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Oddball Films welcomes media maker Tommy Becker to our Cinema Soiree Series, a monthly event featuring visiting authors, filmmakers and curators presenting and sharing cinema insights and films. Becker will be presenting Passing Periods- Reflections Through a Classroom Window, an expanded cinema performance that explores and celebrates the dynamics of the high school landscape and complexities of relations in the cultural construct of the classroom and beyond. Within the program, the role of color in art history, the vitality of lemons as educational inquiry and the ebb and flow of our interpersonal lives is viewed through PowerPoint and celebrated in song. This 80-minute performance revolves around eight music-based essays that combine live vocals with projected video and pre-recorded sound. Specific vocabulary and content related to the essays are introduced through short PowerPoint presentations that add an artistic dimension of learning to the program. The program includes Song for Hellos and Goodbyes (2013), Song for the Pain Body (2014), Song for Awe and Dread (2015), Song for Disobedient Youth (2008), Song for Primary Colors (2013), Song for Failed Connections (2012), Song for the Lemons (2013), and Song for a Love Song (2014). Before the show, we will be screening bizarro 16mm classroom film Route One (1976) featuring one curious class and one very drunk dog!
Thursday, September 24th, 2015
8:00pm
Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street San Francisco
Admission: $10.00 Limited Seating RSVP to RSVP@oddballfilm.com or (415) 558-8117
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