentaries, such as ones featuring drunken bees, the strike impulse of trap-jaw ants, an illegal game of international border volleyball and a documentary about the sun. Most recently, Hoff has created The Love Competition, chronicling contestants who attempt to love someone as neuroscientists measure their love to see who is the most successful. This short will be presented along with an impromptu love competition amongst audience members with real neuroscientists using their skills and instruments to evaluate who is the best lover in our midst. In addition, we will see shorts from the latest issue of the Wholphin, plus a preview of the next to come, including Jonathan Lisecki’s Gayby, the Martha Marcy May Marlene prequel Mary Last Seen by Sean Durkin, and Animal Love, Mollie Jones’s celebration of an awkward romance starring Selma Blair and Jeremy Davies.
Showtimes 7:00, 9:00 pm
Tickets $9 for SFFS members, $11 general, $10 senior/student/disabled. Box office opens May 21 online at sffs.org and in person at SF Film Society Cinema.
To request an interview contact hhart@sffs.org.
To request screeners contact bproctor@sffs.org.
For photos and press materials visit sffs.org/pressdownloads.
At SF Film Society Cinema, the stylish state-of-the art theater located in the New People building at 1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan) in Japantown, the San Francisco Film Society offers its acclaimed exhibition, education and filmmaker services programs and events on a daily year-round basis.
More upcoming San Francisco Film Society programs
Through May 17: Here
Through May 17: Michael
Opening May 18: Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle and Le Rayon Vert (Summer)
Opening May 25: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Opening June 1: Hide Away
Eight consecutive Saturdays June 2-July 21: The Story of Film: An Odyssey An extraordinary 15-hour television series-comprehensive, yet idiosyncratic-packed with luscious film clips and judicious interviews.
Opening June 8: The Wages of Fear New 35 mm print of one of the greatest thrillers ever committed to celluloid, a white-knuckle ride from France’s legendary master of suspense, Henri-Georges Clouzot, and the winner of the 1953 Cannes Palme d’Or.
Opening June 15: The Woman in the Fifth An unsettling thriller adapted from Douglas Kennedy’s international bestseller.
Opening June 22: Found Memories Júlia Murat’s disarming meditation on memory, aging and letting go of the past, was a hit at this year’s San Francisco International Film Festival.
Opening June 29: Corpo Celeste Alice Rohrwacher’s assured first feature mixes neo-realism with a touch of Buñuelian satire.