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Courthouse Theater - Second
Floor |
VIDEO
REMAINS |
Maya Deren Theater - First
Floor Michel Auder CHRONICLES/MOROCCO, (1971-1972, 27:00) MOROCCO 1972: The Real Chronicles with Viva, (2002, 32:00). Edited almost thirty years apart, the footage from these two Chronicles is from the same family vacation and, thus, reveal Auder’s approach to his memories. Tension developed between Auder and Viva on the vacation, and Viva left a few weeks into the trip while Auder remained for several more months. Auder subsequently edited Viva out of the first version. He also misdated the trip by accident. It took place in 1972 not 1971. Considering Chronicles/Morocco, 1971 a construct of emotional convenience unfaithful to memory, Auder decided to supplement the first version with a fuller account. |
The two works feature almost entirely different footage. There are, however, sections where one can see that Auder has omitted Viva. The star of the 1971 version is a young Moroccan Adonis who appoints himself tour-guide for a group of Europeans including Auder. The camera follows his charming antics as he flaunts his nubile body and rather blunt but effective skills as a hunter. The supplement, Morocco 1972, stars Viva and Alexandra, continuing the theme of mother and child as it was poignantly established in the Family Diaries. | VIVA VIVA |
Courthouse Theater - Second Floor Queers on vacation, queers in pools, queers in hot tubs, queers in strange lands fondling, fumbling, and wallowing in their hormonal juices. These films come stocked with slapping, fucking, preening, flirting and doing what queers do best. Total Running Time: 78 minutes Curator: Festival Programming Committee SISSY BOY SLAP PARTY Guy Madden (2004,Canada, 16mm, black and white, 5:00) A bunch of cute, camp men slap each other on the face, back, chest, buttocks, and elsewhere within the confines of what looks like a day spa. A classic! |
BLACK, N, ADJ. Charles Lum (2004, U.S., video, color, 4:00) The definition of black is explored in a two channel interview during the notorious Black Party. STAR EATERS Peggy Ahwesh (2003, U.S., video, 24:00) The allure of risk taking, the contradictions of excessive behavior and a penchant for failure combine in this fairytale set in the abandoned decay which was once a glamorous Atlantic City. DESERT MOTEL U.S. Premiere Liza Johnson (2005, U.S., 35 mm, color, 12:00) On a weekend getaway in the California desert, |
Leslie and her girlfriend run into Connor,
a friend from home. Leslie experiences an interior crisis as she tries
to accept the new kind of manhood that Connor introduces. PERFECT MATCH U.S. Premiere Miguel Gutierrez (2004, U.S., video, 5:00) A lonely guy in a motel in Minneapolis tries to pick himself up. ARCADE TRADE Samara Halperin (2004 US, video, 18:00) A nasty, romantic, experimental porn shot on bicycles, skateboards, bathrooms and rooftops on a daylong date in downtown San Francisco. ARCADE TRADE was made for the price of one videotape, |
two beers, a bag of mini-doughnuts and a
hot dog. NEW YORK IS WHERE MY HAT IS East Coast Premiere Anna Margaret Albelo (2003, France, video, 5:00) Drug store cowboy chic meets lesbian relationship drama on the streets of Paris. TRICK SADDLE Jenny Rogers (2003, U.S., video, 3:00) Dive into the sensuous world of underwater synchronized swimming with a sexy group of cowboy drag kings. |
Maya Deren Theatre - First Floor The uncritical embrace of the institution of marriage as the ultimate goal of gay and lesbian politics ignores and de-legitimates many other kinds of relationships creatively cultivated by queers historically and in the present. Packet-Switching (a network technology technique) breaks a message into individual packets, sends the packets along the best route available, and then reassembles the data. It has largely de-normalized the practice of chronological, real-time, dedicated transmission. Similarly, this program focuses on examples of queer culture(s)’ repeated assemblage, fragmentation, transmission and reassemblage in a coded network that tests homonormativity’s linear path. Total Running Time: 86 minutes Curators: Erica Chough & Nguyen Tan Hoang |
AVANT JÉTAIS
TRISTE / BEFORE I WAS SAD New York Premiere Jean-Gabriel Périot (2002, France, miniDV, color, sound, 2:00) Avant J’étais triste is a short animation about the utopia of integration. It tells the story of a gay man who is sad about the gay way of life and trying to be “normal.” The film ironically shows that integration could destroy all differences. (JGP) SKIP World Premiere Felix Chang and Marnee Meyer (2005, USA, Betacam SP, color, sound, 3:30) Using rope jumping as a metaphor, this short hints at a desire that turns away from the 1970’s and 80’s normative constructions of gay masculinity. |
