Where: Dave Barber Cinematheque
When: 2026-06-11 || Show 7:00pm
Event Details:
Director: Ken Camp Run Time: 75 min.
Format: DCP Rating: 18A
Release Year:
1984
The Los Angeles Freeway Killer (Leonard Lumpkin) takes a drive to Las Vegas—and back. This video by Ken Camp ( As the World Burns ) is both trancelike and troubling, taking the viewer across the desert of California, through Nevada, and into “the frightening zone where lay the genetic codes and memories that make us all killers.”
Unseen since its 1984 premiere at West Hollywood’s EZTV Video Gallery, Ken Camp’s Highway Hypnosis is a disturbing meditation on the eroticism of violence and a major work of both narrative video art and queer horror.
New digital preservation from the original 3/4” tape master.
Plays with Shock Video
Dir. Ken Camp
1985, USA, 12 min
Constructed from footage shot for his as-of-yet unfinished Super 8 horror feature After the Comet , Ken Camp’s Shock Video is a disturbing reflection of the filmmaker’s time living in San Francisco during the latter half of the 1970s—a period that saw not only the blossoming of gay liberation, but the Patricia Hearst kidnapping, the Jonestown mass suicide, a series of bombings committed by the New World Liberation Front, the assassination of Harvey Milk, and multiple gay serial killers like the Doodler and the Freeway Killer. Originally assembled and transferred to video for screenings at Los Angeles DJ and promoter Jim Van Tyne’s legendary Theoretical parties, Camp views Shock Video as being both something of a trailer for After the Comet and its own distinct work.
New 4K restoration from the original Super 8 reversal positive.
Series: Cult-O-Rama
Showtimes:
Thu, Jun 11: 7:00pm - https://davebarbercinematheque.com/purchase/2573/