From detournement to culture jamming; deconstruction to internet mash-ups, artists, scholars, fans and critics claim cultural and political agency by interrupting, re-visioning, and queering texts. Iconic media images (even those wrought with problematic political underpinnings) can be as comforting as they are troubling. Using these familiar forms as source—often in inspiration (out of anger, disgust, or affection), these video artists reveal the offending power imbalance in the original work; undercutting it and forcing a dialogue between the two with new ownership, agency, and political perspective. —Kristen Anchor, guest curator. TRT: 73 min. DON'T MISS: TEA BY THE SEA Thursday, October 16, 3:00-5:00 MIX Factory@Seaport, 217 Water Street FREE Please join us for an informal gathering of filmmakers, artists, guests and curators at this afternoon tea social. This will be an opportunity to meet, chat, snack and enjoy the many wonderful installations that are included in the festival space this year. MIX staff will be on hand to answer questions about the history of MIX NYC, to discuss our year-round projects such as the Community Screening series, Filmmaker Resources, Memorizing MIX Film Preservation Project and the ACT UP Oral History Project. Light refreshments will be served.

Requiem For A Bogus Journey Mark Charles Brown, 2008, USA, video, color, sound, 10 min. New York Premiere Bill and Ted (from Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey) endlessly fall in a swirl of body parts, until it is hard to tell who is who, who is touching whom and who is eating whom, suggesting the aggression and affection in the typical buddy movie, dude.

Equal+Opposite Rahne Alexander, 2008, USA, video, color, sound,  5 min. World Premiere Through the history of cinema, Equal+Opposite catalogs the range of physical and emotional reactions by “protagonists” to transgendered bodies, from curiosity to revulsion.

Alien Seed Kristen Anchor, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 2 min. New York Premiere This is a distress signal.  The aliens are coming and impregnating lesbians.  Mayday, mayday!  The future of the world is in danger! This is a distress signal. The aliens are coming and impregnating lesbians. Mayday, mayday! The future of the world is in danger!

You're Not My Father Paul Slocum, 2008, USA, video, color, sound, 4 min. Ten re-creations of a ten-second clip from the TV show Full House, overlaid with sound loops from the original scene, a viral hit on YouTube earlier this year.

Head Lines Baghdad Sabine Gruffat, 2007, USA, video, B&W, silent, 9 min. Hand-processed 16mm and New York Times clippings animated by semi-automated process, produce sentence combinations that sometimes make sense while randomly emphasizing certain words and images.

Let's Get Out Of Here Rahne Alexander, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 4 min. New York Premiere An homage to Hollywood's allegedly most-uttered line. Awarded "Way Cool Film Geek" Jury Prize at Microcinefest 2006.

The Visit And The Play Stephanie Barber, 2008 USA, video, color, sound, 8 min. New York Premiere Two ladies visit with each other and the conversation, with its animosity and lack of appropriate response suggests both the flaws in human communication and the trouble with written dialogue.

Perhaps the Singer is Dead Mary Billyou, 2007 USA, video, color, sound, 6 min. Billyou pieces together a swirl of found images with a layered soundtrack of words and waves testing viewers perception, expectations, and desires for a neat ending.

I'll Pass Kristen Anchor, 2008, USA, video, color, sound, 8 min. World Premiere Cindi has a secret.  She loves a girl named Ronnie. Can't Buy Me Love, re-written and edited, is the story of Cindi and Ronnie.

Sorry, Brenda Samara Halperin, 2001,  USA, super 8 transfered to video, B&W, silent, 2 min. An experimental exploration of the homoerotic subtext of Beverly Hills 90210.

Helen Scott Rink, 2006, USA, video, B&W, sound, 15 min. Choreographer Scott Rink adapts the 1952 radio play “Women’s Prison” in drag, dance, and cartoon-esque sets.