Film Curator + Public Media Worker + Maker of things

I’m based in San Francisco.
15 + years experience as film & video curator. I also take pictures, chase light, find shadows. By day I am a Public Media Worker.

EDUCATION
BA, Art History, SFSU, 2005
MA, Art History, SFSU, 2007

CREATIVE PRACTICE

I use photography & create moving image work to explore transitional or altered or liminal states of being. I’m interested in faces and places, and their stories.

Film + Video: I harness the energy of poetic montage and draw on a rich tradition of experimentation with various forms, materials, and processes including handmade animation and sound collage.

My video work has been featured in San Francisco’s Cinematheque’s Crossroads Festival, Artist Television Access, Roxie Theater, HAXAN Film Festival, Antimatter Experimental Film Festival, and online via publicrecords.nyc.

Samples of my videos + trailers can be viewed HERE

Media profile: SF Chronicle profiled me:, “After SFMOMA cut film programs, former leader found her footing without leaving the city”

CONNECT:

LinkedIn profile and on Instagram @ginabasso

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

American Documentary | POV, communications & station relations manager, 2023 - present

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
Public program producer, live performances, film, talks + panels, 2008 - 2018

Film Curator, 2018 - 2021

Select projects for artists, musicians + filmmakers include:
Sam Green, Miranda July, Rashaad Newsome, Jacolby Satterwaite, Yo La Tengo, Morton Subotnik, Charles Atlas, Mika Tajima/NEW HUMANS, Adam Pendleton, Deerhoof, Luna, Ann Magnuson and Naomi Rincón-Gallardo.

FILM PROGRAMMER
I’ve organized programs in collaboration with the Roxie Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Alamo Drafthouse, Castro Theater, Northwest Film Forum, Hunters Point Shipyard, Design Within Reach, California College of the Arts and San Francisco Cinematheque. Selected programs.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
All Animals (dirs: Robert Arnold and Cynthia Mitchell, 2009) featuring Sonny Smith.

IN PRODUCTION:

My short film what will you dream of tonight, a 16mm B&W split screen fantasy ode to gothic silent cinema is currently in post-production.