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Carnal Cinema: Cafe Flesh
Saturday, June 5th
8:00PM
$10.00 RSVP Requested adults only-no kids!
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EVENT: Carnal Cinema: "Caf� Flesh", a 1982 post-nuclear New Wave porn feature directed by
Rinse Dream(Stephen Sayadian), written by Jerry Stahl(Permanent Midnight) starring Pia Snow,
Marie Sharp and Kevin James. With sound score by Richard Thompson collaborator Mitchell
Froom. Also featuring "About Fallout", a atomic Americana short produced in 1963 by the US
Department of Defense. With Erotic Shorts "Mondo Erotica", "Hollywood Blue" + more.
VENUE: Oddball Film+Video, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco
DATE: Friday, June 5th, 2004.
TIME: 8:00 PM
ADMISSION: $10.00 Limited Seating RSVP Requested *Adults Only-No Kids!*
INFO+RESERVATIONS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 415.558.8112 Note: This program will be
screened in video and film.
Carnal Cinema: "Caf� Flesh" +Erotic Shorts
Plus "About Fallout" Screen at Oddball
"Caf� Flesh" is part porno movie, part performance art, part grade-z science fiction and part
high camp"
On Saturday, June 5th at 8:00PM Oddball Film+Video presents "Carnal Cinema: "Caf�
Flesh"(Color, 1984), a post-nuclear New Wave Porn feature directed by the infamous Rinse
Dream(Stephen Savadian) plus the Atomic Americana short "About Fallout"(Color, 1963) and
Erotic Shorts. The screening will take place at 275 Capp St in San Francisco. Admission is
$10.00(Adults only-No kids!) RSVP requested due to limited seating at: 415.558.8112 or
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The "Nuclear Kiss" has rendered 99% of the population unable to have sex -- they've become
Sex Negatives. The remaining one percent of Sex Positives are required by the government to
perform public sex acts for the benefit (torment?) of the frustrated Sex Negatives. The plot
centers on a Sex Negative couple, Nick (Paul McGibboney) and Lana (Pia Snow, later the
scream queen Michelle Bauer), who are addicted to the nightly avant garde theater shows at
the Cafe Flesh. Caf� Flesh is a bizarre and nihilistic nightclub with stark, surreal sets
featuring particpants dressed as animals, pencils and cartoonish secretaries. The
performances are hosted by an obnoxious Joel Grey like Cabaret character Max Melodramatic
who taunts his audience with abusive outbursts like "I get off on your need!".
This 20 year old artifact from the glory days of shot-on-film porn is a rare look at what the
erotic underworld could have been-an alternative to mainstream porn concepts and a future
breeding ground for carnal cinematic creativity. Caf� Flesh is a cult camp classic with proto-
industrial music, Italian surrealist inspired sets, projected backgrounds and a tight, acrid
script.
There�s plenty of hardcore sex, inventively shot and integral to it overall sci-fi theme. The
script was written by director Stephen Sayadian and writer Jerry Stahl (later the subject of the
1998 biopic Permanent Midnight). Stephen Sayadian later tried to break into the mainstream
with 1989's "Dr. Caligari" but failed and by the early '90s he had fallen back on sex videos
like "Party Doll a Go-Go"(a retro-beatnik-camp sex flick) and "Untamed Cowgirls of the Wild
West".
Caf� Flesh�s post-modern porno influenced scores of art porn directors as well as the current
crop of "gonzo-porn" video makers. Its New Wavey "porno chic" syle made it a hot at
midnight movie houses across the US in the 80s and its over-the-top excesses make it a sex
spectacle worthy of rediscovery today.
In keeping with our nuclear theme we�ll also be screening a seldom-seen Atomic Americana
propaganda short "About Fallout"(Color, 1963) made by the United States Department of
defense aimed at dispelling the "myths" of atomic power.
We�ll be heating up the evening with a hefty assortment of Erotic Shorts and trailers including
"Mondo Erotica", "Dynamite", "Hollywood Blue" and more from the 70s and 80s golden age
of porn.
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Oddball Film+Video 275 Capp Street San Francisco 415-558-8112 www.oddballfilm.com/resources/events_parent.html
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] 415-558-8112 www.oddballfilm.com
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