3pm - Maya Deren Theater   buy tickets
This is the fifth in a series of retrospective programs highlighting the history of lesbian and gay experimental cinema and honoring some of our most important filmmakers. Marguerite Paris has been making utterly uncompromising and principled films since the 1960s. She has filmed most of her work on Regular 8 and then optically-printed it on 16mm for presentation. Jerry Tartaglia began making films when he was a student at Albright College in 1971. His work resolutely rejects gay assimilationism. He makes "short, personal, experimental forms that explore and celebrate another kind of conscious human identity."
Curator: Jim Hubbard

Burma Road
Marguerite Paris (1979, U.S., 16mm, silent, 20 min.)
An autobiographical film about time and space, and time spent in the wilds of New Jersey with a lover at that time in the late '70s.

All Women Are Equal
Marguerite Paris (1971/1988, U.S., 16mm, b&w, 15 min.)
One of the first films to document what we would now call a transgendered person on her own terms.

1969
Jerry Tartaglia (1991, U.S.,16mm, 8 min.)
A visual study of the confluence of personal identity and the fable we call history.

1970 Gay Pride March
Marguerite Paris (1970/1988, U.S., 16mm, silent, 15 min.)
Impressionistic footage from the first Gay Pride March.

Haitian Initiation
Marguerite Paris (1989, U.S., 16mm, b&w, sound on tape, 10 min.)
Voodoo ceremony/performance for tourists. During the performance a male dancer asked a few boys form the audience to come up to dance. All refused. When he beckoned my transvestite lover with "garcon, garcon " she accepted.

A.I.D.S.C.R.E.A.M.
Jerry Tartaglia (1989, U.S., 16mm, 8 min.)
A.I.D.S. became a convenient excuse to desexualize Gay Culture and to promote the gradual dismantling of our Civil Rights.

Ecce Homo
Jerry Tartaglia (1989, U.S., 16mm, 7 min.)
Thanks to A.I.D.S hysteria, gay sex is again seen as pornographic, politically incorrect, sinful or a public health hazard. Is the taboo against sex or against the seeing of the sex?

Final Solutions
Jerry Tartaglia (1990, U.S., 16mm, 10 min.)
The gay imagination has no place in a death dealing consumerist culture. The final solution is management of all situations through assimilation based upon death-terror.

Amnesia
Jerry Tartaglia (1998, US,16mm, 7min)
Using found footage and photos, imagery of the gay community's past and future is created.

4pm - Courthouse Theater   buy tickets
For anybody who throws like a girl. For everybody who walks like a woman and talks like a man. For everyone who prances. For everyone who had a subscription to Girljock. For anyone who skips. For everyone who thinks jockstraps are sexy. For girls who played volleyball in high school. For everyone who dances in the kitchen.
Curator: Festival Programming Committee

Morning Dance
Richard Shpuntoff (2001, U.S., 16mm, b&w, silent, 6 min.)
A dance film that emphasizes the body's effort, the dancers breath and weight.

Making A Crop Circle In Sullivan County, N.Y.
New York Premiere
Marget Long (2003, U.S., video, 5:30 min.)
A dyke goes wild in the countryside, using her tractor to make the kind of crop circles that we thought could only be made by space aliens or Led Zeppelin.

Rambo
New York Premiere
Alex Golden (2003, U.S., video, 3 min.)
A skinny guy in fatigues is chased by a rippling blonde man, also in fatigues.

Rosebud
New York Premiere
John Enxuto (2003, U.S., video, 8 min.)
This tribute to Bob Mizer, Kenneth Anger, and Andy Warhol is a vehicle for disrobing, jockstraps, voyeurism, seduction, and some hot boy-on-boy wrestling.

We Cannot Exhibit It
New York Premiere
Pierre Yves Clouin (2003, France, video, 6 min.)
Slow motion wrestlers and bound giants.

