Cine-Gastronomy: An Evening of Taste, Tones, and Moving Images
A cinematic culinary soirée and holiday gathering at 500 Capp Street

Presented by Canyon Cinema, Southern Exposure, and 500 Capp Street

Saturday, December 6, 2025, 5-8pm

Cine-Gastronomy brings together Bay Area artists and filmmakers for a sensorial evening hosted by 500 Capp Street, Canyon Cinema, and Southern Exposure, celebrating experimental cinema, culinary imagination, and performance.

Guests will experience a breathtaking live performance by Roco Córdova and an assortment of delectable films from Canyon Cinema’s legendary archive—by Les Blank, Naomi Uman, Emily Chao, Thom Andersen, Dorothy Wiley, Peter Kubelka, and others—paired with artist-designed small bites and drinks, created in limited editions by Connie Zheng, Palm Assembly (Ebti & Sylvia Hughes-Gonzales), Whitney Vangrin, and Shirin Makaremi.

From garlic’s cinematic glow to the memory of chive pockets made by hand, each pairing invites viewers to taste the intimate gestures of care and transformation that unite the kitchen and the screen.

This holiday gathering expands the themes of Love Letters to Aliens, Southern Exposure’s concurrent exhibition, through sensory exploration, storytelling, and community connection. Expect an unfolding menu of artist-designed small bites, drinks, and filmic encounters—from sweet-and-salty memories of migration to the luscious disintegration of a strawberry sundae. Join us for an evening of art and conversations that linger on the tongue.

Tickets: $150

Your participation supports three Bay Area artist-driven organizations dedicated to experimental film, food, and cultural dialogue.

Photo Credit: Still from Melting (Thom Andersen, 1965)

ABOUT THE PROJECT PARTNERS

Southern Exposure (SoEx) is an artist-centered nonprofit organization committed to supporting visual artists. Through our extensive and innovative programming, SoEx strives to experiment, collaborate and further educate while providing an extraordinary resource center and forum for Bay Area and national artists and youth in our Mission District space and off-site, in the public realm.

500 Capp Street is a historic home turned work of art and is a 360-degree portrait of pioneering conceptual artist David Ireland. Through its exhibitions, guided tours, public programs, archival collections, and community partnerships, the house continues to be a vital catalyst for artistic dialogue, bringing together artists, researchers, teachers, students and the public in growing and participating in an artist-driven community. 500 Capp Street is not a museum or static historic home in the traditional sense. It is dynamic in its form and creation. It is a living sculpture.

Canyon CinemaFoundation is dedicated to educating the public about independent, non-commercial, experimental, avant-garde, and artist-made moving images. We manifest this commitment by providing access to our unrivaled collection to universities and cultural organizations worldwide, as well as cultivating scholarship and appreciation of artist-made cinema. We ensure the experience of rare film works in their original medium while also reaching new audiences through our growing digital distribution program.