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7pm - Courthouse Theater
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"Seven Minutes in Heaven," is a sexual game played by
teenagers at house parties in which two people are given 7 minutes together
inside a dark room. In the spirit of Surrealist experimentation, creativity
and chance, the filmmakers in this program have produced an exquisite
corpse where each 7 minute section expands on the last producing metaphoric,
literal, fantastic and freaky meanings. Makers include Desireena Almoradie,
Hima B., Lynne Chan, Lala Endara, Bix Gabriel, Barbara Malaran, Aleada
Minton, Alan Roth, Naomi Skoglund, Mario Trevino, Tung Wang, and Kara
Williamson.
Guest Curator: Lala Endara
Innovations Feature
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World Premiere 
8pm - Maya Deren Theater
From the deep recesses of NY sex party promoter Michael Wakefield's
mind comes this truly MIXed up "who done it." Head Case is
a gross-out farce about a sexually dysfunctional couple in therapy -
an ex-gay man and a post operative M-to-F transsexual - who think they're
being stalked while a serial killer is on the loose. Downtown dragster/artist
Flloyd plays a post-op transsexual trying to start a career in music,
while singer Kelly Jay plays her bend over boyfriend. Nashom Benjamin
(Mona Foot, The Ones) plays a therapist. Also starring are Dazzle Dancer
Cary Curran, Les Simpson (aka Linda Simpson) as a funeral director,
go-go boy Matt as a cop, former Homocorps DJ Ricardo Tavares as a stalker
and Murray Hill plays Detective Slojo, investigating the serial killings.
9pm - Courthouse Theater
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When asked by American custom officials what he had to declare, Oscar
Wilde responded, "I have nothing to declare but my genius."
In the age of the domesticated mainstream house homosexual, whose entire
purpose in life, according to the media, consists of performing makeovers,
hosting talk shows and being the straight woman's best friends, it seems
especially important that we once again take inspiration from not only
Wilde by other amazingly obtuse and semi-opaque queer cultural luminaries
like Gertrude Stein, Bruce Nugent, Jack Smith, Maria Irene Fornes, Yayoi
Kusama, Harrriett Mullens and so many others. This program is an antidote
to the gay accessibility of shows like Queer Minstrels for the Straight
Eye and Bottom Meets Bottom. The proceedings will also include a brief
and baffling ephemeral performance by downtown legend Carmelita Tropicana
that will help us resist the light of queer crossover mediocrity and
let us truly wallow in our divine obscurity.
Guest Curator: José Esteban Muñoz
Community Sponsor: Glamericans for Peace
Anal Masturbation and Object Loss
Steve Reinke (2002, U.S., video, 9 min.)
The screed of a particularly solipsistic art school fag.
Epistemology of My Closet
World Premiere
Douglas Hodapp (2003, U.S., video, 4:15 min.)
The artist applies queer theory to himself like a drag queen smears
on blue eye shadow.
Shoes Squishing Food Video
New York Premiere
Paige Stain (2003, U.S., video, 3 min.)
A striking visual experiment that reminds us of the absolute importance
of foot wear.
b:a movie
New York Premiere
Albert Snell (2003, U.S., video, 9 min.)
An attempt by a suburban teen deviant to recapture the fey glory of
Andy Warhol's Factory
Lifestyle
New York Premiere
Nao Bustamante (2002, U.S., video, 11
min.)
Performance deity Nao Bustamente (and her band N' HEAT - Mads Lynnerup
and Eamon Oré Giron) offer viewers a glimpse at the obtuse Lifestyles
that we relish.
Tress
New York Premiere
Ricardo Montez (2003, U.S, video, 12 min.)
A beautiful documentary Tress insists on the bone chilling seriousness
of downtown hair dressing.
Raison D'Etre
New York Premiere
Coco Frio (2003, U.S., video, 11 min.)
In an act of truly grandiose narcissism the programmer and his
collaborators Ana Margaret Sanchez and Rebecca Sumner Burgos
(collectively known in downtown back alleys as Coco Frio) offer
their usual heavy handed posturing with this video.
10pm - Maya Deren Theater
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Beauty may only be celluloid - or tape - deep, but fortunately
these shorts work their stuff in a two-dimensional format.
Through formal experiments and gorgeously composed
narratives, style becomes substance.
Fast Film (Fasfilm)
Virgil Dil (2003, Austria/Luxemburg, 35mm,
14 min.)
An exhilarating ride through popular culture, this film presents one
of the most astonishingly painstaking works of image appropriation:
the filmmaker folded and animated each shot frame-by-frame.
The Ogre
U.S. Premiere
Ip Yuk-Yiu (2003, China, video, 1.5 min.)
This is the stuff dreams are made of: a kaliedoscopic, auto-fellating
fantasia.
Skin Flick
Thorsten Fleisch (2002, Germany, 16mm, 7.5
min.)
A filmic exploration of the texture of hands and fingerprints produced
with and without a camera.
Out Of the Ether
New York Premiere
Kerry Laitala (2003, U.S., 16mm, 11 min.)
Out of the Ether unleashes septic musings about fear in the guise
of microbial menace and mayhem.
Jeur En Fleur (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 teenage girls'
periods.
"thou shall not covet Blue Beard's last pieces"
World Premiere
Marina Potok (2003, U.S., video, 4 min.)
A woman considers the ruins of a failed marriage and the promise of
a budding relationship. The soundtrack comes from a 1929 performance
by working-class Weimar cabaret singer Claire Waldoff, whose lesbianism
and outspoken political satire made her exceedingly unpopular with
the rising Nazi regime.
her
New York Premiere
Kai Ling Xue (2001, Canada, Super-8-to-video, b&w, 8 min.)
A hand-processed meditation on fantasy and solitary sex.
Sentimental Journey
Chun-Hui (Tony) Wu and George Hsin (2003, Taiwan,
16mm, 10 min.)
Optically printed to create layers of images, this complex film combines
personal history with social activism, geographic displacement with
disorienting visuals.
bobbycrush
New York Premiere
Cam Archer (2003, U.S., 16mm-to-video, 10 min.)
A nostalgic, autumnal-colored recollection that is as pretty as Bobby,
the object of our 13-year-old protagonists' unrequited affection.
Papillon d'Amour
Nicolas Provost (2002, Belgium, video, 3.5
min.)
Provost digitally reconfigures Kurosawa's Roshomon as a stunning study
of butterfly-like motion and ephemeral love.
Hosted by Murray Hill
11pm - Courthouse Theater
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Back by popular demand! Bring a VHS video of 5 minutes or less of
your own precious work and submit it to our celebrity [sic] panel
of judges. This raucous event has inspired many imitators across the
country but no one knows how to tell it like it is than a bunch of
self-important f-list downtown NY celebrities. Most importantly, It's
free and the winner takes home a prize!
Co-sponsor: Good Vibrations
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