The 2015-16 season of the Schnitzer Cinema will be devoted to American experimental media, with a special emphasis on the history of Queer Productions. Programmed by Richard Herskowitz, director of Cinema Pacific and JSMA Curator of Media Arts, with the help of Professor Quinn Miller, all films begin at 7 p.m. at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on the University of Oregon campus and include free refreshments. The series opens on Wednesday, October 14th with “Jack Smith and Queer Theatre”. In his filmmaking, Smith created a sense of "aesthetic delirium” through his use of outdated film stock and baroque subject matter. His best-known film, “Flaming Creatures” (1963), an excerpt of which will be screened, became the subject of a protracted legal battle over its alleged pornographic content. On Wednesday, November 4, Schnitzer Cinema presents “It Came From Kuchar” plus two video diaries by George Kuchar. George and Mike Kuchar grew up in the Bronx in the 1950s and at the age of twelve, they became obsessed with Hollywood melodramas. They began making their own films with their aunt’s 8mm camera and used their friends and family as actors and their Bronx neighborhood as their set. See more at the the JSMA website.

Fall 2015 Schnitzer Cinema Schedule:

Wednesday, October 14th, 7pm:  "Jack Smith and Queer Theater"

Wednesday, November 4th, 7pm:  "It Came from Kuchar"