To celebrate our 10th year, the Anderson Collection is excited to present a film screening event organized and curated by the Stanford Cinematheque inspired by the work and artists featured in The Anderson Collection's Spring Exhibition, The Journey Continues. 

Talismans of Place and Touch: Tactile Histories / Kinetic Memories explores the textural dimensions of memory, histories, and the journeys they encompass. Bedrooms, canyons, bridges, and forests transform into sensual landscapes that reveal the visceral power of film to evoke tactile modes of remembrance. Baptisms of water and urine, superimpositions, corroded frames, and scratched meters endow these films with evocative layers of material histories, emphasizing how memories themselves resemble layers of sediment. Like woven threads and stacked fibers in an assemblage, film becomes its own textile, weaving a loom that reaches into both the distant past and the unfolding future.

Film program at 4pm in Oshman Hall

Reception and exhibition viewing to follow at the Anderson Collection

RSVP HERE for the event! 

Film Program: 

Exterior Turbulence (2023) Dir: Sofia Theodore-Pierce, 11m

If Every Girl Had a Diary (1990) Dir: Sadie Benning, 9m

Pools (1981) Dir: Barbara Hammer, 6m

Sunflower Siege Engine (2022) Dir: Sky Hopinka, 12:22m

Quiet As It’s Kept (2023) Dir: Ja’Tovia Gary, 26m

Water Ritual #1: An Urban Rite of Purification (1976) Dir: Barbara McCullough, 5m

6th Street Bridge Film (2020) Dir: Jennifer West, 10m