Date: Friday, January 20th, 2012 at 8:00 PM.
Venue:
Oddball Films, 275
Capp Street, San Francisco
Admission: $10.00 - Limited Seating RSVP to programming@oddballfilm.com or 415-558-8117
Son
of Frankenstein
(1939)
In this
classic science fiction and horror film a Frankenstein descendant is shown
in the creepy old mansion with his family and entourage. While exploring the laboratory, the
gentleman finds an old assistant with the Monster. Just before preparing to revive the creature to its full
health Rathbone utters the famous line once again, “It’s alive!” Will history replay itself in the saga
of Frankenstein’s monster??
It
Came From Outer Space
(1953)
In this
eye-popping vision of a film an alien ship accidentally lands on earth! Its occupant holds people hostage while
the ship is being repaired. Townspeople debate amongst each other on what will
become of the space ship while angry mob is after the ship. Someone finds a way
to hold them off until the ship can leave. Is this mysterious group a force for
good or evil!?!
War
of the Planets (1958)
In this short "home distribution" version, a couple in an airplane and witness a
UFO beaming down a light. They
land their aircraft and suddenly appear in a futuristic alien headquarters
where violent scenes from planet Earth are shown. Fascinating and “high-tech” aliens put on a good show for
the couple. Are the aliens the
enemy? Or are they a peaceful
inscrutable friend?
What
On Earth!
(1970’s)
If
aliens looked at planet Earth from outer space, what would he or she see? In this film, automobiles are perceives
as life forms – with particular habits and behaviors! See beautifully animated lines of cars, dancing figures and
stoplights, and other objects dancing.
This psychedelic simplified world of shapes and signs, emphasizes
consumerism and the ways in which earthlings are being conditioned!
Solutions-
Ionic and Molecular
(1983)
From vast oceans to microscopic living cells, solutions
are an intimate part of our planet’s life. This documentary illustrates the
chemical nature of a solution with unintentionally humorous demonstrations of
solutions-making and examples of failed attempts. See what happens when a solution forms on the level of
electrostatic forces! Here, see
the Brownian movement and learn about the concept of molarity. Plus! Learn why some substances (like
oil) won’t dissolve in other substances (like water)!
Nova: Stephen J. Gould, This View of Life (1984)
In a series of interviews, Gould, an internationally
renowned paleontologist and evolutionary theorist, disputes the comforting
belief that human life is a gradual culmination of an evolutionary process.
Examples include dinosaurs, pandas, and peacocks. He unpacks humanity’s deterministic biases, and focuses on
adaptism. Gould shows how organisms adapt to environmental processes that are
in constant states of change. This
80’s documentary has fetching illustrations to go with these paradigm rattling
topics!
Clay,
Origin of the Species
(1964)This
stop-motion film uses hand mottled clay forms to create a visual variation on
Darwin’s concept of evolution.
Beginning with a simple graphic motion on the clay ‘sea’ from which
forms of life emerge and the play, watch as the evolving organisms devour one
another and metamorphosize into worms, gorillas, mermaids, clams, lions, whales
and other animals, climaxing with the creation of a human!
Curator
biography:
Emily
Schleiner is a Brooklyn and Davis CA-based new media artist and thinker. She has been writing since 2009 and has
shown internationally. She has
been published in the Trondheim's TEKS's 'Making Reality Real' Journal and has
presented at the 2nd Inter-Disciplinary.net Global Conference in Budapest. She
received her Masters from Performance and Interactive Media Arts department at
Brooklyn College, NY in 2010. More about Emily:
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“DESTINY! DESTINY! NO
ESCAPING THAT FOR ME!”
– Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, Young Frankenstein
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