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Oddball Films presents Film Capsule 1964 - Groundbreaking Cinema Half a Century Later with a selection of some of the most fascinating, award-winning, visionary and mind-blowing shorts from 50 years ago. This multi-genred program includes insightful documentaries, innovative animation and transformative avant-garde works, all made in 1964.
The Academy Award competition for best animated short was incredibly stiff that year and we have included three offbeat nominated masterpieces, including Eliot Noyes Jr.'s Clay, Origin of the Species, a fun, metamorphic claymation take on Darwin's Theory of Evolution. Other nominees were: Carson Davidson's Help, My Snowman is Burning Down with a beatnik living in a bathtub and featuring music by the Gerry Mulligan Quartet and John Korty's deadpan Breaking the Habit, another beat-inspired short about the difficulty in quitting cigarettes. Saul Bass' The Searching Eye, follows a bo y who sees the history of man in a sand castle and the creation of the earth in a piece of rock. Merce Cunningham documents the experimental choreographer, his imaginative interpretation of dance and theater as well as his collaborations with notable artists like Robert Rauschenberg and John Cage. Paul Julian's animated adaptation of Maurice Ogden's poem The Hangman will haunt you with it's eerie depiction of a town forever lost to conformity. Harold Becker paints a portrait of mid-60s Harlem and the unsung blues-master Blind Gary Davis. Canadian experimental filmmaker Arthur Lipsett's Free-Fall is a pulsating, eye-popping montage of still and moving images. Plus, footage of the 1964 World's Fair in color, a jet-setting pre-show and other surprises; it's a night of film and nostalgia 50 years in the making!
Admission: $10.00
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