MIX NYC

	This live performance program focuses on the experimentation of creating sounds, from altering traditional instruments, temporal recordings, to new technological advances for working with audio. Each artist uses various methods of understanding fundamental elements of sound to create a shift in our conventional way of hearing; exposing for us, the subtle elements of our own emotions, and the ever shifting understanding of the world around us; exciting and enticing us to explore a world full of possibilities, changes, dreams and desires. Curated by Ethan Shoshan. Aproximate running time 90 min.


	Duo Improvisations James Coleman (theremin) & Bill Hsu (computer) James Coleman, one of very few free improvisers working with the spatially controlled theremin, has been described as being able to “create an entire universe of evershifting textures” in performance. Bill Hsu uses a Wacom graphics tablet to control synthesis software, to achieve the nuanced and tactile qualities of acoustic instruments in improvisation. Coleman and Hsu are performing a set of free improvisations.

	Calling Havona Aimee Norwich (hybrid bass/noiseplayer) The Urantia Book discusses spirituality, science, religion, history, philosophy and destiny and describes Havona as being a place where all sound originates. It is said that in Havona, harmony is the language of this perfectly balanced system of planets; and it is in Havona that sound begins and vibrates through all of existence. In “Calling Havona,” Aimee attempts to call on the celestial musical beings of Havona, so that they may show peace and beauty through their perfect sounds.

	LIVE TRANSMISSION: attention and drawing as time-based performance Morgan O’Hara The most immediate sign of life is movement. That which is alive, moves. LIVE TRANSMISSIONS render visible normally invisible or fleeting movement patterns through seismograph-like drawing done in real time. The pursuit of vitality carefully observed through human activity is drawn simultaneously with both hands and transmitted to paper. Following closely the intensity of each segment of an activity, the direction of the line as well as the quality of its intensity is transmitted. If a person makes a gentle movement, a delicate line is drawn. If the action followed is forceful or violent, a correspondingly vigorous line is made. This is done simultaneously and as much as possible without “thinking.” This is not automatic drawing, but its opposite, requiring great concentration and focus.
	Despite Protestations VIRGO NYC with Charles Cohan A provocative improvisational sound artwork that juxtaposes abstract layers of analog waveforms with incongruous concrète soundscapes of gay male pornography, gay-bashing scenes from Hollywood films, and gay civil rights protests. In Despite Protestations, veteran sound artists VIRGO and Charles Cohen focus on the omnipresent tension between sex, politics, and violence. Recalling the random juxtapositions of John Cage and the speech intelligibility experiments of Luciano Berio, Lars-Gunnar Bodin and Bengt Emil Johnson, VIRGO and Charles Cohen blend and distort their emotionally charged source recordings in numerous ways, exploring the boundary at which sounds originally laden with such profound meaning can be denuded of all coherent intelligibility.


	Collision of Elements KMZ Ken Montgomery & Michael Zodorozny NYC will explore the collision of traditional electronic instruments and non-traditional sound making devices bringing about an unpredictable sonic soundscape. The audio collision will be illuminated by a mixed media visual presentation.
	Mikilandia Productions (Raul De Nieves, Mikki M. Olson & Nathan Whipple NYC) will experiment with sound in forms of tape looping actions and outrageous physical performance. It’s hard for this crazy group to ever commit to a single idea as the work charges on schizophrenic personalities and paranormal activities that reach the depths of emotional psyche and farce to present to you what is uncalled for. No one is safe from their performances, so be prepared.


	The Loud Objects Tristan Perich, Kunal Gupta, Katie Shima, Chris McDonald NYC elegantly brings a circuit to noisy life on an overhead projector, creating a semi-controlled soundscape of scrapes and glitches.

	By and about LGBT youth. We return again and again to events that seemed of the utmost importance and urgency when young. Sometimes those events (a phone call unreturned, a shared moment) do actually turn out to have longlasting significance. Whether made by youth at A DIFFERENT TAKE, MIX’s video production workshop, or by others recalling their past, all of these films struggle with the difficulties in adolescence. TRT: approx. 80 min.