LOVERFILM - An Uncontrolled
Dispersion Of Information New York Premiere Michael Brynntrup (1996, Germany, miniDV, color, sound, 21:30) The filmmaker presents a chronology of his lovers from his coming out in 1981 to the time of the film in 1996. This personal sexual archive underscores the importance of preserving a queer generation and its ephemeral sexual and affective relations through the (re)production of images. “Loverfilm looks at how images live on, what remains of images, and how and under what circumstances they become historical documents.” (MICHAEL BRYNNTRUP) |
A HORSE, A FILIPINO,
TWO WOMEN, A SOLDIER AND TWO OFFICERS World Premiere Nguyen Tan Hoang (2005, USA, miniDV, color, sound, 4:00) The tape draws a parallel between two sites of queer visibility: David Zorro’s performance as the flaming Filipino houseboy in John Huston’s 1967 film, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and the contemporary practice of gay barebacking. This odd juxtaposition interrogates the coding of queerness as “outlaw sexuality” and how such a coding inadvertently reinforces conventional understandings of race, gender, and sexuality. (NTH) |
THE POOL New York Premiere Sara Jordenö (2004, USA/Sweden, BetaCam SP, English/Swedish with English subtitles, color, sound, 22:00) At an outdoor pool, where communists once destroyed a cathedral, a lesbian cruising site emerges. In the Southern California desert, residents live in a sonic war zone. An isolated researcher is cruising women from a safe distance, failing to see that this time someone is watching her….The Pool is a story about desire at it intersects with the rise and fall of political utopias. (SJ) |
CLAY (A WOULD-BE GHOST
TOWN) World Premiere Sara Mithra (05, USA, mini-DV, color, sound, 8:00) To temper the grief of a lost parent, young Emma cultivates a garden in 1880 New Mexico. She searches her landscape for Pueblo artifacts amidst mining development. Might her companion, Corrine, unburden her sorrow? This tape examines the loss suffered by oppressed groups when confronted with the alternating drive to preserve endangered culture (by the scientist) or to ransack the terrain (by the white settler). The disappearing frontier ensures the need for (indigenous or) queer historical reclamation in an atmosphere of grief. (SM) |
SCHOOL BOY ART New York Premiere Erica Chough (04,USA,mini-DV,color,sound, 12:00) Franz's dream is to attend a real art school. He draws religiously and packs his sketchbook with anatomy studies in preparation for Portfolio Day. Will the inscrutable Professor pass or fail him? This tape highlights a queer female actor’s performance as an elder male professor teaching a young queer boy how to draw as a stage for the student’s first sexual experience. (EC) |
TO HOLD A HEART World Premiere Michael Wallin (2005, USA, miniDV, color, sound, 12:00) Two men separated by decades in age and thousands of miles in home and culture find each other in a not-so-chance encounter at the gym. At a glacial pace, an intense bond of intimacy and trust develops.…Can this be love? Sex may just be icing on the cake, if it happens at all.…Touch, physical contact, affection.…To feel alive, to feel engaged, to feel understood... (MW) |
Courthouse Theater - Second Floor Enter a world where humans turn into ponies by night, ears have exploding orgasms, and casual dinner conversation becomes a verbal play on hardcore pornography. These shorts about sex, sexuality, and the spirit of unearthing unknown pleasures begat a new word. Trymorphous! This program opens up the possibilities of what turns us on and makes our hearts race. TRYmorphous wants to take you into new territory, make you do a double take, and asks the question will you try anything once? Total Running Time: 82 minutes Curator: Festival Programming Committee |
CARVE New York Premiere Gretchen Hildebran (2003, U.S., 16mm, b&w, 4:00) Carve is a four-minute documentary film that takes a new look at body cutting as a personal, political and artistic practice. Two San Francisco-based artists share their newest work, which they draw and cut into each other's bodies. EARGASM New York Premiere David Quantic (2004, U.S., video, 3:30) A man, his ear, and a cotton swab - the art of finding more than just wax within those dark crevices of our body. |
COMBIEN? |
moving hand connects subject and viewer
