Wholphin

Saw an amazing film in Perth last week made by a fascinating Aussie director, Kim Farrant. Besides being the daughter Primal Scream therapist and cellular consciousness pioneer Graham Farrant, Kim is a fellow cult enthusiast and has made an emotional, lovingly soul-impaling doc-o about, how can I say it, the various psycho-physio-sexual barriers that prevent people from accepting love. It’s called “Naked On The Inside” and at the Revelation Film Festival screening there wasn’t a dry eye in the house. It premiers August 7th on Showtime at 10pm ET. Seriously, this film will move you like a Reverend Al Green Sunday sermon.

Here’s the website: http://www.magicreal.com.au/nakedontheinside/

*Confused by the heading? A “doc-o” is what they call documentaries in Australia and I applaud them for the streamline innovation. A “Yobbo” is apparently the Australian version of a WWF Fan and I used it here only because I am a total Fezzik.**

**Fezzik is the rhyme-addicted giant in Princess Bride and you should be deeply ashamed of yourself if you didn’t know that.

Tuesday, July 31 at Mezzanine
Doors open at 7
Free drinks

Join us as the San Francisco Film Society’s 360 Film Club presents Wholphin. We will be screening a selection of films from the latest issue of Wholphin. The doors open at 7pm and the 90-minute program starts at 7:30pm. The screening will include a documentary about a heavy metal band of Scottish pre-teens trying to rebel again their overly-supportive parents and a world that thinks they’re cute; an excerpt from a terrifying documentary that follows Steve Kurtz, an artist and professor, whose artwork has led to FBI charges of bioterrorism; a film that features real-life couple Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard in roles that Gyllenhaal has described as “pretty horrible, to be honest. [Peter] was playing a big jerk and it was hard for me to be around him all day long;” as well as an Academy Award nominated short and a mind-melting look at Las Vegas. Stick around after the screening and visit the displays of disturbing bacteriaphage, strange creatures from the deep and drunk bees.

If you’d like to reserve a ticket, please email info@sf360.org with WHOLPHIN in the subject and your name/affiliation in the body. Or just show up! Tickets are $5 if you reserve ahead of time and $8 at the door.

Mezzanine
444 Jesse St. (between Mission, Market, 5th and 6th)
San Francisco, CA
$5, Free Gin

Unseen? Yep. Films? Pretty sure. Totally freakin’ awesome? I’d put a dime down on it! Venture, scouts:

Cabinetic Presents:
Further Treasures from the Cabinet of Curiosities
(1927-2007, approx. 85min., 16mm & digital video)
Wednesday, July 25th, 7:30pm
$8 Regular / $6 Students, Seniors & YBCA members

Join curator Jonathan Marlow as he ventures back from the basement of the Cabinetic archives with another stack of little-seen classics. For one night only, he’ll share these amazing discoveries with the thrillseekers of San Francisco. Expect rarities and other assorted oddities from Stephen & Timothy Quay, Ladislas Starevitch, Jan Svankmajer, Jiri Barta, Tezuka Osamu and other renowned filmmakers