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Maya Deren Theater - First Floor
The political is personal, the personal is political. This program explores a diverse range of political expression - from resistance to war and occupation to exposing family secrets. Eight short films that explore both the truths and fictions of our governments, our lives, and the world around us.
Running time: 87 minutes, Curated by Kate Huh

CHEER UP
New York Premiere
Mary Christmas & Jen Nedbalsky
(2004 USA, video,13:00)
If I can't dance it's not my revolution. Radical cheerleaders show you how protesting can be both fun and informative.

  

PIECES OF CHENTE´S BODY
New York Premiere
Hector Flores (2004, USA, video, 5:00)
A teenager's touching video memorial of a beloved transgender family member.

SURFACING
Trinidad Cisneros (2004, USA, video 15 min.)
Queer youth speak out about incest, family secrets,
and healing from childhood abuse.

SAKIA GUNN FILM PROJECTS
Chas Brack (Work in Progress) USA video 12 min.
A trailer for a documentary about the hate crime
murder of 15 year old queer youth Sakia Gunn.

  RESTORED
Jess Dobkin (2004,Canada, video 3:00)
What to do with your old unwanted clothes? This anti-consumerist short will give
you some ideas.

WHAT ARE WE DOING TONIGHT?
Marie Vermeiren (2002, Belgium, video, 7:00)
Euro-queers have a night on the town doing a bit of feminist culture-jamming.

DEMOCRACY ISN´T BUILT ON DEMONSTRATORS BODIES
David Massey (2004,Israel, video, 32:00)
An expose of the media storm following the 2003 shooting of an Israeli protester at the separation wall by the Israeli military.		   Courthouse Theater - Second Floor
Dana McClure and Kirby Conn
(2005, U.S., video, 65:00)
ODD ONES OUT follows the lives of three transgender teens living in New York City over the course of 4 years. Through vibrant, verite footage and home video diaries, this film exposes their day-to-day battle with family intolerance, homelessness, sex work, violence and harassment. In a raw, self-preserving effort to define themselves, by testing and pushing the gender barometer, Naomi, David and Tot are redefining society's perception of trans people against all odds.		    

Maya Deren Theater - First Floor
This program looks at true life stories and deluded fictional monologues, mixing documentaries, personal essays, and character studies as these shorts’ subjects discover their self-images and relationships to the outside world. Get ready to uncover hidden truths, pry open the door and allow multiple realities to come to life on screen.
Total running time 85 minutes
Curator: Festival Programming Committee

MEET MY BREASTS
East Coast Premiere
Tara Mallette (2004, Canada, video, color, 12:00)
Four transwomen describe their relationships to their breasts in a documentary on a fascinating but rarely discussed gender-identity topic.

     CRUTCHMASTER
Nicolas Jenkins (2004, U.S., video, color, 9 min.)
A video biography about phenomenal performance artist Bill Shannon, aka Crutchmaster, who's work fuses the necessity of crutches (he has a degenerative hip condition) with street forms such as skateboarding, break dancing, and hip-hop.

NIGHTSWIMMING
World Premiere
John R. Killacky (2004, U.S., video 4:10)
Night murmurs from a disabled artist

J.-P.
Steve Reinke (2003, U.S., color, video, 7:00)
Reinke manipulates Kelly’s monologue to reflect the speaker’s ticky,
  neurotic depression confessions after coming down from two days on
ecstasy and special K.

1974 IN CALIFORNIA
World Premiere
Jeannie Simms (2005, U.S., color, video, 15:00)
A recent Scottish immigrant woman performs another woman’s recollections of marriage and moving to suburban Southern California in this exquisitely performed and shot short.

NO DOWNLINK
Joshua Thorson (2003, U.S., video, color, 10:00)
Popular memory of the Challenger explosion fuses with personal fantasy of the artist’s severed Siamese twin-turned-wolf-boy. The fiction of one story calls
  into question the reality of the other.

I DON´T EXIST
U.S. Premiere
Kanchi Wichmann
(2004, U.K., color, video, 29:00)
After spending five days in her flat, waiting for a phone call from a crush that never came, Jackie believes that she doesn’t exist. She wanders from East to West London with 35 pence in her pocket, attempting to make contact with strangers on the street and articulating the interior thoughts of someone in love. Is she daft or just desperately sincere?
   Courthouse Theater - Second Floor
LTTR is pleased to bring a program to the Mix Festival focused on artistic practice and performance, mixing single-channel videos and projected-image performances. This program brings together herstorical tapes and recent pieces by contemporary artists. Some titles include: Now (1973) by Lynda Benglis, a pioneering early color video in which the artist uses layers of self-images to challenge notions of agency, temporality and polymorphous autoeroticism; Mock Rock (2004) by Ulrike Mueller, a short film about the desire for solitude and independence and their impossibility, in which an outcropping of rock in an industrial zone in Queens, New York, mirrors the social experience of loneliness in the cultural conditionality of nature. Some of the other artists		   whose work will be screened include Klara Liden, Maia Cybelle Carpenter, Lisi Raskin, Pauline Boudry, and AK Burns. The program will end with live performance, including the premiere of a new collaboration by Wynne Greenwood (of Tracy and the Plastics) and K8 Hardy, titled New Report. In this performance, Greenwood and Hardy create their own feminist news channel, exploring utopic and banal journalistic endeavors. Collectively run by a vibrant community of feminist, queer, and genderqueer artists, writers, activists, and cultural producers, LTTR produces an annual journal, curatorial projects, and live arts programs. LTTR initiates events, organizes exhibitions, and supports and documents the work of a community of critical thinkers who reject absolute self-definition and identification. Sit back and look forward with LTTR!