Welcome Attendees to the 2010 festival starting October 15th through the 17th this year at Digital Domain and The Waterfront in Marina Del Rey.
This year’s Festival’s Opening Night at Digital Domain begins at 7:00. Starts with The VIP Cocktail Party, and features screenings of Director Curtis Hardington’s Night Tide. Night Tide is a 1961 fantasy film, written and directed by Curtis Harrington and starring Dennis Hopper. It premiered in 1961, but was held up from general release until 1963. The film was restored by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.
Venice Beach in the Sixties: A Celebration of Creativity.Directed by Leland Auslender. With Leon Bahr, David Banks, Jane Belson.
From 1960 to 1964, I lived in Venice Beach, California, then known as Venice, Slum by the Sea. It was also the heart of the mushrooming beat and hippie cultures. Its free-spirited, flamboyant inhabitants fascinated me, and I filmed all who attracted my lens. Today, 43 years later, I have edited this footage into a 15-minute documentary titled Venice Beach in the Sixties-A Celebration of Creativity. It includes a hippie Halloween costume party; a hip non-costume party, with erotic dancers dressed only in body-paint; and an encounter with LSD, a life-enhancing experience that influenced my films by unveiling to me the mystical universe in its eternal aspect.
Leland Auslender
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