Showtimes
Tuesday, January 10th • 7:30 pm
Nyback’s flair for cinema history takes center stage with Through the Porthole, a collection of 16mm shorts assembled by the Sprocket Society. A plethora of pleasures, oddities, tame, salacious, and everything in between, it’s a peek inside Nyback’s vast archive. And just like “Scopitone A Go Go,” all proceeds will go to the American Cancer Society.
Alter can’t wait until Seattle bears witness to this event. “Almost everything Dennis showed at the GI was on 16mm (I once projected a rare 35mm print he had of Motley Crue’s video of ‘Shout at the Devil’), so I knew we had to do a 16mm program. Dennis’ collection is in the process of being properly catalogued and preserved, so we couldn’t get any of his prints. Most of his programs were compilations of short films based around a subject, so I asked Spencer Sundell of the Sprocket Society, who frequently presents similarly structured programming in Seattle, to put together a 16mm show. Spencer just so happens to own a print of a cartoon that Dennis’ said was his favorite, too!”
(Full disclosure: Grand Illusion is 100% run by volunteers, and I am one of them.)