Welcome to July’s selection of 16mm film tasties, always a journey through time and space.
This Friday’s screening will be full of contrasts: clarity and confusion, brashness and sensitivity, level-headedness and light-headedness. It’s all true.

-Very Nice, Very Nice. a ripping roll of still images and voices from 1961. director Arthur Lipsett lets his subjects wonder the where and why of their generation.

-Pigs vs. Freaks. a football game between cops and hippies in 1975 in East Lansing Michigan. Weirdo Americana snapped up by a documentary filmmaker.

-Begone Dull Care. Norman McLaren does just that in this 1949 animation made without cameras, directly on film.

-Protest: Prohibition and Pot. informational and entertaining doc from 1971. Somehow, I think they all got it wrong.

-The Rainbow Bear. an animated psychedelic hay ride from 1970.

Intermission:
-Motion Painting, an early creator of “visual music”, Oskar Fischinger made this one in 1947 animating paint on glass. A great copy from the Pratt.

-Sounds in the Silent Deep. film production company, the Moody Institute manages to create a stylish documentary about hydro-accoustics, and then twist it into a moralistic tale about bicycles. WTF?

-Queer Birds. early 1965 animation from Czech studios: Kratky Film. Like the birds, this simple and curious film is both fascinating and confounding. great early electronic soundtrack.

-Adventures of a Baby Fox: a Story in Rhyme. this b/w live action story is just so lovely, it should soften even the hardest of asses. ahhhhh.

-the Three Robbers. a wonderful little story by Tomi Ungerer, made great by the vocal soundtrack of Gene Deitch.

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A curated screening of real 16mm film shorts! Two sets of approximately 45 min. each with a bar break intermission.

Films start at dark (around 8pm), but the Current Space Garden Bar is open starting at 5, with happy hour from 5-7pm.

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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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