{"id":312,"date":"2015-09-30T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/09\/30\/help-fund-an-archive-of-weird-dangerous-rare-films\/"},"modified":"2015-09-30T15:26:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T19:26:00","slug":"help-fund-an-archive-of-weird-dangerous-rare-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/09\/30\/help-fund-an-archive-of-weird-dangerous-rare-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Help fund an archive of weird, dangerous, rare films"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/agfa\/agfa-and-something-weird\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-NCPaP56QxqQ\/VgwswOudLcI\/AAAAAAAAB7E\/y7y828j_sWw\/s400\/blaaarghwhatami.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>In 1990, a film enthusiast named Mike Vraney founded Something Weird Video, a distributor of hard-to-find, sensationalist movies. This included everything from violent exploitation movies to budget Westerns and found footage. Something Weird became a touchstone for the rougher, risky side of film history, and filmmakers including Paul Thomas Anderson and <i>Drive<\/i>&#8216;s Nicolas Winding Refn have been involved with the company. Vraney died in 2014, leaving behind a massive trove of some of the only copies of over 6000 strange films \u2013 and your help is needed to preserve them.<\/p>\n<p>The American Genre Film Archive has started a project to preserve and re-release as much of Something Weird&#8217;s archive as possible, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/agfa\/agfa-and-something-weird\">they&#8217;re looking for $30,000 from a Kickstarter<\/a>. Something Weird apparently sends out hundreds of prints to film and educational groups every year, and those copies will eventually degrade if not cared for. A proper preservation program like that one AGFA proposes would ensure access to this very odd collection for generations to come.<\/p>\n<p>Consider throwing a few dollars their way. AGFA has chosen the comically ahistorical <i>The Zodiac Killer<\/i> as its restoration centerpiece, and if you pitch in at least $10, you&#8217;ll get a free copy when it&#8217;s available!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1990, a film enthusiast named Mike Vraney founded Something Weird Video, a distributor of hard-to-find, sensationalist movies. This included everything from violent exploitation movies to budget Westerns and found footage. Something Weird became a touchstone for the rougher, risky side of film history, and filmmakers including Paul Thomas Anderson and Drive&#8216;s Nicolas Winding Refn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[203,212,276],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kickstarter","tag-links-of-interest","tag-preservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}