Dreaming Awake
New York Premiere
John Killacky (2003, U.S., video, 5 min.)
Extraordinary choreography starring queer performers with amputations and paralyses, pressing the limits and expressive possibilities of their differently graceful bodies.

49 Days in Motion
Liss Platt (2003, U.S., video, 15 min.)
Liss Plat chronicles her life as a girljock, letting her literal movements parallel biographical ones. Shot from the vantage point of mountain biking, rowing, shooting hoops, these moving images have a lot to say about moving through the world in a lesbian body.

Holding Court
World Premiere
Alberto Orso, David Thorpe, Sam Zalutsky (2003, U.S., video, 20 min.)
For all the guys and gals obsessed with the abs of Serena and Venus we bring Holding Court, a madcap burlesque extravaganza faux-television show devoted to tennis divadom hosted by two faded doubles champions Irina Trina Zalutskaya-Koukinova and Françoise de Quincampoix, affectionately portrayed by the filmmakers. Watch as they dish the female tennis champ dirt with real-life NBC commentator Bud Collins, cower during the demented makeover scene à la Single White Female, swoon at the sports agent office musical fantasia and gape as downtown modern dancer Miguel Gutierrez frenetically whips the girls into a shivering heap of hamstrings on a public tennis court.

5pm - Maya Deren Theater   buy tickets
National crises and global conflicts are filtered through familial relationships in these tapes. To explore and understand our hardships is to understand the world at large, and universal human suffering, whether from the AIDS pandemic or the aftermath of war.
Curator: Festival Programming Committee
Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality - NYU

In My House
New York Premiere
Darren Jay Hart & Dara Kell (2002, South Africa, video, 20 min.)
This moving documentary takes us into the world of a South African woman who braces herself for the daily struggle of AIDS, both with herself and her daughter.

My Mother at the Consulate
U.S. Premiere
Gail Mentlik (2003, Canada, video, 2 min.)
A meditation on absence and presence and the passage of time.

SAHOCO
World Premier
Guillermo A. Vasquez (2003, Puerto Rico, 10min)
Footage from a large public concert at Juan Ramón Lubriel Stadium in Bayamón, Puerto Rico is the starting point for meditations on the dynamics of loss, forgetfulness and exhaustive struggles of colonized peoples.

Monte Cassino
World Premiere
Jean Carlomusto (2003, U.S. video, 55 min.)
Carlomusto explores her relationship with her father, using parallels of war and grief, acceptance and rebuilding. Civilians who undergo war trauma - from the World War II bombing of the title monastery in Italy to the attacks of September 11 - speak in this personal and universal essay on individual and worldwide cataclysms.

6pm - Courthouse Theater   buy tickets
A sugarcoated vein runs through this musical assemblage of videos. Get ready for a night of hot and sexy chase stories featuring punk grrls and bois, Trans-Glam Rockers, office-supply salivators, horny Mommies, and babydykes. Bring your licorice whips,
your Blow Pop, wear your dance shoes, and don't forget your Life Saver for this amazing night of the most adorable grrls, rocking music, sugar highs, and fun!
Curator: Festival Programming Committee
Co-sponsor: SIR Video

Boy Skout - "Back to Bed"
New York Premiere
Leslie Satterfield (2003, U.S., video, 3 min.)
The music of boyskout accompanies this crew of grrlchicks who play hooky, guzzle wine, and lollygag on a futon in li'l grrl and boi briefs. This is why we came out!

If God Were Caught
World Premiere
Venus (2003, U.S., video, 5 min.)
It's a Trans-Glam, Dark-Glam world in this music video, playing the most recent CD "Creature" from "All the Pretty Horses".

Sterilized Cherry
New York Premiere
Susan Choi (2003, US/Korea, video, 2:38 min.)
Who wants candy? Lipstick, lollipops, nipple pasties, and Gucci bags are the currency that make one drool. Choi and Lolita are cherry blossoms in soft-focus and animation. When they are pinned up side by side, however, they create an uneasy equation.

