Strange Sinema 56

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Oddball Films presents Strange Sinema 56, a monthly screening of new finds, old gems and offbeat oddities from Oddball Films’ collection of over 50,000 film prints. This evening features a series of short, confounding and plainly strange films ranging from unique animation to spellbinding science to silent slapstick. Works include the brilliant Canadian filmmaker Arthur Lipsett’s Very Nice, Very Nice (1961), a sardonic re-reading of 1950s consumerism, mass media and popular culture, Charlie Chaplin’s silent Laughing Gas (1914) where he pumps his patients with laughing gas, pulls out the wrong teeth and knocks them out with clubs, the Mouse Activated Candle Lighter (1973), a bizarre Rube Goldbergesque short demonstrating the principles of motion, Crystallization (1975), award-winning filmmaker Carroll Ballard’s cinematic science excursion into microcinematography and electronic music, another short by Arthur Lipsett- Free Fall (1964) featuring dazzling pixilation, in-camera superimpositions, percussive tribal music, syncopated rhythms and ironic juxtapositions, Rhinoceros (1965), Polish master Lenica utilizes cutouts creating an animated version of Ionesco’s play about conformity, Experimental (1974), famed director Robin Lehman’s brilliant montage of feats of flight produced with the Experimental Aircraft Association. Other films include the euphoric Dream Flowers (1930s) featuring opium poppy harvesting and smokers, an eye-opening verite view of Texas cheerleaders Beauty Knows No Pain (1971) by famed American photographer Elliott Erwitt, and a rare film They Shall See (1972) by Los Angeles filmmaker Nicholas Frangakis with cinematographer Steve Craig in a theological orientation to the mystery and beauty of nature, without narration and produced by the Franciscan Communications Center. These films will amaze, delight, confound and inspire, so be sure to come get your strange on!

Date: Thursday, September 21, 2012 at 8:00pm
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street San Francisco
Admission: $10.00 Limited Seating RSVP to [email protected] or (415) 558-8117

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