Flaming Striptease- A History of Live Sex Performance October 11, 2008

FLAMING STRIPTEASE - A HISTORY OF LIVE SEX PERFORMANCE
60’s San Francisco was famed for its wild nightclub scene and this third program departs from purely cinematic considerations to pay tribute to filmed live performance; everything from relatively innocent striptease to more explicit live sex club performances, as well as the curious culture of male spectatorship that accompanies it. (1968, approx 90 min, 16mm)

Presented as part of:
THE SUPERSTARS NEXT DOOR: A CELEBRATION OF SAN FRANCISCO AMATEUR SEX CINEMA FROM THE 60’S
Presented by Jack Stevenson
Thu, Oct 9 & Sat, Oct 11
This three-part retrospective focuses on softcore sex films made in San Francisco in 1968, at that fleeting moment when censorship barriers were collapsing. Just about anyone with a 16mm camera who could convince their friends to take their clothes off could make films and get them shown to a paying public. Thus we look back 40 years and salute the spirited amateurism and glorious lack of professionalism that characterized these movies, which offer a fiercely dated snapshot of the moment.

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