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Saturday Cinema: Let Your Light Shine
Presented by Cinema Arts
Saturday, December 3, 2022 • 1:00 and 3:00 p.m.
Not a member yet? Join us and get free admission all year long!
Note: Free with museum admission—and it's always free for Daytime members (10 a.m.–5 p.m.), After Dark members (6–10 p.m.), and donors. Just bring your membership card and ID. The Tactile Dome is currently closed.
In celebration of Glow: Discover the Art of Light we invite you into gleaming worlds of cinematic light and color. A selection of animated and abstract short films shimmer in the theater's darkness to conjure luminous worlds, both kinetic and contemplative.
White Out by Jeffrey Scher (2007, 3 min.)
More than 2,000 individual watercolor paintings animate a celebratory world of winter play. Colorful images shimmer against the brightness of snow.
Con Brio by Sandra Eber (2013, 4 min.)
This choreographed stop-motion pinhole animation features dancing flowers saturated with color. Accompanied by a playful ukulele tune, this shimmering backyard garden comes to life!
Let Your Light Shine by Jodie Mack (2014, 4 min.)
Handmade, optical polyrhythms and a thousand rainbows explode off the screen in this spectacle for prismatic spectacles.
Twyla Tharp by Bay Area filmmaker Kathleen Quillian, with music by Dylan Hicks (2021, 4 min.)
This joy-filled, glimmering animated film was made using 1,200 digitally printed images and 1,200 hand-cut paper silhouettes.
Photo: Still from Con Brio by Sandra Eber
