From the men responsible for Dina Martina’s killer videos comes this bimonthly showcase of found-video delights, artfully assembled around a theme and projected onto the big screen for four mind-bending hours. Tonight’s theme: subliminal messages, from song-and-dance propaganda to Christian freak-outs over backward masking and beyond. Stay for an hour or four—Collide-
O-Scope’s “low-investment/high-return video” pays off for as long as you want to pay attention. (Plus, free popcorn and Red Vines!) (Re-bar, 1114 Howell St, 233-9873. 7 pm, $4, 21+.)
David Schmader—former weed columnist and Stranger associate editor—is the author of the solo plays Straight and Letter to Axl, which he’s performed in Seattle and across the US. His latest... More by David Schmader
ah Fuck! I already bought tix to see The Room tonight at Central Cinema…..this looks like it would’ve been fun…..SHEEEIT
Also, for those that prefer film over video, Grand Illusion has the following tonight:
7pm: “Industrial Design and Refrigerator Fetish – This show has been commissioned by the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in SF to kick off their Industrial Design show in July. You get it first. An inside look at the beauty of the creation of utilitarian devices. Included is a rhapsodic look at four refrigerators from 1955, silent men in the 1920’s polishing, and polishing, and polishing, some unknowable object, everything you’d ever want to know about the design and production of a pencil, and much more.”
(Part of the Panorama of the 20th Century series – http://grandillusioncinema.org/ )