Heavy Rotations

This Thursday evening SFMoMA continues to make good on their 75th birthday celebration agenda with an essential assortment of astonishing Bay Area films from the late 40's and early 50's.

Posse includes Harry Smith, James Broughton, Frank Stauffacher, Sidney Peterson, and Jordan Belson.

Optical Benches/Optical Minds. When abstract was handmade and impossible-looking and deeply, deeply in orbit.

And the Belson stuff on film? That living light? That straight up dialogue with - gulp - essence? Actually non-negotiable.

Be There.

Harry Smith, Heaven and Earth Magic Feature, 1957-1962

Jordan Belson, World, 1970

Admittedly, it's totally tragic to be missing maniac guitar savant Bill Orcutt performing the same evening at the Hemlock. What is this? San Francisco supplying TWO blockbuster events simultaneously? Unthinkable!

Get a load of his electro-blues-howl-paroxysm. Have you ever heard anything as good as this before?