Date: Saturday, March 10th, 2012 at 8:00pm
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street San Francisco
Admission: $10.00 Limited Seating RSVP to programming@oddballfilm.com or (415) 558-8117
Featuring:
The Story of Time (Technicolor, 1949)
In 1949, the
watch manufacturer Rolex released this Technicolor wonder of animation,
stop-motion, and miniature sets, achieving far more than a simple plug of their
product. From the dawn of man to the modern machine, we glide through striking
images with expert ease. Exquisite like their wares, Rolex’s dazzling tribute
to man’s pursuit of time is sure to impress.
What Time is Your Body? (Color, 1973)
In this fascinating BBC Time Life film, scientists look to
the natural world to explore time without clocks. Researchers at the Max-Planck
Institute in Germany conduct studies of circadian rhythm on human subjects kept
in unchanging cells for months on end, and deliver some surprising results.
Insights on biological timekeeping will make you wonder about your own inner
clock.
Leisure (Color, 1976)
“Satisfaction should be the measure of success.”
Australian cartoonist Bruce Petty won an Academy Award for this unconventional,
animated treatise on work and play. In a barrage of cartoons, photographs, and
collage, Petty calls out for the lost art of leisure with a pulsating ride through
history like we’ve never seen it before. Leisure or labor, the decision is
ours.
Ritual in Transfigured Time (B&W, 1946)
From Maya
Deren, pioneering female director of the avante-garde classic Meshes of
the Afternoon
(1943), come this
striking experimental film that has as much to do with choreography in front of
the camera as it does behind it. Through stuttering freeze frames, time
reversals, and shifting camera speeds, Deren draws dance from all things. An
elegant, intriguing film by an early female visionary in art cinema.
Time Piece (Color, 1965)
This Oscar-nominated live-action short from M*ppets
creator Jim H*nson is a rare treat, perhaps just for adults. Starring the young
H*nson himself, a hospitalized man is sent through the ringer in this absurd
commentary on modernity lost to money, sex, food, industry, and most of all,
time. Drawing on his prowess as puppeteer, H*nson crafts this surreal, racy,
quick-cutting gem.
Chris
Marker’s legendary short film on time travel, post-apocalyptic Paris, and the
meaning of memory seems to have it all despite having almost no moving images.
Composed mostly of still photography and ominous narration, the film tells the
story of a man whose mind is scoured by mad scientists for a psychic link to
the world before its end. This stunning work is truly a must-see.
Curator’s Biography:
Joe Garrity is a graduate of UC Berkeley and has studied film at NYU Tisch and La Universidad de Chile in Santiago. An aspiring writer and filmmaker, he has worked with the Pacific Film Archive, NBC’s Saturday Night Live, and the Telluride Film Festival.