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NOVEMBER 16
The Skin I'm In $$ BUY TICKETS 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. Webcast live at www.neverneverparty.com The Finer Shades Of Exertion ••• (Lee Krist, 2001, USA, hand-projected 35mm, b&w, silent, 10 min.) A detailed study in movement and personal expression through gestures, attempting to discover how people are/are not efficient with their body movements. Featuring dancer and filmmaker Jack Waters. Butch Body Blues ••• (Aleada Minton, 2001, USA, video, color, sound, 10 min.) A multicultural and intergenerational film addressing the misconceptions about masculine females and their bodies. How are butches affected by the beauty standards of the world in relation to idealized bodies and gender roles? Sacre Coeur ••• (Peter Cramer, 2001, USA, video, color, sound, 5 min.) Le grand tour de Paris. Ah, the city of love and lights. So why is my heart aching? Because my lover's is breaking. Oui, c'est vrai, and he has the x-rays to prove it! A visual/aural poem that redefines an American in Paris. For my sweet & tender, Jacques L'eau. –P. Cramer Forever Young •• (Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, 2001, Canada, video, color, sound, in English, German, French, Swedish and American Sign Language, 4 min.) If the future's so bright, why are we so obsessed with staying young, freezing ourselves in time? An information overload of simultaneous translations, satellite weather reports and defragmenting computer screens, Forever Young is part love poem and part lament to our visions of the future. Do you really want to live forever? Tremblement de Chair •• (Mark Karbusicky and Mirha-Soleil Ross, 2001, Canada, video, color, sound, 4 min.) A poetic meditation on the beauty, perils and power of sexuality in a transsexual woman's body. Ceci N'est Pas (Jeanne Liotta, 1997, USA, Super 8-to-16mm, b&w, silent, 7 min.) Hand-developed and unedited, this roll lived in my camera from March to May 1995: a trip to New Orleans, a train ride, the death of a dear friend and artist from AIDS. This film is the author of itself; its trace function leaves me behind... –J. Liotta untitled (thirteen years) ••• (Scott Berry and Ethan Eunson-Conn, 2001, USA, Super 8/35mm double projection, b&w, sound, 7 min.) The second part of a trilogy about my mother, cancer, radiation, loss, mis/treatment. A combination of images from a 1940s training film on radiotherapy is juxtaposed with actual medical records from her surgery, with a sound collage including letters from specialists, audio from the training film and circular beats. –S. Berry Abscess •• (Aleesa Cohene, 2001, Canada, video, color, sound, 10 min.) When skin has been broken, the mess of so many different stories, truths, thoughts, and shapes takes the place of the body's skin. The compilation of found medical footage, personal narratives, and images of the underground, under water and inside the cellular body, creates a sense of being contained and not contained at once; just as an abscess causes skin to open and close as it tries to push itself out of the body. Crip Shots • (John R. Killacky and Larry Connolly, 2001, USA, video, color, sound, 17 min.) Performative portraits of six artists with disabilities featuring Greg Walloch, Bill Shannon, Terry Galloway, Judy Smith, Chris Hewitt and John R. Killacky. Co-presenter:
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