Home Movies: A Celebration of San Francisco Amateur Sex Cinema from the 60’s October 9, 2008

THE SUPERSTARS NEXT DOOR: A CELEBRATION OF SAN FRANCISCO AMATEUR SEX CINEMA FROM THE 60’S
Presented by Jack Stevenson
Thu, Oct 9 & Sat, Oct 11
This three-part retrospective focuses on softcore sex films made in San Francisco in 1968, at that fleeting moment when censorship barriers were collapsing. Just about anyone with a 16mm camera who could convince their friends to take their clothes off could make films and get them shown to a paying public. Thus we look back 40 years and salute the spirited amateurism and glorious lack of professionalism that characterized these movies, which offer a fiercely dated snapshot of the moment.

Thu, Oct 9, 7:30 pm (admission includes both 7:30 and 9:20 screenings)
PART ONE: HOME MOVIES
We present four very different shorts, cast with non-actors. Filmed in living rooms and backyards and even after-hours in a porn book shop on 6th Street, they represent the nexus between risqué home movies and hardcore features. Tonight’s films are Cosmetics Saleslady Comes a Callin’, Gift for Santa, Pumpkin at the Halloween Party and His Father’s Call-Girl. (1968, approx 85 min, 16mm)

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