Welcome to the brave new world of A Different Take 2008. MIX revived ADT in 2006 as a series of free workshops, and this is the latest result. We’ll see experimental work, documentary, stop-motion animation, and more.
Filmmaker Hima B. leads the workshops with a team of assistants and guests. This year all the works in this program have been created by LGBTQ youth and adults in an intergenerational video production program. Students hailed from all five boroughs of New York City, and came to the Hamilton Fish Recreation Center in the Lower East Side to make their work over the course of five months.
In addition to classroom instruction, there were field trips to artists studios and Rooftop Films, and other film venues. As we go to press, the videos are still being completed, so we can’t list running times, but we can guarantee that they are all premieres! Come support your compatriots as they embark on an artist quest—a different take indeed.
A Different Take is presented in partnership with the New York City Dept of Parks & Recreation’s RECYouth program.
TRT: approximately 90 min.

PLUS: Be sure to check out installations by Nicole Jaquis, Atif Toor, and Ren-Yo Hwang, also part of A Different Take 2008!
See Installations page for details.
Why Should It Matter?
Michael Place & Falanga Darius
2008, USA, video, color, sound.
Why does the world care who I fuck and suck or choose to live the rest of my life with? Why can’t I be asked whether I have a girlfriend or a boyfriend—why does that matter anyway? The filmmakers approach random people, have them recite Place’s poetry, and reflect on their personal beliefs on homosexuality.
Learning to Lead
Polina Malamud
2008, USA, video, color, sound.
In Argentine Tango, where women follow and men lead, it is difficult to break the tradition. The filmmaker struggles with her own and her dance partners’ reluctance as she learns to
take the lead.
Needles & Condos
Ser Rodriguez
2008, USA, video, color, sound.
Needles, condos, testosterone, cranes, oh my! Sensory explosions abound in this personal narrative documenting the fixations of a twenty-something transman living through the gentrification of the Lower East Side, his childhood neighborhood.
Broken Lives
Paula Santos-Shevett
2008, USA, video, color, sound.
Using stop motion animation, the filmmaker illustrates a teenage couple who love each other and being together but take a turn for the worse as they become victims of homophobia and self injury.
Leaving
Alison Alpert
2008, USA, video, color, sound.
For a narrator whose mortality has been made real by the suicide of a friend, leaving a relationship means facing oblivion, the terror of being left, and her own capacity for self destruction. She struggles to understand what it means to leave.
Mr. Angela Does Dumplings
Sabelo Narasimhan
2008, USA, video, color, sound.
Mr. Angela comes to town with dumplings on his mind. She buys all the necessary ingredients and prepares for the big day. Finally people gather in a brownstone apartment one stormy night in Brooklyn and many, many, many dumplings are made. And consumed.
Jane
Christian Herrera
2008, USA, video, color, sound.
A half Filipina-half Thai girl raised with her mom’s beliefs struggles to remain loyal to them after her mother dies. Living with her father, Jane is torn between her mom’s beliefs and her own fight to be herself.
They
Ignacio Rivera
2008, USA, video, color, sound
They is an experimental short, using archival footage, about one person’s journey through their fluid and loose gender expression.
All About Love
Victoria Ruiz
2008, USA, video, color, sound.
Shayne meets another teen named Sarah on the internet and they fall in love virtually. When Sarah’s jealous best friend finds out their budding romance, she creates problems for the young couple in the real world.
Being Me
L.S. Serrano
2008, USA, video, color, sound.
This experimental short features the life of a vision-impaired transman trying to connect his conflicting identities with each other without him loosing himself.
 
Mars
Jim Martin
2007, USA, video, color, sound, 8 min.
A short film about the passion, disappointment, and discrimination involved in love.