7 AUGUST - A REEL VACATION
Can't afford a real vacation? Come to the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema for an exotic, refreshing tour through time and space as film archivist Mike Olshan presents vintage travelogues. You'll visit Manchukuo (Japanese-occupied Manchuria), British Colonial Singapore and Hong Kong, Belgian Colonial Leopoldville, New York in 1949, Hawaii in the 50s and other exotic locations. The films will be preceded by antiquated glass slides of China and Finland from Brian Frye's personal collection.

14 AUGUST - THE GLORY-HOLE OF AMERICAN THEATER - 1975-77
In conjunction with the Fringe Festival, Kirk Winslow presents four of his Super-8 film documents of a watershed period of American theater: three plays by Richard Foreman and a performance by Stuart Sherman. The program begins with Foreman's Rhoda in Potatoland (1975), starring Kate Mannheim, and continues with Foreman's version of Brecht's Threepenny Opera (1975), starring Raul Julia and produced by Joseph Papp at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, and Livres des Splendeurs I (1976), staged in Paris at the Bouffes du Nord. A film of Stuart Sherman's performance Portraits of Places (1977), in which he presents portraits of various cities he has visited, will conclude the program. Kirk wishes to dedicate tonight's show to the memory of Lillian Kiesler.

21 AUGUST - NO PROGRAM TONIGHT

28 AUGUST - RHYMES WITH SELTZER (RICHARD MELTZER)
Tonight we make a sojourn into cinema with the Philosopher of Rock, Richard Meltzer, presenting several of his rarely-seen Regular 8mm movie masterpieces, Ages 9 to 12 (1970), Piss Daiquiri (1971), A Royal Flush in August (1972) and Cots for Sleeping Six Abreast (1973). In addition we'll see films by his alter-ego Lar Tusb, including Joe Cocker Live (1969) ("An exhibition baseball game featuring Joe and Les, the first major singer in the Soft White Underbelly after Jeff Richards and Jack Sprat; Les's sister is one great broad and she's wearing her lipstick in this one." -RM) and Janis Joplin's Mams and Cunny (1968). Mr. Meltzer himself will do a phone-in introduction from lovely Portland, Oregon, as well as a video-reading in excerpts from Rhymes With Seltzer:Richard Meltzer Reads Some Stuff. The program will close with a screening of Andrew Dickson's Good Grief, in which Mr. Meltzer makes an all-important cameo appearance as a (semi-)mysterious writer.

All programs on Tuesdays at 9pm at Collective Unconscious, 145 Ludlow St. NYC $5 Admission