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28/11/2025

Genius film by The Brothers Quay

28/11/2025

Happy Birthday, William Blake!

On the anniversary of his birth, we’re delighted to announce that we will present "William Blake: Paradise Lost," the first comprehensive exhibition devoted solely to British poet John Milton’s pivotal influence on Blake’s imagination and iconoclastic career! It will open in February 2027.

Though Milton (1608–1674) lived more than a century before Blake (1757–1827), his ideas and works profoundly shaped Blake’s most personal and provocative achievements in both literature and the visual arts. Featuring the Morgan’s exceptional holdings by Blake and a choice selection of international loans, this exhibition will include major examples of Blake’s innovative color-printed drawings and more than 75 watercolors, drawings, and paintings made at the peak of his career, along with works by his contemporaries in the late eighteenth-century Milton revival including William Hogarth, Henry Fuseli, George Romney, and John Flaxman. Visual works of stunning originality will be shown alongside correspondence and manuscripts–including the only surviving fragment of Milton’s “Paradise Lost” in the Morgan’s own collection–that document Blake’s profound relationship with Milton.

Pierpont Morgan began collecting Blake in 1899, forming the foundation of what is now one of the most significant Blake collections in the United States. Today, the Morgan preserves illuminated books, engravings, letters, and watercolors that open a vivid window into Blake’s creative and spiritual universe.

"William Blake: Paradise Lost" will be on view at the Morgan February 26 through May 23, 2027! So while today marks his birthday, we’ll be celebrating Blake well into the future, and we hope you’ll join us!

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William Blake (British, 1757 - 1827), Illustration to Milton's "Paradise Lost": Satan, Sin, and Death: Satan Comes to the Gates of Hell [large version], 1808. Pen and watercolor, with touches of gold metallic paint on wove paper, 19 1/2 × 15 3/4 in. (49.6 × 40 cm). The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. © 2025, Courtesy of The Huntington Art Museum, San Marino, California.

28/11/2025

“Eisenstein said the power of film was to be found between shots. Peter Kubelka seeks it between film frames. I want to get between the eyes, contest the separate halves of the brain. A whole new play of appearances is possible here.” —Ken Jacobs

Join us at Gray Area for an evening exploring perception, rhythm, and the cinematic mechanics of seeing.
https://www.sfcinematheque.org/screening/remembering-ken-jacobs/

Less than a week away…
Remembering Ken Jacobs: Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son
Tuesday, December 2
7:30pm at Gray Area

SCREENING: Window (1964), Mountaineer Spinning (2004), and Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son (1969).

pictured: Mountaineer Spinning (2004) by Ken Jacobs

28/11/2025

Thursday, December 4: please join us for another selection of original work at The Film-Makers' Cooperative! All films screened on 16mm, including one with a live harp score. Curated by Brian Ratigan. Limited tix below.

On Thursday, December 4th at 7pm, Non Films presents “DarkRoom: Screening & Salon” at the iconic Film-Makers' Cooperative! The selected films all represent various imitations of life through limited animation, collage, and paintings. We are honored to return to FMC to curate another evening of e...

28/11/2025

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Goodbye to Language (2014) Jean-Luc Godard

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Andrzej Żuławski

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Enjoy your meals, courtesy of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise (1972, d. Luis Buñuel)

26/11/2025

Alexander Calder with his wire sculptures, 1963

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25/11/2025

The Ape Of Naples · Threshold House · UK · 2005

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