5/12/2012 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Oddball Films and guest curator Lynn Cursaro present Pop! Goes the Classroom: School Films in the Age of Groovy. Many 1960’s sensibilities trickled down to the educational films of the 1970s - with wild and beautiful results. Facts and dates gave way to concepts, color and action. Narration-free documentary shorts, such as Night People’s Day (1971) and Pier “73” (1970s), provided more than just information about hidden workplaces, they gave students room to observe. Music was a natural subject here: Crash, Bang, Boom (1970), an early seventies oddity, proved that “school” plus “band” could add up to "far out", while What is Rhythm? (1975) wants us plugged into the tempo of everything. Cans (1970) salutes the humble tin’s ubiquity and disposability in this DIY mini-doc. Basic Body Movement (1969) finds its charm in the disconnect between in vivid visuals and the laughable authority voiceover; and the unforgettable Toes Tell (1969) shares the hippie-dippy odyssey of a girl and her curious barefeet. There’s MORE! Home-baked POP-centric gingerbread will be among the complimentary treats from the curator’s kitchen!
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco
Admission: $10.00 - Limited seating RSVP to programming (at) oddballfilm.com or 415-558-8117.
Happening today
May 25th, 2013
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Dan Quintana
Zero Instruments
through 6/29/2013 at Varnish Fine Art
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Dan Quintana
Zero Instruments | A Concerto of Hearts & Minds
through 6/29/2013 at Varnish Fine Art
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What the Mouth Sees
through 7/6/2013 at Alter Space
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Etel Adnan
Sitt Marie Rose Book Club
2:00pm - 5:00pm at Kent and Vicki Logan Gallery, The Wattis Institute
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Dia Dear
Cunt *an opening
10:00pm - 11:30pm at The Lab
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Chuck Sperry
The H18 Project | Print Release in Collaboration with Varnish Fine Art
5/30/2013 6:00pm - 9:00pm at Hangar 18 Studio
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Free First Sunday: Gallery of California Natural Sciences Reopening
6/2/2013 11:00am - 5:00pm at Oakland Museum of California
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Group show
Snapshot Poetics Now | Queer Encounters with
6/24/2013 2:00pm - 5:00pm at Contemporary Jewish Museum
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Cybele Lyle, Leigh Merrill, Emma Spertus
Fictional/Familiar
4/27/2013 - 6/9/2013 at Swarm Gallery
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Tauba Auerbach
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5/23/2013 - 7/20/2013 at Paulson Bott Press
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¡Oye, Mira! Reflective Approaches in Contemporary Latin American Video Art
4/19/2013 - 6/8/2013 at Walter and McBean Galleries, SFAI
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Children's Fairyland Annual GALA | There's No Place Like Fairyland
6/6/2013 6:30pm - 9:30pm at Children’s Fairyland
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Chris Pew, Mathew Zefeldt
What Are I?
6/6/2013 6:00pm - 8:00pm at Hatch Gallery
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