	God Bless Lima Peru Rios O’Leary-Tagiuri, 2007, video, color, sound, 7 min. World Premiere A surprising, provocative but ultimately touching story of a young drag-queen’s search for peace and personal integrity. Shot in the icy depths of winter in a grand but decaying park in upper Manhattan, this, colorful and carefully crafted video piece captures young queerness at its most raw, vulnerable and unapologetic. Lima Peru is chased through a neglected and seemingly remote urban park on a bright sunny winter morning in the cold. A young drag-queen with pale skin and short dark cropped hair, she is unimpeded by two bags, an ankle-length skirt and tall leather heels. Stopping briefly to pee and regain composure, she continues to make her way through the cracked and leafy pathways with definite but mysterious intention. On her way, she encounters a young and dapper boy-singer biding time in the park on his own. She experiences a tentative, momentary but passionate feeling of intimacy. Wary of being sidetracked, she continues with her mission: the gentle and sympathetic burial of a young animal. Interspliced throughout are scenes of the surrounding environment: traffic-laden bridges, icy slow-moving rivers, decrepit stairways and once-glamorous walks.

	Invisible Son Edward Lee, 2005, USA, video, color, sound, 11 min. “Omma, uppa, how do I begin this? There is so much I’ve wanted to share with you but couldn’t. Little glimpses and pieces are all that you’ve seen. I want you to know my being - to know and see all of me. My stories, experiences, tears, pain, laughter, joy, and sorrow.” Invisible Son is about a young man’s struggle in coming to terms with his cultural heritage and sexuality, through a brutally truthful letter to his immigrant parents. Director Edward Lee’s unique path of discovery gives voice to his previously unspoken thoughts, emotions, and experiences, exploring the universal themes of love, acceptance, and belonging.

	Beautifulli Broken Zy-Tasia Gaines, 2007, USA, video, color, sound, World Premiere Have you ever been in love? Have you ever tried to describe that kind of love once its gone? Imagine what that would sound like. Imagine what that would look like, it’s one thing to tell someone about lost love. What if they could see it from your perspective? My documentary is based on being able to see what I felt.

	Obsession Christopher Riva, 2007, USA, video, color, sound, 10 min. World Premiere What’s on Chris’s mind? Boyfriend Richie, his hair, Richie, worrying that his father will discover that he’s gay, & Richie. Chris hasn’t seen Richie for a while and when he learns Richie’s dark secret, he’s got to figure out how to keep himself happy.

	Paranoia Rhandal Riva, 2007, USA, video, color, sound, 6 min. World Premiere The whole world starts closing in on a boy who thinks that his mother, gay brother, & friend have joined the conspiracy.
	Multiple Choice Test Zatasia Barrett, 2007, USA, video, color, sound, 5 min. World Premiere Should she butch it up for the grrl or femme it up for the boy? A young woman chooses between her girlfriend and her boyfriend.


	Broken Bronx Heart Erika Perez, 2007, USA, video, color, sound, 5 min. World Premiere A Bronx chula is heartbroken as she remembers being cheated on by her past girlfriend and tries to be present with her new girlfriend.
	Queer Streets (excerpt) Alex Waterfield, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 10 min. A hip, gritty look at the reality of life on the street for kids with three strikes against them: They’re young. They’re gay. They’re homeless. Call it MTV’s The Real World without the house. This is the true story of several gay, lesbian and transgender young people living on the streets in New York City. Queer youth make up approximately 20 to 50 percent of the 20,000 homeless young people in New York City. Homophobia, poverty and mental illness put them on the streets, where they struggle with violence, drugs, sex work and daily life in the youth shelter system. See the issues through their eyes, in their own words.


