Our Right to Sing - Creative State Presents

Tuesday, October 23, 2012
2:10pm

This project examines the role of music in the resistance movement of El Salvador during two decades of military dictatorship. Our Right to Sing is the first film on the musical byproduct of this collective experience, something director Carolina Fuentes witnessed firsthand as member of a musical group inspired by the principles of Liberation Theology and with the arson of the San Jose Catholic Church, where she was parishioner. After the assassination of friends and classmates, Fuentes fled from her native El Salvador to Mexico, where she lived for seven years. Fuentes, a former radio and television reporter as well as a documentary maker, will be available for questions. Free.

Fine Arts Building, Coppola Theatre

Our Right to Sing - Creative State Presents - College of Liberal & Creative Arts - San Francisco State University

Absolutely mindblowing video shot from the Space Shuttle during launch

From cameras on the solid boosters and sound mixing at Lucas Arts, comes this incredible video of a space shuttle launch and re-entry. No words, no music. A nice lesson in visual narrative, IMO.

Upside Down, Left To Right, Danny Cooke’s Filmic Ode to Letterpress - UnBeige

Upside Down, Left To Right, Danny Cooke’s Filmic Ode to Letterpress - UnBeige

“This is a 500-year-old process, and it moves like a 500-year-old process,” says Paul Collier, a typography and letterpress technician at the school. “If you set up a paragraph or sentence, if you get wrong or if you haven’t planned your way forward…then you just have to take it apart and start all over again.” At the same time, he describes letterpress as calm, therapeutic, and “a very enjoyable process.” 

Fwd: Vigilante, Vigilante Film Screening March 8th

You are invited to an exciting film screening and filmmaker's talk!

Please join us for a one-time only screening of Vigilante, Vigilante: The Battle for Expression, co-produced and edited by SF State Alumni Nathan Wollman and Julien de Benedictis. This documentary film follows anti-graffiti vigilantes in the Bay Area and beyond, and is an illuminating film for anybody interested in graffiti, self-expression, and the urban visual environment. For more information, visit http://www.vigilantefilm.com/

• Thursday, March 8th
• 7:00pm
• Coppola Theater, first floor of the Fine Arts Building (near main entrance)

This event is co-hosted by the Design and Industry Department and the Cinema Department with support from the College of Arts and Humanities. For more information, please contact Hsiao-Yun Chu, hychu@sfsu.edu

Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design

Take a look at the printing of the first book to be published on one of the greatest American designers of the 20th century, who was as famous for his work in film as for his corporate identity and graphic work.

Saul Bass (1920-1996) created some of the most compelling images of American postwar visual culture. Having extended the remit of graphic design to include film titles, he went on to transform the genre. His best-known works include a series of unforgettable posters and title sequences for films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm and Anatomy of a Murder. He also created some of the most famous logos and corporate identity campaigns of the century, including those for major companies such as AT&T, Quaker Oats, United Airlines and Minolta.

Film by Alice Masters

Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design from Laurence King Publishing on Vimeo.

International Documnetary Film Screening at SFSU

Making Faces: Metal Type in the 21st Century: Film Screening with director Q&A

Come join us at Typekit's headquarters on Tuesday October 4, 2011 for a more personal look at Richard Keglers' new documentary on metal typefaces. We'll open the doors at 7:00pm for drinks and begin the screening at 7:30pm followed by a Q&A at 8:30pm.

Making Faces' is a fascinating design documentary by Richard Kegler that captures the personality and work process of the late Canadian graphic artist and type designer Jim Rimmer (1931-2010).

https://makingfaces.eventbrite.com/

Jonathan Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jones and Paula Scher Appear in New PBS Web Series, Off Book - UnBeige

Jonathan Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jones and Paula Scher Appear in New PBS Web Series, Off Book - UnBeige

Is there still any social cache in saying that you watch PBS now that there are a billion television outlets available and not just a couple of networks that you could dial in with the careful repositioning of some rabbit ears? We would assume, however slight, there surely must be (all our smart friends, for example, kept babbling to each other and everyone we met how great that new Sherlock Holmes show was). That in mind, PBS still seems to know how to get it done, even when they venture online. Such can be witnessed with the recent launch of Off Book, a 13-part, bi-weekly web series “focused on experimental and non-traditional art forms.” It launched back on July 20th, with an interesting episode on photograph that uses painted light, but they seem to have really hit their stride with this week’s release of “The World of Typography,” which features interviews with the likes of Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones, Paula Scher, and Eddie Opara. It’s great and you’ll find it below.

Film on Hermann Zapf

The Art of Hermann Zapf from Johnny Dib on Vimeo.
A film on the purpose and techniques of calligraphy. Presented and produced by Hallmark. Filmed at Hallmark cards during a visit by Mr. Zapf.

Erik Spiekermann Talks Type

Erik Spiekermann - Putting Back the Face into Typeface from Gestalten on Vimeo.

from Unbeige

Cats Playing Patty-cake, what they were saying...

Film: Typeface at YBCA

By Justine Nagan

Sat, May 15: 6 pm - Justine Nagan in person
Sat, May 15: 8 pm
Sun, May 16: 2 pm - Justine Nagan in person
Sun, May 16: 4 pm

Typeface tells the story of the Hamilton Wood Type Museum and print shop in rural Wisconsin. The centuries-old technique of handmade wooden type comes to life when seasoned craftsmen, masters of this obsolete but beloved technology, meet with international artists and together navigate the convergence of modern design and traditional technique. Preceded by a short film to be announced. (2009, 58 min, digital video)

YBCA is offering $6 discounted tickets to students and faculty through our onsite box office (not online). If people pick up their tickets early, it also entitles them to same-day admission to our galleries.

Film, illustration & the net

Iran: A Nation of Bloggers by Aaron Chiesa, Toru Kageyama, Hendy Sukarya, and Lisa Temes, students the Vancouver Film School.

Narrative of the modern history of Iran. Not only a lesson in revolution and media (French & English Colonial pamphleteers, Phillipine SMS, and now Iranian bloggers), but an example of the natural convergence of cinema and gaphics by way of the graphic novel, in this case, Persepolis.