locating the audience somewhere between spectator and accomplice. THE PERSONALS Derek Jackson (2004, U.S., video, 5:00) The Personals is an erotic self-portrait set to the song Disorder by Joy Division. It is part of a larger series based on internet personals advertising and features the director, Derek Jackson, masturbating while holding up phrases taken from a four hour on-line chat session. PORNOGRAPHIC APATHETIC T. Arthur Cottam (2003, U.S., video, 5:30) Two girls, two guys, a pizza man, and a dinner table exercise in sex. |
YOU FAKE Maureen Bradley (2003, Canada, video, 6:00) What do real women do in bed? After a bad one-night stand, Morgan looks for solace from her best friend only to be confronted with self-righteousness. Their disagreement results in a high-stakes bet to find out how many dykes fake it. PIN PRICKS Shelley Barry (2004, U.S., video, 3:17) PIN PRICKS revisits the moments when the fabric of a woman’s life is torn and the revelations that take her beyond loss. CLIT OR DICK Jasco Viethues (2004, Germany, video, 5:30) This short plays with the idea of gender and its |
relation to our physical bodies. The short
also plays around with classic gender roles. WHO´S THE TOP? Jennie Livingston (2004, U.S., 35mm, 22min) Alixe, a young poet, is often distracted by her obsession with the bad-boy poet and adventurer CYMON Blank, and by heated fantasies of scary, yet hot, gangs of women in leather. Would Alixie’s girlfriend Gwen try a little kink from time to time? No thanks. Gwen thinks their sex life is just fine -- and that CYMON is pretentious. Is Alixe and Gwen's sexual disagreement the cause of their problems, or are their problems the cause of their sexual disagreement? What's more real, our fantasies, or what we actually do? In Who's the Top? there are no right answers, just musical numbers. |
Maya Deren Theater - First Floor Royston Tan (2003, Singapore, 35mm, Color, 94:00) With: Melvin Chen, Vynn Soh, Shaun Tan MIX18 is proud to present Royston Tan’s “15,” the feature length version of his award-winning short film of the same name. "15" is a provocative film acted by real street kids; based on their and Tan’s experiences it exposes a gritty side of modern-day Singapore life that many never knew existed. Tan creates a dizzying collage of troubled teenage experience, exploiting pop video techniques to weave a harrowing tale filled with graphic depictions of gang violence, drug use, suicide attempts, ritual tattooing, piercing, |
prostitution and homoerotic bonding, all set to a driving soundtrack of contemporary Singaporean rap. The controversial film has won numerous awards while also drawing the ire of Singapore’s censorship board for its graphic portrayal of local gangster life, and has been effectively banned from the country's screens. Dubbed the new wave auteur of Singapore, Royston Tan is one of Singapore’s top directors, having won a string of awards for many of his films including ‘15’, which won a Special Achievement Award at the Singapore International Film Festival 2002. In 2004, he was selected as one of Time Asia’s ‘20 Heroes Under 40’ for his “willingness to push the creative envelope [which] has made him a hero to the city's independent artists.” | Courthouse Theater - Second Floor In the Japanese anime (animation) Level C, male supermodel Mizuki is stopped on the streets by Kazuomi, a handsome stranger. Cut to the next scene: The two are in Mizuki’s livingroom couch, grabbing, licking, sucking, zippers down, legs apart… What transpired above is known as “yaoi” – a Japanese anime (and manga) genre that showcases hardcore boy-on-boy porn. Blatant gay sex aside, they are written specifically by women for the enjoyment of women. High concept and typically gratuitous, yaoi verges on the sensibility of camp. But just like porn, the improbable over-the-topness never interferes with our desire for abandonment. In the States, there has been a growing fandom (both women and men) for yaoi for the last ten years. This program presents two Japanese yaoi animes that |
are licensed in the US. Total Running Time: 66 minutes Guest Curator: Fiona Ng MY SEXUAL HARASSMENT VOL. 1 Yousei Morino (1995, Japan, anime, 36:00, Japanese, Eng subt) For dole-eye salaryman Mochizuki, climbing the corporate ladder means submitting to his boss Honma’s licentious urges. Courtesy of Media Blasters, Inc. LEVEL-C Yamaguchi Yorifusa (1995, Japan, anime, 30:00, Japanese, Eng subt) Hunky Kazuomi introduces dreamboat boy-model Mizuki to the bliss of domesticated bottomhood. |
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