Bass on Titles

Oddball Films will screen films by "one of the 20th century’s legendary graphic designers, filmmakers and title producers," Saul Bass.

"Bass was famous for designing brilliant animated sequences for motion pictures. In his 40+ year career he did work for the best Hollywood movie makers including Otto Preminger, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese and many more."

On tap for the evening (with descriptions from Oddball):
“Bass on Titles” (1977), a doc featuring some of the designer’s iconic title sequences and logos, “Why Man Creates” (1969), a series of explorations and comments on creativity (one of the most highly regarded short films ever produced and Winner of the Oscar in 1969), “Notes on the Popular Arts” (1969), in which a series of fantasies, each of our American art forms takes an unsuspecting person through a smorgasbord of bizarre dream sequences, “The Searching Eye” (1969), using exquisite time lapse cinematography a boy sees the history of man in a sand castle and the creation of the earth in a piece of rock, “A Short Film on Solar Energy” (1980) , animated history of solar power, trailers for his films and more.