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.

LUV Me Latex (House of Frame by Frame Fierce, 2001, USA, video, color, sound, 2 min.) The HIV virus takes the viewer on a campy tour through the body — how it is allowed to enter and how it affects the body afterward.

K.I.P. ••• (Nguyen Tan Hoang, 2001, USA, digital video, color, sound, 4 min.) It's what you don't see that counts in this short featuring the distressed moments from old video copies of 70s porn icon Kip Knoll. The artist's own image is imprinted among the naked white bodies, registering his desire for these departed men, and the unseen off- and on-screen presence of Asian men in commercial porn.

Dream Figure • (Stuart Gaffney, 2001, USA, video, b&w, sound, 4 min.) An image on the screen brings forth a flood of memories of a lover long past and present.

Je Danse, Donc Je Suis •• (Thomas Thielen, 2001, UK, digital video, color, silent, 3 min.) Swing low, sweet... well, you get the picture.

Sexercise ••• (Randal Lynch, 2001, USA, digital video, color, sound, 3 min.) A Gay Shame slave to the Nautilus imagines porno thinspirations.

Language Lesson ••• (Jacques et Pierre, 2001, USA, video, color, sound, 8 min.) How to fill the silence in those silent 8mm 70s porn films. From the collection of a renowned connoisseur of cinema agité.

My Lover's Aunt's Porn • (Stuart Gaffney, 2000, USA, video, b&w, sound, 4 min.) A hidden stash of porn brings back some unexpected memories and connections.

Ph-uk-ng ••• (James Nadeau, 2001, USA, video, color, 5 min.) Didn't mom tell you not to sit too close to the TV? You'll ruin your eyes.

Blackmail Material • (Yvette Choy, 2001, USA, digital video, color, sound, 3 min.) Day and night... Get it while you can.

Watching Lesbian Porn • (Dayna McLeod, 2001, Canada, digital video, color, sound, 11 min.) Here's how to get your deconstructing, orthodox, post-feminist date in the sack. Recommended viewing position: On Our Backs.

Swingers ••• (C.B. Cooke, 2001, USA, digital video, color, silent, 16 seconds) Careful, you might take someone's eye out.

My Hands Are Shaking ••• (Pierre-Yves Clouin, 2001, France, digital video, color, sound, 7 min.) When the streaming gets steamy, you can't do everything at once.

Something Died With Johnny • (Ian Jarvis, 1998, Canada, video, b&w, sound, 3 min.) A lament for the long-gone days of anonymous bareback sex and Johnny, who loved and lived to fuck.

Minus •• (Christopher Chong, 1999, Canada, 16mm, b&w, silent, 3 min.) Take a look at and have a feel for old-time peepshows, complete with the fig leaves.

Hand Job • (Wrik Mead, 2001, Canada, video, b&w, sound, 3 min.) Gorgeous stop-motion animation revisits early cinema aesthetics and gives new meaning to the term hand-processed.

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