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Oddball Films presents Strange Sinema 86: Experiments in Sex, a once monthly evening of newly discovered and avant-garde rarities from the stacks of the archive.
Drawing on his collection of over 50,000 16mm film prints, Oddball Films director Stephen Parr has compiled his 86th program of classic, strange, offbeat and unusual films. This program features a wide array of experimental and avant-garde films juxtaposed with comedic animation, pop-trash commercials, and a taste of surreal Triple XXX smut. The program explores, spoofs, and explodes concepts of eroticism from the 1930s through the 1970s.
Films include the legendary Lot in Sodom (1933), Watson and Webber’s landmark Pre-Code Sodom and Gomorrah story filled with sinewy and semi-clad bodies and delirious bacchanales devoted to physical pleasure (print provided by the Jenni Olson Queer Archive); A Dream of Wild Horses aka Le Songe des Chevaux Sauvages (1962), the raw, yet elegant physicality of wild horses in a breathtaking, erotic and euphoric film-poem; experimental filmmaker Scott Bartlett’s lyrical and tactile flesh and fantasy film Lovemaking (1970); how to sell the sexy fashions in a unabashedly sexist Fredericks of Hollywood (1970s) excerpt; the screwball sexual psychedelia of Ego (1970) by famed Italian animator Bruno Bozzetto; the glamorous and over-the–top commercials for Bigelow Carpets (shades of the Zodiac!), Chemical Bank New York (“When her needs are financial her reaction is chemical”), and the slapstick fetishistic Safety Shoes (1970s); the amateur homoerotic North Beach “nature boy” in The Groping Hand (1968); the rare Swedish erotic exercise short Sofia Girls (1950s), an excerpt from the groundbreaking Mondo Cane (1962) featuring famed artist Yves Klein utilizing naked Human Paintbrushes on a giant canvas; the granddaddy or erotic cartoons Buried Treasure (1928) starring Eveready Harton; Tex Avery’s sexy adaptation of an age-old fairy tale Red Hot Riding Hood (1943); female soldiers demonstrate a top secret weapon developed by the military in Laser Bra 2000 (1979); porn legend Gerard Damiano’s psychobilly smut trailer Memories Within Miss Aggie (1974) featuring a combination of horror and low life white trash, a couple having sex is interposed with an old house that succumbs to a violent death in L.A. Too Much (1968) and finally we see burlesque queen Betty Dolan bring new meaning to the phrase dancing with the devil in Satan Tease (1955). Whew!
Admission: $10.00
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