	Honorable Son Jay Esguerra, 2007, USA, video, color, sound, 5 min. A Filipino son opens a dialogue to confront parental silence in acknowledging his gay identity at home. In doing so, he enters an intense dialogue and gets an intimate glimpse of his parents and must look within his past to find truth.
	Bébé Requin (Baby Shark) Pascal-Alex Vincent, 2005, France, 35mm to video, color, sound, 15 min. Two bored-to-tears teenagers, killing time the modern way: sex and video games. “Three separate stories overflow with unspoken teen desire, each featuring a straight boy, a girlfriend and a gay friend. The math never works out well. So don’t expect any happy endings.” —Inside Out Catalog


	S/He Gina Pei Chi Chen, 2007,Canada, video, color, sound 12 min. S/he centers on a 12-year-old Asian girl’s struggles between following her expected gender role and pursuing her masculine nature.
	I Am Not Your Darling Adam Golub, 2007, USA, video, color, sound, 9 min. A glimpse into the lives and experiences of three college-age Caucasian biological females who identify as “gender queer.” An exploration of the conceptions of “gender,” of how we are perceived and how others perceive us. Question the binary and really look at what it means to be a “man” or a “woman.”

	If possession is nine-tenths of the law, then is what’s “yours” yours simply because you claim it? Or perhaps because it’s given to you, or because you take it. Your identity, your body, your lover, your hostage; that tension between possessing and relinquishing, enthralling and ignoring, courses through these selected shorts, plotting a frank and insightful journey through myriad ways to treat what’s yours, or isn’t. Be it with the ardor of the enchanted (Inge Blackman’s Fem and Vincent Parmentier’s Paris, je t’aime aussi), or with the obsessiveness of the criminally deluded (Hervé Lebrun’s Possession), construct your reality, and own it. Curated by the Festival Programming Committee. TRT: 68 min.


	Possession Hervé Joseph Lebrun, 2006, France, video, B&W, sound, 24 min. A man, after spying his neighbor night and day, decides to kidnap him. Love and pain, torture and tenderness…A death love story.
	New York Story Nicolas Jenkins, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 6:30 Breyer P-orridge and life partner Lady Jaye have garnered attention in recent years by undergoing medical procedures to eliminate their physical differences. “One of the central themes of our work is the malleability of physical and behavioural identity,” they explain. The two hope to create a new gender, the pandrogyne, a hermaphroditic entity called Breyer P-orridge.


	Give Piece of Ass a Chance Bruce LaBruce, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 14 min. The third in a series of porn produced by The Scandelles (www.thescandelles.com) starring their alter egos, The Partistes, GPAC shows the inception of these characters as a group of anti-war sex terrorists who kidnap a munitions heiress and fuckwash her using her family’s deadly legacy. GPAC pokes loving fun at the misguided but consequential anti-war, anti-bourgeois and feminist groups of the early 1970’s and 1990’s and the media’s natural obsession with their innate sexiness.
	Fem Inge Blackman, 2007, UK, film, color, sound, 10 min. A tender ode to femme-dom from the heart of a besotted butch.


	Escrito Monique Enriquez, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 1 min. A poetic gesture to the contradictions of what it means to be a queer immigrant in the U.S. As Gloria Anzaldúa writes, “As mestizas we have different surfaces for each aspect of identity…We are ‘written’ all over, or should I say, carved and tattooed with the sharp needles of experience.” 3 Samstag Abend Im Eagle (Saturday Night at the Eagle) Marc Adelman, 2007, USA, video, color, sound, 5 min. A minimalist piece that investigates the place of shame in relationship to identity construction, Samstag Abend Im Eagle brings together seemingly disparate elements—the laying of tefillin, leather fetishism, German, The Jazz Singer and HIV/AIDS—as a means for rethinking counterpublics and assimilation.
	Separation Erwin Olaf, 2003, Netherlands, video, color, sound, 4 min. An S&M family at home. The atmosphere is chilly, no one says a word, everything is happening calmly and immaculately. Differently from what you would perhaps expect, there are no brutal gestures of subjection, but rather, an aloofness that is at the same time nothing out of the ordinary.


	Paris, je t’aime aussi Vincent Parmentier, France, video, color, sound, 2:16 The straight boys of Paris set to a stirring soundtrack.


