Film screening: Mary Helena Clark,

Peng Zuqiang, and Ana Vaz

Co-presented with CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art

Wednesday, September 24, 2025
6pm (doors open at 5:30pm)

1201 Minnesota Street 
San Francisco, CA 94107
FREE
RSVP requested, but not required

In conjunction with the exhibition, Viaje a la luna (A trip to the moon), on view at The Wattis Institute, this program presents three artist-made films that explore the relationship between poetry and cinema with remarks from Diego Villalobos, Associate Curator at The Wattis Institute.

Through layered images, disembodied voices, and poetic fragments, the works reflect on the boundaries between memory, perception, and representation. 

Works include: 
Mary Helena Clark, The Glass Note, 2018, 9 mins.
Peng Zuqiang, The Cyan Garden, 2022, 8:05 mins. 
Ana Vaz, 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, 2020, 31 mins.

Mary Helena Clark (b. 1983, USA) is an artist working in film, video, and installation. Her work uses the language of collage, often bringing together disparate subjects and styles that suggest an exterior logic or code, to explore dissociative states through cinema.

Peng Zuqiang (b. 1992, China) makes film, video and installations, with an attention to the affective meaning within histories, bodies, and language.

Ana Vaz (b. 1986, Brazil) is an artist and filmmaker whose works speculate on the relationships between self and other, and myth and history, through a cosmology of signs, references, and perspectives.

Viaje a la luna is on view through October 11 at The Wattis Institute and Novack Gallery at 145 Hooper Street, San Francisco.

CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts is a nonprofit exhibition venue and research institute dedicated to reflecting on this question through temporary exhibitions, public events, and in-depth research. It is part of California College of the Arts in San Francisco.