The Subject Is Sex

Fri, Mar 31
8:30PM
$10.00 RSVP(Limited Seating) Adults Only! No kids!

"THE SUBJECT IS SEX"
SCREENS FRIDAY AT ODDBALL FILMS

This Friday, March 31st at 8:30 PM Oddball Films presents Stephen
Parr's "The Subject is Sex", an extraordinary personal romp through
the seamy side of Sex in Cinema. Drawn from his extensive 16mm film
archives, this polymorphous program promises a pulsating panorama of
perverse pleasures that includes home movies, hillbilly porn, cartoon
smut, commercials, trailers, educationals, hygiene films, burlesque
bits, peepshow loops and the infamous "Cheap Smut Give-A-Way".
Showtime is 8:30PM. The address is 275 Capp St. Admission is $10.00
(RSVP, Limited seating). For reservations please email:
or call 415.558.8117. We'll call you back ONLY
if show is sold out.

"The Subject is Sex" is drawn almost entirely from Parr's holdings at
Oddball Film + Video. Founded in 1984, Oddball houses an extensive
offbeat collection of over 50,000 films. Parr, a imagemaker, curator
and archivist has been screening "The Subject is Sex" (and hosting
his notorious "Cheap Smut Give-A-Way") throughout the United States
and Europe for over 2 years to sellout audiences.

An introductory essay in the dvd, (released by Other Cinema dvd) by
Eric Schaefer, film scholar and author of "BOLD! DARING! SHOCKING!
TRUE!, A History of Exploitation Film 1919-1959" (Duke University
Press), lays the groundwork for this diverse compendium of moving
image erotica. Schaefer writes, "The Subject is Sex" is a Rorschach
test. Where some will see humor, a few will see outrage. What may
be titillation for many will be a turn-off for others. But for
everyone, and in every instance you're seeing the history of sex in
the Twentieth Century."

Program highlights include:

bull The "nudie cutie" adventures of "Uncle Si and the Sirens".
The classic cartoon curio "Buried Treasure" starring Eveready Hardon
(with a new music score by Nik Phelps from San Francisco's Sprocket
Ensemble).
bull "French Tickler", a clever 1920s clip of animated fellatio.
50's classic burlesque films (including "Love Moods" with famed femme
fatale Lili St. Cyr cavorting in a ornate bathtub).
Choice 60s and 70s porn trailers (featuring the psychobilly smut
"Memories Within Miss Aggie" and the pre-Viagra "Dynamite").
bull "970-KATHY" - a kinky, campy late 80's commercial for phone sex.

"The Subject is Sex" also contains soft core selections with hidden
or unintended erotic messages. A Jade East cologne commercial
featuring sexy Japanese go-go dancers becomes a sexual exhortation
for men to take matters into their own hands, a home movie ("Crossing
the Equator") becomes a surreal souvenir of cross dressing seafarers,
and the US Navy training film "How to Give an Enema" turns into a
kinky homo erotic lesson in water sports. By compiling these generous
gems in to a full-length collection, "The Subject is Sex" brings
together commercial, camp, comedy, and explicit sex all in one gender-
bending, genre-bending, lovefest. Copies of the dvd will be available
for purchase at the screening for the reduced price of $20 or online
at www.othercinemadvd.com/subjectsex

Plus! Beefcakes +Cheesecakes and the infamous "Cheap Smut Give-A-Way"

For more info and stills visit: www.oddballfilm.com/resources/
events_parent.html
Read the reviews and watch a preview!
www.othercinemadvd.com/subjectsex.html

Venue:

Oddball Films
275 Capp Street
San Francisco
415-558-8117
www.oddballfilm.com

Off Mission between 17th and 18th, Mission and South Van Ness, closer
to Mission.

Additional Info:

415-558-8117
www.oddballfilm.com