3pm - Courthouse Theater   buy tickets
Five sexworkers - four women and one man- along with the filmmaker/narrator embark on a journey of storytelling. Tales of the Nightfaries explores the power of collective organizing and resistance while reflecting on contemporary debates around sexwork. The simultaneously expansive and labyrinthine city of Calcutta forms the backdrop for the personal and musical journeys of storytelling

4pm - Maya Deren Theater   buy tickets
Barbara Hammer (2003, U.S., 16mm, 80 min.)
From lesbian legend and feminist film pioneer Barbara Hammer, a new documentary that asks, what are our responsibilities in times of political crisis? Shot in the French fishing village of Cassis, Hammer records powerful interviews with important figures in the French resistance to Nazi occupation, like Lisa Fittko, who helped Walter Benjamin escape over the Pyrenees, and Claude Duthuit, who recounts amazing stories of the resistance work of the wife, daughter, and son of Henri Matisse. To counter to these moving acts of resistance, Hammer uses the letters of Matisse and Bonnard, who were apparently less moved by the terrors of Vichy France than by the play of light across the landscape. If war forces people to make choices, Resisting Paradise could hardly seem more relevant to contemporary art and politics.
Co-presentor: Media Rights

5pm - Courthouse Theater   buy tickets
From artists' models to muses, from hetaira to geishas, sex workers have been vital participants in arts communities through the centuries. Despite their influence on the arts and culture, polite societies rarely acknowledge the contributions of the demimonde that have also been painters and poets themselves. Lately a growing number are working in film and video, chronicling contemporary sexual mores with a vision that penetrates our hypocrisies. Films and videos will focus on sex; prostitutes' rights; organizing efforts and working conditions for strippers; more sex; global sex work and sex work as a labor issue on the international agenda; sex workers as heroes and heroines; sex workers as saints; sex workers as jerks and perverts; sex work and gender identities; queer sex workers; sex education; sex art; sex panic; sexual orientation; sexual identity; porn and erotica; portraits of strippers, prostitutes, doms, madams and much more.
Guest curated by Carol Leigh
Co-presented: The Sex Workers Project/PONY

A Woman's Place is in the Kitchen
Pam Dore (1999, U.S., video 6 min)

Would You Like Me To Stay?
Pam Dore' and Gina Gold (1999, U.S. video, 10 min)

Swallow
New York Premiere
Ariel Lightningchild (2002, Canada, video, 11 min.)
An exploration of issues often marginalized amongst the celebration of some of the sex workers movement, such as race, class, gender, and mental illness.

Free Whores
Scarlot Harlot (1992, U.S., video, 6 min.)
Scrolling through the 1985 World Charter for Prostitutes' Rights, Canadian artists Tracy Tief with Mourning Sickness sings "Sex Trade Worker." "I'll suck your Yuppie cock for fifty bucks."

A Study in the Life of Transsexuals with Kitty Castro
New York Premiere
Dina L. Boyer (2000, U.S., video, 4 min.)
Dina and Kitty explore sex work and transgender stigma in a down-to-earth, thought-provoking video.

Screaming Queens
New York Premiere
Victor Silverman and Susan Stryker (1999, U.S., video, 6 min.)
Screaming Queens documents a little-known riot in San Francisco in 1966, in which transgender street prostitutes fought back against police oppression. The Video features local ex-prostitute, madame, and current health outreach worker, Tamara Ching.

Sex TV
New York Premiere
The Biters (2001, Japan, video, 30 min.)
A take-off on home shopping, cooking shows and contemporary sexual style with performance artists and sex worker rights activists in Japan.

6pm - Maya Deren Theater   buy tickets
Of all the subjects that evoke ambivalent emotions for queers,
family tops the list. The women in these visually rich and compelling
films share their love and difficulty with us, introducing us
to some familiar and fascinating parents.

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.

Bertha Alyce
Gay Block (2001, U.S., video, 24 min.)
Photographer/filmmaker Gay Block re-examines the nude photos she took of her proud society mother from 1973 through 1991. Looking back that these images of her now-deceased mother Block weaves a beautiful and compelling portrait of her mother issues.

