Act Like A Toaster

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Guest curator Soumyaa Kapil Behrens and Oddball Films present, Act Like A Toaster, an evening of 16mm films on the brain and all its potentialities. From creativity to industry and perception to physiology, this collection of shorts connects the dots between the human brain and how it manifests in the concrete frame of the real world. See the impact of man deconstructed to his central nervous system and sometimes even tested on animals. Highlights include legendary Saul Bass' Academy Award winning documentary short, Why Man Creates (1968) that unlocks the mutations of the creative mind, and an episode of Hot Dog: The Show About Stuff (1970) starring Woody Allen, JoAnne Worley and Jonathan Winters that embraces education and imagination looking at how things get made. Flight, A New Awareness (1973), an inspiring environmental film that pairs the miracle of flight with a grander perception of the earth; Age of Invention (1984) by Albert Kish culminates in the machinery of destruction from WWI; and From Trees to Paper (1960s) made by the American Forest Product Industries demonstrates the process of transformation to finally make a paper product. An eerie and intriguing excerpt from the CBS news documentary, New Frontiers of the Brain (1959) tests brain activity and complex actions on man and animal while the extremely lighthearted Perc! Pop! Sprinkle! (1969) follows kids as they practice morphing their bodies into household appliances. This show is sure to ignite a cranial energy that could lead to who knows what!

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