Oddball Films
and guest curator Christine Kwon present I Was Born, But... The Ocean Track. The program employs the music and
mood of recording artist Frank Ocean as story elements of a visual journey
through the artist's underlying themes‑the exploration of birth, sex,
mundaneness and surreal existence. Highlights include much-beloved children's
story Where the Wild Things Are (1974), an animated sex tutorial Sex, Booze, and Blues,
and Those Pills You Use (1982), Charlie Chaplin classic The Tramp (1915) and segments from Satyajit Ray's Apur
Sansar (1959) and
adventure film Sheherazade (1963) starring Anna Karina. Paired with Ocean's layered melodies and
haunting lyrics, this cine-sound program seeks to capture the tones of love, loss
and longing pervasive in the musician's work.
Date: Thursday, July 26th, 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:
Silent Home Movies (1950s, Color)
The American dream is captured in these DIY, pastel-hued vignettes of innocent children and happy parents.
Exploring the Ocean
(1972, Color)
Children scamper to the
gentle waves of the ocean's rim, but do they know the mysterious creatures that
lie below?
Apur Sansar (1959, B+W)
An emergency wedding and a reluctant suitor paint a disillusioned, and awkward, portrait of the accidental wedding of Satyajit Ray's pained protagonist in this third installment of the acclaimed trilogy.
The Future Belongs to the Airman (1958, Color)
In this unabashedly confident PSA for the US Air Force, viewers learn how they can be part of the exciting Space Age, courtesy of Uncle Sam.
Working: Rules of the Game (1980, Color)
Every young adult's worst nightmare comes true in this all-too-real depiction of the work place and its demanding culture of petty professionalism.
Anna Karina plays the role of a brave and beautiful courtesan in this excessively sequined French adventure tale.
Where the Wild Things Are
(1974, Color)
Maurice Sendak's enduring
illustrated novel comes to life in this short animation featuring the most
fearsome of all wild beasts, the boy in the wolf costume.
Sex, Booze,
and Blues, and Those Pills You Use (1982, Color)
Sex tutorials
in fine animated fair come to life in this warning against abuse of alcohol and
drugs, and how they can lead to sexual dysfunction.
The Tramp (1915, B+W)Hobos can't get a break in this Chaplin short named after its titular character; but unlike Chaplin's previous films, The Tramp is a rare display of the comedic hero as a person with real feelings.
Of all the
creatures in the world, we follow the sea turtle, a rare and graceful creature
who, if successful, makes the remarkable trip from beachfront to seaside, to
fantastic ocean depths.
Curator’s
Biography
Christine Kwon is the Managing
Director of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, where
she is a senior film curator. She is also producing a feature-length
documentary on community leader Eddy Zheng, and is the creator/writer of the
comedy series Nice Girls Crew.