Dirty Looks, a monthly platform for queer experimental film and video presents:
Fred Halsted's The Sex Garage (1972)
William E. Jones' Finished (1997)
William E. Jones has crafted a remarkable art career around pornography. Emerging in the mid-90s on the indie scene with the documentary Massillon, Jones’ second feature, Finished follows the filmmaker’s obsession with Québécois porn star, Alan Lambert. Finished is as much about a viewer’s heated voyeurism as it is an account of the troubled performer - who committed public suicide in a misguided act of political transgression. After the film’s release, Jones took to working with historic porn footage, organizing massive archives for various
collectors and institutions.
He emerged with a new subject: Fred Halsted, a 70s porntrepreneur who opened Halstead’s, a stand-and-fuck bar in Silverlake, ran the magazine Package, and directed experimental sex films like LA Plays Itself, A Night At Halsted’s and the short, The Sex Garage. Halsted's films are the only pornographic titles to be acquired by the Museum of Modern Art. Dirty Looks brings together these obsessions.

**the screening contains explicit material not suitable for minors**
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