| FRIDAY
NOVEMBER 16
9pm
Maya Deren Theater
Memorizing MIX: The First 15 Years
Program II: Cunty Revue, 1993-96
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Remember when the rainbow flag first started flapping on Madison
Avenue? While mainstream media took the lead in marketing lesbian
and gay identities, a cunty little bastard child of the gay movement
was being born. MIX, a reinvention of the New York Lesbian & Gay
Experimental Film Festival, was to become a haven for those too
queer for "the gay community"--people of color, bisexuals, punks,
freaks, immigrants, white trash, and stone cold eccentric filmmakers
and performance artists. It was a glorious four years of film and
frolic that made the early 90s somehow more bearable. Featuring
work by Leah Gilliam, Karim Aïnouz, Charles Lofton and E.T.
Baby Maniac. Curated by Shari Frilot, MIX Director 1993-96.
Memorizing
MIX reception on Saturday at 7pm at Wonderbar (505 East 6th Street).
Sex,
Fish, Sex, Fish (E.T.
Baby Maniac, 1993, USA, 16mm-to-video, b&w/color, sound, 6 min.)
Sex,
fish, sex, fish. Screened in 1993.
That
Fertile Feeling (John
"Quasi" O'Shea, 1985, USA, video, color, sound, 8 min.)
This
legendary short features Vaginal Creme Davis and Fertile LaToyah
Jackson as they survive a multitude of misadventures which culminate
in Fertile birthing eleventuplets. Screened in 1995.
Man
Act - The Sweatlodge (Mike
Stubbs, 1991, UK, Super 8-to-video, color, sound, 7 min.) Documenting
a performance by Man Act entitled Sweatlodge, this film is an expressive
account of male behavior dramatically choreographed in swirling,
fluid camerawork. Screened in 1993.
Paixão
Nacional (Karim
Aïnouz, 1994, Brasil/USA, video, color, sound, 6 min.) In
the first chapter of a trilogy on the history of sexuality in Brasil,
a young man flees his country and freezes to death in the hold of
an airplane bound for Europe. His dying memories of the sexual constraints
he faced in Brasil are interwoven with a tourist's impression of
the country as an oversexed paradise. Screened in 1994.
Hans:
Object of Desire (Margie
Scnibbe, 1995, USA, video, color, sound, 3 min.) Don't
leave your sex toys around the house unless you want to share and
share alike. Screened in 1994.
Sapphire
and the Slave Girl (Leah
Gilliam, 1995, USA, video, color, sound, 18 min.) Based
on a 1950s British detective film, Sapphire and the Slave Girl examines
the determinants of Sapphire's murder in and through its cinematic
representation. In its genre-shifting historical schizophrenia,
the video investigates racial passing, cross dressing, taboo sexualities
and other transgressions of identity and location. Screened in 1995.
O
Happy Day (Charles
Lofton, 1995, USA, Super 8-to-video, color, sound, 6 min.) Imagining
the early days of gay liberation for black gay men, O Happy Day
uses reappropriated 70s black gay porn and newsreel footage of Black
Panther Party demonstrations to (homo)eroticize the male-dominated
Black Power movement, and reclaim a moment in history when there
was genuine hope for a gay revolution. Screened in 1995.
Birthday
Party (Jill
Reiter, 1994, USA, Super 8-to-video, color, sound, 9 min.) Drag
queen mom plans an Addams Family-esque event for her daughter, with
acidic hors d'oeuvres and a human piñata. Screened in 1995.
Actos
Impuros (Impure Acts) (Robert
Fiesco, 1993, Mexico, 16mm, color, sound, 20 min.) A
beautiful short film about a guy who works at a bathhouse and his
oneiric coming to terms with his homosexuality during the 1950s.
Screened in 1996.
"The
Devil Inside" from Clit-o-matic: the Adventures of White Trash
Girl (Jennifer
Reeder, 1996, USA, video, color, sound, 8 min.) From
the holy depths of the sewer there will come a savior, and they
will call her TRASH! Let us gather and worship, as we acknowledge
our slothful inaction. Screened in 1996.
First
Year (Trac
Vu, 1996, USA, video, b&w, sound, 6 min.) An
immigrant teenager discovers TV, sex and K-mart. Screened in 1996.
Rave
Porn (Texas
Tomboy, 1996, USA, video, color, sound, 4 min.) UFO
genderfuck sex and technology. Screened in 1996.
Peter's
Penis Tricks (Mari
Kono, 1996, USA, video, color, sound, 2 min.) One
man's obsessive ability to play with his dick. As much as Peter's
tricks have a certain shock value, they are the sincere expressions
of a man who enjoys the sensations of the acts he performs. Screened
in 1996.
Black
& White Study: The Dance (Peter
Cramer and Jack Waters, 1996, USA, 16mm, b&w, sound, 10 min.)
Eroticism
and humor highlight an interracial couple engaged in a dance dialogue
of opposite and attractions. Screened in 1996.
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