	Transentities Morty Diamond,2007, USA, video, color, sound, 58 min. World Premiere Papí and Wil are a perverted, loving, polyamorous couple who identify as Trans Entities, a word they have coined to describe their gender identity. Armed with his camera, Morty Diamond set out to capture this couple in a multifaceted way, from revealingly personal interviews to fun nights out on the town. The three sex scenes in this movie, including one with a third partner, were shot completely undirected, allowing the viewer an engagingly raw look into their uninhibited exploration of role-playing, BDSM and lots of hot fucking. So this film has what you all came for: You see Papí and Wil doing what they love: fucking. But Papí & Wil also talk about being poly and how they negotiate the pleasures and perils of this choice, before you see them with a third partner. Role playing is a big part of their life, so Papí & Wil discuss their take on role-playing and then we see them enact a scene! Morty Diamond Bio Morty Diamond is a transgender performance artist, filmmaker and writer originating from Los Angeles, California. Some of the primary ideas in his work are deconstruction of gender, power dynamics, erotic methodology, and public personas. Morty’s first anthology From the Inside Out, FTM and Beyond, published in 2004, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and was given continuous positive reviews in magazines such as Curve, Bust and the Brooklyn Rail, it is now in its second printing. His first feature-length film, Trannyfags, has garnered international attention for being the first pornographic movie that highlights gay transmen. He has traveled to places such as Mexico City and Berlin to present this groundbreaking film. Morty has been a visiting guest lecturer to universities across the country including NYU, Vassar, Brown, and Columbia. Morty has a strong love for performance art and has performed in public spaces, theaters and festivals around New York City. His ongoing public performance art includes the work “Ask A Tranny” in which Morty sits in a public place and allows the public to ask anything about his life as a transman. In addition, Morty has been a sex educator for over three years, teaching at colleges, universities, private workshops, and at the feminist sex toy store Babeland. The various workshops he has taught include a beginners guide to sex toys titled “Sex Toys 101,” as well as a tutorial about anal sex for men titled “Bend Over Your Boyfriend.” Morty was artistic director of the 2005 MIX Festival.

	A collection of artists & filmmakers who have an affiliation to the “Generation Hex” era, blending old school and new school: many of these participants are connected and collaborate with each other. This program/line-up deals with the occult and esoteric each individual has his/her own unique interpretation of this theme. Jason Louv, in his introduction to Generation Hex (2006), states that the book is a snapshot of those “who are not only delving into this art [of magick] and science of the future, but who are coming to magical consciousness at a time when it has never been easier to find and link up with people of like minds and experience.” This is a video survey of such people. As Scott Treleaven, in the final issue of This is the Salivation Army (1999), said: “We are the new circus. And we are the envy of the fucking World.” —Daniel McKernan & Richie Rennt, curators. TRT: 72 min.


	Ordeal by Roses Lee Adams, 2003, UK, video, 14 min. USA Premiere Inspired by one of Eikoh Hosoe’s photographs of Yukio Mishima, who in 1970 committed ritual suicide by disembowelment. “Hell has degrees, so does love, and I reached its lowest circle and its heights.” — Jean Genet.

	Ecstatic (from Self-Obliteration) Ron Athey, 2007, UK, video, 3 min. A stand-alone performance of Ron’s which starts out somewhat absurd & campy and soon twists into an intense, bloody & compelling work.

	Uncle Billy Black Sun Productions (Massimo & Pierce), 2007, Switzerland, video, 5 min. A tribute to William S. Burroughs. Filmed in Barcelona in February 2007. In collaboration with Lukas Beyeler and Carlotta Steinemann. Featuring Ennio Nobili and Othon Mataragas (of Current 93).
	A Time of Happening Peter Christopherson/The Threshold Houseboys Choir, 2003-2006, Thailand, video, 7 min. New York Premiere Documentation of the GinJae Festival, where a series of rituals are performed in which the participants (all young males, mostly tattooed tearaways or troublemakers) were in trance or possessed states, induced into such by their leader or “Holy Man.” In such states, the boys seemed not to feel pain. “We all get the gods we deserve?”


	Project P-Town Scott Hug, 2007, USA, video, 3 min. World Premiere Documentation of a trip to Providence, RI, for a party thrown by John Waters. An exercise in the cult of camp.
	GOD Terence Koh, 2007, Switzerland, video (originally 16mm), 3 min. World Premiere Documentation of a art/sex ritual/ performance of the same title which just happened at De Pury in Zurich. “My Path to Heaven; Are you Blind, Bastard?”


