5pm Maya Deren Theater
Archival and Departure: A Preservation Primer
Free Panel

6pm Courthouse Theater
The Skin I'm In
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Creating a space of exploration around queer bodies and responses to our bodies (ourselves), the artists in this program employ diverse perspectives as they challenge popular stereotypes and look at and for ways to explore illness, mortality, movement, physical ability, trans/formation, gender expression and mis/treatment. These shorts traverse documentation, reflection and critique, all the while questioning how queer bodies navigate precarious life-and-death experiences. Featuring work by Lee Krist, Aleada Minton, Aleesa Cohene and Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay. Curated by Scott Berry Party to follow at Dumba.
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7pm Maya Deren Theater
Mighty Reel: Footage From the GLBT Archives
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Everyone knows San Francisco is a queer place. But this screening of rarely and never-before seen footage from the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Historical Society of Northern California documents just how queer it's been. From home movies to performances by homegrown icons, this compilation is a whirlwind tour of queer history and culture that will surprise even those who have lived through it. Curated by Marjorie Bryer and Therine Youngblood.
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8pm Courthouse Theater
Innovators Feature: Festival Centerpiece
The Law of Enclosures
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Directed by John Greyson (2000, Canada) New York premiere
Queer experimental pioneer John Greyson (Lilies, Uncut, Zero Patience) returns with his most accomplished film to date, adapted from the acclaimed novel by New York's own Dale Peck. Beatrice and Henry are misfits in an Ontario backwater drawn together by their shared sense of isolation, whose romance is kindled by the expectation of Henry's imminent death from a rare cancer. At the same time, we follow the couple forty years on, their younger and older selves simultaneously inhabiting the same historical moment, against an all-too-timely backdrop of the Persian Gulf War raging ceaselessly on television. Anchored by stellar turns from Sarah Polley (The Sweet Hereafter) and Diane Ladd (Chinatown) as the younger and older Beatrice, Greyson effortlessly propels this challenging double narrative to a conclusion of devastating irony. Party to follow TBA.

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).
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10pm Courthouse Theater
Hand Job
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What to do with the cherished porn you've played so often it's worn out? Manipulate it some more. From vintage 70s reels to mordant lesbian deconstruction, these scintillating erotic shorts are guaranteed to bring you to the apex of arousal. Like the Zapruder film, Antonioni's Blow-Up, or a well-worn pair of jeans, hand-processed porn is never as good as the first time--it's better! Featuring work by Nguyen Tan Hoang, Wrik Mead, Stuart Gaffney and Dayna McLeod. Curated by the Festival Committee Party to follow at The Boiler Room.
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11pm Maya Deren Theater
Without You I'm Nothing
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Instructions for consumption: Whip out that love thermometer and thrust it in your chest. These shorts measure varying degrees of love, ranging from painfully impossible to impossibly painful. Featuring work by Gui Garakot Prasartkul, Wil Lin and Remy Weber. Curated by the Festival Committee.
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12am Courthouse Theater
Visions of Excess:
Der Rosenkönig (The Rose King)
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Directed by Werner Schroeter (1986, Germany)
A lush, operatic love triangle between a mother (Magdalena Montezuma, in her final role), her son, and his lover set in a semi-abstract desert of greenhouses and ruined chapels, Der Rosenkšnig is the most homoerotic of Werner Schroeter's films and a shining example of his radical experiments with time, narrative and performance. Hugely influential upon German directors from Fassbinder to Wenders to Ottinger, yet virtually unknown in the U.S., Schroeter is long overdue for recognition. MIX is proud to present this rare screening of an unheralded classic of queer cinema.

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