STUDIO 8 Film Festival – FRIDAY @ SHAPESHIFTERS (Tickets sold via venue)

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📅 Friday, September 19, 2025

🕗 7:00 PM

📍 Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland, CA

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The second edition of the STUDIO 8 Film Festival celebrates experimental film and animation by alumni of the San Francisco Art Institute. Kicking off the festival weekend is a dynamic program of nonfiction and experimental works, curated by SFAI alumni artists April September and Rye Purvis, exploring themes of performance, queer identity, and artistic legacy. The selected films illustrate how experimental filmmaking continues to serve as an essential tool for engaging with personal, cultural and societal issues by challenging dominant narratives, setting the stage for a weekend rooted in risk-taking and radical imagination.

SCREENING: The World is Not Our Home by Juan Luis Matos, estos paisajes nos están encendiendo by Daniel Melo Morales, Fogline by Julie McNeil, Shi Arl by Arlene Bowman, Set You Free by Nykelle Devivo, Sasquatch, so confusing by Rye Purvis, La Nueva Ola de Añil by Karla Claudio, TABLEAU by Nao Bustamante.

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ABOUT STUDIO 8 FILM FESTIVAL

The Studio 8 Film Festival (Sept 19–21, 2025) presents short works by artists connected to the San Francisco Art Institute, with screenings at three historic venues across the Bay Area.

📍 Other Events:

• Sept 20, 12–3pm: Animated & Lyrical Shorts at the Roxie Theater, San Francisco – Tickets via Roxie
• Sept 21, 2–3:30pm: Tribute to Lawrence Jordan at SFMOMA – Tickets via Eventbrite

Visit our full schedule at sfartistsalumni.org

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