SCORPIO RISING   Director: Kenneth Anger Year: 1964 Runtime: 29 min. Country: USA Language: English Color: Color Format: 16mm
Upon his return to America from a long stay in France, Kenneth Anger met a gang of outlaw bikers in Brooklyn who became the subject of this film, the closest thing to a documentary the underground filmmaker ever made. For a group of self-proclaimed heterosexuals, these motorcyclists sure have a fascination for male icons like James Dean, Marlon Brando, Adolf Hitler and Jesus Christ; and they have a penchant for wearing leather and polishing chrome which approaches sexual fetish. Their initiation ritual of pouring mustard on the genitals is also pretty kinky. Anger accompanies this disturbing imagery with a wall-to-wall soundtrack of pop recordings by artists such as Ricky Nelson, Bobby Vinton, Elvis Presley and many others. "An exhaustive tour of the death-wish in western culture with a legendary rock 'n' roll soundtrack." — Tony Rayns, TimeOut Film Guide "Gives full play to the mythologies that formulate the biker as a symbol of unsettling otherness." — Bill Osberby, Underground USA
EIGHT FILMS FROM RALPH RECORDS   Director: Graeme Whifler, Dieter Meier and The Residents Year: 1977-81 Runtime: 34 min. Country: USA Language: English Color: Color Format: 16mm
This compilation begins with a film by The Residents called "Third Reich and Roll" which features their versions of the tunes "Land of a Thousand Dances" and "Wipe Out." The Oakland Tribune called it, "Far beyond far out." The program closes with "Songs for Swinging Larvae" by Renaldo and the Loaf. Sandwiched between these two slices are six other short films. Also showing: Episode Three of Captain Celluloid vs. the Film Pirates — "Satan's Coffin." Plus, a cartoon from 1960 titled "Gosomer Wump." Showtime Location Admission Monday, Sept. 7 7 pm STUDIO ON 4TH 432 East 4th Street $6 General $4 GBFS Members

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