San Francisco is a 1968 impressionistic documentary short film directed by Anthony Stern.

[1][2] The film, cut to a version of "Interstellar Overdrive" as performed by Pink Floyd in 1966,[3] pioneered the use of 16mm single frame cinematography in the late 1960s.

The city images he chooses range from the banal (supermarkets, neon signs) and the tourist cliché to a specially staged pseudo-occult game involving a nude girl.

However, the subject is no more than an excuse for a display of virtuoso technique, whose speed is presumably in response to the frenetic pace of city life – an observation neither novel nor especially relevant to San Francisco.

Stern's techniques are here a means without an end; and even on its simplest level, as a fast coloured lightshow, the film lacks the wit and subtlety of such American antecedents as Ben van Meter's Up Tight, L.A. is Burning .