Constructed from footage shot for his as-of-yet unfinished Super 8 horror feature After the Comet, Ken Camp’s Shock Video is a disturbing reflection of the filmmaker’s time living in San Francisco during the latter half of the 1970s—a period that saw not only the blossoming of gay liberation, but the Patricia Hearst kidnapping, the Jonestown mass suicide, a series of bombings committed by the New World Liberation Front, the assassination of Harvey Milk, and multiple gay serial killers like the Doodler and the Freeway Killer.

Originally assembled and transferred to video for screenings at Los Angeles DJ and promoter Jim Van Tyne’s legendary Theoretical parties, Camp views Shock Video as being both something of a trailer for After the Comet and its own distinct work.

New 2K restoration from the original Super 8 reversal and 1/4” audiotape.