24th New York Queer Experimental Film Festival
Thursday, November 17, 2011 · 9:00pm
Fantastic Magik
$12 ·  
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The ecstatic, the fantastic, the dark and the strange converge in Fantastic Magick for a new edition of homoerotic love spells, witches and devilish art. Here you will find tricksters conjuring spirits of the past as well as blazing trails for all that is to come through sex, inversion, the occult, and other forms of ritual behavior. In Sorciéres, Mes Soeurs, we find women living in defiance of social expectations, and in WHOEVER WHATEVER, we find a more obscure yet equally magical take on a defiant woman. In Aquarius, a love spell is cast, where in The Magus and Jerk the Circle, we observe rituals with more obscure ends. From the directly subversive to the obscurely strange, queer magic and ritual infuse the screen with delight. This program delves into the roots of its own creation only to tear asunder your assumptions from the start.
Little White Cloud That Cried
Guy Maddin
2009, Canada/Germany, video, color, sound, 4 min.

Goddesses unleash the power of the sea to channel forces beyond their bedrooms. Moving image and still photos create an orgiastic collage set ablaze in this musical short, created as an homage to underground filmmaker Jack Smith.

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Sorciéres, Mes Soeurs (Witches, My Sisters)
Camille Ducellier
2010, France, video, color, sound,
French with English subtitles, 30 min.

Sirens of the devil, hounds of hell. Who are these women who represent the danger of times? Feminists for sure, hidden sometimes, but original in their approach to life. Here, Ducellier documents some of the witches she has encountered over time.

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The Magus
Jaimz Asmundson
2011, Canada, video, color, sound, 12 min.

A multi-format, process-based experimental film that explores the root of artistic creation. The film documents visual artist C. Graham Asmundson's body of work over a rigorous six-month period.

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WHOEVER WHATEVER
Daniel McKernan
2010, USA, video, B&W, sound, 7 min.

A haunting and epic dramatic short film starring downtown New York City icon Sophia Lamar, touching on preconceived ideas of genders, sexual expectations and stereotype.

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WHITELICK
Tim Gallaher
2011, USA, video, color, sound, 4 min.

Jesus and Satan, the ultimate opposing and polarized Western deities, prepare for a showdown on battlefield Earth. But sometimes even the gods are in for a surprise. WHITELICK is a raucous, heretical, and satirical puppet music video fantasy about the war between these two ancient adversaries and the American tragedies that ensue. Can the clashing cosmic titans be brought back into harmony for the good of all before it's too late?

Aquarius
Jody Jock
2011, USA, video, color, sound, 11 min.

Both tender and hardcore, Aquarius follows a young man as he uses magick to manifest the love he desires.

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jerk the circle
SKOTE
2010, USA, video, color, sound, 4 min.

Using a combination of power tools and sexual energy, the performers pay homage to our feminist and queer pioneers through tactics of inversion. Jerk the circle documents a ritual in which a powerful symbol is dismantled, rendered impotent.

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