Pychoactive Cinema Premiere

Fri, May 12
8:30PM
$10.00 RSVP (Limited Seating)

Psychoactive Cinema: "Psychoactive", a "pre-premiere" of a new film
program by Stephen Parr of Oddball Films in San Francisco. The
following week Parr will take this program on the road to Chicago
Filmmakers where it will premiere as part of their series "Odds and
Ends: Exploring the Cinematic Junk Drawer" . "Psychoactive" is
Stephen Parr's in-progress exploration into the cinematic stimuli of
moving images. It destabilizes and reconfigures concepts of moving
image programs by recontextualizing discordant film footage cast offs
into a cohesive, "entertaining," yet disturbing mutation.
"Psychoactive" is a sort of Frankenstein cinema monster, made to
function through the use of clever bits of camp, cultural kitsch,
musical mayhem, severed film frames and narrative and non-narrative
techniques. It is also an experiment in purpose, perception and
patience giving new meaning to the phrase "What the f*ck is that?"
Expect to see anything from Pavlovian dog experiments, low tech
science segments, behind the scenes clips from adult films, and just
plain WEIRD cinema.
Dark and disturbing, edge -pushing yet campy "Psychoactive" is
visceral, not-to-be-missed cinema.

Parr's previous programs have explored the erotic underbelly of sex-
in-cinema (The Subject is Sex), the offbeat and bizarre (Oddities
Beyond Belief), the pervasive effects of propaganda (Historical
Hysterical), and more. He is the director of Oddball Film+Video, a
San Francisco based stock footage company and director of the San
Francisco Media Archive, a non profit archive. He is also a co-
founder of Other Cinema DVD, a dvd label


Best Oddball Screenings
The San Francisco Bay Guardian
Over the past 20 years, Oddball Films founder Stephen Parr has
amassed an awe-inspiring archive of some 50,000 offbeat and ephemeral
films. Everything from unconsciously ironic industrial shorts to
decidedly nonmainstream pornographic footage can be found in the
towering stacks of film canisters that fill his Capp Street loft.
Parr's main business these days is providing quirky footage for the
media industry, but recently he's started sharing the goodness by
opening his loft to the public for a series of Friday and Saturday-
night screenings. Recent programs have ranged from "Black Is Back,"
an evening of '60s and '70s soul music clips and documentaries, to
"Crash Cinema," a program of motorcycle films, police training films,
and car crash clips. His most popular program, naturally, is "Smut
Shop Cinema," featuring intriguing erotica such as hillbilly porn,
cartoon smut, nudie cuties, and, if you're lucky, the U.S. Navy's oh-
so-educational training film "How to Give an Enema."

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 18th Street

Additional Info:

415.558.8117
www.oddballfilm.com