SF Events: Ernie Gehr's COTTON CANDY At Balboa Theatre This Weekend

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A San Francisco event must-see: Balboa Theatre's Gary Meyer emailed the news that Ernie Gehr's COTTON CANDY will be at The Balboa Theatre this weekend.

Gary writes:

Critic J. Hoberman has described Gehr's celebrated avant-garde film work as "a tale of three cities": Berlin, his parents' home; New York, where he became known for his structuralist films in the late 1960s; and San Francisco, where he lived and taught from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s. COTTON CANDY visits the beloved Musee Mecanique before its move from the Cliff House to Fisherman's Wharf; relishing the proto-cinematic devices there, Gehr recaptures the dream of cinema before it found its big screen. Gehr introduces the film and joins us for a post-screening discussion.

Check out Cotton Candy this weekend.