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Oddball Films presents The Trip Back: The Original San Francisco Psychedelic Freakout, an evening of 16mm short films shot in San Francisco in the late 1960s drenched in hippies and hallucinogens. This one of a kind program of rare experimental documents of the Summer of Love and beyond includes appearances by Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jefferson Airplane, Diggers, banana skin smokers and more! The homegrown hallucinations include Be-In (1967) artistically documenting the human be-in in Golden Gate Park with Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary and Lawrence Ferlinghetti in attendance and the groovy, acid-soaked S.F. Trips Festival: An Opening (1967) featuring stroboscopic visuals and wild electric light shows. Sit in on the steps of our own city hall with the anarchistic Diggers in Nowsreal (1968), then watch them smoke up, freak out and deliver free breakfast to poverty-stricken San Franciscans. Decades before Burning Man, artist Fredric Hobbs created his grotesque sculptural art car The Trojan Horse (1967); watch as he constructs the automotive monster and drives it around the city. Plus, an experimental home movie of Jefferson Airplane in Golden Gate Park (1969) and get mellow yellow with the Banana Skin Freaks (1960s). Plus, local animator Vince Collins' mind-blowing metamorphic surrealist short Fantasy (1976). It's a night of San Francisco's most hallucinatory history - thousands of tabs of acid in the making! Everything screened on 16mm film from our stock footage archive. Date: Thursday, September 8th, 2016 at 8:00pm Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street San Francisco Admission: $10.00 Limited Seating RSVP to RSVP@oddballfilms.com or (415) 558-8117 Web: http://oddballfilms.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-trip-back-original-san-francisco.html