MAY 10, 2008, 3:45 PM
$10 (for day pass to ALMS Screenings )
ART, DOCUMENTATION & THE LESBIAN REVOLUTION
Selected films & videos from the Lesbian Herstory Archives (NYC) and
the Bildwechsel Archive (Hamburg, Germany)

MIX NYC presents a screening at CUNY CLAGS ALMS conference.
An international conference focusing on LGBT archives, libraries, museums
special collections happening May 8-10.

For more information contact CLAGS:
clags@gc.cuny.edu
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Clags/

Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, #7115
New York, New York

Subway:
B,D,F,V,N,Q,R,W to 34th St/Herald Square
1,2,3 to 34th St
6 to 33rd St.

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ART, DOCUMENTATION & THE LESBIAN REVOLUTION
Selected films & videos from the Lesbian Herstory Archives (NYC) and
the Bildwechsel Archive (Hamburg, Germany)

Presented by Kate Huh, Co-Director Mix NYC. Co-curated with archivists
Claude Förster & Christina Schäfer, Bildwechsel Archive.

These two women's archives serve as important repositories of lesbian
history via
film, video, books, photographs and ephemera. This screening will
examine the overlapping of lesbian political activist documentation &
experimental media art. In a short discussion after the screening we
will discuss value that these archives hold as resources for artists,
curators and queer political historians.
Approximate running time - 60 minutes

>From the Lesbian Herstory Archives Collection -

Lesbians Organized for Video Experience (L.O.V.E.)
Barbara Jabaily (Camera), Tracy Fitz (Editor), 1973, USA, Video, B/W,
Sound, 9 min.
An excerpt from the L.O.V.E tapes collection. Images of the collective
building a large paper mache dinosaur and wheeling it down 5th Ave.
during  a demonstration for lesbian rights and visibility in front of
the  Museum of Natural History, NYC.

WOW Cafe Springfest
WOW Collective (camera), 1986, USA, Video, Color, Sound, 4 min.
An excerpt of WOW's annual spring festival. Early femme empowerment
with a casio beat you can dance to by the new-wave/punk band The
Useless Femmes: Kathy Thomas, Lynn Hayes & Deb Miller.

Doctors, Liars and Women
Jean Carlo Musto & Maria Magentti, 1988, USA, Video, Color, Sound, 5 min.
Produced in conjunction with G.M.H.C. for the "Living with AIDS Show,"
an excerpt of female members of ACT-UP NYC confronting a doctor who had published
an article in Ms. magazine claiming that women had no risk of HIV
transmission from having unprotected sex with HIV positive partners.

Keep Your Laws off Our Bodies
Zoe Leonard & Catherine Saalfield, 1990, USA, video/Super8, B&W, Sound, 13 min.
Political action and lesbian sexuality meet in this experimental short
which deals with legislation that effects the bodies of women. This
film includes documentation of ACT-UP demonstrations, arrests and
historical facts about laws which control the rights of women.

>From the Bildwechsel Archive Collection

Charakter X
Nkid, 2004, Germany,Video, Color, Sound, 1 min.
CX impropriates power via language and in this, Cx becomes a critic to
the normative thinking of gender. CX could be a technobody, a virus or
a copy of digitalpicture collage who is squating your monitor.

The Corner
Christina Schäfer, 2007, Germany, Super 8 (transfer to video),
Color, Sound, 3 min.
St. Pauli in the morning when somebody familiar is missing.

Homo Homes
Louise Lockwood, Scotland, 1998, Video, Color, Sound, 4 min.
A humorous TV advert looking at gay and lesbian home interiors.

Sink or Swim
Coral Short, UK, 2005, Video, Sound, Color, 3 min.
Amateur International Synchronized Swimming Team at the Brockwell Lido.

In the Ladies Lounge
Fadia K Abboud, 2006, Australia, Video, Color, Sound, 12 min.
In a Beirut lounge room in 1926, a photograph was taken of two
Lebanese lesbians in drag. Now, this photograph hangs in a Sydney
lounge room of two Lebanese lesbians. Some things have changed, some
things haven't.

The Thing
Anna Daucikova, 2002, Slowenia, Video, Color, Sound, 4 min.
A funny play about expectations.

Ganz oben
Ewjenia Tsanana, 1997, Germany, Video, Color, Sound, 2 min.
Ewjenia Tsanana runs up a stairway, takes off her T-shirt and shows -
now really close to the sky - what on the top can mean for breasts.