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Le Petit Versailles –
346 East Houston Street (between B & C)
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Courthouse Theater –
Second Floor U.S.Premiere Have you ever wondered what queers of a different stripe do "in bed?" 18 lesbian and gay filmmakers from Berlin produced 15 short films about the sexuality of the "opposite" sex. From straight up interviews to experimental erotic expression these filmmakers provide everything from hilarious misconception to sweet insight. Bring your friends! GEILE SAU (HORNY BASTARD) Heidi Kull & Minette Dreier DER ANDERE PLANET (THE OTHER PLANET) Jörg Andreas Polzer |
MIT HERZ
(WITH HEART) Kristian Petersen PRACHT Nathalie Percillier WHO IS AFRAID OF? Hollyandgolly – Annette Hollywood & Anna Gollwitzer BLUE BOX BLUES Michael Brynntrup MELANCHOLY ROSE Waltraud M. Weiland |
MARTINA |
DER HAMMER (THE HAMMER) Peter Oehl & Markus Ludwig IN BETWEENS (COLLAGES BETWEEN FILMS) Ebo Hill |
5pm - Maya Deren Theater - First Floor From a cross country drive that forces maturity on its young protagonists to redemption in the girls junior high bathroom come explore the world where age, sex and experimentation intersect. First Timers is packed full of coming of age stories with lots of twists that are as queer as they come. Total Running Time: 73 minutes Curator: Festival Programming Committee ' THE DRIVE NORTH Tess Ernst (2003, U.S., video, 13min.) Two youths bicker their way up the east coast, into a discomforting transition into adulthood. Told through still images, animation, and super 8, with an experimental score made by the filmmaker, “The Drive North” subverts the typical coming-of-age-tale |
format with social commentary, humor, and a powerfully understated identity-political slant. BETWEEN THE BOYS New York Premiere Jake Yuzna (2003, U.S., 16mm, 3:00) What could possibly be wrong with two sexy boys wrestling in the morning light? We go voyeuristically into a complex relationship containing its own taboos and secrets. THE UNDERGRAD New York Premiere Michele Mahoney (2003, U.S., Super8-to-video, color, 39:00) The Undergrad is a sexy, gender-twisting parody of |
the 1967 classic, The Graduate. This playful
celebration of both gender and sexual liberation investigates the choice
of defiance, desire, and acceptance. All main characters are depicted
by women and drag kings, starring Barbara DeGenevieve, drag pioneer Diane
Torr and featuring members of the Chicago Kings troupe. SECRET PICNIC Philipe Lonestar (2004, U.S., 16mm, color, 9:30) Secret Picnic is an experimental narrative piece that threads together three fags who confront their sexually abusive pasts while departing from the backdrop of a beautiful picnic. This film explores queer stereotypes including abuse, sex work and locker room beatings through the true story flashbacks. Queer space is celebrated |
MINE New York Premiere Carrie Schrader (2004, U.S.,16mm, color, 7:30) Mine is the story of Halley Scanlon. On the sharp edge of puberty, Halley is desperate to get inside the pretty girl circle. But Mark Meyer, the leader of the boys pack, puts her on Perm Row where the girls are subjected to constant grabbing and teasing and the only way to get off Perm Row is to let one of the boys go up her shirt. To make matters worse, Halley meets Billie, a ‘he-she’ with a switchblade and a wicked smile that she cannot resist. |
Courthouse Theater - Second Floor Female directors manipulate the medium and share visual delights in this series of gorgeous 16mm contemporary avant-garde films. Total Running Time: 71.5 minutes Curated by Airella Ben-Dov of “The MadCat Women’s International Film Festival” MONSTERS Gretchen Hogue (2004, U.S.,16mm, color,10:00) Rosemary’s Baby and The Shining are re-photographed, focusing on the films' female protagonists and their gradual subjugation by horror and retaliation, instigated by their husbands' brutal betrayals. The men have been removed in this revision, rendering the women paranoid and hysterical, trapped within some frightening labyrinth |
of their own creation, running from something
we cannot see. In their unexplained terror, they become the monsters themselves. LOVELY LONELY East Coast Premiere Ariana Hamidi (2004,U.S.,16mm, B/W, 2:00) A stop-motion love story. ON WOMEN´S RECEIPS Beatriz Flores & Sonia Malfa (2003, U.S.,16mm, color,10:00) An intimate peak into the kitchens of Cuban, Jamaican, Iraquois and African women as they discuss the acquisition of taste, rituals, memory, the carrying on of tradition and making a home in a foreign land. |
BUFFALO LIFTS Christina Battle (2004, US/Canada,16mm, Color, Silent, 3:00) A peek at gentle four-legged friends in a sumptuous wash of color, optically printed to obey the maker. SEE BIKINI SEE Angela Reginato (2004, U.S.,16mm, color, 2:45) The secret schematics of 60s beach movies are revealed in this found-footage film in which scratched-off emulsion reveals the sexual undertow overtaking Annette, Frankie and friends. POOR WHITE TRASH GIRL Kelly Spivey (2003, U.S.,16mm, Color 6.5 min) An animation tale of one girl’s introduction to the class wars. |
