Queers like to mix. We form our own special kinship |
| La Tasse Michel Nedjar, 1977, France, Super 8mm, color, silent, 19:20 Min. NY Premiere Rarely seen outside of Paris, La Tasse is a classic of the Ecole du corps (“School of the Body”) filmmakers, a group of French gay men and lesbians who transformed experimental cinema in the late 1970s. Nedjar writes: “A sexagenarian transvestite in his room, confronted by his fantasies and his solitude. The suicide in 1977 of the artist Pierre Molinier provoked this film. It was my way of paying homage to him with my diurnal and nocturnal Masks.” |
| Magick and the Gay Counter Culture Jen Smith, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 5 min. NY Premiere Drawing from utopic/dystopic discourses from the late twentieth century, this video finds strange creatures performing a cleansing ritual in the queer California hills. |
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| Line of Sight Charles Lofton & Eliza Steinbock, 2008, USA/Netherlands, video, color, sound, 6 min. World Premiere The film continues a conversation between a self-confessed trans-lover and a queer man—between friends. The conversation began over images when Eliza curated Charles’s film The Look of Love. The collaborators bring a shared interest in trans-erotics and all the delicious complications involved in visualizing desire. Line of Sight takes off in images where the weight of words would hold love back. |
| Falling in Love…with Chris and Greg - Episode 2: Road Trip! TV Special Chris Vargas & Greg Youmans, 2008, USA, video, color, sound, 20 min. World Premiere Chris and Greg have been happily going steady for weeks! Unable to afford couple’s counseling, they’ve turned to DV in order to address the real, expected, and projected issues of their tranny-bio gay love affair. In this second installment of their sitcom—an on-location TV special!—the intrepid lovers embark on a week-long road trip despite not being at all ready to spend so much time together. Talk of marriage and pregnancy soon follows, and our heroes valiantly struggle to regain perspective among the epic scenery and gas-station junk food that surround them. |
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| FISH: A Matrilineage of Cunty White-Woman Realness Zackary Drucker, 2008, USA, video, color, sound, 2 min. NY Premiere An intergenerational dialogue between the artist and her mother. Utilizing a coded language of bitchiness and resistance, the syncopated language is as assaultive as it is poetic. Incorporating both contemporary and historical vernacular, the conversation addresses their relationship, and their cultural and political positions as “women.” |
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| SyncPoint Isabell Spengler & Larry Peacock, 2007, Germany, video (transferred from 16mm), color, sound, 4 min. US Premiere Translating a musical stage performance by the group Larry Peacock into the language of film, SyncPoint combines film images created directly on film leader with those created through normal exposure of 24 frames per second with a 16mm film camera. The image of the hole does not only mark a point in time, but is in connection with the photographically captured (percussion-) actions of the performers perceived either as a round mask of censorship or as a filled, dot-shaped image. |
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| Younger Lovers LoveWarz, 2008, USA, video, color, sound, 7 min. NY Premiere A young narcissus seduces every human he meets through rock and roll. |
| Somethings Gonna Soon EMR 2008, USA, video, color, sound, 5 min. EMR (Dylan Mira & Math Bass) is Extreme Mature Respect, a queer feminist collaboration. “We trust magic and transpose the haunted image on simple landscapes created in the digital realm. We touch the bestial fantasy through the screen and manipulate the mundane with the secret.” EMR has created a sigil, a magic sex symbol abstracted from the words TRUST ME (NOT) TO HURT YOU, that is spread across rituals of the beast. Discordant sound and psychic image imagine a cross formation, speak from the hole, say nothing. Untie the knot and let down the pony, somethings gonna soon. |
