Oddball Films and guest curator Hila Avraham present A
Touch of Touching. An evening of touching,
brushing, fondling, caressing, and rubbing these films shows that cinema can be
as much about grazing as it is about gazing. From sensual coition, to playing
in the sand, to discovering textures with your bear toes, this program’s
highlights include: Scott Bartlett’s famed and highly-tactile Lovemaking
(1970); Fur
Coat Club (1973), a
cheerful tale of two girls playing a touch-the-fur-coat game; Sandman
(1970), a curiously
palpable sand animation; the instructional Communicating With Deaf
and Blind People
(1964) that introduces five methods of communication through touch; and
concludes with Discovering Textures (1979) and Toes Tell (1969) that celebrate the richness
and joys of feeling multiple and infinite textures. You’re invited to be touched!
Dates: Friday, May 11th, 2012 at 8pm
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street San Francisco
Admission: $10.00 - Limited Seating RSVP to programming@oddballfilm.com or (415) 558-8117
Featuring:
Lovemaking (1970,Color)
The famed
experimental film by film-pioneer Scott Bartlett is a delicate and arousing
treatment of lovemaking. Stylistically restrained, it creates a lush and
layered flow of optical and auditory information. Lovemaking is an imaginative, suggestive and
non-clinical evocation of the highly-tactile act of making love.
Fur Coat
Club (1973, color)
Go ahead, feel
my furry fur coat! Celebrating the sheer enjoyment of touching, this film
features two girls enjoying an original game of feeling fur coats: whoever
touches most—wins! They stalk people wearing furs on the streets and keep score
of successful ‘touches’ until something goes wrong…
The Most
Important Person: Touch (1972, color)
How does it
feel when everything you touch breaks?
Sandman (1970, color)
A sand
animation film. The sandman goes to bed and drifts off to dreamland. Feel the bear
fingers playing in the sand in this film by Academy Award winner and Sesame
Street animator Eliot
Noyes.
Communicating
With Deaf and Blind People (1964, B&W)
While most of
us use our senses of hearing and seeing to communicate, some among us have to
rely only on their sense of touch. This instructional film demonstrates five
different methods of communicating with a blind-deaf person.
Discovering
Textures (1979, color)
A colorful cinematic
exploration of the countless surfaces that surround us. Look closely and see
how form gives way to pure texture.
Toes Tell (1969, color)
Toes traipse
across the screen to sounds of 1960s psychedelic music. Fredric Goodrich’s film
is a veritable feast of grazing.
Curator's bio:
Hila Avraham holds a Masters degree in Film Studies from Tel Aviv University. She is currently a Curatorial Intern at Pacific Film Archive, as well as an intern at Oddball films. In addition she is part of the exciting San Francisco Participatory Archives Group.
Curator's bio:
Hila Avraham holds a Masters degree in Film Studies from Tel Aviv University. She is currently a Curatorial Intern at Pacific Film Archive, as well as an intern at Oddball films. In addition she is part of the exciting San Francisco Participatory Archives Group.