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Cinema Soiree - The Remarkable Collection of Smokehouse Films in LA
Oddball Films welcomes filmmaker and archivist John Cannizzaro to our Cinema Soiree, a monthly soiree featuring visiting authors, filmmakers and curators presenting and sharing cinema insights and films. John Cannizzaro is a filmmaker whose works rotate between stop-motion animation and experimental films - often with an ethnographic element to them. As an archivist, his large collection of 16mm film prints center mainly around those very topics; ethnography, experimental works and stop motion animation. Cannizzaro will be visiting from Los Angeles and bringing you an eclectic batch of rare and unusual 16mm gems from the archives of Smokehouse Films and discussing his process of compiling and curating his focused archive of rare and remarkable 16mm films and about the importance of saving and presenting these works to the public. His dose of cinematic, sideshow oddities includes early works of ever-increasing violence by animation masters Jan Svankmajer - Rakvickarna (Czech 1966) – where two puppets become involved in an escalating war over a fine guinea pig: and Norman McLaren’s Neighbors (Canada 1962) - about two people who come to blows over the possession of a flower. More heated animation with Miroslav Stepanek’s Shooting Gallery (Czech 1969) - an attack on totalitarianism; Dan McLaughlin’s Claude (USA 1963) – about a little boy who, while busy working on some kind of electronic box, is constantly berated by his parents; and Csaba Varga’s Augusta Makes Herself Beautiful (Hungary 1983) – where the violence is turned on herself as the title character tries everything in order to make herself look beautiful. The strange world of Ethnographic film is explored in Asch and Chagnon’s Children's Magical Death (USA 1974) - imitating their fathers, young boys pretend to be shamans; and in Hermann Schlenker’s Men's Dances (Germany 1971) – where Afghan men act out a drama through dance. Quirky narrative shorts include Alexander Hammid’s Gentleman In Room 6 (USA 1952) – an early first person narrative; and Ante Zaninovic’s Weekend (Yugoslavia 1972) – an interesting solution to dealing with the elderly. The avant garde rears its beautiful head with Pat O’Neill’s mind blowing Sidewinder's Delta (USA 1976) - a kind of indirect Western; a meditation on the myth of wilderness. Plus a few other surprises! Date: Friday, April 17th, 2015 at 8:00pm Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street San Francisco Admission: $10.00 Limited Seating RSVP to RSVP@oddballfilm.com or (415) 558-8117 Web: http://oddballfilms.blogspot.com