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 The Free Form Film Festival returns to its home-base of San Francisco for an intimate one-night-only screening of OUT. This second installment in the FFFF’s “outsider” series focuses on the most kitsch-friendly of all outsider art motifs: the holidays. The spirit of Thanksgiving, Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, and New Years Eve all find their way into the hearts of the world’s strangest public access producers and low-budget filmmakers.

On October 16th, the Free Form Film Festival, the Lost Media Archive and Loaf-i Records combine forces to bring San Francisco an early sampling of unbelievably strange holiday cheer. This October screening will kick off a short US tour that will bring OUT2 to several east and west coast venues during the months of November and December.

The FFFF’s OUT programs continually seek to ask the question “What makes an outsider artist?” Is it simply an unawareness of what entertains the mainstream or is it a purposeful rebellion against mass culture? Is it a lack of know-how, or simply a unique worldview? What is it that fuels people to create this hilariously embarrassing, and yet sometimes utterly heartfelt media? The motives are apparently broad and, though outsider art often rests on the far fringe of society, it can sometimes penetrate the highest tiers of corporate television. From the befuddling, yet sincere “Miss Velma’s Christmas Special” to George Lucas’ disastrous “Star Wars Holiday Special”, this program of video clips spans the gamut.

OUT2 will be followed by a rare performance… the Metal-Punk-No-wave-Jazz-Funk-Noise-Junk stylings of SABRETEETH! Originating in San Francisco, this band’s members create art in California, Connecticut, Utah, and Washington D.C. Tonight, they reconvene for a special performance. All OUT programs are made possible by the Lost Media Archive. A new Utah-based outpost that collects promotes and distributes weird media.

For more info, visit freeformfilm.org.

   The night of Friday, July 24, 1964 started off normally enough in Rochester, New York, but by the next morning no one would look at race relations in the North the same again. July ‘64 takes a penetrating look at the underlying causes of the urban insurrections that swept through Black communities like wildfires that summer and in years since.
   To many whites it must have seemed odd that it started in Rochester. To them Rochester was the ideal small city; it had low unemployment and thousands of high paying jobs in “clean companies” like Kodak, Bausch and Lomb, and the future Xerox. Blacks emigrated from the South looking for these jobs only to be bitterly disappointed to find that the only positions open to them were as janitors and service personnel not skilled technicians. They were confined to ghettos of rundown rat-ridden, housing. Police brutality was a constant aggravation. Rochester’s Black neighborhood was a keg of dynamite waiting for a match.

The film interviews several participants—after 40 years none felt regret at giving vent to their frustration about the situation in
Rochester. 2006, 54 min.

Trash Fish Entertainment and Artists Television Access are proud to present THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC with a beautiful new score for solo guitar, performed live by LESTER “TOMBSTONE” RAWW of THE PINE BOX BOYS and THE ZAG MEN. 

Presumed lost for fifty years – until a second-generation print was discovered in a storeroom in a Norwegian mental institution – Carl Th. Dreyer’s THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC is perhaps the most disturbing, and undoubtedly the greatest, religious film ever made.  A profound influence on generations of filmmakers, both great (Ken Russell) and small (Lars von Trier), Dreyer’s silent classic focuses with unrelenting intensity on the suffering visage of the French martyr, unforgettably embodied by Renee Falconetti (in a performance that Pauline Kael called the “greatest of all time”), as she faces a monstrous tribunal of hypocritical clergy. 

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