Other Cinema Digital (Friday) and Underworld Cinema: The Life and Work of J.X. Williams (Saturday)
Friday, November 9, 8 p.m.
Saturday, November 10, 8 p.m.

Curator Noel Lawrence in Attendance

Other Cinema Digital – A Mediarchaeological Survey
Founded by noted avant-garde visionary, Craig Baldwin, Other Cinema has exhibited underground, avant-garde, radical – “other” – work for more than twenty years in San Francisco. Tonight’s program, culled from Other Cinema’s DVD arm, is a sampling from the nearly twenty releases that constitute OC’s film catalog, including work from Negativland, Greta Snider, TV Sheriff, Animal Charm, Lewis Klahr, and Mike Kuchar.

Noel Lawrence programs, makes, and writes about film. He has lectured and performed one-man shows at George Eastman House, Pacific Film Archives, New York Underground Film Festival, as well as museums and universities worldwide.

Underworld Cinema: The Life and Work of J.X. Williams
J.X. Williams made some of the most provocative pieces of low-rent underground cinema in the second half of the 20th century. Produced in Copenhagen and unseen for almost 40 years, Peep Show is a brilliantly sleazy tirade against the Chicago mob that reveals a plot to get Frank Sinatra addicted to heroin and also exposes the dark side of J.F.K.’s administration. Noel Lawrence will give a detailed introduction on the making of the film and the colorful life of J.X. Williams, a reclusive enigma and grindhouse film director.