This evening's program will feature the Ithaca premiere of the recently rediscovered Peep Show, made by the obscure director, J.X. Williams. Peep Show "tells a tangled tale of a rigged 1960 election, secret C.I.A. training camps in the Florida outback, sex stings in Mafia hotels and a little-known plot to addict Frank Sinatra to heroin." (NY Times) The film comes to the screen for the first time after nearly four decades in limbo. Film scholar, curator, and archivist Noel Lawrence will give a detailed introduction on the making of the film and the colorful life of its director, including excerpts from Williams's forthcoming memoir, The Big Footnote. We will also present three of Williams's short films from the late 1960s, Psych-Burn, Satan Claus, and The Virgin Sacrifice. More at jxarchive.org. Cosponsored with the Cornell Council for the Arts, and with the Experimental Television Center's Presentation Funds Program, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts..
b&w, 1 hour 30 minutes, USA