Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Announces New Programming for ...

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Announces New Programming for 2012-2013Tickets: $25 advance; $30 at the door; $20 students, seniors, teachers advance; $25students, seniors, teachers at the door; $20 YBCA members; FREE YBCA:YOUBig Idea: DareDavid Dorfman Dance delivers a blast from the past as Sly and the Family Stone, one of thethe Bay Area’s favorite funk bands comes alive again on stage at YBCA with their newest work,Prophets of Funk, an electrifying performance that celebrates the band’s groundbreaking andoriginal sound and salutes the struggles and achievements of everyday people. Audiences areencouraged to sing – and dance – along with their favorite oldies, including Stand, Let Me TakeYou Higher, Dance to the Music and (of course) Everyday PeopleFILM/VIDEOTahrir: Liberation SquareThursday, July 26 and Saturday, July 28, 7:30 p.m./YBCA Screening RoomTickets: $10 regular; $8 YBCA Members/students/seniors/teachers; FREE for YBCA: YouBig Idea: EncounterA real-time, cinéma vérité-style chronicle of the two most exciting weeks in the history ofmodern Egypt. Together with thousands of other citizens, Noha, Ahmed, and Elsayed havebeen involved in a massive movement of street protest for political freedom. Day after day,sleepless night after sleepless night, until the capitulation of the defeated pharaoh, the filmfollows these young and unexpected heroes and their shattering fight to attain freedom. (2011,90 min, digital)Kaneto Shindo RememberedThursday, August 9-Thursday, August 26, 2012/YBCA Screening RoomTickets: $10 regular; $8 YBCA Members/students/seniors/teachers; FREE for YBCA: YouBig Idea: SoarThe exceptional Japanese filmmaker Kaneto Shindo died in May at age 100. In tribute, wepresent this series of three of his very finest films. Haunted by the devastation of his nativeHiroshima, Shindo was a life-long socialist and directed almost 50 films over the span of hiscareer. He left a remarkably diverse body of work, from humanist docu-dramas toexpressionistic ghost stories. In the 1940s, he was a screenwriter, and then began working asan assistant director to such major filmmakers as Kon Ichikawa and Seijun Suzuki. Heeventually formed his own production company and made politically conscious features,culminating in The Naked Island, his mesmerizing wordless study of Japanese farmers,considered by many to be his masterpiece.Amos Vogel and Film as a Subversive Art Remembered: L’Age d’Or (The Age of Gold)By Luis BuñuelThursday, September 6, 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, September 9, 2 p.m./YBCA ScreeningRoomTickets: $10 regular; $8 YBCA Members/students/seniors/teachers; FREE for YBCA: YouBig Idea: DareFounder of the legendary Cinema 16 film society as well as the New York Film Festival, AmosVogel died at the age of 91 in April. He is best remembered by some for his seminal book Filmas a Subversive Art. This amazing text illustrated the power of cinema to challenge aesthetic,political, sexual, and ideological ideas. In tribute, we present Luis Buñuel’s rarely screenedclassic L’Age d’Or, co-written by Salvador Dali. Vogel wrote this about the film: ―In accord withsurrealist ideology, only love—wild, anarchic, irrational love—is acceptable. Everything else issubverted; the rich, the church, the state, the military, as well as those pervasive bourgeoisvices of sentimentality and romanticism…‖ (1930, 63 min, 35mm). Preceded by the unhinged12