LAST STILL LIFE Michele Stanley (2003, Canada,16mm, B/W, 3:00) Reality, dream and hallucination intermingle when a single, disturbing moment becomes a continuously looped fragment of memory. LATE Diane Cheklich (2003, U.S.,16mm, B/W,7:38) Eerie, high-contrast shots of seedy hotels and dial-a-savior billboards are collaged together as late-night radio evangelist, Sister Agnes Phillips, dispenses wisdom and hope to lost souls. MAKE HASTE SLOWLY Elizabeth Block (2004, U.S.,16mm, Color, ,6:00) |
Block presents a visual poem of text, color
and light. Drawings on clear film leader are exposed to light and re-photographed
as digital pixels that are then projected backwards. This moving collage
is both lyrical and disconcerting. NUMERICAL ENGAGEMENTS Chelsea Walton (2004, U.S.,16mm, Color, 4:00) This hand-processed, optically printed love poem explores an intimate, roaming rendezvous. Lush and colorful, the rhythm of editing resembles a heartbeat. NEPTUNE´S RELEASE: SHOT IN THE DARK Joell Hallowell and Jacalyn White (2004, U.S.,16mm, Color, 17:00) Hallowell and White’s humorous and devastating |
found-footage extravaganza, complete with 50s advertisements, spiritual audiotapes, obsolete medical films and a star-studded cast that includes Janis Joplin, Timothy Leary and Shirley MacLaine. Neptune’s Release is a study of ingenious juxtapositions. | Maya Deren Theater MIX is proud to host a mini-retrospective of Abigail Child’s experiments with found footage and narrative form. Her work is an explosion of ideas released by virtuoso editing and we have selected 5 of her sexiest and most provocative shorts for your delectation. Enjoy! COVERT ACTION, (1984, USA, 16mm, B&W, 10:00) Covert Action is a stunning melange of rapid-fire retro imagery accomplishing Child’s proclaimed goal to “disarm my movies.” “I wanted to examine the erotic behind the social and remake those gestures into a dance that would confront their conditioning and, as well, relay the multiple fictions the footage suggests (the ‘facts’ forever obscured in |
the fragments left us). The result is a
narrative developed by its periphery, a story like rumor: impossible to
trace, disturbing, explosive.” PERILS (1985, USA, 16mm, B&W, 5:00) Perils is an homage to silent film—the clash of ambiguous innocence and unsophisticated villany—dramatizing the theatrical postures of melodrama to reconstruct our ideas of romance, action, and drama. “I had long conceived of a film composed only of reaction shots in which all causality was erased. What would be left would be the resonant voluptuous suggestions of history and the human face.” The sound montage was edited from Warner Brothers cartoons and improvisations by Charles Noyes and Christian Marclay. |
MAYHEM, (1987,
USA, 16mm, B&W, 20:00) Through a catalogue of looks, movements, and gestures, Mayhem presents a social order run amok in a libidinous retracing of film noir conventions. Sexuality flows in an atmosphere of sexual tension, danger, violence, and glamour; antagonism between the sexes is symbolized in the costuming of women in polka dots and men in stripes. Censored in Tokyo for its use of Japanese lesbian erotica, this tape creates an image bank of what signifies the sexual and the seductive in the history of imagemaking, pointing to the way we learn about our bodies, and how to use them from images. DARK DARK (2001, USA, 16mm, B&W, 16:00) A gruesome ghost dance of the narrative gesture, in |
which four story fragments are combined:
film noir, western, romance and pursuit. |
Courthouse Theater - Second Floor Live performances coming at you from table tops, slide projectors, and from between a set of talented thighs, curator Morty Diamond dazzles you with a cornucopia of queer / trans performance and multi-media mayhem. San Francisco's own go-go dancer, storyteller with a rhinetsone heart Chelsea Starr warms you up for a piercing performance by Ray Aims and Crystal Goldmind and a stand up comedy piece from Ronica, a queer South Asian sex worker and accupuncturist.. Miss Rivington herself Darlinda Just Darlinda reinvents the un-dead with diposable razors while that narcissistic genius bitch Ben McCoy lap dances you in half. Heather Acs rebuilds history, Cuntessa stage puppets in an unlikely forest and Peter Pizzi spins heartbreaking and hilarious |
narratives in photographic montage. Your
whirlwind evening wraps up with Aliza Shapiro and the ring master himself,
the Prince in Pink, Morty Diamond. Please join us as we mix a cocktail
of the bizarre and the tender. One part narrative, one part intellect,
and one part velocity with a hearty spillage of heat. Curator: Morty Diamond |
