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Title
Snake Theatre - 24th Hour Cafe (Oct 14, 1978)
Creator
Snake Theater
Demystavision
Date Created and/or Issued
1978-10-14
Contributing Institution
Museum of Performance and Design, Performing Arts Library
Collection
California Revealed from Museum of Performance and Design
Rights Information
Copyrighted. Rights are owned by Jed Handler and Snake Theater. Snake Theater has given the Museum of Performance + Design permission to provided access tot he digitized work online. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owner. In addition, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Description
Snake was an experimental performing arts company which produced only original work. It was founded In 1972, in Venice, California, by Co-Directors Laura Farabough and Chris Hardman. After relocating to Northern California, Snake produced many site specific works. Snake's work received national and international recognition. It received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, the San Francisco Foundation, and the Zellerbach Family Foundation. Video by Demystavision. Videographers Bill Bathurst, Ron Blanchette, Jed Handler. Performance of Snake Theater's "24th Hour Cafā€�Ć Ć¶Ā¬Ā©". Plot: A truck stop waitress creates a love triangle in hopes that one of the men involved will take her out of the desert and away from the job she loathes. Written and directed by Chris Hardman and Laura Farabough.
Jon Bielinski, Laura Farabough, Lary Graber, Chris Hardman, Evie Lewis
Type
moving image
Format
Betamax
Form/Genre
Experimental films
Extent
1 Tape of 1
Identifier
014.035.237
csfpal_000234
Language
English
Subject
Snake Theater
Hardman, Chris
Farabough, Laura
Place
San Francisco (Calif.)
Provenance
Museum of Performance + Design
California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.

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