	Veneration X Daniel McKernan & Richie Rennt, 2007, USA, video, 3 min. World Premiere An homage & attempt to reach each other. Ghost-like images of the two of us fade in & out of static & seem to always just miss each other. Set to Black Sun Productions’ “Veneration X.” Sing me that love song again.
	S/HE IS HER/E Edward O’Dowd, 2007, USA, video, 2 min. World Premiere The drummer of Psychic TV/PTV3 contributes an amusing personal look at Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.


	Absolute Zero K.P. Parandi, 2006, France, video, 2 min. World Premiere A commercial to join a cult based in the future which uses the absolute zero (-273,148° C) to time travel and therefore “back up” their lives.
	Pantelia Micki Pellerano, 2006, USA, video, 10 min. An examination of the mystical and erotic significance of the number ten.


	New York Story Nicolas Jenkins, 2006, USA, video, 7 min. Genesis & Lady Jaye undergo surgeries in order to resemble each other & become one being: Breyer P-Orridge. Afterwards, they wander, bandaged, to Times Square in order to pledge allegiance to a neon US flag.
	Self_Love Roberto Ratti, 2007, Italy, video, 3 min. World Premiere In collaboration with Black Sun Productions for their new album, Chemism. Featuring Emiliano Pesenti and Massimo & Pierce masked, in an abandoned art school (Juventus Schule) in Zurich where they were squatting at the time. This work is set in an urban reality and touches on the last man’s crash encounter with himself, where he is his own nemesis.


	Curses, Hexes & Boots SUPERM (Slava Mogutin & Brian Kenny), 2006, USA, video, 5 min. USA Premiere Featuring Masterboy Tom Dura & Joakim Andreasson in an erotic ritual involving a roomful of boots. With a voice-over by Scott Treleaven: “I live in a haunted house?”
	Boyfriend #3 Todd Verow, 2005, USA, video, 5 min. A couple, having been together for years, must come up with twisted, exciting new sexual scenerios to keep their relationship interesting.

	Virtually unknown today, Danny Williams was Andy Warhol’s lover, and a promising young filmmaker. He also designed the groundbreaking Velvet Underground / Exploding Plastic Inevitable lightshow. The discovery of 20 never-before-seen films Williams made during his time at the Factory— and whose many subjects include Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, Paul Morrissey, Brigid Berlin, Billy Name and what may be the earliest known footage of the Velvet Underground- reveals a luminous talent and a stark gap in the historical record. Williams’s neice, Esther Robinson, found the films, and was inspired to investigate her uncle’s mysterious 1966 disappearance. The result is her documentary A Walk into the Sea, which opens commercially in December. Tonight MIX NYC presents the actual films of Danny Williams, unseen in New York until now. Although the films are silent, they are accompanied live by T. Griffin & Catherine McRae, of the critically acclaimed electronic band The Quavers, who coax a luminous sound out of decayed samplers, walkmans, vibraphonette, footpedal loopers, tape echo violin and homespun harmonies. Like a space-age Carter Family, they weave low-tech electronics around songs sturdy enough to stand up even if the power goes out. They call it “porch techno.” Curated by the Festival Programming Committee. TRT: approx. 80 min.


	Factory Danny Williams 1965, USA, 16mm, B&W, live music by the Quavers, 22 min. One of the earliest of Williams’s completed films is a montage of scenes shot at Warhol’s studio: Warhol and Brigid Berlin take turns talking on the phone; Billy Name is seen in residence at the silver Factory; Genevieve Charbin pounds away on the typewriter (most likely transcribing Warhol’s tape-recorded novel, a: A Novel); there are glimpses of other friends and colleagues such as Gerard Malanga, Chuck Wein, Ondine, and Henry Geldzahler. Also included is some of the footage shot by Williams during the filming of Warhol’s 1965 sound film My Hustler Ingrid, a movie in which Williams appears as cameraman, filming away with Warhol’s silent Bolex. — Callie Angell

