Event: “Kooks, Eccentrics and Oddballs”. Guest curator Pete Gowdy and Oddball Films present the inaugural evening of a new series of 16mm film programs focused on people with strange occupations, habits or ideas. Many were innovators, some were geniuses, more than a few are completely insane! This month’s highlights include: Castle Man, about a man who obsessively built a castle by himself- stone by stone; Emperor Norton, a representation of San Francisco’s favorite oddball; The Man Who Made Millions Think, bizarre beauty and hair product pitcher who channels snake-oil salesman of yore; Bates Car, about a lovable one-legged inventor who makes cars run on manure and self-propelled bicycles; A Boy Creates, filmed partly at Playland At The Beach and the Emeryville Mud Flats, a boy makes one-of-a-kind sculpture; Plus! More oddballs in Stranger Than Fiction, including a trailer made from a hollowed out redwood and newsreel footage of famous hermit/hoarder brothers Homer and Langley Collyer’s jam-packed Manhattan apartment (where they were both found dead- one crushed by a wall of junk).
Date: Friday, February 19, 2009 at 8:30PM
Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco 94110
Admission: $10.00 RSVP Only to: 415-558-8117 or info@oddballfilm.com
Web: http://www.oddballfilm.com/oddballftp/Eccentrics_PR.pdf
