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"Strange Sinema 52"

8:00 p.m. May 26

Featuring Land-Divers of Melanesia, Theme From Shaft, Lipstick and Dynamite, My Children, Stop, Look and Listen , Blaze Glory, The Ballet Master’s ...
"!!Blind Reason!! A Night of Mad and Bad Scientists"

8:00 p.m. June 1

Featuring La Jetée, The Invisible Woman, Dr. Cyclops , The Brain That Wouldn’t Die, The Time Travelers, Slow as a Sloth, Mr. Pasteur and the Riddle...

2012 | Best Weekly Film Screening That's Actually on Film

San Franciscans love putting on their own DIY movie shows, referred to by the smart set as "microcinema." It's easily done thanks to the both the availability of digital projectors and the fact that seemingly everything ever made is available digitally. But what if you're jonesing for rare and unusual fare on actual, honest-to-goodness film, run through an actual projector, and viewed with other people That's where Oddball Film + Video comes in. Operating primarily as a film archive --... More »

Jet Black Hair People Wasn't What We Expected. What's a Booper?

By Hiya Swanhuyser | Wed, August 17, 2011

At Oddball Film last week, archivist Stephen Parr dug out a slate of classic Dada art films, several of which were screened in total silence. It got very loud later on, though -- Negativland musician ... More »
Peter Conheim's Jet Black Hair People Slices Up Eyeballs

By Hiya Swanhuyser | Tue, August 9, 2011

Peter Conheim is the most gloriously obsessed person we know, and we know a lot of glorious obsessives. (Perk of the job.) Conheim is funtimes for a lot of reasons, one of which is that he's in Negat... More »
Before Music Videos, There Were Scopitones -- See an Original Scopitone Machine

By Hiya Swanhuyser | Tue, June 28, 2011

That which we now call a "music video" is more than it seems to be -- the idea is immutable, obvious, and at least as old as visual recording devices. Above is Della Reese in a typically literal and ... More »
Secrets of San Francisco Microcinema Revealed at Oddball Film and Video

By Hiya Swanhuyser | Tue, March 8, 2011

Crawl up a little mouse-house staircase, pass through the buzz-button doors, and find that the passage opens up into a high-celiinged grotto of dreams, each dream in its own round tin, neatly labeled.... More »

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