Experience Al Wong\u2019s 1977 film Twin Peaks<\/i> in the museum\u2019s Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Atrium, presented for the first time on a digital LED screen. A masterpiece of subtle shifts in light and tone, the film takes the idea of an endless journey as its form: The camera is set inside a Volkswagen bus slowly traveling the road that winds around Twin Peaks, the topographical center of San Francisco. The drive unfolds in a hypnotic figure-eight pattern during morning and night, summer and winter, in rain and in sunshine. Wong\u2019s conceptual meditation creates a stunning work of non-narrative cinema outside of the movie theater. <\/p>\n
Twin Peaks,<\/i> restored in 16mm by the Pacific Film Archive and now digitized for presentation in a museum setting, highlights SFMOMA\u2019s commitment to the history of Bay Area art.<\/p>\n