Head Trip

Due to popular demand, we have added a second evening show.

Q&A after the screenings with filmmakers John Law, Flecher Fleurdujon, and special guests! 

This newly restored documentary follows a troop of San Francisco characters and performers traveling across America to New York City for shows at CBGB’s, Gowanus canal in Brooklyn and a special visit to Washington Square Park with an awful lot of dachshunds. Leaving San Francisco during the opening salvo’s of the Iraqi war in 2003 as a sort of goodwill voyage, the documentary Head Trip was first run at the Roxie in 2008. This newly edited version has improved sound quality and the addition of an interview with Bishop Joey/Ed Holmes of The First Church of the Last Laugh.

The 10-foot tall, 300-pound, festively painted Fiberglas Doggie Diner Dog Heads are well known in the Bay Area. A popular restaurant chain from 1949 until 1986, there was one Dog head left at one restaurant out on Sloat Avenue by the zoo, which in turn closed down in 2001. That Doghead was salvaged by the city of San Francisco and reinstalled on the traffic median across from the zoo entrance, where it remains to the day. 

There are at least 12 existing Dog Heads taken from various restaurants that are in private hands. Three of these surreal objects traveled across the country along with San Francisco’s punk rock performance troop Cyclecide Bike Rodeo to New York City, stopping at roadside attractions.

The movie HEAD TRIP tells this story.

The screening includes a rare short film, THE LOADED WARRIOR, directed by Jason Broemmel, featuring performers from S. F. Cyclecide Bike Rodeo. See a group of feral bicyclists attempting to survive in a world where beer is becoming extremely scarce. THE LOADED WARRIOR is a remake of the most incredible action movie of all time, The Road Warrior, with bikes instead of cars, and beer instead of gas. (15 mins, 2009)