I Am a Boyband
New York Premiere
Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay (2002, Canada, video, 5.5 min)
Ohmygodhe'ssocute! Which one is your favorite? The suave one, the edgy one, the sporty one, or the boyish one?

How Fluttering
New York Premiere
Ji Sung Kim (2003, U.S., video, 4.5 min.)
Pat-pat-pitter-patter-hearts flutter-hearts patter. A great chick band soundtrack accompanies the adventures of two LA punky girls. In this Super-8 and animated tale, girls crush out on each other and butterflies and snakes entwine.

Playdate
New York Premiere
Elise Hurwitz (2003, U.S., video, 19 min.)
Mommy Lia develops a big-time crush on Mommy Zoe when their two-year-olds meet at the Dolores Park playground. Following a drag-musical ride on a cable car and a trip to see the elephants at the zoo, Lia and Zoe finally manage to arrange a playdate for their toddlers to play, as well as to play with each other.

Well, Well, Well
Elisabeth Subrin (2002, U.S., video, 3 min.)
Have your post-it pads ever turned you on? C'mon now, be honest... Liquid Paper lust, the lick of an envelope, and office supply erotics turn up the heat in this early-MTV style music video.

Malaqueerche
New York Premiere
Sarah Adorable and Devon Divine (2003, U.S., video, 26 min.)
The Warriors is remade in this campy punk rock gang war between The Mohawks and The Mullets. Both are in pursuit of stardom, and will do whatever it takes to get it - including butt plug roadblocks, kidnapping hostages, and planting dirty deed two timin' spies. The Fags, the Drags, the Hags, and the Dyke March are enlisted to kick ass, and the loudest punk show this side of Japanese Rockabilly ensues. Dress up in yer best double drag, grab yer favorite shimmering fag bat and climb into your homo hot rod to experience the ride of yer life!

7pm - Maya Deren Theater   buy tickets
A post-romantic show that presents uneasy commitments, lesbian
processing, erotic imaginings, queer misanthropy, and the still
inescapable need to find - and understand - love, in spite of it all.
Curator: Festival Programming Committee

Pillow Talk
World Premiere
H. Sinclair (2002, U.S., video, 3.5 min.)
A morning-after talk show, featuring today's celebrity guest hook-up.

Little Frankenstien
Samuel Topiary (2003, U.S., video, 4 min.)
Delusion rears its head during this lesbian relationship postmortem. Intimate, frightening, and touchingly familiar.

Love, Minda
New York Premiere
Minda Martin (2003, U.S., Super-8, 3.5 min.)
This epistolary film details the obsessive mind of a woman trying to let go of her attachment to an ex-lover while maintaining their friendship.

Die Grosse Jiddische Liebe (The Great Yiddish Love)
New York Premiere
Diane Nerwen (2002, U.S., 16mm, b&w, 15 min.)
A historical fiction of seduction, love, and betrayal set in Berlin and New York's Lower East Side, starring the self-exiled Marlene Dietrich and her Nazi-endorsed replacement, Zarah Leander. This melodrama was reassembled from Hollywood, German Ufa, and Yiddish films of the 1930s and '40s.

Recorder
World Premiere
Deborah Edmeades (2003, U.S., video, 2.5 min.)
The artist sits in the woods, playing her phantom woodwind. Or is she blowing something else?

I Hate This Town
Nicolas Provost (2002, Belgium, video, 2.5 min.)
An action-packed re-editing of a Russ Meyers' Beneath the Valley of the Ultra Vixens, sped up with all the boring plot parts removed. Softcore set to hardcore beats.

Holy Matrimony
World Premiere
Trevor Smith and Kristi Schaefer (2003, U.S., Super-8, b&w, 5 min.)
A quirky narrative of queer marriage in the spirit of Jack Smith's films.

