We are excited to announce a screening of films by a Los Angeles-based filmmaker Ken Camp.

Camp is known for his queer structuralist films in the horror and thriller genres.

His Highway Hypnosis has been praised as “lulling viewers into hypnotic , trance-like

states, making brief bursts of violence all the more intense.”

Ken Camp, Highway Hypnosis, 1984, video, color, 63 min

A queer structuralist film that follows a serial killer as he travels from Los Angeles

to Las Vegas, listens soft-rock classics, and makes brief stops to hook up and

then kill his lovers.

Ken Camp, Shock Video, 1985, video, color, 12 min

Shock Video weaves together real and staged horrors from the time when Camp

was still living in San Francisco in the late 1970s and witnessing not only the

thriving gay liberation movement but also the Patricia Hearst kidnapping, the

assassination of Harvey Milk, and the news about multiple serial killers roaming

in the region.

October 18th, 2025 at 8:00pm 

943 Dopler St. Akron, OH 44303