Exploratorium After Dark: Distortion March 4, 2010

Experience altered states at Distortion. Guest film curator Sean Uyehara of the San Francisco Film Society will twist your senses with a psychedelic animation by local auteur Kerry Laitala, and will screen "visual music" by the late experimental filmmaker and musicologist Harry Smith. San Francisco's notorious band, Thee Oh Sees, will musically infuse tonight's events, overlaying '60s-era garage pop sounds with punky jitter and surf psychedelia to create a playfully harmonic-yet-chaotic aural disorientation.