The Subject Is Sex June 12, 2009

EVENT: “The Subject is Sex”, Stephen Parr’s “The Subject is Sex”, an extraordinary personal romp through the seamy side of Sex in Cinema. This polymorphous program promises a pulsating panorama of perverse pleasures that includes home movies, hillbilly porn, cartoon smut, commercials, trailers, educationals, hygiene films, burlesque bits and peepshow loops. Plus! win prizes in the infamous “Cheap Smut Give-A-Way”.
VENUE: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco
DATE: Friday , June 12, 2009 at 8:30PM
ADMISSION: $10.00 Limited Seating RSVP Requested *Adults Only-No Kids!*
INFO+RESERVATIONS: [email protected] or 415.558.8117

The Subject is Sex
Screens at Oddball Films

Friday June 12th at 8:30 PM Oddball Films presents Stephen Parr’s “The Subject is Sex”, an extraordinary personal romp through the seamy side of Sex in Cinema. Drawn from his extensive 16mm film archives, this polymorphous program promises a pulsating panorama of perverse pleasures that includes home movies, hillbilly porn, cartoon smut, commercials, trailers, educationals, hygiene films, burlesque bits, peepshow loops and the infamous “Cheap Smut Give-A-Way”. Showtime is 8:30PM. The address is 275 Capp St. Admission is by rsvp only and is $10.00. For reservations please email: [email protected] or call 415.558.8112.
“The Subject is Sex” is drawn almost entirely from Parr’s holdings at Oddball Film + Video. Founded in 1984, Oddball houses an extensive offbeat collection of over 50,000 films. Parr, a imagemaker, curator and archivist has been screening “The Subject is Sex” (and hosting his notorious “Cheap Smut Give-A-Way”) throughout the United States and Europe for over 2 years to sellout audiences.

"The Subject is Sex" was hailed by critics like famed erotic writer Suzie Bright and the LA Weekly who called it "A giddy, sordid tour of an overheated century".

An introductory essay in the dvd, (released by Other Cinema dvd) by Eric Schaefer, film scholar and author of “BOLD! DARING! SHOCKING! TRUE!, A History of Exploitation Film 1919-1959” (Duke University Press), lays the groundwork for this diverse compendium of moving image erotica. Schaefer writes, “The Subject is Sex” is a Rorschach test. Where some will see humor, a few will see outrage. What may be titillation for many will be a turn-off for others. But for everyone, and in every instance, you’re seeing the history of sex in the twentieth century.”

Featuring!

· The “nudie cutie” adventures of “Uncle Si and the Sirens”.
The classic cartoon curio “Buried Treasure” starring Eveready Hardon (with a new music score by Nik Phelps from San Francisco’s Sprocket Ensemble).
· ”French Tickler”, a clever 1920s clip of animated fellatio.
50’s classic burlesque films (including “Love Moods” with famed femme fatale Lili St. Cyr cavorting in a ornate bathtub).
Choice 60s and 70s porn trailers (featuring the psychobilly smut “Memories Within Miss Aggie” and the pre-Viagra “Dynamite”).
· “970-KATHY” - a kinky, campy late 80’s commercial for phone sex.

“The Subject is Sex” also contains soft core selections with hidden or unintended erotic messages. A Jade East cologne commercial featuring sexy Japanese go-go dancers becomes a sexual exhortation for men to take matters into their own hands, a home movie (“Crossing the Equator”) becomes a surreal souvenir of cross dressing seafarers, and the US Navy training film ”How to Give an Enema” turns into a kinky homo erotic lesson in water sports. By compiling these generous gems in to a full-length collection, “The Subject is Sex” brings together commercial, camp, comedy, and explicit sex all in one gender-bending, genre-bending, lovefest.

Plus! Win free prizes in the infamous “Cheap Smut Give-A-Way”
For a preview visit: http://othercinemadvd.com/movies/subjectsextrailer.mov

Curator Stephen Parr
San Francisco curator, archivist and imagemaker Stephen Parr, founder of Oddball Film+Video and Oddball Films has a long history of presenting and archiving the unusual. In addition to promoting outrageous local theater and burlesque, Parr produced and videotaped live performance in the seventies, including John Cage, Karen Finley and The Ramones. In the eighties, he screened his signature pop culture montages in venues across the U. S. and Europe; from the Danceteria in New York to Moscow Cinematheque, Parr's Go-Go dancers and female contortionists gyrated over teeming tornadoes and atomic disasters. Later he created films which have screened worldwide in venues such as The Leeds International Film Festival, The Aurora Picture Show and Catalyst Arts in Dublin. His other programs include “Historical Hysterical”, “Psychoactive”, “The Subject is Sex” (Other Cinema DVD), “Sonic Oddities”, as well as his most recent film “Euphoria” which premiered at the Anthology Film Archive in New York in 2008.

Official Website: http://othercinemadvd.com/movies/subjectsextrailer.mov