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The Foundatioo for Art in Ci n em a CINEMATHEQUE Th« Bav Area snowcasa tor personal ana avani-^roe film ROBERT !r"L3C" R~T?.CS?"CTIVZ MARCH 29,1934 The San Francisco Cinematheque presents a three part retrospective of the films of Robert Nelson, native San Franciscan, v/hose work in the 1960s in collaboration with Funk Artists William Wiley and Robert Hudson, composer Steve Reich, and San Francisco Mime Troupe Director, Ron Davis, established his reputation as an original voice in San Francisco's "hipster cinema". Reflecting and encouraging an irrevercuice for polite middleclass values via an ironic, playful, and unrelenting "un-uptight sense of humor", Xelson and his SF Art Institute cohorts mirrored the transforming climate of the post- beat/prepsychedelic 60s. Collective imagination infused the films, and the artists' offhanded approach to process allowed the idiosynchratic nature of the works to reign free and expressive. 'With Nelson, art values and enter- tainment values collide ecstatically. "-(Nelson) has long been recognized (along with Bruce Conner, the Kuchar Brothers and a few others) as the avant-garde cinema's most potent comic filmmaker... nearly all Nelson's films develop one form of humor or another. This along with his improvisational methods, his connection with the SF .Art Institute, and the Eastern influences on his work have made hin a representative of what's usually thought of as an essential element of 'West Coast Filmmaking'." -Scott MacDonald The conclusion of this three part presentation of Nelson's work will be a screening of Suite California: Stops and Passes (Parts I and II) on May 3. "... I'd say that everybody knew something Nvas going on, but nobody I knew imagined what would actually happen in the 60s explosion... many of the people v/ho were already in the art scene, who were just a little bit older, kept some distance. They'd already formed their ovm alternate lifestyles. To the extent that their lives overlapped with what ^\as happening in the mid-'60s, they were a part of it, but they were already there when it exploded I'd seen a few avant- garde films, so I already knew you could do anything you wanted." -R.N. THE AWFUL BACKLASH (196?) U min Soundtrack by Nelson "Bill Allan came over to my hovise one day, at about the time that Blondino \vas nearly finished, and said that we should make a film about a fishing reel backlash. He fishes all the time and the idea came to him while casting... I'm really happy with this movie and I think that it's nearly perfect. I showed it a lot in Europe last year, and some people over there thought it was a put-on but it isn't, others hated it because it is so boring. I usually feel very good when I see it." -R.N. THE OFF-HAND JAPE (196?) 9 min Soundtracic by Nelson and William T. Wiley "...I've always felt good about this film because it's beyond criticism. No one can say it's awful, no matter what elaborate reasons they construct,