SATURDAY
NOVEMBER 17
5pm
Maya Deren Theater Ladies' Tea • (Paula Durette, 2001, USA, video, color, sound, 2 min.) A digital animation that comically outlines/predicts group dynamics at a dyke bar. Queer Things I Hate About You • (Nickolaos Stagias, 2000, Canada, video, color, sound, 5 min.) "What's wrong with Celine Dion, anyway?" La Difference (Rita Küng, 1999, Switzerland, 35mm, color, sound, 9 min.) A wild animation about a wild imagination. In a bar, Kim is fantasizing about his desire of being a woman. His dreams become reality through the help of a bartender who's not what he seems to be. Straight Boy Lessons (Ray Rea, 1999, USA, 16mm, color, sound, 9 min.) A recently-transitioned trans man rides along in a pickup truck with a straight boy and gets tips on better performing straight male masculinity. Now Let Us Praise American Leftists (Paul Chan, 2000, USA, video, b&w, sound, 3 min.) An experimental video animation that eulogizes and ridicules the American leftist movement of the past century. Foregrounding the exclusionary nature of American leftists politics, in its persistent refusal to allow greater diversity of race, ethnicity and sexual orientation to enter into the larger political dialogue, Now Let Us Praise presents American leftists as they are: men with facial hair. The Escapades of Madame X (Kerry Laitala and Isabel Reichert, 2000, USA, 16mm, b&w, sound, 11 min.) An exploration of the conventions of filming the female body which demonstrates early Hollywood cinema's complicity in establishing a passive role for women. Using reworked Busby Berkeley-esque imagery, the film reimagines its Madame X as sexually, intellectually and physically empowered. Not Quite • (Liz Richards, 2000, USA, video, color, sound, 6 min.) A poetic exploration of the difference between sex and gender, illustrating how the narrator is caught between perceptions of male and female. Accidental Insolence ••• (Kristen Anchor, 2001, USA, video, color, sound, 8 min.) A collaged contemporary survey of the interconnections of democratic idealism, capitalism, authority, youth and homophobia. The juxtaposition of familiar media images and audio, stock footage, interviews and hand-marked film beckons questions of identity-making, human agency and control. The video is a documentary not only critical of the culture of homophobia, but also critical of the culture of media itself. Nesting Season ••• (Paula Durette, 2001, USA, video, color, sound, 4 min.) An animated reassessment of typical cycles of attraction and mating behavior. Even Lovers Have Still Lives • (Kathy Burdette, 1999, USA, 16mm, color, sound, 18 min.) A meditation on representation and sexual identity incorporating and intertwining several well-known cinematic and literary narratives describing instances of socially prohibited desire. Co-Presenter:
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