What You Don’t Realize Corporate America Really Is Looking For

Oddball Films Media • Apr 23, 2014



For one night and one night only, author of Making the Office Waaay Less Boring and If You’ve Got a Frown, Let’s Talk About It!, HR master of the the future, Anetha Buckley, will present her groundbreaking work, “What You Don’t Realize Corporate America Really Is Looking For”, an eye opening presentation + film screening on the multitudinous effects of dated office etiquette which plague the corporate environment to this very day, and a treatise on the changing landscape of business behavior in the modern world. Her talk, her vision, is guaranteed to help everyone see what’s been holding them back all these years, and promises to turn bored eyes to the exciting future of accepting human nature in the work environment!
Without too much spoiler pre-info, Anetha’s presentation and film screening moves through a series of stages, from the gross intolerance that was tolerated in the office of the past in comparison with the present day corporate environment we really want (which we’re really only beginning to understand). By integrating such films as What Do We Look Like to Others, perhaps the most dated film on office behavior ever, and Office Practice: Your Attitude, Anetha will show the audience not just how far off we had it in the past, and how these attitudes continue to live in our desks, our pencils, our notebooks, on the grease smudges on the lenses of our glasses, in our ties, on our shoes, and now, creeping their way into our tablets and our phones! After this presentation on our terrible terrible mistakes and misunderstandings of human nature, Anetha will guide us on her film driven tour of how to combat these ridiculous notions of appropriate behavior!
        Get ready, because Anetha Buckley is going to show you how to crank your knob to level 11! With films such as Binary Bit Patterns, Anetha will demonstrate that there’s more to be done on a computer than checking facebook and writing emails while evading work at the office. BE CREATIVE! Creativity is a BIG PLUS in today’s corporate environment. Yes, Anetha says that as long as you’re doing something cool with your “waste time”, you’re not actually wasting time! Whoa! Now get ready for this folks, Anetha claims that open integration of cultural practices other than our own should be celebrated, at work! She says that people who are able to “integrate” are those who define the new, cutting edge employees of the future. Anetha will pump you up to do just that with Sacred Trances in Bali and Java. And remember all those terrible office parties we’ve all had to attend, uff, what a bore…well out with old and in with the new! Kenneth Anger’s Invocation of My Demon Brother has all the answers to the office party of today! And what of office romance? Not allowed? WRONG! Totally ok, says Anetha, just sing someone a pretty song and make yourself heard! You’ll be ready to do just that after watching Bill Plympton’s Your Face, this picture-perfect example romantic expression.

         So join us at 8 p.m. on Friday January 31st at Oddball Films, and get ready for the future that is already here!



A bit about Anetha:
Anetha Buckley has been featured in The New York Times “Mindaltering Futurist” section more than once, and was highlighted in Reader’s Digest as, “the most innovative woman in HR in the 21st century – if not ever.” Her talks have changed San Francisco into the “funnest city to work in the world” and it is even whispered that she and Steve Jobs have been taking inspiration from an alien species of Funnertons that no one else has ever seen. She’s just amazing.






Program:



What Do We Look Like to Others (1973)
Dramatizes seven different office situations to show the “necessity” of maintaining good personal appearance, attitudes, conduct, and personal habits on the job. NOT!
Office Practice: Your Attitude (1972)
An educational film about work attitude:
“Going to work...a custom shared by millions almost every day. Some enjoy it; others don't.” Need I say more!

Binary Bit Patterns (Color, 1969)
The fast-paced film features quilt-like tapestries of polyhedral and crystalline figures pulsating and multiplying with a kind of universal logic eliciting a hypnotic, trancelike effect from the viewer. This film echoes a preoccupation with the mandala image and the interest in Eastern meditative philosophy that is seen in the work of the whole Whitney family. With original sound score. This film says, “USE YOUR COMPUTER LIKE THIS!!!”
Sacred Trances in Bali and Java ( Color, 1974)
Through the observance of Hindu, Muslim and animistic rites in the sacred trance rituals of Bali and Java, spirits are brought down to enter the bodies of those in trance. Spirits are invoked and enter bodies when in trance, allowing participants to walk on fire or roll on broken glass. This film is an extraordinary example of altered states of consciousness achieved in this blend of animistic, Hindu, and Moslem rites. Produced by award-winning filmmaker Elda Hartley.
Invocation of My Demon Brother (Color, 1969)
Kenneth Anger creates an altered state of consciousness through the use of cinematic and psycho-spiritual magick techniques.The film is described by notorious avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger as “An assault on the sensorium” features “underworld powers gathering at a midnight mass to shadow forth Lord Lucifer in a gathering of spirits”. Invocation is a quintessential late 1960 freak-out, containing a montage of drug use, pagan rituals, an albino, stock footage of the Vietnam War, the Rolling Stones in concert and abstract imagery all played  back at various speeds. The film is accompanied by a repetitive, droning Moog musical score created by Mick Jagger. In the words of avant-garde film critic P. Adams Sitney “It is Anger's most metaphysical film: here he eschews literal connections, makes images jar against one another, and does not create a center of gravity through which the collage is to be interpreted... the burden of synthesis falls upon the viewer.” THE ULTIMATE IN OFFICE PARTY INSPIRATION.
Your Face (1987) This film set the style and started the career of famed animator Bill Plympton. As a second-rate crooner sings about the beauties of his lover’s face, his own face metamorphosizes into the most surreal shapes and contortions imaginable. The music was written and sung by Maureen McElheron, then slowed to sound like a man’s voice because Plympton was too cheap to hire a male singer. Your Face earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short in 1988. If this film earned an Academy Award, you could win the office love of your dreams!

***Anetha Buckley will be portrayed by Oddball archivist Scotty Wagner and does not represent any real or potentially real Anetha Buckley’s in or out of existence.***