Series Site
September 4–6
presented by San Francisco Cinematheque
at Gray Area
CROSSROADS 2026 is the seventeenth manifestation of Cinematheque’s annual film festival. CROSSROADS 2026 features 49 works of film, video and performance by 52 artists representing 22 countries and territories presented in 8 curated programs. CROSSROADS 2026 features alchemical excursions through everyday hauntings, speculative explorations of the materialities of archives, films hovering at interstices between bodily physicality and luminous ephemerality. CROSSROADS 2026 consists of rituals of remembrance, cryptic missives to future generations and the hauntological frisson of surface noise. Special guest artist JG Thirlwell performs live to legendary beatnik polymath Harry Smith’s obsessively occult classic Heaven and Earth Magic. Cinematheque is proud to announce that, of these 52 featured artists, 20 are receiving their CROSSROADS debut this year.