USA,
1976, 36 min
Shown in 1996
CREDITS
- dir
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Bruce Conner
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COMMENTS
Shown as part of the program Resurfacing the Screen, curated by Steve Anker and Kathy Geritz.
As part of a major preservation project by the Pacific Film Archive, a new 35mm print (from a restored negative) of Bruce Connor's landmark Crossroads receives its San Francisco premiere. Constructed enirely from government footage of the Bikini Atoll A-bomb test in 1946, the film creates an extended meditation on the paradox between the sublime pleasure of the unfolding images and their horrific implications.
—Steve Anker and Kathy Geritz
FACTOID #88
Steve Cochran, the American actor who starred in Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1957 SFIFF entry Il Grido, demanded a private screening of the film before it could be shown to Festival audiences so he could ensure that scenes that had been censored in Italy had not been cut from the print. Cochran, who had American distribution rights to the film, got a screening’delaying the film’s 8:30 start time for ticketholders.
