Date: Thursday, March 1, 2011 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
Bass on Titles - Thurs. Mar 1 - 8pm
Date: Thursday, March 1, 2011 at 8:00PM
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco
Sexiest Strange Sinema - Sat. Feb 25 - 8PM
Date: Saturday, February 25th at 8:00PM
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, and San Francisco
Admission: $10.00 - Limited Seating RSVP to
programming@oddballfilm.com or 415.558.8117.
Don't Miss Albert Steg's Screening Sex in the Shadows Thursday, February 23rd at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Visionary Design: The Cinema of Charles and Ray Eames - Fri. Feb. 24 - 8PM
Oddball Films presents Visionary Design: The Cinema of Charles and Ray Eames. Among the finest designers of the 20th Century, the husband and wife team are best known for their groundbreaking contributions to architecture, furniture design, industrial design and manufacturing, but the Eames’ were also brilliant and inventive filmmakers, able to illustrate the most abstract concepts with readily understood images. There is so much to say about the legacy of the Eames’s that an entire period has been named after them. This program includes An Eames Celebration (1975), a documentary about the 20th century’s groundbreaking designers and filmmakers, shot by Les Blank; Powers of Ten (1968), their most famous film about orders of magnitude; Tops (1969), a brilliant childlike anthropological film capturing spinning tops from different cultures and eras; and IBM Mathematica Peep Show (1961) is a succinct and poignant presentation of 5 separate mathematical concepts. The legacy of this husband and wife team includes more than 100 films produced between 1950 and 1982 that reflect the rich scope of their interests. Noted for their furniture designs -- the "Eames chair" in particular is considered one of the most significant and widely recognized furniture designs of the 20th century. The Charles Eames Lounge Chair set a standard for comfort and simplicity in modern design. The chair is so important in modern furniture design that it has become a part of the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art.
Date: Friday, February 24th at 8PM
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco
Admission: $10 - Limited Seating RSVP to programming@oddballfilm.com or 415-558-8117
Private Lives/Public Spaces - Thurs. Feb 23rd - 8PM
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco
Admission: $10 - Limited Seating RSVP to programming@oddballfilm.com or 415-558-8117
Admission: $10 - Limited Seating RSVP to programming@oddballfilm.com or 415-558-8117
Ancient and Imagined Worlds - Sat. Feb 18 - 8PM
Oddball Films and guest
curator Hannah Airriess present Ancient and Imagined Worlds. This program features films concerning worlds beyond
what we occupy; worlds that have been lost to time and worlds that are products
of fantastic imagination. The short documentary The Inner World of Jorge
Luis Borges (1972) acts as a foundation for this program. Borges
masterfully creates worlds and civilizations spanning all of history in his
short stories and essays, and through interviews filmed in his native Buenos
Aires he explains his relationship to mythology, time, and space. In a clip
from The Lost World (1925), we see a
prehistoric world that has continued to exist into the present, and the
disaster that emerges when explorers try to make contact, illustrated in early
stop motion animation. The animator Philip Stapp beautifully renders the
ancient agricultural rituals of Mayan and Aztec cultures in First Americans: And their Gods (1969 - Part I),
detailing pre-Columbian history with dizzying animation techniques and an
experimental audio track. Moving into the imagined realm, Flatland (1965) takes place in a world that only has two
dimensions and a strict social code; when a three dimensional sphere enters the
picture, the laws of the universe begin to fall apart. Back on earth, Our
World in Review: Arctic Exploration (1936)
features explorers encountering new landscapes and frontiers, with the aid of a
pack of snow dogs. Georges Méliès’s Dreams of Baron Munchausen (1911) concludes
the show, showcasing the beautiful and frightening dream world of a man who had
too much to drink.
Date:
Saturday,
February 18th, 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.
Admission: $10.00 - Limited Seating RSVP to programming@oddballfilm.com or 415-558.8117.
Is This Love? Uncertain Hearts and More Certain Parts - Fri. Feb 17 - 8PM
Date: Friday, February 17th at 8PM
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco
Admission: $10 - Limited Seating RSVP to programming@oddballfilm.com or 415-558-8117
The Art of the Sixties: Manufactured Mediums - Thurs. Feb 16 at 8PM
Oddball Films presents The Art of the Sixties: Manufactured Mediums, featuring films from an era of massive-scale manufacturing; a time when art converged with science and industry. Utilizing metal fabrication, industrial printing techniques and communication technologies artists became inventors and inventors became industrialists. The program features the rare documentary Art of the Sixties (1967), featuring the monumental soft sculptures of Claes Oldenberg, the metal works of Barnett Newman, kinetic artist Len Lye, Les Levine’s interactive environments, action painter Jackson Pollock and more. A seldom seen NET documentary USA Artists: Robert Rauschenberg (1966) showcases a young Rauschenberg’s innovative “Revolvers” or “Combines”- multilayered painted sculptures that expand the boundaries of art. Merce Cunningham (1964) is very rare a French-made poetic montage of movement pioneer Merce Cunningham’s dance performances in collaboration with life partner and composer John Cage with “found object” sets by Robert Rauschenberg. Food for a Modern World (1960s), shows 60’s-style industrial farming on a massive scale while Theory of Communications: Learning as Self Learning (1960s) showcases large scale, surreal “visual aid” models in a science museum entertaining and educating inscrutable 60’s school children and more. 
Date: Thursday, February 16th at 8PM
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco
Admission: $10 - Limited Seating RSVP to programming@oddballfilm.com or 415-558-8117
Female Trouble - Sat. Feb 11 - 8PM
Oddball Films and
guest curator Kat Shuchter bring you Female Trouble: Shedding Light of
the Plight of Women, a whole
sleight of films designed to shock, alarm and educate the modern girl and woman
about the dangers that constantly surround her. From the curse of every woman
in films like D*sney’s Story of Menstruation (1945), a beautifully animated short of lovely
ladies and their dreamy pituitary glands, to the woes of Teenage
Pregnancy, a 1971 campy
Canadian melodrama, to the sickness of Eating Disorders:The Slender Trap (1986), the dangers of strangers like Hitchhiking:
The Road to Rape (1982) and the risk of intimacy in Herpes: The
New Sexual Epidemic (1981),
with ladycentric commercials
and all sorts of other Girl
Stuff (1980). This is one evening that will celebrate the
strength of women and educate the men in their life to the constant barrage of
dangers us ladies face everyday.
Date: Saturday, Feb 11 at 8PM
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco
Admission: $10 - Limited Seating RSVP to programming@oddballfilm.com or 415-558-8117
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