	Trips and Parties Danny Williams, 1965, USA, 16mm, B&W, live music by the Quavers, 27 min. As its title suggests, Trips & Parties documents various excursions and gatherings at the Warhol Factory. Some nighttime footage of New Jersey highways is interrupted by images of Billy Name making a late-night stop at Kentucky Fried Chicken. Williams also records a friend’s wild party, complete with live band, dancing couples, and some very drunken young men, one of whom is wrapped in the American flag. Other gatherings at the Factory feature Edie Sedgwick (appearing wildly animated in a single-framed sequence) and a very emotional Naomi Levine, as well as Warhol and his Silver Cloud sculptures. The final scene is a train trip; images of the passing landscape are intercut with shots of Williams’s traveling companions - Warhol, Sedgwick, Paul America, Gerard Malanga, and Paul Morrissey. —Callie Angell
	Harold Stevenson #1 & 2 Danny Williams 1965, USA, 16mm, B&W, live music by the Quavers, c. 39 min.This two-part portrait of the American painter Harold Stevenson begins at the Factory on October 29, 1965, with single-framed footage of the making of Warhol’s film Camp, a film in which Stevenson does not appear, even though he apparently turned up in a velvet suit for the occasion. Some later footage, shot on November 4, shows Stevenson, now wearing an elaborate three-piece plaid suit, embracing Malanga and Paul America and then striking flamboyant poses for Williams’s camera. The second part of the film was shot on December 1, 1965 in Stevenson’s suite at the Carlyle Hotel, where the painter and his guests strike photogenic poses on the couch. The scene becomes more and more bacchanalian as Stevenson, Sedgwick, Malanga, America and the others embrace, laugh, and refill their glasses. —Callie Angell

	In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Pygmalion, a sculptor (and confirmed bachelor), carved the figure of a woman so perfect that he fell in love with her and begged Venus to bring her to life. Indeed Venus does and they marry and have a son, Paphos. These modern day Pygmalions turn to cameras and computers to breathe life into found objects, drawings, photographs, and even animated versions of themselves. Perhaps the most experimental of all filmmaking, ranging from traditional cell and stopmotion to collage and computer graphics, animation is truly magical. It has the power to titillate, inspire, humor, hypnotize, captivate and disturb. And with Pygmalion as possibly the first known animator, it’s no wonder that queer makers use animation to get in touch with their bodies, their sexuality and their emotions. TRT: 64 min.


	Bildo Lamathilde, 2000, Canada, video, color, sound, 5:30 min. Stop-motion animation lets this lezzie Playmobile figure have fun.
	Artist Statement Daniel Barrow, 2006, Canada, video, color, sound, 5:30 min. Remember the Commodore computer? Like a PC-Jurassic Park, Barrow brings to life this now-archaic software to illustrate and animate his “gratuitously honest” personal manifesto. Music by The Ballet.


	7200 Drawings of Bill T. Jones Rudy Lemcke, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 4 min. “When I first started thinking about making this piece I thought of the idea of “tagging” Bill T. Jones and using the trope of graffiti to express what I saw that day. 7,200 drawings later (the number of drawings that it takes to animate a 4 minute video) I ended up with this animation, a 4 minute piece of graffiti—tagging Bill T. Jones and his ‘In the Streets’ performance.”
	Crazy Woman Kyunghwa Lee, 2007, South Korea , video, color, sound, 4 min. My video is about a crazy woman. I just want to know what a crazy person’s point of view makes possible. Being a crazy woman to me has always meant finding the way.


	Atlantis Unbound Lori Hiris, 2007, USA, 16mm, color, sound, 14 min. Hiris’ gorgeous and captivating frame-by-frame animation explores and critiques the scientific theories of heredity according to Sir Francis Galton, the main character in Francis Bacon’s utopian novel New Atlantis and cousin of Charles Darwin. Music by Natalie Farr.
	Before I Was Sad (Avant J’Étais Triste) Jean Gabriel Periot, 2002, France, video, color, sound, French w/English subtitles, 2 min. Before I Was Sad critiques the utopia of integration. It’s the story of a gay man trying to be “normal.” The ultimate irony is that integration could destroy all the differences.


