Maya Deren Theater - First 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: 60 minutes
Curator: Festival Programming Committee
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   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
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Maya Deren Theater
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
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    Courthouse Theater - Second Floor
This is THE place to be on Monday night! Another installment of the infamous MIX GONG SHOW! Bring a VHS tape of 5 minutes or less of your best (or worst) work and have it ripped apart by a panel of celebrity judges. It's funny, it's wild and best of all its FREE!
Winner takes home a fabulous prize and, who knows, maybe a celebrity judge... or two.
  Maya Deren Theater
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
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