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Oddball Films presents Strange Sinema, a monthly screening of new finds, old gems and offbeat oddities from the collection. Drawing on his archive of over 50,000 16mm film prints, Oddball Films director Stephen Parr has compiled his 76th program of classic, strange, offbeat and unusual films. This installment, Strange Sinema 76: Expanded Cinema features a tour-de-force of Oddball’s favorite short films-in a multiple projection format! Combing through the archive for multiple prints of his favorite films, Parr will expand the cinema experience by utilizing multiple projected overlays, tele-lenses, color filters, screen size manipulations and more. Source prints will all be double (and triple) projected, layered and remixed live in a one-of-a-kind multi-sensory surround cinema.
The films have been chosen for their rhythmic, sensory, animated, and multidimensional appeal and include some of Strange Sinema’s “greatest hits" such as Frank Film (1973) Frank Mouris’s Academy Award-winning stop-motion free-associative collage of 11,592 media images collected from magazines; A Dream of Wild Horses (1962), Denys Colomb Daunant’s cinematic poem featuring the wild horses of the Camargue District of France as they roam on the beach through fire and water; Rendezvous (1976), Director Claude LeLouche’s frenetic one take high speed dash through the streets of Paris; Time Piece (1965), the legendary surreal and rhythmic animated short, produced, directed, and starring M*ppet man Jim H*nson; Blind as a Bat (1956), The Moody Institute of Science’s bat flight and echo location experiments; Cosmic Zoom (1968) Eva Szasz’s fantastic, “continuous” voyage utilizing the camera device of the zoom to conceptualize the immeasurable vastness of space and the ultimate minuteness of matter; Buck Dancer (1965) Alan Lomax’s rare mesmerizing musical and movement short featur ing Mississippi fife player/buck dancer Ed Young and the Sea Island Singers; Pickles (1973) legendary Italian animator Bruno Bozzetto's brilliant animated montage featuring satirical and comical treatments of some of the world’s great preoccupations: advertising, drugs, television, hunger and more; Clay or Origin of The Species (1965) Eli Noyes’ eye-popping visual representation of Darwinism through clay; Pas de deux (1968) Norman McLaren’s optical superimposition two dancers become pure embodiments of light as multiplies the figures in this hauntingly scored hypnotic and unforgettable film; Tanka (1971) optically printed Tibetan scroll paintings create a cyclical vision of ancient gods and demons, an animated journey through the image world of the Tibetan Book of the Dead; and No. 00173 (1966), a stark and brilliant metaphorical art film by Polish director Jan Habarta. Plus! On Projector #3-Time-shifted fragments from Chris Marker’s La Jete (1962), one of the most influential and radical time-travel films ever made.