24th New York Queer Experimental Film Festival
Sunday, November 20, 2011 · 5:00pm
Mapping Fields
$12 ·  
Drawing Desire Image Cab Ride Image Saye Skye Image
Taking over the basement level of the MIX Factory, ten works engage both audience and artist equally. Along their contours, the works will talk to each other. A curatorial endeavour, mapping fields brings together artists who use personal narrative to explore political critique, who push the boundaries of their mediums, who subvert the lens that has been turned on them and who ask the audience to shift from active viewer to discovering participant. Organized by multimedia artists, the event investigates the convergence of performance, activism and the everyday through a queer lens. Join us for this unique, one-night only, multi- disciplinary event where the experience of the work is what defines it.
Streaming/Distress
Christian Baer
2010, USA, video, color,sound, 7:30 min. loop.

An unedited video documentation loop, part surveillance, part tableau, which charts the trajectory of three ambiguous figures playing out the mediated fantasies of the videographer. The woods at night is the backdrop for their shifting relations of power, desire and domination.

Drawing Desire
Jacolby Satterwhite
2011, USA, video, color, sound, 12 min.

An ongoing experimental documentary about Satterwhite's mother's drawing and sound practice during her diagnosis of schizophrenia, Drawing Desire is a surrealist animation that weaves together drawing, performance, narrative and new media.

Pop
Zhenesse Staniec Heinemann
2011, USA, participatory performance, 30 min.

A small space is filled with white balloons and a surprise. There are straight pins available to be thrown. Will an audience become excited popping the balloons and continue to take aim at what they find at the center?

Mister Honey Ricequeen
Zavé Martohardjono
2011, USA, participatory performance, 15 min.

mister honey pours three bags of rice - black, red and white - and then sifts. like in mythology, the impossible is a simple task. the audience is storyteller here. honey asks you to narrate by reading from a box of cue cards. in it, you will find the intimate, the tragic and the geopolitical.

Branded
Liz Andrews
2011, USA, live performance with video, 10 min.

Andrews maintains a single pose while images frame her pose as part of advertisements for fictitious products, institutions and political campaigns. Drawing inspiration from Hank Willis Thomas' Unbranded series, the artist seeks to explore the ways that racially ambiguous subjects are used in advertisements in what has been described as a "post-racial" era in U.S.A. history.

Cab Ride
Farrah Khan
2011, Canada, video, color, sound, 4 min.

Created as a love letter to an estranged father in the hope of return, this stop motion short presents a struggle to reconcile community expectations, transgressions and desire. The impact of longing and migration is shown through the use of colonial symbols and religious rites. The video asks how do we negotiate our families' needs and identities at the same time as our own?

Here(Now)
Katrina De Wees
2011, USA, participatory performance with video, 30 min.

A performance freestyle juxtaposed with De Wees' video Signifyin' Delta, HERE(now) o!ers elements of a home environment (a lamp, a record player, a table and chair). Inviting audience into one-on-one conversation, De Wees explores the significance of money vs. time, along with other extremely important and trivial subjects, and attempts to come to terms with existing in this unique moment: the present.

I Am Going To Social Work School To Become A Comedian
Imani Keith Henry
2011, USA, durational live-and-webbased performance.

A multi-media work in progress documenting the artist's first year of graduate school through a live reposting of his Facebook statuses.

Precious Precious
Melay Araya
2011, USA, 35mm-to-video, color, silent, 5 min.

"I wanted to save Precious. Now, I want to save everyone else in this film too." In Precious Precious, Melay Araya turns a 35mm trailer of the film Precious into a surrealist fantasy by bleaching out and painting over the main character in the footage.

Saye Skye
Saye Skye
2011, Iran, music/spoken word performance, 15 minutes.

Saye Sky, an Iranian rap artist, will perform two songs dealing with social issues pertaining to the Middle Eastern world yet current to everyone.