My Heart. . . Series III
U.S. Premiere
Various artists (2002, Canada, video, b&w and color, 21 min.)
The third in a series of anthologized impressions of romance, including ten idiosyncratic, personal tapes: My Heart the Dancer, by Meesoo Lee; My Heart the Blood Pump, by Clark Nikolai; My Heart the Melancholic, by Tricia Middleton and Joel Taylor; My Heart the Cook, by Clark Nikolai and Gerard McCadden; My Heart the Lumberjack, by Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby; My Heart the Drug-Addled Talking Ass by Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby; My Heart the Travel Agent, by Wayne Yung; My Heart the Prophet, by Sarah Abbott and Jeremy Drummond; My Heart the Lunchbox, by Sarah Abbott and Jeremy Drummond; My Heart Divine, by Wendy Coburn

Placebo
World Premiere
Diego Costa (2003, U.S., 16mm-to-video, b&w, 9 min., in Spanish with English subtitles)
An "undeveloped faggot" has just turned 30 and been left by his boyfriend. Finally, he can remember his dreams.

Strange and Charmed
Shari Frilot (2003, U.S., video, 16 min.)
The love lives of three black women are seen from the point-ofview of two subatomic particles flying through spacetime. An impressive narrative exploring romance, fate, and budding armpit hair.

8pm - Courthouse Theater   buy tickets
Right now, somewhere on cable television, the struggle for gay rights is being framed as a fight for better facial moisturizers. But the fellow travelers in RetroActivism are fighting for social justice in the present by bringing back the movement politics of the past. These straight-ahead and experimental docs take on gay assimilation, contemporary
capitalism, war, AIDS health care, trans rights, and race issues, all inspired previous models of social organizing.
Curator: Festival Programming Committee

Ten Minutes of Collective Activity: Altered
Sharon Hayes (2003, U.S., video, 10 min.)
Speech: August 28, 1968, DNC, Chicago, Illinois
Viewing: March 22, 2003, Culver City, California
Participants: Cara Baldwin, Ran Bolton, Mary F. Corey, Molly Corey, Cletus Dalglish -Schommer, Mark Golamco, Matthew Hausman, Robby Herbst, Alice Y. Hom, Hiromi Iwatsubo, Jenn Kolmel, Angie Lacerenza, Julia Lazarus, Karl Mihail, Julia Meltzer,
Mario Ontiveros, Brett Rogers, David Thorne, Vera Tollman, Tran T. Kim-Trang, Jennifer Tseng, Christina Ulke, Trevor Watson, Mika Yoshitake, Jon Zast
Brief Synopsis: In this project, an audience of 22 people were videotaped watching CBS archival footage of a 10-minute speech by Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff from the 1968 Democrat National Convention held in Chicago, IL. The speech was the principal
nomination for Senator George McGovern, a vocal opponent of the U.S. war in Vietnam. In his speech Ribicoff departs from his prepared text and acknowledges the ongoing turmoil. His statement that "If George McGovern were elected president we wouldn't have
gestapo-like tactics on the streets of Chicago" incites the anger of Mayor Daley and his supporters who, present in the audience in the convention hall, rise up and heckle Ribicoff.

ACT UP Oral History Project
World Premiere
Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman (2003, U.S., video, 10 min.)
This sample from their massive history project focuses on an action at (a church) Hubbard and Schulman's massive Oral History Project documents how this extraordinary grass roots movement happened. Now being archived in New York and San Francisco.

Smalltown Boys
Matt Wolf (2003, U.S., video, 20 min.)
In this work of cinema falsité set in 1994, teenage lesbian Sarah Rosenberg fights to save the television show My So Called Life from cancellation. She is linked (through a sperm bank) to artist David Wojnarovich, who is dying during a period of intense culture
wars and an aggressive AIDS activist movement. The collision of biographical fantasy and historical fiction calls into question the efficacy of contemporary modes of political protest.

