8pm Courthouse Theater
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For all those girls who got a funny feeling in their panties from horseback riding and all those boys who didn't stop Rover from humping their leg, these shorts delve into our collective beastly subconscious. As queer sex becomes status quo, could it be that animals are the next frontier for exploring the kinks of our desire, fantasies and taboos? It ain't called doggy-style for nothin'. Featuring work by Martha Colburn, Shawn Atkins, Amy Hill, Mirha Soliel-Ross, and Rick Castro. Curated by the Festival Committee Party to follow at Idlewild, 145 East Houston Street (between 1st and 2nd Avenue).

Spiders in Love: An Arachnogasmic Musical (Martha Colburn, 1999, USA, Super 8-to-video, color, sound, 3 min.) The hot leggy world of the she-spider! She can swallow miles of cock and trap you in her web. But watch out–those black widows might swallow you whole too!

Eels ••• (Patty Chang, 2001, USA, video, color, sound, 4 min.) You won't know whether to laugh or scream as Chang, trying hard to stay composed, takes endurance to the limit with the help of some friends in this mesmerizing, unsettling video.

G-Sprout! (Mirha-Soleil Ross, 2000, Canada, video, color, sound, 12 min.) Naked lunch: This genre-blurring documentary is part vegan tranny-porn, part slaughterhouse snuff film. Veggie lovers speak out on dating, intimacy and sex in a meat-centered culture. You are who you eat.

Transanimals (Amy Hill, 2001, USA, video, color, sound, 12 min.) We all have a deep emotional bond with our pets, but how do we cope when Fido wants to become Fluffy? Will s/he still be the same pet we fell in love with? Take a look inside this loving support group for transitioning pets.

A Toetally Solefull Feeture Pedsintation (Martha Colburn, 1999, USA, Super 8-to-video, color, sound, 4 min.) A fetishistic celebration of the world of the foot. Toe-sucking baboons, Napoleon, erotic steeplechasing, and much more in this over the top footsploitation film.

I Am ... ••• (Jeanine Olson, 2000, USA, video, color, sound, 45 seconds) Salt-water mammals have never seemed as spiffy as in this video that ribs identity politics with a bit of the old in-out, in-out.

The Travelling Eye of the Blue Cat • (Shawn Atkins, 2001, 35mm, color, sound, 15 min.) An abandoned New York garden, a pair of jealous blue cats, and a decapitated lover's head leads a girl in the startling metamorphosis to the edge of a journey of psychic transformation.

Plushies & Furries • (Rick Castro, 2001, USA, digital video, color, sound, 22 min.) An incredible account of the sexual subculture of people who dress up in furry suits to express the animal within. Follow 18-year-old Yote, short for "Coyote," as he attends his first conFURence–much to mom's dismay.

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