SATURDAY
NOVEMBER 17
4pm
Courthouse Theater
I've Been Framed: Queer Youth Media
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Youth media necessitates sensitively constructed context, which
re-frames representation in a moment of new mainstream queer youth
visibility. These videos demonstrate the formal eclecticism of alternative
youth-produced works, ranging from the rough improvisation of collective
productions to recognizably avant-garde personal works, disrupting
the possibility of a common "queer youth voice." A dynamic crowd
of new young audiences MIXed with the usual suspects from queer
alterna-media promises a powerful exchange. Panel to follow. Curated
by Paper Tiger TV.
My
Name Girl (Emily
Greer, 2000, USA, video, color, sound, 11 min.) "It's
sad how my family of all girls revolves so much around men."
Emily Greer scrutinizes the board games and Barbie dolls that lay
down the law of gender and sexuality. But what does she do when
her own dad leaves her mom for another man?
FENCED
OUT •••
(New Neutral Zone, 2000, USA, video, color, sound, 20 min.) This
video documents and participates in the fight for the Christopher
Street pier, one of the only places in New York City where youth
of color, low-income, homeless and queer youth can come together.
Since the summer of 2000, city developers–with the support
of local residents–literally began to "fence out"
the kids in the interests of building a state park and raising the
property value which the youth were "lowering," according
to the police. As old and young perspectives come together, the
pier youth become more politicized, seeing how the struggle to save
their public space connects to a larger historical and social movement.
Mean
Anything (Todd
Smee, 2000, USA, video, color, sound, 8 min.) Found
photographs of muscle men interact with personal text and moments
of self-portrait performance. Smee interrupts the stability of idealized
gay male bodies and sex culture with personal experience.
Homecoming
Queens (Green
Chimneys Residents, 2001, USA, video, color, sound, 25 min.) Green
Chimneys Gramercy Residence is a group home for adolescents, age
15-21, who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or questioning.
Homecoming Queens presents a firsthand account of life inside one
of the few residential programs in the United States that provides
services for queer youth and their fight to establish a unique identity
within a system that is often indifferent to and ignorant of their
struggles.
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