7pm Maya Deren Theater
Memorizing MIX: The First 15 Years
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Program I: Dispatches From the Front, 1987-92
In the first festival, MIX presented one film that directly confronted the AIDS crisis. In the second festival, there were 4. By the fourth festival, almost every film was informed by AIDS. On our 15th anniversary, collective amnesia and scarcity of work about AIDS has become a crisis in itself, making it crucial to revisit this earlier work. These are some of the most powerful works MIX has ever shown--urgent, raw, incisive and terrifyingly beautiful. Featuring work by Lawrence Brose, Carl Michael George, Tania Cypriano and Matthias Müller. Curated by Jim Hubbard, MIX Co-Director 1987-92. Come to the Memorizing MIX reception at Wonderbar (505 East 6th Street) on Saturday, Nov. 17, 7pm.

An Individual Desires Solution (Lawrence Brose, 1985, USA, Super 8-to-16mm, b&w/color, sound, 13 min.) I have great trouble writing about this film as it is about the death of my boyfriend (who died on my birthday) from AIDS. Before he died he asked me to redefine the acronym AIDS as An Individual Desires Solution–hence the title. This film is about Kevin's struggle for survival and my struggle to understand. –L. Brose. Screened in 1987.

Ecce Homo (Jerry Tartaglia, 1989, USA, 16mm, color, sound, 7 min.) Thanks to AIDS hysteria, gay sex is again seen as pornographic, politically incorrect, sinful or a public health hazard. One wonders, however, whether the taboo is against the sex or against the seeing of the sex. Screened in 1989.

Fear of Disclosure (Phil Zwickler and David Wojnarowicz, 1989, USA, video-to-16mm, color, sound, 5 min.) The implications of HIV revelation: go-go boys bump and grind while sizing up each other's mortality. Screened in 1990.

DHPG Mon Amour (Carl Michael George, 1989, USA, Super 8-to-16mm, color, sound, 12 min.) A day in the life of the late Joe Walsh and David Conover. Joe cooks dinner while David goes through the elaborate ritual of injecting his DHPG. Screened in 1989.

The Dance (Jim Hubbard, 1992, USA, 16mm, hand-processed color, sound, 8 min.) The film celebrates and explores ordinary facets of lives dedicated to art and community. The camera captures, and the editing structures, small pieces of living in the great flow of being. Based on the song "The Dance," with music and vocals by Dan Martin and lyrics by Michael Biello. Screened in 1992.

Song from an Angel (David Weissman, 1988, USA, 16mm, color, sound, 5 min.) The triumphant final performance of San Francisco actor/dancer Rodney Price. A founding member of the Angels of Light theatrical troupe, Rodney performed this lighthearted song and dance about his own death two weeks before he died of AIDS. Screened in 1989.

Viva Eu! (Tania Cypriano, 1990, Brasil, 16mm, color, sound, 10 min.) This portrait of Brasilian artist Wilton Braga presents his body, illness and survival from a fabulist perspective not found in North American films. Screened in 1990.

Aus der Ferne (The Memo Book) (Matthias Müller, 1989, Germany, Super 8-to-16mm, color, sound, 28 min.) What begins as a tribute to a dead friend becomes a journey to the sensuality of the male body. Multi-projections, complex imagery–these collages do not pretend to understand the world by using the intellect, they deal with the very act of seeing. Screened in 1990.

Co-Sponsor:
Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
New York University
285 Mercer Street, 3rd Fl.
New York, NY 10003-6653
contact:
Professor Carolyn Dinshaw, Director
or John Fanning
(212) 992-9545 tel

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