Sugar Shock: Candy, Cavities and Saturday Morning Shenanigans - Fri. May 17 -...
Oddball Films and guest curator Lynn Cursaro present: Sugar Shock: Candy, Cavities and Saturday Morning Shenanigans, a batch of gooey ephemera sure to please sweet tooths and film fans alike. The...
View ArticleYou Give Me Fever - God, The Devil and Betty Boop - Thur. May 23 - 8PM
Oddball Films presents You Give Me Fever- God, The Devil and Betty Boop, a hodge-podge of vintage shorts, documentaries, cartoons and burlesque numbers about the fervor of faith and the seduction of...
View ArticlePlay with your Toys! - Fri. May 24 - 8PM
Oddball Films presentsPlay with your Toys! a fun, freewheeling program of vintage short films celebrating toys. Marvel at the childlike wonder instilled in artist Alexander Calder as he plays with his...
View ArticleFormidable Conformity: The System Fights Back - Thur. May 30 - 8PM
Oddball Films and curator Kat Shuchter bring you Formidable Conformity: The System Fights Back, a program of films about man's struggle against the status-quo. With vintage cartoons, industrial films,...
View ArticleMan and the Machine - The Future of Technology from the Past - Fri. May 31 - 8PM
Oddball Films presents Man and the Machine - The Future of Technology from the Past, a program of vintage films about computers, robots and other omnipresent technological marvels. In Microworld(1976)...
View ArticleSubmerged Cinema - Fri. June 7th - 8PM
Oddball Films and guest curator Landon Bates bring you Submerged Cinema, a screening teeming with celluloid cephalopods and European seamen. Among other wet wonders, we'll spy the likes of shimmering...
View ArticleSid Davis: Nightmare Maker - Thurs. June 6th - 8PM
Oddball Films presents Sid Davis: Nightmare Maker, an evening celebrating the career of the master of the educational shock film. Sid Davis films were famously funded by an initial $1000 donation by...
View ArticleWatch What You Eat - Thur. June 13 - 8PM
Oddball Films presents Watch What You Eat, a program of witty and thought-provoking short films that will make you rethink your next meal. The program features the Oddball Premiere of a new short...
View ArticleLearn Your Lesson...About Sex - Shockucational Contraceptives - Fri. June 14...
Oddball Films and curator Kat Shuchter bring you Learn Your Lesson...About Sex - Shockucational Contraceptives, the fourth in a series of programs highlighting the most ridiculous, insane and...
View ArticleStrange Sinema 65: Strange Stunts - Thur. June 20 - 8PM
Oddball Films presents Strange Sinema 65: Oddities From the Archives, an evening of newly discovered and choice rarities from the stacks of Oddball Films’ 50,000 reel film archive. This installment of...
View ArticleA Brighter Yesterday: Science and Technology of the ‘20s and ‘30s - Fri. June...
Oddball Films and guest curator Lynn Cursaro present A Brighter Yesterday: Science and Technology of the ‘20s and ‘30s. Using gorgeous educational and mesmerizing promotional films, plus cartoons and...
View ArticleVintage Queer San Francisco - Thur. June 27 - 8PM
Oddball Films presentsVintage Queer San Francisco, a program of ultra-rare documentaries and short films from the 1960s and 1970s. Get pride weekend started off right with this groovy and glamorous...
View ArticleClassic Cartoon Cavalcade - Fri. June 28 - 8PM
Oddball Films and curators Lynn Cursaro and Kat Shuchter bring you Classic Cartoon Cavalcade, an evening of some of our very favorite classic cartoons hand-picked from the San Francisco Media Archive's...
View ArticleOh Canada! Visionary Cinema from our Neighbors to the North - Fri. July 5th -...
Oddball Films presents Oh Canada! Visionary Cinema from our Neighbors to the North, with a program of exquisite short documentaries, animation and experimental works, all from Canadians, eh! Clever,...
View ArticleMovies Making Movies: The Secrets of Cinema - Thu. July 11 - 8PM
Oddball Films and guest curator Lynn Cursaro present: Movies Making Movies: The Secrets of Cinema. Using cartoons, experimental film, trailers, making-of featurettes and more we’ll go behind the scenes...
View ArticleAdjust Your Tracking - The Untold Story of the VHS Collector - Sat. Aug. 17 -...
Oddball Films is proud to welcome filmmakers Dan Kinem and Levi Peretic in person for the San Francisco Premiere of Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector, a new documentary that...
View ArticleCelluloid Sex - Fri. Aug. 16 - 8PM
Oddball Films presents Celluloid Sex, a night of vintage stag films, sexperimental shorts, social hygiene primers, bizarre burlesque, sexy trailers, commercials and so much more all from our eclectic...
View ArticleStop-Motion Explosion III - Thur. Aug 15 - 8PM
Oddball Films and curator Kat Shuchter bring you Stop-Motion Explosion III, a program of mind-blowing stop-motion animation from the 1930s to the 1980’s. In a world saturated with CGI, Oddball Films...
View ArticlePsychedelicatessen: A Feast for Your Eyes - Thur. Aug. 22 - 8PM
Oddball Films and curator Kat Shuchter bring you Psychedelicatessen: A Feast For Your Eyes, a super fun, crazy night of our very favorite vintage eye-poppers, mind-benders, jaw-droppers and...
View ArticleStrange Sinema 67: Dangerous Minds - Fri. Aug. 23 - 8PM
Oddball Films presents Strange Sinema 67: Oddities From the Archives, an evening of offbeat discoveries and choice rarities from the stacks of Oddball Films’ 50,000 reel film archive. This month's...
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