Closer to Heaven
New York Premiere
Diane Bonder (2003, U.S., 16mm, 15 min.)
Using the weather as a metaphor for the stages of grief, this film is a meditation on geographic distance between parent and adult child, and an homage to the filmmaker's father in his waning days.

Blood Relations
World Premiere
Jeannie Simms (2003, U.S.A., video, 35 min.)
The barren landscapes of the southern California desert are the backdrop for this experimental narrative of a working class family, highlighting one young woman's burgeoning world of fantasy, her only escape.

7pm - Courthouse Theater   buy tickets
These emerging transmen makers are packin' - packin' cutting edge work that reinvisions gender identities, body modifications, and the concept of same-sex fucking.
Guest Curator: Lee Krist
Co-presented: Treasure Island Media

Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria
World Premiere
(Sam Rapinski, 2003, U.S., 16 mm, 13 min.)
A surrealist study of masculinity and psychoanalysis, Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria hypnotically portrays of an interior dream landscape.

Rocky Butte
World Premiere
Lee Krist (2003, U.S., 16mm, 25 minutes)
Set in the parks of Portland, Oregon, the luscious wilderness of the Pacific Northwest serves as a tableau for the visual exploration of male and trans male bodies engaging in public sex.

Trannyfags
World Premiere
(Morty Diamond , 2003, U.S., video, 40 min.)
Bois will do boys in this breakthrough indie transman porn video. MIX presents a special preview of the feature-length video about four transmen's exploits with biological men - and each other.

Closing Night Gala buy tickets  - $15
9 pm - Courthouse Theater
We conclude this year's festival with a show all about genderfucking - or, perhaps more accurately, the intersections of gender and fucking. As political as it is prurient, Party in Your Pants includes personal narratives of intersex and trans experiences, formal explorations of bodily fluids, and bio boys' irrepressible exhibitionism.
Alcohol Sponsor: Midori

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

Born Queer: dear doctors
New York Premiere
Eli se Mbessakwini (2003, U.S./Australia, video, b&w, 5 min.)
A spoken-word performance of intersex history and medical intervention provides the soundtrack for gender-queer video art porn.

Marc Painting His Dick Green
World Premiere
Wilhelm Hein and Marc Siegel (2003, Germany, video, 3 min.)
Preparing for the Berlin cabaret night CHEAP, performer Marc Siegel gets into the spirit of the evening, "Tropial Madness," to the tune of Violetta Villas, a big-haired '60s Polish singer of Latin American cantos.

Hermishly Yours
New York Premiere
Susan Potter (2003, New Zealand, video, 11.5 min.)
Mari Bruce Mitchell recounts a shifting identity from boy to girl to lesbian to, finally, hermaphrodite.

Wads and Wads
U.S. Premiere
Kids on TV (2003, Canada, Super-8-to-video, 5 min.)
These kids give cock rock a new-and-improved meaning.

Die Faggot Die
New York Premiere
Shawn Durr (2003, U.S., video, 10 min.)
The battle of the sexes is back, this time with a duo of lethal lesbian lovers and a panty-wearing fag. A queer gorror show with deep penetration, cutting humor and a taste for blood. Starring Philly, M.M Serra and Todd Verow.

Jours en fleurs (Blood, Guts and Blossoms)
New York Premiere
Louise Bourque (2003, Canada, 35mm, 4.5 min.)
In this reclamation of flower power and feminist body art, foliage footage incubated in menses for several months creates organic abstractions. The title comes from a French Canadian expression for a teenage girl's period.

Operation Invert
Tara Mateik (2003, U.S., video, 7 min.)
Operation Invert compares the different regulations mediating botox-related plastic surgery and gender reassignment "sex-change." Historical medical assessments of the invert (homosexual and transsexual) "condition" reveal seemingly outdated absurdities about outsider deviance.

Matzo Maidels
New York Premiere
Julie Dorf, monica Nolan and Jenni Olson
(2003, U.S., video, 5 min.)
In this re-take on Kosher L.E.S.bian action, Brooklyn Bloomberg does some steamy kibbutzing as she fills in the dialogue for rare porn footage, circa 1923."Oy ve! I laughed till I peed! -Annie Sprinkle, nice Jewish slut.

Sperm Whale
New York Premiere
Patrick McGuinn (2003, U.S., 35mm, 8 min.)
A lovely tale of the hard and gushing young man of the sea.