Jason Willis

Anatomy of an Arthouse: 50 Years of the Loft Cinema in Tucson

Anatomy of an Arthouse: 50 Years of The Loft Cinema in Tucson is a short documentary film about The Loft Cinema, one of the country’s longest-running independent cinemas. As told by the people who made it happen - with its transition from screening X-rated adult films to showcasing acclaimed art films and repertory classics in 1972, its 1991 move from a small church on Fremont and 6th Street to its current location on Speedway Boulevard, its longest run of Rocky Horror in America, to the ups and downs of the independent film exhibition world over the last 50 years.

We Were There to Be There

On June 13, 1978, the punk bands the Cramps and the Mutants played a free show for psychiatric patients at the Napa State Hospital in California. We Were There to Be There chronicles the people, politics, and cultural currents that led to the show and its live recording.

We Were There to Be There

On June 13, 1978, the punk bands the Cramps and the Mutants played a free show for psychiatric patients at the Napa State Hospital in California. We Were There to Be There chronicles the people, politics, and cultural currents that led to the show and its live recording.

We Were There to Be There

On June 13, 1978, the punk bands the Cramps and the Mutants played a free show for psychiatric patients at the Napa State Hospital in California. We Were There to Be There chronicles the people, politics, and cultural currents that led to the show and its live recording.

Catnip: Egress to Oblivion?

Catnip is all the rage with today's modern feline, but do we really understand it? Is it a source for harmless kicks, or a potentially crippling addiction? Is it a tool to expand one's consciousness, or a downward spiraling path that can eventually lead to insanity? Once and for all the facts about this controversial substance are frankly discussed, in the long-lost drug educational film that never-was, "Catnip: Egress to Oblivion?

Catnip: Egress to Oblivion?

Catnip is all the rage with today's modern feline, but do we really understand it? Is it a source for harmless kicks, or a potentially crippling addiction? Is it a tool to expand one's consciousness, or a downward spiraling path that can eventually lead to insanity? Once and for all the facts about this controversial substance are frankly discussed, in the long-lost drug educational film that never-was, "Catnip: Egress to Oblivion?

The Cast of Eerie Publications Perform the Johnson-Smith Novelty Company Horror Record

A parallel universe alliance between Eerie Publications and the 1973 Johnson-Smith Novelty Company "Horror Record."