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

Brent Hoff, leader, strongman, weakboy, is in Australia sharing our delicacies with the Revelation Film Festival. He telegraphs:

What’s worse than 18 hours on a plane sitting in front of a hacking old lady with smelly feet? Having the first thing you see upon disembarking that tuberculosis incubator be Dr. Phil’s pharisaical face staring down at you from the Goddamn airport TV. I don’t know who should apologize to whom, me for our nation’s distasteful invasion of their airwaves, or them for celebrating America’s most shameful example of hypocritical paternalism. Well one of them anyway… Anyway, since then things have been pure filth. That means good in Perthian. Ivan the Perthian told me so.

Ivan does not call himself a Perthian, but he does have VHS footage of a vintage AC/DC concert where Angus spins in circles on the ground during a solo and hates it when people talk about Perth as being the “most isolated city in the world.” Ivan works at the Revelation Film Festival in Perth Australia where Wholphin is premiering films this week. It’s gonna be filthy.

Here’s the schedule:

Shorts Program 1
Rev Club at The Bakery/Artrage Complex - Friday 13 July 7:30pm

Wholphin Program II - intro/Q&A by Brent Hoff
Luna Leederville - Sunday 15 July 5pm

Wholphin Program III – intro/Q&A by Brent Hoff
Luna on SX - Monday 16 July 9pm