Cameron in Film: a new moon invocation

Monday, October 31, 2016, 8:30 pm
Upstairs at Ace Hotel

929 S. Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90015

Intro audio recording:
Cameron reads from Albert Sidney Raleigh, Woman and Super-woman: A Trumpet Call to the Women of the Present Generation, copyright 1916

Scott Hobbs, Cinderella of the Wastelands, digital video, 7min., 2013
Curtis Harrington, The Wormwood Star, 16mm on HD video, 10min., 1956
Edward Silverstone Taylor, Street Fair 1959, 16mm on digital video, 7min., 1959
Curtis Harrington, Night Tide (2 excerpts), 35mm on digital video, 86min., 1961
John Chamberlain, Thumbsuck [unfinished], 16mm on digital video, 11min., 1969
Videographer unknown, An Evening with Cameron, video, 10min., 1989

Proceeded by images courtesy of Cynthia McAdams
DJ sets by Hedi El Kholti + Nathan Hauenstein
Tarot readings by Nikki Darling + Zac Monday

Audio recording, Cinderella of the Wastelands, Thumbsuck, and An Evening with Cameron courtesy of The Parsons Cameron Foundation.
The Wormwood Star restored by the Academy Film Archive. Thanks to Drag City/Flicker Alley.
Street Fair 1959 courtesy of the Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection. Digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project.
Original soundtrack to Thumbsuck recorded by Susanna on the occasion of this screening.

Assembling the cinematic manifestations of Witch Woman, Marjorie Cameron, through short portraits, unfinished film shards and video documentation. The event, organized in cooperation with the Parsons Cameron Foundation, will unfold with never-before-seen accounts, surprise guests, occult rituals and numinous DJ sets by Nathan Hauenstein and Hedi El Kholti.

Dirty Looks would like to thank The Ace, The Parsons Cameron Foundation and Susanna for their participation in this event.