Oddball Films
Oddball Films is a film screening series celebrating the unusual and extraordinary. Curated by Stephen Parr, the programs have explored the erotic underbelly of sex-in-cinema (The Subject is Sex), the offbeat and bizarre (Oddities Beyond Belief), the pervasive effects of propaganda (Historical Hysterical), and an ongoing program of oddities from his archives (Strange Sinema). His current program, Euphora!, is an effervescent insight into the high conscious states of cinematic perception and pop culture sensation.
Stephen Parr is an archivist, image-maker, and curator, with a vast archive of 16mm, 35mm, small gauge, and digital media elements. He has shot everything from the Ramones to John Cage, and his archival and offbeat programs have been screened at venues such as Anthology Film Archives, New York; The Leeds International Film Festival, U.K.; and Moscow University. He is the director of Oddball Film+Video (www.oddballfilm.com), a San Francisco stock footage company; Oddball Films, a screening series showcasing eclectic cinema; and the San Francisco Media Archive (www.sfm.org), a non-profit dedicated to preserving culturally significant media.