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Oddball Films is kicking off pride month with Queer Cinema Rarities, a program of vintage 16mm films from the 1960's through the 1980's offering a rare glimpse of the lives, dreams, and sexuality of the queer community in a more repressive time. The evening features groundbreaking documentary portraits of QPOC, romantic road trips, lyrical experimental erotica, vintage beefcake shorts, and more.
Discover the life of a young black lesbian mother in 1980s New York in the powerful documentary short If She Grows Up Gay (1982). Behind Every Good Man (1966) is a rare and understated portrait of an African American transgender woman shopping, cruising and musing in 1960s Los Angeles. Lloyd Reckord’s narrative short, Dream A40 (1965), one of the first queer films of its kind, is a sensitive and moody film that goes on the road with two men and their feelings of conflict within themselves and society. Experimental luminary Constance Beeson brings us two radical cine-poems on the beauty of love in all its forms including Stamen (1972) with ethereal overlays and superimpositions as two men enjoy a romantic interlude in the woods, and Holding (1970) featuring the sexual and non-sexual affection of two women falling in love. We've got two rare homoerotic Beefcake Shorts (c. 1970) from the beefcake connoisseur Pat Rocco: Fanny's Hill with a bunch of naked men running around a ranch and Amateur Strip with more naked men dancing their hearts out on stage. Plus excerpts from the antiquated news program Homosexual (1964) and local filmmaker Arthur Bressan Jr.'s Forbidden Letters (1976), with more surprises in store for the early birds. Several prints courtesy of the Jenni Olson Queer Film Archive.
Admission: $10.00 Limited Seating RSVP to RSVP@oddballfilms.com or (415) 558-8117