Star-Studded Fall Line Up of Programs and Film Series

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The Cockettes on Film, at 40!
FILMMAKERS AND COCKETTES IN PERSON!
Syd Dutton, Sebastian, Bill Weber, and David Weisman, directors; Harlow Hasse, Fayette Hauser, Scrumbly Koldewyn, Rumi Missabu, Sweet Pam, and Tahara, Cockettes members
$10 general admission; $7 SFMOMA members, students, seniors.
It's been 40 New Year's Eves since the legendary performance, drag, and hippie ensemble the Cockettes first began staging their glitter-draped spectacles in North Beach. To celebrate, SFMOMA hosts an evening of rare Cockettes films, including Tricia's Wedding, Pick-up's Tricks, and Elevator Girls in Bondage. Cockettes members and friends join us to introduce the program and discuss some of the group's most magical moments.

George and Mike Kuchar: Recent Preservations
George and Mike Kuchar, filmmakers
$10 general admission; $7 SFMOMA and San Francisco Cinematheque members, students, seniors.
George and Mike Kuchar are the twin darlings of the experimental film world, makers of hundreds of films and videos, and legends in their own time. But back in the 1950s and 1960s, they were just a couple of brothers from the Bronx who shared an 8mm camera. As delirious as they are dramatic, as colorful as they are campy, these rarely seen short films are laugh-out-loud funny and overwhelmingly prove that the Kuchars are the eighth and ninth wonders of the world. (Anthology Film Archives) Join us to see four of the Kuchars' earliest works, recently preserved by Anthology Film Archives: Pussy on a Hot Tin Roof, Tootsies in Autumn, A Woman Distressed, and Lovers of Eternity. A reception follows. Co-presented by San Francisco Cinematheque.

FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
Fireworks, 1947, 15 min., 35mm
Rabbit's Moon, 1950/1971, 16 min., 16mm
Scorpio Rising, 1963, 29 min., 35mm
Kustom Kar Kommandos, 1964, 3 min., 35mm
$10 general; $7 SFMOMA members, students, and seniors.
Films by Anger, American underground cinema's dark star, ignite the screen with occult symbolism and lush baroque sensibilities while smashing the atoms of pop culture. The selection of early short films in this screening—a reverie of homoerotica, fetishism, machismo, myth, and ironic spectacle—paved the way for queer cinema and captured the attention of directors from Jean Cocteau to Martin Scorsese. These films were recently restored at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

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