The locally-based Wholphin DVD magazine series, which each quarter presents an array of wonderful and engaging work, has become one of the most respected and relevant short film collections currently available. And, along the way, the magazine has always produced terrific original content. Wholphin editor-in-chief Brent Hoff has often used his background as a science editor at McSweeney’s to create unexpectedly humorous and poignant documentaries, such as ones featuring drunken bees, the strike impulse of trap-jaw ants, an illegal game of international border volleyball and a documentary about the sun. Most recently, Hoff has created The Love Competition, chronicling contestants who attempt to love someone as neuroscientists measure their love to see who is the most successful. This short will be presented along with an impromptu love competition amongst audience members with real neuroscientists using their skills and instruments to evaluate who is the best lover in our midst. In addition, we will see shorts from the latest issue of the Wholphin, plus a preview of the next to come, including Jonathan Lisecki’s Gayby, the Martha Marcy May Marlene prequel Mary Last Seen by Sean Durkin, and Animal Love, Mollie Jones's celebration of an awkward romance starring Selma Blair and Jeremy Davies.



Tickets $9 for SFFS members, $11 general, $10 senior/student/disabled. Box office now open online at sffs.org and in person at SF Film Society Cinema.