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Miguel Arteta and Miranda July’s short film “Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody?” and J. Lisa Chang and Newton Thomas Sigel’s short adaptation “The Big Empty,” both from Wholphin No. 1, have been selected as two of the first eight films appearing at the launch of YouTube’s premiere Screening Room — the new curated section of high-quality short content on YouTube. Another dozen Wholphin films have been selected to appear in the Screening Room throughout the year. We’ll keep you posted.

Be sure to browse through the new Downloads section on our website where you can now download-to-own high-quality films from all of the past issues of Wholphin DVD. We will be adding more films to our catalogue continuously, so please check back.

Join us as SF360 presents the debut screening of Wholphin No 6 at Mezzanine on Thursday, June 19th. We will be screening a selection of films including a documentary about a class of Chinese third graders who hold a democratic election for classroom monitor and in the process end up hilariously, if unintentionally, mocking 300 years of American politics; a beautifully black, comic exploration of 70s England that isn’t, but could easily be, the prequel to A Clockwork Orange; a surreal dating short starring Michael Cera, with alternate audio versions featuring John Cleese and Daniel Handler; stunning footage of rarely-seen tropical reptiles and insects that are amazingly beautiful to watch, even when they’re eating each other head first; as well as films featuring great white sharks, America’s leading Bigfoot researchers, and a miniature seeing-eye horse.

Thursday, June 19th at 7PM
Mezzanine
444 Jessie St., San Francisco
Tickets are $12 at the door or $8 with an RSVP to sf360@sffs.org (each RSVP is for you +1).

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