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Steve Rose's "Movie Date in Super-8" With Live Soundtrack Mix
Friday, April 23, 2004
8:00PM
$10.00 RSVP Requested adults only-no kids!
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EVENT: "Steve Rose�s Movie Date in Super-8", a screening of rare Super-8 home movies
From Venice, California based artist/director Steve Rose with his accompanying live mix
soundtrack. Films include "Mermaids On The Moon At Weeki Wachee", a Florida curio, "Get
Togethers, Babies, And Camera Tricks", a hilarious look at family life in the late 60s film "Ken
- The True Story, a 10 year plus coming of age gay man�s cinematic diary and the men he
filmed-without their knowledge. Plus! More rarities from the Steve Rose collection, the San
Francisco Media Archive(50�s fashion films) and Oddball Film+Video(50s Miss Chinatown
home movies)
VENUE: Oddball Film+Video, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco
DATE: Friday, April 23rd at 8:00PM
ADMISSION: $10.00 Limited Seating RSVP Requested
INFO AND RESERVATIONS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 415.558.8112, leave name(s)
Steve Rose�s Movie Date in Super-8 Featuring "Ken-The True Story" Plus Live Soundtrack Mix
On Friday, April 23rd Oddball Film+Video presents "Steve Rose�s Movie Date in Super-8". A
program of specially selected home movies accompanied by Rose�s live mix soundtrack.
Films include "Mermaids On The Moon At Weeki Wachee", a Florida curio, "Get Togethers,
Babies, And Camera Tricks", a hilarious look at family life in the late 60s film an the
fascinating "Ken - The True Story"(43 min, color), a coming of age gay man�s 10 year plus
cinematic diary and the men he filmed-without their knowledge.
Plus! More rarities from the Steve Rose collection, the San Francisco Media Archive(a Miss
Chinatown Pageant from the 1960s) and Oddball Film+Video(quirky home movies from the
50s). The event will take place at the Oddball Film+Video Screening Room, 275 Capp St in
San Francisco. Admission is $10.00. Limited Seating. RSVP is requested. Info:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or 415-558-8112.
Steve Rose�s presentation at Oddball Film+Video will recreate the intimate family ritual of
screening home movies. an American tradition that includes that
unmistakable whir of the projector, and a gathering of family and friends over for
the evening in the living room and the humorous, and revealing moments of lives
documented for all of us to witness once again. Together with Steve�s precise narrative edits
and his compelling audio mix "Movie Date in Super-8" will be an evening that redefines our
view of home movies.
Additional Info About "Movie Date in Super-8"
Director/Artist Steve Rose Comments about Home Movies
Director and artist Steve Rose began collecting 8mm home movies as a
way to find documentation of amusement parks, roadside attractions, and anything
else that happened to have a giant plaster dinosaur in it. After a while,
there was much more about the films that would capture his curiosity than just
the places photographed.
"I would never know what was hidden away in the mysterious footage that
I collected from garage sales and swap meets. Inevitably, I would find myself
getting completely immersed in this puzzle of figuring out who all the people
were, and what their connections were to each other. This became my incentive
to chronologically edit the movies down to what I believed were the most
intriguing highlights - while at the same time tell the story that I had found
buried in it."
"Music slowly became more and more important in my film presentations. Eventually I found
myself doing what amounts to a live DJ
performance of carefully selected music cues that matched the emotional ideas I wanted
to convey. I have tried to pick cues that are not obvious, but elicit something in their
simplicity. It's also creates a live, spontaneous experience since I actually DJ the cues while
the film is being projected. I also think it helps an audience to understand the experience as
something more than random footage being projected. But rather as a complete audio-visual
experience the way the images were lived."
Steve Rose Talks About "Ken-The True Story"
"The film has an obscure storyline that I discovered and have
emphasized by my editing. I discovered the films (about 30 or more 3 minute reels) in a box
at an estate sale, and when I got them home I was scanning through them as I usually do.
As I was watching them, I became keenly aware of the way people were relating
to each other, and was getting the feeling that Ken might be gay (he is
probably in his mid to late 20s at the beginning, and about mid 30s by the end). In
one reel there was footage of a military air show, which he was centering in on
random men that he found attractive - and filmed them without them knowing.
I was hooked into it as a story at that point, and edited the piece using the
audience's discovery of Ken being gay in the same way it was revealed to me -
step my step till it becomes obvious - at least I think it is obvious.
It's an amazing look into a time and era and a person's private
documentation of their lifestyle. I know his name is Ken, because his name and address
were on the film boxes that were sent to him from processing the film. Everything
became a sort of archaeological search to figure out as many pieces of the
puzzle as I could. On multiple viewings of the film, certain things stick out
and become way more noticeable than on a single showing. I have clearly
editorialized by putting the pieces of the film in the order that I do. But for me,
that's the point, since I love the character study that can come from home
movies, and I usually chose an angle to take in it's presentation.
There are moments of accidental double exposure, beautiful out of focus shots, and just
unintentional "mistakes" that I have purposely included to form an emotional
experience of people who are no longer living, and have left their amazing lives on
a strip of film.
What Filmmakers, Curators and Historians Say About Home Movies
I've always been fascinated by the home movies my father took -- and quickly realized that
there were many other amateurs like him, offering images of the world around them. From a
historical context, these images are invaluable; they capture moments that go beyond the
newsreels and movies of a certain period. On a personal note, I'm also struck by the way the
semiotics of home movies immediately unites an audience -- bell bottoms and birthday
cakes become visual shorthand.
Karen Shopsowitz, Director, My Father's Camera
People underestimate the value and power of home movies. Most of us appreciate the
emotional impact of rediscovered family films, but too often we think they have no audience
beyond our own family. In fact, the millions of feet of film shot by mothers and fathers,
aunts, uncles and friends throughout the 20th century now make up the best record we have
of daily life as it was lived during the past two or three generations.
Dan Streible, Founder, Orphans Film Symposium, University of South Carolina
Home movies are coming out of the home and into public spaces. It is important that as they
are rediscovered that they become part of the nation's moving image heritage.
Pamela Wintle, Assistant Director, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Oddball Film+Video 275 Capp Street San Francisco 415-558-8112
Off Mission between 17th and 18th(closer to 18th), Mission and South Van Ness
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] 415.558.8112
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