Aug 5, 2022
Remembering amateur filmmaker and creator of Multiple SIDosis and The Sid Saga, Sid Laverents on the anniversary of his birth.
R.I.P. (1908 - 2009)
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Remembering amateur filmmaker and creator of Multiple SIDosis and The Sid Saga, Sid Laverents on the anniversary of his birth.
R.I.P. (1908 - 2009)
On September 28, 2012, The Sid Saga and Multiple Sidosis were screened as a double-feature on TCM Underground.
Here's some art inspired by both features!
Multiple Sidosis
Sid Laverents - Multiple Sidosis
Lost and Found Film Club: Sid Laverents, Amateur Auteur
Wednesday, February 5th, 10:15pm Tickets: bit.ly/1cfANoc
Lost & Found Film Club’s 1-year anniversary show!
For the first time, Lost & Found Film Club would like to honor a single filmmaker, whose playful creativity, technical innovation, D.I.Y. attitude and outsider status exemplifies the Lost & Found aesthetic: San Diego’s Sid Laverents. Most famous for his homemade 1970 one-man tour de force Multiple SIDosis — which inspired countless multi-tracked music videos with its laboriously low-tech in-camera effects — Laverents spent his early career as a vaudevillian and bandleader before being bitten by the filmmaking bug in his mid 50′s. In his wake, he left a trail of zany shorts involving odd jobs, cloning and shaving cream explosions. With his living room as backdrop, and his wife as co-star, Laverents blurred the lines between hobbyist and artist, creating and distributing films through old-school rental catalogs until his death at the age of 100 in 2009. We’ll screen a marathon of his best-loved 16mm shorts, as well as gorgeous 35mm restorations of Multiple SIDosis and Sid’s feature-length autobiography, The Sid Saga.
Program introduced by preservationist Ross Lipman. Restored prints courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
MEET SID. He started as a one-man-band in vaudeville and became the ultimate home movie maker. The amateur auteur. See the life's work of this San Diego legend Feb. 5.
Details: http://bit.ly/1cfANoc
And now a musical break featuring The Great Sid Laverents!