Maya Deren Theater – First Floor The next big thing is here. The revolution’s near. It’s all just a little bit of history eating itself. The short films in this program consume, ingest, cannibalize, chew up, and spit out new kinds of history. Queer makers reinscribe themselves in events of historic proportion. They rework the utopian visions of Communism or the Red Army Faction to fit their fancy. They remake the dystopian realities of the contemporary U.S. prison industry to show their displeasure. They tackle what it might feel like to be a gay serial killer of celebrity proportion. Or they recast the spectacle of current events to star themselves! Total Running Time: 77.5 minutes Curator: Festival Programming Committee |
THE POOL New York Premiere Sara Jordeno (2004, Sweden, 16mm, color, 22:00) A cathedral destroyed by Communists turns into a 1980's Moscow lesbian cruising site while S. California desert residents live in a sonic war zone. Mixing history with innuendo, THE POOL investigates queer desire as it intersects with political utopias, all framed by the various appropriations of Dolly Parton's "I will always Love You". DIGITS William Scott Rees + Jo Ellen Martinson (2003, U.S., video, 8:00) |
A mockumentary/music video hybrid, Digits
tracks the rise and fall of two finger-giving Euro terrorists and their soda pop sucking foe. CARISMA (CHARISMA) New York Premiere David Planell (2003, Spain, 35mm, color, in Spanish with English subtitles, 10:00) In an age of media spectacles and headline news, two dyke information junkies have based their relationship on shared sound bites of current events. But now another woman with CNN has come between them. THE SEDUCTION New York Premiere |
Monte Jovan Patterson (2004, U.S., video,10:00) Mickey Mouse, porn, racist guests at a party, tv watching. Race and class issues. I FEEL LOVE World Premiere Matt Wolf (2004, U.S., video, 14:30) In 1997 Andrew Cunanan was dubbed "the gay serial killer" after he killed gay fashion designer Gianni Versace. In I Feel Love, hotel maid Joel Manero, a fictitious victim of Cunanan, has an accidental run-in with the killer, which leads to his unexpected media celebrity. SOOTHSAYER Bobby Abate (2003, U.S., video, 13:00) Prophecies of doom, disaster and political |
catastrophe envisioned by some of the world’s
most famous psychics between the 1960’s and the year 2001 are conjured
up through 3D-animation, industrial films, text and historical footage
-- the sum of which combine to form a visually stunning meditation on
the forces that are driving us into a dark, paranoid and uncertain future.
Soothsayer reconsiders yesterday’s daunting and sometimes whimsical
predictions for the future after they’ve been outpaced by time.
– VDB Catalog |
Courthouse Theater - Second Floor The shorts in this program share queer relationships between image and sound. This program invites the viewer to engage with the question of relationship and interpretation in documentary and narrative forms. The conversations between what you see and what you hear structure explorations of changing landscapes, real and imagined times and places. Featuring New York premieres of Diane Bonder's "you are not from here" Bill Basquin’s “Martin,” two new videos by Paula Cronan, and Samuael Topiary’s/ EE Miller's "Gum and Tea." Total Running Time: 70 minutes Curators: Samuael Topiary and EE Miller PERSONAL EFFORT Paul Rowley and David Phillips (2004, Ireland & |
US, video, color, 2 min) A push-pull, tug of war between found footage and its digital manipulation. FARM-IN-THE-CITY Bernadine Mellis & EE Miller (U.S. 2004, video, 5:00) 8mm footage from the 1930s edited with EE Miller’s interview with Corinna Press, an artist who imagines giant possibilities, ecstatic collaboration and struggle. MORE BREAD FOREVER Stephanie Gray (2004, U.S. hand-processed super 8 film, b/w, 11:00) The view from a bicycle of the filmmaker’s Buffalo neighborhood -- a changing landscape and the |
hold that memory has over the ways we view
what we see.
GUM & TEA BECAUSE I LOVE IT |
YOU ARE NOT FROM
HERE |
COOKING THE WAY TO
A MAN´S HEART Liz Rodda (U.S. 2005, video, 3:42) An audio collage of old advertising soundbites provides an eery suggestive landscape for playing with dolls. TILTED Kai Ling Xue ( U.S., 2003, video, 5:00) Found 16 mm medical footage from the Seventies provides inspires a testimonial narrative from the survivor of a queer “condition.” THE DELTA Daughters of Houdini Carolyn Ryder Cooley & Zoey Kroll (U.S., 1997, video (shot on super 8 film), color, 4:00) A surprise encounter with a ravaged landscape: an accordian, assumed identities, and a |
search for native narratives on a ruptured
road. ENDGAME Alina Grumiller (U.S., 2002, video (shot on 16mm film), color 12:30) A time-lapsed view from the filmmaker’s Frankfurt apartment records the construction of a large commercial building. The sound places the visual narrative during the weeks and months following the 2002 US bombing of Afganistan. STAINS AND SPARKLES Paula Cronan & Juliana Snapper (U.S., 2004, video, color, 5:17) Operatic television animation, the color sparkles and interlaced fields of color set to an enigmatic and beautiful composition and performance by the great Juliana Snapper |
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