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EVENT
Exhibition Detail
FREE FORM FILM SERIES: Please Self Help Me
992 Valencia St
@ 21st St
San Francisco, CA 94110


June 25th 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
 
FREE FORM FILM SERIES,FREE FORM FILM SERIES
> QUICK FACTS
EVENT TYPE:  
Screening
WEBSITE:  
http://www.atasite.org
NEIGHBORHOOD:  
Mission
EMAIL:  
ata@atasite.org
PHONE:  
415.824.3890
OPEN HOURS:  
call for info
ARTS ORGANIZATION:  
Free Form Film Festival
TAGS:  
pop, performance, video-art, digital
COST:  
$6
> DESCRIPTION

The Free Form Film Festival announces the 2nd installment of SF based Free Form Film Series. This months event will
feature incredibly strange and comic ephemeral and outsider videos as well as work by experimental filmmakers.

background:
The Free Form Film Fest has toured North America for the last six years showing work from around the globe.
Recently, the FFFF's Tyrone Davies was interviewed for COMEDY CENTRAL's Tosh.0 about his infamous "puke video"
(the episode will air thus the 18th, at 10pm)

recently the FFFF has worked with the Lost Media Archive ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtHqQqegmXw ) to
curate programs of incredibly strange ephemeral media. This month's event will feature such a program, and a couple
independent films to boot!



THE EVENT:
when: June 25th (thursday) at 8pm
where: ATA (992 Valencia Street in San Francisco, CA (415) 824-3890)

PLEASE SELF-HELP ME
bizarrely beautiful ephemeral and outsider media of the "instructional" variety.
(featuring... EMBARRASSING CELEBRITY WORKOUT AND HUNTING VIDEOS (Traci Lords, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Ted Nugent
and more), OVERLY COMPLICATED VIDEO GAME INSTRUCTIONS, INTRODUCTIONS TO MICROWAVES AND OTHER NOW
UBIQUITOUS TECHNOLOGIES, LESSONS ON MAKING MUSIC WITH BONES, MAKING WORMS OUT OF STRAWS, AND
CUTTING YOUR ENEMIES BRAKES)

OPENING FILM: The Habit of Innovation by Brian Dewan (BROOKLYN)
"PRE-OPENING" FILM: Joy Of Painting by Peter Nowogrodzki
MAIN PROGRAM curated by the Lost Media Archive, a repository for cultural detritus
CLOSING ACT: live music by two-man noise ensemble FAGBASH





links to just two of the bizarre examples of ephemeral video featured in this program (most of the ones that will be
shown are not available online):

BodyFlex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvy_uJxJ_-g
Zsa Zsa Gabor workout video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uovn_hPpKqA


Lost Media Archive:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtHqQqegmXw



FURTHER INFO AT: freeformfilm.org


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