The Sensitive '70's: Empathetic Self-Help and Social-Problem films from the Disco Decade at Oddball Film + Video

Film on Film Foundation (www.filmonfilm.org) and Oddball Films present:

The Sensitive '70's: Empathetic Self-Help and Social-Problem films from the Disco Decade

Personal and societal ills have long been fodder for small-gauge cinema. Nestled between the faux-clinical health films of the '50's and earlier and the overly simplistic 'just say no' school of '80's didacticism, the films of the '70's stand out for their aptly sensitive approach to sensitive problems. Whether through free-form discussion, improvisation, or full-on narrative, room is given for real life to assert itself and introduce messy, complex, even contradictory subcurrents into these works. We'll view films about alcohol abuse, drug dependence, and suicide that situate these issues within the dynamics of family and friendship, often raising more questions than answers. Along the way we'll take a light-hearted detour into the emotional lives of children. Underlying all these works is a rare sense of empathy and humanism.

The program consists of the following 16mm films:

Francesca, Baby (1976) by Larry Elikann The Drug Scene (1970) by Justin M. Purchin Your Self Image (1971) by Jim Gable and Jerry Greenberg I'm Feeling Scared (1974) by Larry Klingman Suicide: It Doesn't Have To Happen (1976) by Peggy Chute

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