Free! Bob & Teresa's 16mm Movie Night

Our first films of the year include experimental animations, vintage short documentaries, and goofy children's short stories where everything goes wrong.

Titles include:

- Camera Magic - fun demo of special effects, visual tricks and illusions in the 1940s

- Lines Horizontal and Lines Vertical - 1962, An experiment in pure design by film artists Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart. Lines made directly onto film, move with precision and grace against a background of changing colors, in response to music specially composed for the films.

- People Soup - 1969, Actor Alan Arkin brings his sons Adam and Matthew to a largely improvised and hilarious look backward into boyhood and a fantasy involving peanut butter, tomato sauce, roosters, and sheepdogs.

- Skyscraper, 1960 - Nominated for an Academy Award, this live-action short film by director Shirley Clarke playfully chronicles the construction of the Tishman Building at 666 Fifth Avenue in New York City. Clarke referred to this work as a musical comedy.

- Lapis - 1966, A house favorite, mesmerizing and exhilarating. James Whitney's LAPIS is a classic work of abstract cinema, a 10-minute animation that took three years to create using primitive computer equipment. Tiny circles oscillate in a kaleidoscopic array, accompanied with Indian sitar music.

- Impasse - 1978, animators Caroline and Frank Mouris created this using millions of Avery labels. In the film, a red arrow and a white dot travel through tessellating layers of shapes and colors, set to a soundtrack by percussionist Roland Miles.

Plus more short films, trailers and surprises, all projected on real film.

Two sets of about 40-45 minutes each, with a bar break stretch in between.

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This outdoor event will be held in our rear courtyard. Enter through the alley at 421 Tyson Street.
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Since 2004, we've been putting on exhibitions, music shows, performance events, fashion shows, art markets, poetry readings, lectures, workshops, and more. Supporting members help make this possible and truly help us continue operating!

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