Distortion
Visitors were invited to experience altered states at Distortion. They were given 3-D glasses at the door and were invited to explore experiments in feedback, caricatures, misrepresentations, and other distortions. Guest film curator Sean Uyehara of the San Francisco Film Society twisted people's senses with a psychedelic animation by local auteur Kerry Laitala, and screened 'visual music' by the late experimental filmmaker and musicologist Harry Smith (best known for his 1952 six-album Anthology of American Folk Music). Sean is a programmer at the San Francisco Film Society who inaugurated KinoTek, a programming thread dedicated to exhibiting cross-platform technologies and emergent media. He is also the establishing programmer of the San Francisco International Animation Festival and lead programmer of film and music, live events, and multimedia performance at the San Francisco International Film Festival and SF360 Film + Club. San Francisco's Thee Oh Sees musically infused the event, overlaying '60s-era garage pop sounds with punky jitter and surf psychedelia to create a playfully harmonic-yet-chaotic aural disorientation. Long considered one of the best underground bands in San Francisco, Thee Oh Sees's live shows are legendary for their energy, due in part to front man John Dwyer's unparalleled ferocity on the guitar.
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