Always for Pleasure

Les Blank’s celebration of the spirit and social traditions of New Orleans, featuring Mardi Gras and St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. It is an insider’s portrait of New Orleans’ street celebrations and the unique cultural gumbo of Second-line parades, Mardi Gras and the Jazz Fest. The film features live music by Professor Longhair, The Wild Tchoupitoulas, the Neville Brothers, Allen Toussaint, Kid Thomas Valentine and more.

Screens with God Respects Us When We Work, but Loves Us When We Dance (1968, 20 min). Hippies and flower children dance and create rituals at the historic Los Angeles “Love-In” of Easter Sunday, 1967. This 60’s classic documents a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon, preserving all the fashions, energy and idealism of the first “alternative lifestyles.”