Lost Landscapes 02022: Bay and Gateway: Past Glimpses and Possible Futures
Directed by Rick Prelinger
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Overview
This year's LOST LANDSCAPES pictures the infrastructures, peoples and landscapes of California, centering on San Francisco’s everyday past and the futures we have tried to build. Casting an archival gaze on San Francisco and cities, towns and places throughout California where nature and culture meet, the film recalls moments in the history of our state's resources, the scars of settlement and its backbones: transportation, extraction, communication, travel and labor — all intersecting in a panoramic city/state symphony documenting the past and suggesting possible futures in an age of systemic uncertainty. This year's film (the 17th!) combines home movies, government-produced and industrial films, feature-film outtakes and many other surprises (including many newly discovered San Francisco historical images).
Other films by Rick Prelinger
Lost Landscapes 02024: Streets, People and Play: The Drama of Daily Life
2024
Lost Landscapes 02023: City and Bay in Motion
2023
Lost Landscapes 02021: Earth, Fire, Air, Water: California Infrastructures
2021
Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 15
2020