	Jose Y Maria Edward Juan, 2007, USA, 16mm, color, sound, 4 min. A ghost and a Catholic schoolgirl conspire against a disciplinary nun. She gets what she deserves in this clever hand drawn traditional cel-animated short.
	Filled With Water Elka Kerkhofs, 2006, Australia, video, color, sound, 5 min. Anoka feels a deep emptiness until she walks into a TV, and her heart begins to glow for a beautiful ballerina in this charming animated love story.


	Karaoke Show Karl Tebbe, 2007, Germany, video, color, sound, 4:30 min. Filmmaker Karl Tebbe’s lifelong dream to dance like Michael Jackson is achieved through stop-motion animation…well sorta! Hey kids, don’t try this in your basement rec-room alone.

	Upper John Knecht, 2007, USA, video, color, sound, 4 min. This psychedelic barrage of color and sound is a computergenerated Oktoberfest on acid. Cheers!
	A Bear, Where? Jeremy Stewart, 2006, Australia, video, color, sound, 3 min. This charming photomontage animated short is a hybrid of travel notes, video gaming, news and daydreams. Follow our Bear-friend through daddy-world as he searches for love and mischief.


	Waschdrang Mama Martha Colburn, 2006, The Netherlands, video, color, sound, 3 min. Sexy mind blowing collage animation with a throbbing beat.
	Still Alives Laurent Pernot, 2005, France, video, color, sound, 2:30 min. This stunning and hypnotic video links the languages of animation and music video composition via a series of antique photographs. Opening with a plunge into a luminous child’s face and crossing over a sequence of morphing portraits, Still Alives examines the transmission of life, memory and disappearance.

	Hide and Seek (from DOE) David J. White, 2007, USA, video, color and B&W, sound, 3 min. Hide and Seek, an experimental music video set to the song of the same name by Imogen Heap is a taste of David J. White’s captivating feature film Doe. Intense, erotic and tragic, Doe, is a true experimental narrative art film, composed entirely of still photographs “at the heart of it is something deeply conventional; a brazenly melodramatic depiction of a relationship that’s floundered and will never heal, told with much patience and mystery.”Watch the feature length version of Doe online at: www.myspace.com/pretzel17

	Carnal appetites are central to the shorts in this erotic collection. Ranging from playful flirtation to full-on bloodlust, these films portray different aspects of the experience of queer desire. Many capture moments in which arousal overrides reason, and no transgression is too great, no act too perverse. Curated by the Festival Committee. TRT: 84 min.


	Yoga Profunda Ludwig Von Papírus, 2006, Brazil, video, color, sound, 10 min. Four friends liberate their bodies through various spiritual experiences and sexual practices.
	Brothers, Let Us Be Merry Ulrich Seidl, 2006, Austria, 35mm, color, sound, German, 1 min. A carnal union of high and low culture, as two interestingly similar guys jerk off to Mozart in a tacky, jungle-themed sitting room.


	Fucking Others Tim Blue, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 4 min. In a sexually and politically charged collaboration with the Other, an Arab and a Jew gave their favorite porn fragments to a white American film maker who used these materials to create Fucking Others.
	Sex Toys Stories by Kat-I Kat-I & Nano Segler, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 5 min. What’s your sex toy story? Women on the town Kat-I and Nano elicit an eyebrow-raising assortment of true tales of sex with objects.


	Film Montages (for Peter Roehr) William E. Jones, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 11 min. Film Montages (for Peter Roehr) explores delicious predatory elements of gay male sexuality through the use of appropriated video. Grainy footage of the freeway at night, kinky leathersex, and an orgy are juxtaposed against a distorted soundtrack containing fragments of dialogue.
	Les Mystères Du Château Des Lesbiennes Jim Hubbard, 2007, USA, video, color, sound, 7 min. World Premier This film fleetingly reveals the passionate desire that simmers just beneath the mysterious surface of lesbian life.


	Political Confusion Tim Blue, 2007, USA, video, color, sound, 8 min. Sensuous images pass by as distorted and troubling sounds confuse.

