USA,
1989, 2 min
Shown in 1994
CREDITS
- dir
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Lynn Hershman
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COMMENTS
Screened as part of retrospective tribute. Lynn Hershman in person at 1994 Festival.
A series of four heightened televisual come-ons, done in the manner of 900-number commercial spots. These works, complete with response numbers, were cablecast throughout the Bay Area.
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.
