San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with Canyon Cinema and co-presented by MoAD present Mike Henderson: Trouble in Mind, a screening of Mike Henderson's 16mm films. Recently preserved by the Academy Film Archive, films such as The Last Supper (1970/73) and Pitchfork and the Devil (1979) map Henderson’s expansion from expressionist painting and blues music into experimental filmmaking. Together, these films represent a vital contribution to West Coast avant-garde cinema and counterculture. At turns comical, incisive, freewheeling, and confounding, Henderson’s films disrupt categorization and trouble interpretation. “I think we try to make too much sense out of every goddamn thing,” Henderson says.
A Q + A with Mike Henderson will follow the screening along with a performance by Mike and his band Cabin Fever at the Koret Education Center inside SFMOMA. RSVP for free through the link below.
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