	Knee for All Hannah Jickling & Kevin Hegge, 2007, Canada, video, color, sound, 4 min. Knee for All queers the body by moving away from genitals and genders and moving towards, into, around and all over the knees.
	Sipis Albert Negredo, 2005, Spain, video, color, sound, 4 min. Images depicting an oral fixation in action; sucking, licking, spitting, sucking…


	Narcissus’ Kaleidoscope Christopher Westfall, 2007, USA, video, color, sound, 3 min. The intent of this experimental short subject is to explore the duality between self and self-perception, but in truth, it’s fun to look at.
	Pasión Por El Fútbol Rut Suso & Maria Pavon, 2007, Spain, video, color, sound, Spanish w/English Subtitles, 10 min. While the boyfriend is riveted to the game on the radio, the girlfriend plays a game of her own with a sexy stranger in a public restroom.


	A Beautiful Death Katrina del Mar, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 7 min. A woman meets a mysterious stranger, follows her home, meets her friends… and her fate.
	More British Sounds William E. Jones, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 8 min. Images from the pornographic video The British Are Coming (1986) are combined with audio from See You at Mao (1969), also known as British Sounds, produced by Dziga Vertov Group, directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The soundtrack consists of a speech from British Sounds layered four times in the structure of a round. The effect is sexy, mesmerizing and thought provoking all at once.

	Wachsdrang Mama Martha Colburn, 2006, The Netherlands, video, color, sound, 2 min. Fantastic and luscious animated images of spewing cocks, assholes, flowers, and prison flash to a hypnotic beat.


	Wednesday Nov 14

	9 pm	Opening Night: OPTIC NERVE $ 20
	Thursday Nov 15

	6 pm	FOR EYES
	8 pm	BACK TO THE FRONT
	10 pm	BUTT MAGAZINE SHOW

	Friday Nov 16

	1-4 pm	Special Intimate Performance: Soie Soyeuse by Yvon Bonefant Stop by the MIX Festival Space (72 Greene St) anytime between 1-4pm for entrance into this 20 minute performance

	5 pm	~~DON'T~~ LOOK BACK
	7 pm	SECOND LIFE

	9 pm	GENDER TRANSCENDER

	11 pm	THE TASTE OF IT
	Saturday Nov 17

	1-4 pm	Special Intimate Performance: Soie Soyeuse by Yvon Bonefant Stop by the MIX Festival Space (72 Greene St) anytime between 1-4pm for entrance into this 20 minute performance

	5 pm	PYGMALION'S CHILDREN: Queer Animation Inventions

	6 pm	FACTORY FRIENDS & LOVERS $12

	8 pm	HOMOCCULT & Other Esoterotica

	10 pm	TRANS ENTITIES
	Sunday Nov 18


	5:30 pm	TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT

	7 pm	A DIFFERENT TAKE

	9 pm	Closing Night Event: STRIPPED & EXPOSED: Experiments With Sound $ 15
	Monday Nov 19


	7 pm	GONG SHOW

	Gender Transcenders cover a wide range of perspectives on being trans, with an emphasis on transgressing traditional gender binaries and entering transcendent in-between spaces. The selections take a documentary approach to reveal courage, defiance and sexiness. Curated by the Festival Committee. TRT: 70 min.


	Chapeau! Didier Seynave, 2007, Belgium, video, color, sound, 6 min. A light-hearted look at queer icons and drag queens of a certain age.

	Swim Suit Lucretia Knapp, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 14 min. Swim Suit delves into the unique struggles of a college athlete who begins to explore a trans identity while swimming competitively on a women’s team.

	Whatever Suits You Ashley Altadonna, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 7 min. A visual meditation on the realization and creation of a new gender identity with the redesign of a suit as a metaphor.

	Trannymals Go To Court

	THE GONG SHOW (at Collective: Unconscious) $5 free beer

	Celebrate the end of the festival with an easy night out. With yout host 2 Murray Hill, and celebrity Judges Taylor Mac, 1 Heather Daniels and others TBA! Bring your VHS tapes or DVDs and our distinguished panel will tear ’em up in front of you! Or drop your work off at the MIX box office at the festival anytime during the week. Make sure you fill out a form with your name (if you dare) and a description! Our lucky winner will go home with a bundle of prizes! Not for the faint of heart!