A Studio visit with Agelio Batle, 2023

This studio visit with artist and educator Agelio Batle was conducted in conjunction with his artist residency in the SFArtsED gallery at 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco. To learn more about the artist’s practice and his residency, visit here.

Alexis Arnold: Grid Operator, 2022

For Alexis Arnold, the grid is an organizer of visual space, mediating the viewer’s perception of color and form while providing infinite variations of changing imagery. Reinventing analog materials and processes, Alexis creates stationary works with oscillating optics, which often appear digitally produced or even kinetic. Refraction of light and the viewer’s position in relation to the work radically alter what is seen. On view are four series of works that employ varied techniques and material operations to modify images.

more info: www.sfartsed.org/event/grid-operator

Andrés Miguel Cervantes: The Crossing, 2022

The Crossing is based on a true story of Cervantes' father and uncle who attempt to cross the US-Mexico border. Only one of the two brothers would go on to live.

The Crossing an album by Andrés Miguel Cervantes

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Plotting a Treasure Map, 2022

Commissioned by the Emeryville Mural Arts Program, The Emeryville Treasure Map is a public mural by artist and illustrator Nigel Sussman. This film chronicles the design and creation of this monumental public artwork and provides a unique insight into the artist’s practice.

A Sense of Place, 2021

"A Sense of Place" is a short film documenting a cross-Pacific collaboration between artists Jesse Schlesinger and Masayo Funakoshi, centered around sustainability, growing, preparing and sharing food.

Screened as part of the Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL
Organized by the U.S.-Friendship Commission,
and the National Endowment for the Arts

Filmed August 11, 2021 on Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo land near present-day Occidental, California

The Lost Wax Method, 2021

This film is a glimpse into Harriet Heyman’s sculpture Practice. Produced in Conjunction with Heyman’s exhibition Lost & Found at The San Francisco Arts Education Project, the film details the six thousand-year-old process of producing a bronze sculpture.

Tiersa Nureyev: The Lineal Project, 2021

This interview and studio visit with Tiersa Nureyev was produced as part of Tiersa Nuereyev’s The Lineal Project at the San Francisco Arts Education Project gallery.

Here is also a short video about Nureyev’s jewelry company, Stella Flourescent

Barry McGee and Renny Pritikin at BAM/PFA

Produced by KADIST Art Foundation, this conversation with artist Barry McGee and curator Renny Pritikin was led by A. WIll Brown. Filmed during McGee’s mid-career retrospective at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Filmed and edited by Pete Belkin.

This is part of a series of interviews with artists in KADIST Collection, directed by Pete Belkin

Jin-Ju-Chen: Extrastellar Evaluations

Produced during Jin-Ju Chen’s artist residency with KADIST San Francisco, this artist interview reveals the concepts behing Chen’s installation Extrastellar Evaluations, linking the lineage of conceptual art to phenomena and forces beyond our horizon.

This is part of a series of interviews with artists in KADIST Collection, directed by Pete Belkin

Steffani Jemison’s Escaped Lunatic

In this interview shot in Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood in the heart of Brooklyn, Steffani Jemison speaks about Escaped Lunatic and other works where through appropriation, repetition and carefully chosen location, her subjects explore their relationship to the city as both physical and psychological landscape. This interview was directed by Pete Belkin, produced by Kadist in 2016.

This is part of a series of interviews with artists in KADIST Collection, directed by Pete Belkin

Mexico City with Abraham Cruzvillegas

Part of a series of studio visits with artists in Mexico City produced by KADIST, this interview with artist Abraham Cruzvillegas was conducted by Heidi Rabben and exists in three parts.

Abraham Cruzvillegas Interview Part 1
Abraham Cruzvillegas Interview Part 2

A Conversation with Taus Makhacheva

This interview with Taus Makhacheva was conducted by Pete Belkin and filmd during the 6th Mosow Biennale. Produced by KADIST

Of Cats and Cryptocurrency: Urban Fauna Lab.

KADIST hosts Alexey Buldakov of Urban Fauna Lab after spending several months with us in San Francisco to develop a new artwork, Misting Miner. This active sculpture materializes the invisible phenomenon of mining cryptocurrency. The excess heat produced by the machinery as it performs this process is a latent and untapped source of energy. As such, the artist seeks to harness that energy and reveal its transformative potential by turning it into fog through the water cooling system inside it, which he reroutes to follow a cycle of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. Filmed at CatTown cat cafe in Oakland.

John Baldessari on art and Los Angeles

This interview was filmed in the California College of the Arts library in 2014. Filmed and edited by Pete Belkin