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Other Cinema: ALTAMONT ANGELS + NAPA PUNKS + MR. LUCKY +
INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC2 
Our yearly music party oscillates between two epochal episodes that largely defined our generation: the flame-out of the mass fest at Altamont in ’69, and the brave outreach of NorCal punks at Napa State Mental Hospital nine years later in ’78. Mike Plante‘s We Were There to Be There on the infamous appearance of the Mutants and the Cramps with the Napa patients is back by popular demand. AND Rick Prelinger‘s miracle lab-floor find of a silent S8mm reel shot at the Alameda County rock extravaganza re-sees the light of day with a loose re-tracking by OC Studios. Between these low and high points percolates over a dozen rockin’ anomalies that will serve to open up sidereal spaces both before and after the 70s. The Beatles are represented both in Ready Steady Go and in David Sherman‘s Yoko 1-5. The Space Lady has a presence, and quite possibly Omer Travers too. We got b/w 16mm footage of the Avengers in SOMA around the same time as the Napa event, and we got Christian Marclay‘s vinyl immolation at the legendary Club Generic on July 4, 1980. ALSO Oscar Bucher‘s short doc Getting Lucky features our dear friend Pierre Merkl! PLUS Spike Jones, Heino, Liberace, Auroratones, Soundies, Scopitones, Banjo, Babalu, and Hula Music.*$8 -
The Hidden People of the Shadowy Rocks
Lee Lynch in person
The Hidden People of the Shadowy Rocks is the only feature film by Icelandic avant-garde artist Róska (Ragnhildur Óskarsdóttir, 1940–1996), made in collaboration with her husband Manrico Pavolettoni. Educated in Prague and Rome, Róska was known for her radical leftist political views which are often evident in her art. A founder of the The Living Art Museum in Reykjavík and a member of diverse artist collective SÚM, Róska made waves in a male-dominated field, and indeed, the situation of women was a primary theme of her work. The negatives to Sóley have been lost, but two Icelandic artists have started restoration of an archival print.
Set in the 18th century, Sóley focuses on a young farmer’s resistance to Danish colonial oppression with the help of supernatural forces, including titular elf-maiden Sóley.
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