Oddball Films

08/12/2022

The Castro Theatre Conservancy stands for maintaining the landmark Castro Theatre as San Francisco’s preeminent movie palace and iconic LGBTQ+ resource.

20/02/2021

Oddball Films footage of 1960's Brooklyn teenagers exuberantly leaping off of parked cars is in Spike Lee’s featured short film Spike Lee x Montblanc: What Moves You, Makes You. Montblanc partnered with Spike Lee, Taron Egerton and Chen Kun for their campaign “What Moves You, Makes You.” The global launch is centered on Montblanc’s mission “to inspire people to express their full potential on their own terms.”

29/01/2021

2020 Productions featuring footage provided by Oddball Films! Full list on our website https://www.oddballfilms.com/news/2020-productions-featuring-footage-provided-oddball-films

30/01/2020

2019 Productions featuring footage provided by Oddball Films! Full list on our website https://www.oddballfilms.com/news/2019-productions-featuring-footage-provided-oddball-films

11/12/2019

Happy Holidays from Oddball Films! We “reelly” hope you have a wonderful holiday and find some time to enjoy some films and each other.

07/11/2019

On Monday evening the Oddball Films staff got to see filmmaker Martin Scorsese at the Castro Theatre SFFilm screening of his recent documentary “Rolling Thunder R***e: A Bob Dylan Story.” Scorcese spoke after the film and told some stories about making the film and shared his thoughts on how narrative and documentary films come together as one genre. Oddball Films has some great 70’s footage in the film!
@ Castro Theatre

30/10/2019

Join Oddball Films at 3rd i's seventeenth annual SF International South Asian Film Festival (Bollywood and Beyond) with some of the best cinema from India, Sri Lanka, UK and the USA. This year’s festival lends an ear to young voices, capturing both intergenerational relationships, and stories of youth coming-of-age in rural areas and in megacities. Humor takes centerstage in stories of stand-up comics, and in our signature shorts program which uses satire to address pressing social issues from the border wall to colorism. This year’s festival is brimming with cutting-edge indie narratives: from gripping and compassionate stories of addiction, to up-and-coming filmmakers of Bengali cinema and the Assamese New Wave, to a searing and masterful period drama on caste conflict from Sri Lanka. As always, California filmmakers and Women’s stories shine bright!

For expanded program and ticketing information, please visit: www.thirdi.org

Use promotional code "cp_2019” when purchasing tickets and receive 20% off an individual $11 ticket (until online sales end two hours before the screening. Online fees not discounted).

07/05/2019

19/04/2019

We are celebrating 25 years of Oddball images, antics and fun! We will soon be announcing a very special event to commemorate a quarter century of sending out the most unique images and loving every minute of it!

06/03/2019

Oddball Films’ print of the 1970 film, Spiral Jetty is on loan at the Getty Museum LA for their event, Monumentality and Cosmic Scale. Artist Robert Smithson filmed his process of creating a 1500 feet long spiral made of basalt rocks and mud using dump trucks, a front loader, and a tractor. Spiral Jetty will screen along with the 1977 film Eames’ Powers by Charles and Ray Eames at Harold M. Williams Auditorium on March 9th at 2pm.

Additional films shown courtesy of Filmmakers Coop and Smokehouse Films.

http://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/ev_2508.html

https://www.facebook.com/events/2105412082835807/

29/01/2019

Rattlesnakes, Cameras, Pistols and Lilies: Come see a unique exhibition of photographs and paintings of a desert journey.
Oddball Films is excited to recommend this one-of-a-kind exhibition spearheaded by our friend, the multi-talented artist Warner Graves. Warner has co-edited, along with Ann Japenga, a book of photographs chronicling the story of his grandmother Lula Mae Graves and her cousin, Susie Keef Smith as they travelled through the southwest in the 1920s armed with a pistol, a camera, and an eye for the desert’s beauty. Recently Warner took the time to travel through many of the spots that his grandmother Lula Mae and her friend Susie visited and painted the landscapes he saw there. Lula Mae and Susie’s photographs and Warner’s paintings are being shown together until May 15th at La Quinta Museum, just southeast of Palm Springs, California.
https://www.palmspringslife.com/desert-history-coachella-valley/
SUSIE SMITH PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY WARNER GRAVES COLLECTION, CHRIS ERVIN COLLECTION

12/01/2019

Daniel Britton and his Video Art class from El Camino High School in South San Francisco came into Oddball Films today for a tour, lecture, discussion and film screening. They were a bright group with insightful questions and comments. We were happy to host this next generation of film and video artists!

18/12/2018

Oddball Films Holiday Party 2018. Stephen Parr, as always the shining star of the party 🌟
Photo of Stephen: Jeanne Hansen 🌟

14/12/2018

Happy Holidays from Oddball Films! The Oddball eye is watching, it knows who’s naughty or nice. So be both naughty and nice for goodness sake! 🎄

19/11/2018

Happy Turkey Day from all of us at Oddball Films! Here's how we serve turkey.
We are closed on Thanksgiving Day, but we will be here Friday. Cheers!

https://www.oddballfilms.com/news/pandas-ice-cream-and-turkeys-oh-my

13/11/2018

Networking at UC Berkeley at BCEC, speaking to film students about the Oddball Films internship program.
If you want to intern for Oddball Films and can receive college credit, apply for Spring 2019 at [email protected] We look forward to welcoming talented students into our in-depth training!

09/11/2018

Oddball Films and San Francisco Media Archive are initiating a film preservation project. Our first focus is on detecting and measuring the severity of acetate deterioration ("vinegar syndrome") in our film collections. Shown here is lead archivist Megan Needels using A-D strips to measure these levels on this 16mm film print.

Photo by Pearl Martin-Eagle

https://www.oddballfilms.com/news/film-preservation-project-oddball-films