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"For two decades, Curt McDowell documented the bustling street trade and artistic communities of San Francisco in home-spun 16mm. Coming off like X-rated family films for that most libidinal of cities, his prolific output is at once fantastical, sincere, smitten, and hysterical, deceptively goading the boundaries of documentary film, hardcore porn, and camp spectacle." —Anthology Film Archives