[Frameworks] This Week's Screenings At Oddball Films

Mon Jun 13 11:23:53 CDT 2011


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>> ²Adventures Close To Home²
>> Revisited!!
>> Screens at Oddball Films
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>> Event: Lynn Cursaro and Glenn Wait, with Oddball Films present  ³Adventures
>> Close to Home: Revisited²,  a new collection of films on the theme of
>> exploring nearby exotic locations, both in the sense of common experience as
>> well as featuring scenes from the San Francisco Bay Area. Films include the
>> exploratory and groovy Fun On Foot (1974); the home made Low Riders in the
>> Excelsior (1969); Je Marchais (1960), charmingly existential lesson in
>> French; Holding On (1971), a lesson in fending for oneself, Alexander Neel
>> and Mamako Yoneyama's meditation on the search for emotional liberty, Baggage
>> (1968); two lovely samples of Learning to Read majesty, James Burroughs'
>> Picnic (1968) and Stelios Roccos' Safety As We Play (1979); and the comically
>> jazzed Interview (1960), featuring legendary beatnik sound artist Henry
>> Jacobs. Free!  Home made Lemon Meringue pie compliments of curator Lynn
>> Cursaro.
>> Date: Friday, June 17th, 2011 at 8:30PM
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>> For detailed program notes and stills:
>> http://www.oddballfilm.com/oddballftp/Adventures_Close_To_Home
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>> Oddities From the Archives
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>> "Strangest Strange Sinema 39²
>> Screens at Oddball Films
>> Event: ³Strange Sinema 39² Oddities From the Archives, an evening of newly
>> discovered rarities from the stacks of Oddball Films¹ 50,000 reel film
>> archive. This installment of Strange Sinema features our strangest show yet.
>> After over 3 years and the urging of audience members we¹ve finally decided
>> to ³take off the gloves² and screen some truly strange films-not just
>> oddities but absurd, bizarre, offbeat and just plain STRANGE films. This
>> program is strictly for adventurous oddball loving film freaks people who
>> might even consider themselves ³outsiders² or artists!  Count on us to screen
>> sublime, poetic and visually compelling films that defy description. Films
>> featured include: ³Le Monde Du Schizophrene² aka ³The World of the
>> Schizophrenic² (Color, 1969) a surreal, Salvador Dali like film produced by
>> the Sandoz Pharmaceutical Company (Makers of such drugs as LSD), ³Airplane
>> Wing Tests² (1960s), DC8 N9604Z Flight 45, Heavyweight Small, 275,000 Lbs @
>> 22.4 %, SF = 15 degree, Thrust = Take-Off Power, far-out tests of aircraft,
>> smart-alecky black ventriloquist Willy Tyler and his cigarette-smoking dummy
>> Lester, ³Steamers², amateur films of guys riding miniature replicas of steam
>> engine locomotives, ³Green Spot Soda² manufacturing outtakes, odd sex shorts-
>> ³Lipstick/Red Shoes Outtakes² (1970s), porno fetish outtakes and lipstick
>> loops (double screen projection), trashy early 70s trailers and smut for low
>> budget Triple XXX films that barely saw the light of a projection bulb. Also
>> the US Navy¹s kinkiest film yet ³Giving an Enema² (1944), plus excerpts from
>> the original Pee Wee Herman Pinky Lee  (watch as his hyper-frenetic intro +
>> hugfest blow minds) Also! Short clips from ³Psychoactive²-Oddball¹s mind
>> bending feature length program of oddities and over-the-top commercials.
>> Date: Saturday, June18th, 2011 at 8:00PM
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>> For detailed program notes and stills:
>> http://www.oddballfilm.com/oddballftp/Strange_Sinema_39.pdf
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>>>>>> All Programs Screened at:
>>>>>> Oddball Films
>>>>>> 275 Capp St San Francisco
>>>>>> Limited Seating $10.00 RSVP Only
>>>>>> info at oddballfilm.com or
>>>>>> 415-558-8117
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>>>> About Oddball Films
>>>> Oddball Films is the film component of Oddball Film+Video, a stock footage
>>>> company providing offbeat and unusual film footage for feature films like
>>>> Milk, documentaries like The Summer of Love, television programs like
>>>> Mythbusters, clips for Boing Boing and web projects around the world.
>>>> Our films are almost exclusively drawn from our collection of over 50,000
>>>> 16mm prints of animation, commercials, educationals, feature films, movie
>>>> trailers, medical, industrial military, news out-takes and every genre in
>>>> between. We¹re actively working to present rarely screened genres of cinema
>>>> as well as avant garde and ethno-cultural documentaries which expand the
>>>> boundaries of cinema. Oddball Films is the largest film archive in Northern
>>>> California and one of the most unusual private collections in the US. We
>>>> invite you to join us for our award-winning weekly offerings of offbeat
>>>> cinema. 
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>>>> Follow us on facebook and Twitter!
>>>> http://www.facebook.com/oddballfilm
>>>> http://twitter.com/Oddballfilms
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>>>> Press
>>>> http://www.timeoutbangalore.com/film/film_details.asp?code=142&source=1
>>>> http://theeveningclass.blogspot.com/search?q=stephen+parr
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>>>> The Archive
>>>> www.lostamerica.com/oddballfilm
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