Video Arts

SFO Museum’s Video Arts program provides visibility to a range of contemporary artists and filmmakers who are at the leading edge of their craft. From short-form documentaries and narratives, to experimental films and all forms of animation, Video Arts brings you the thought-provoking, innovative work of today’s filmmakers.

This gallery is located pre-security on the departures level of International Terminal with daily operating hours of 5:00am to midnight.

SFO Museum reviews exhibition proposals from artists and filmmakers on a rolling basis. Video Arts is currently programming films that are 20 minutes or less in duration and schedules each film for a four-week presentation. Due to our operation in a public space, Video Arts does not program work that features overt sexual or violent content. Those who are interested in participating may submit their work via our online form, here.

Now on View

Letters of Fire

2017 Glen Milner: Actor Dominic West narrates explorer Ernest Shackleton's observations on the unforgiving nature of Antarctica’s landscape in Glen Milner’s short that evokes the region’s fragility more than one hundred years after Shackleton’s legendary expedition.

Scent of Geranium

2016 Naghmeh Farzaneh: Filmmaker Naghmeh Farzaneh, who left Iran for the United States during the Arab Spring of 2010–12, communicates the anxiety, alienation, and complex range of emotions shared with other immigrants in this beautifully composed, hand-drawn animation.

My Father’s Tools

2017 Heather Condo: Filmmaker Heather Condo’s meditative short documents the work of fellow Mi’gmaq First Nations member Stephen Jerome, who harvests and processes a White ash tree to produce baskets in a tradition learned from his father.

A Woman Like Me

2017 Isabel Morales Bondy: A deafblind Danish woman travels to Nepal to meet a woman with the same condition in Isabel Morales Bondy’s documentary short that demonstrates the capacity for human communication in the absence of visual and spoken language.

Video Arts History