STRAIGHT FROM THE HAIGHT (and other Microcinemas in Mid-Sixties San Francisco)
Schedule
Sun Jan 26 2025 at 03:40 pm to 05:30 pm
UTC-08:00Location
Roxie Theater | San Francisco, CA
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Programmed and hosted by Steve Seid, former curator of experimental media at the Pacific Film Archive.With the emergence of Canyon Cinema, that foundational film presenter and distributor, in the early Sixties, there was a visible upsurge of interest in experimental and artisanal filmmaking in the Bay Area. This, in turn, inspired the creation of a number of haphazardly-cobbled micro-cinemas, some lasting but months, but marked by a broadening embrace of handcrafted experimentation.
This program looks specifically at the Straight-Ashbury Viewing Society, an adjunct of the short-lived Straight Theater on Haight Street, assembling a group of seminal films that screened there in the fall of 1966. Accompanying this screening will be an informal discussion of other mid-Sixties venues, such as the Cinematheque Coffeehouse, Fether’s Point, and the S.M. Eisenstein Memorial Cinema Institute.
Presented by Canyon Cinema
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STRAIGHT-ASHBURY VIEWING SOCIETY LINE-UP
All films screened between July and September, 1966
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BreathDeath (Stan VanDerBeek 1963, 14.5 minutes, B&W, sound, 16mm transferred to digital)
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Blue Moses (Stan Brakhage 1962, 11 minutes, B&W, sound, 16mm)
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Die (John Luther Schofill, 1966, 5 minutes, color, silent, 16mm)
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Mass for the Dakota Sioux (Bruce Baillie, 1964, 20 minutes, B&W, sound, 16mm)
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Unsere Afrikareise (Peter Kubelka, 1966, 12.5 minutes, color, sound, 16mm)
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TRT: 63 minutes
Discussion to follow
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Where is it happening?
Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St,San Francisco, California, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
