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“A gender-obliterating funfest.” —Steve Seid
Two wandering youths visit the mansion home of the mysterious Procuress, who draws them into the sensuality of her spellbinding kingdom with a magical potion. Filmed in San Francisco’s Mission District, Steven Arnold’s extraordinary, voyeuristic phantasmagoria places the spectator as a willing participant in menacing ecstasy. 1971, 16mm transferred to DCP, 76 min. Contains explicit sexual content.
Presented with a recorded introduction by Dean Otto and Steve Seid on the Walker’s restoration made in collaboration with the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
Free tickets available at the Main Lobby desk from 6 pm.
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About the Artists/Curators
Born in Oakland, California, Steven Arnold went to high school with Pandora, his muse for Luminous Procuress. The filmmaker graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1968 and studied with Salvador Dalí in Spain in the 1970s. Arnold returned to California in the early 1980s, adopting photography as his main medium.
The founding curator of film at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, Dean Otto heads a state-of-the art cinema with a robust program of restorations, experimental and art house film, and socially engaged programming. Otto was formerly at the Walker Art Center for more than two decades as part of the Moving Image Department, organizing screenings and enlivening the use of films from the collection.
A film and video curator at the University of California’s Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive for 25 years, Steve Seid made major contributions to BAMPFA’s collection, particularly video art and personal cinema from the Bay Area. He led notable restorations including Steven Arnold’s Luminous Procuress (1971) and poet Ruth Weiss’s only film effort, The Brink (1961).
Explore a vault of information about the rediscovery of Luminous Procuress.
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