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ARCHIVE FEVERBALDWIN's 222 BOOK-LAUNCH/AUCTION
+ 16MM ANOMALIES
Well hello!! OC is back, jes' shaking with the excitement of a case of Archive Fever...a wide-eyed, full-bodied embrace of our own kind of Cultural Anthropology, a sub-pop group-grok of both outsider cinema and street-savvy fashion!! Yes, BOTH the astonishing surprises in secret 16mm industrial-film collections, AND the marvelous milieux opened and at hand in the instance of an actual public auction of vintage Tees!! Craig Baldwin's limited-edition 222 T-SHIRTS– in this, his fourth book's inaugural launch--serves as a irresistible invitation to a cinemascopic display of thee most curious clothing artifacts...on tables, on the walls, and on live models!..scheduled so that the bidding plays as prologue to a delirious evening of gobsmackin' celluloid core-samples. The two lineages— both from the cotton plant!--here understood as precious traces of particular sensibilities oh-so-at-risk of disappearing forever into the black hole of forgotten cultural history. Come in to browse for free for the afternoon's silent auction; we'll deliver the garments to the winners at our 8PM showtime.
Titles include: A 1953 tribute to the rescue of Treasures in a Garbage Can (the veritable theme of tonight's event!)...IBM's mid-50s proto-techno-utopian Piercing the Unknown...a '56 personal-travelog on a Carnivalesque Caribbean cargo cult, in Kodachrome...an early-70s Christian rant on ''cults”, with Eldridge Cleaver(!)...a mid-70s Oscar Mayer Wienermobile ride into a funk-fueled factory overflowing with fatty cow flesh...a '68 educational-TV explication of human sexual intercourse...a late-70s Mormon fantasia of Jesus Christ preaching amongst the Mayan pyramids... an early-80s human-potential confessional on celebrity bed-wetting...a mid-70s doomed-date/tsunami-apocalypse cautionary...and of course mid-century trailers, TV commercials, and Russ Forster on the Califone! PLUS free books, films, albums, cassettes, even laserdiscs...and open bar!
Gallery doors open from 3PM for silent auction. Tickets sales for the screening start at 6:30PM.
Auction between 7PM-8PM. Showtime 8:15 PM
$12 DOORS @ 6:30 SHOW @ 8:15
ATA GALLERY 992 VALENCIA STREET SF
www.othercinema.com
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992 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94110
