Ken Camp Double Feature: Highway Hypnosis (1984) & Shock Video (1985)
<font color="#ffffff">The Esquire Theatre is proud to partner with the American Cinematheque to present BLEAK WEEK: CINEMA OF DESPAIR, a seven day film festival showcasing some of the greatest works of cinema from across the globe that venture into the darkest sides of humanity and the bleakest points in human history. The Esquire is one of 82 theaters from around the world taking part in this year's Bleak Week, and the regular programmers at our theater, including Outer Cinema Cincinnati, Conveyor Belt Books, Secret Base Cinema and Leontine CInema Collective, have curated a line-up of seventeen of the most challenging feature films from eighty years of arthouse cinema for this special event!</font><div><font color="#ffffff"><br></font></div><div><font color="#ffffff"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Next up- </span></font><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">HIGHWAY HYPNOSIS / SHOCK VIDEO</span><b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> </b><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">(1984, 1985, Ken Camp) P</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">resented by Justin Wiese of Outer Cinema Cincinnati</span></font></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><font color="#ffffff"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><font color="#ffffff">HIGHWAY HYPNOSIS (1hr 2 min) SYNOPSIS: The Los Angeles freeway killer takes a drive to Las Vegas—and back. This video by Ken Camp 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.”</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><font color="#ffffff"><br></font></span></div><div><font color="#ffffff">SHOCK VIDEO (12 min) SYNOPSIS: 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.</font></div>PT1H44MNot Rated2026-06-06Ken Camp Double Feature: Highway Hypnosis (1984) & Shock Video (1985)"Ken Camp Double Feature: Highway Hypnosis (1984) & Shock Video (1985)"Showtimes
June 6, 9:20 pm
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