Saturday, December 7, 2019, 8:30 pm, $9
RICK PRELINGER + JAY ROSENBLATT + SKIP ELSHEIMER + MICHAEL MORRIS’ ARK +
Here’s the New Model Army of archivists who recognize that access and use rank with preservation! The Internet Archive’s Rick Prelinger presents Wildcards of the Ether, on QSL Cards from the Citizens’ Band radio era–an amazing panoply of working-class creativity focused on “friending” 70s style—and a pre-figuration of social media tinged with workerist resistance of the times. Anthology Film Archivist John Klacsmann holds forth on his restoration/premiere revival of Anger/Nin protégé Renate Druks’ rarely seen Space Boy (1973), sequel to Harrington’s Queen of Blood, with music by Louis and Bebe Barron (and drums by Frank Zappa?). Walter Forsberg, too, jets in (from Mexico City) with a trove of fabled Auroratones–the late-40s visual-therapy abstractions for WWII PTSD victims. Walter also lays out a party-platter of Mexican TV Commercials from the early 80’s (made by father of cineastaElena Pardo). Good neighbor Jay Rosenblatt shares family memories in his Kodachrome Elegies, and Diana Sanchez introduces her sublime STREAM, from a foundphoto album. Michael Morris sets sail his exquisite ARK, a marvelous montage of mid-century archival films, and Scott Calonico sends in his Sudden Birth, a hilariously disturbing doc on that peculiar sex-edgenre…narrated by Skip Elsheimer, the AV Geek! *$9