This career retrospective, combined with a filmmaker residency, offers Bay Area audiences a chance to see American avant-garde filmmaker Robert Beavers’s highly rewarding body of work and engage with him as an artist. His films are exceptional for their visual beauty, aural texture, and depth of emotional expression.

In Another Light: Cinema of Memory is the Al Larvick Conservation Fund’s 10th anniversary screening series, marking a decade of work dedicated to preserving and sharing American home movies, amateur cinema, and community recordings originally captured on analog and obsolete formats. Drawing from the Fund’s national grant program, the series presents these films as vital cultural documents—revealing how personal filmmaking records creativity, social life, and lived experience.

Two newly digitised tapes from the LCVA act as the creative catalyst for this programme that explores different modes of feminist self-representation at the Barbican Cinema.

The programme begins with two works from the London Community Video Archive (LCVA): Conversation’s Over: Liz & Pauline (c 1980) by the Basement Project and Terry Flaxton’s Circumstantial Evidence (1983) which are placed in dialogue with moving-image works by Utako Koguchi, Chick Strand, CAMP and Yace Sula. The film examines how history can be mediated through autobiography.

Borgo Santa Brigida 5/a is thrilled to host this unique event, bringing together the works of 37 artists who continue to work with film and like to get their hands dirty.

The exhibition is on Saturday, February 21st in Parma at the Borgo Santa Brigida 5/a theatre, beginning at 6:00 PM. The screening starts at 8:00 PM.