Saul Searching
World Premiere
Lala Endara (2003, U.S., video, 6 min.)
A documentary interview with a young FTM who positions his life and his role in queer culture using the language of collective political movements.

Security Anthem
Kent Lambert (2003, U.S., video, 3.5 min.)
Americans whose hairstyles (perhaps unwittingly) look towards the early-'80s meet John Ashcroft karaoke.

Market This! Queer Radicals Respond To Gay Assimilation
Paper Tiger Television (2003, U.S., video, 30 min.)
Queers organizing against the commodification of queer culture meet for consciousness-raising, bringing language of anarchy and old-style movement organizing to bear on issues related to global capitalism and contemporary gay politics.

9pm - Maya Deren Theater   buy tickets
Now that sodomy is legal, Out of the Bedroom is taking it to the streets. In sex clubs, subways, and the splendors of nature, from Wall Street to the front seat, the films in this program are moving sexual contact out of the bedroom and into public space. Filled
with exhibitionism, voyeurism, and a fair amount of unacknowledged hidden camera use.
Curator: Festival Programming Committee

Fluff
New York Premiere
Todd Verow (2003, U.S., video, 3 min.)
Verow reveals the mundane beneath erotic.

Mais Pourquoi t'es tout mouille (Why Are You So Wet?)
World Premiere
Pierre Yves Clouin (2003, France, video, 9.5 min.)
Clouin shows us men doing it on the street, a pretty stewardess, bathroom ertoics, a possible flasher, and other things you can see everyday if you're looking.

Blue Eyed Moon
U.S. Premiere
Pencho Kunchev (Lunata Sas Sinite Ochi, 2003, Bulgaria, video, 8.5 min.)
This gorgeous animation from Bulgaria posits a polymorphous public space, in which women, men, plants, fish, water, and more shift shape to fulfill each other's fantasies.

Subway
World Premiere
Alex Golden (2003, U.S., video, 3 min.)
Cruising on the MTA.

Bombay Longing
New York Premiere
Shalini Kantayya, (2003, Canada, video, 3 min.)
Dyke subway cruising in Bombay, plus the girls take things indoors.

Cruiser
Derek Jackson (2003, U.S., video, 5 min.)
The maker wears a wire while cruising the Prospect Park Rambles.

SHOOM!
New York Premiere
Ivana George (2003, U.S., video, 20 min.)
Shoom's betweeny kinda MTF protagonist talks about how guys relate to him on the street, then documents a pick-up with a hidden camera!

I Haven't Always Been a Bear
Allison Farrow and Sujin Lee (2003, U.S., video, 10.5 min.)
This performance artist has packed some real heat into her BVD's and isn't afraid to let everybody know it, especially the pedestrians and rent-a-cops of New York's financial district.

The Passionate Spectator
New York Premiere
Del LaGrace Volcano (2003, U.K., video, 10 min.)
The dandyish protagonist, in a range of fabulous outfits, gets off on the space of the city itself.

Yellow Mellow
U.S. Premiere
Nicolas Provost (2002, Belgium, video, 2.5 min.)
A man in a fuzzy yellow lion suit wakes up in a public park.

10pm - Ann Street Adult Entertainment Center   buy tickets
21 Ann Steet between Broadway and Nassau
Want some old skool New York sex, sleaze, sensationalism, and Super-8? Get in on the action at this 10th anniversary of a legendary psychedelic porno happening, inspired by original cocurator and New Queer Cinema pioneer James Lyons. Upstairs, we're reclaiming the dirty bookstore as a primary site of queer expression and social space by programming every buddy booth, porno channel and cruisey zone with MIX TV; while the dank and dirty basement is transformed into a dance dungeon of delight, with sexy visuals by Stephen Kent Jusick, and groovy beats by DJ Econ. On the main floor the store will be open for business, so you can take the fun home with you. Don't miss it!
Co-sponsor: SIR Video, Titan Media
Co-presented: Treasure Island Media
Alcohol Sponsor: Anheuser World Select