Événement

A Most Unusual Film Festival: 50th Anniversary Screening

Andy Warhol, My Hustler
16mm, 76 min, 1965

José Rodríguez-Soltero, Jerovi
16mm, 11 min, 1965

A 50th Anniversary multimedia celebration of L.A.s first gay film festival held in the summer of 68 -- plus 16mm screenings of two key works from the original event: the frothy, sunbaked antics of My Hustler (arguably Warhols most buoyant feature film, featuring a proto-John Waters sensibility) and the Kodakchrome sublimity of Jerovi (a short, sensual retelling of the Narcissus myth.)

Picture it: MacArthur Park, 1968. In an attempt to court a growing, lucrative gay male audience, the sexploitation-centric Park Theater (on Alvarado, next door to Langers Delicatessen) swaps out its calendar of hetero cheesecake for a boundary-pushing slate of male-only content. Kicking off this seismic wave is A Most Unusual Film Festival -- a summer-long parade of the Sixties queerest underground hits.

Join us as we pay homage to this groundbreaking first public sign of gay erotic filmmaking, where films by Warhol, Jack Smith, Pat Rocco, Mike Kuchar and even the Mekas Brothers collided in happy, horny harmony with lost gems like Nudist Beach Boy Surfers and An Interlude in the Desert.