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9pm - Courthouse Theater
Resist military aggression. Resist right-wing policies. Resist media consolidation. Resist the mainstreaming of gay culture. Resist corporate crackdowns on file sharing and fair use media. Resist arrest if necessary. But resisting this MIX fix of sex, trash, camp, appropriation, and intervention? Futile! Selected for queer eyes, not straight guys, these films and videos present an irresistible collection of festival favorites.
Curator: Festival Programming Committee
Alcohol Sponsor: Midori

LM2   
New York Premiere
Lucas Michael (2002, U.S., video, 4 min.)
She's so messed up and strange looking, it was almost inevitable: Liza gets appropriated by the underground in this gorgeously pixelated avant-camp comeback special. And the world goes on ...

Kristy  
Stephanie Gray (2003, U.S., Super-8, b&w, 7 min.)
The filmmaker digs deep to find Kristy McNichol, the only working class tomboy at a girl's summer camp in the cult classic Little Darlings. Shot off the screen in Super-8, hand-processed, and then transferred to video, the filmmaker peers through glitches and skips to scrutinize Kristy's face and elusive sexuality - as well as her own obsession.

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

Rosa Negra  
World Premiere
Viva Ruiz (2003, U.S., video, 14 min., in Spanish with
English subtitles)
A Brooklyn queer-ass telenovela filmed in classic soap opera style, where Univision meets SSL (Spanish as a Second Language). Rosa Luiz Santiago de Jesus is a young Latina woman of indiscriminate sexual preference searching for true love and working nudie a job.

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.

Malfunction Boulevard  
World Premiere
Christopher Westfall (2003, U.S., video, b&w, 3 min.)
A stunning archive of vintage homosociality and nude soldier maneuvers. With this many hunks, maybe gays should be in the military.

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.

Sparks  
World Premiere
Virginie Danglades (2003, U.S., 35mm, 15 min.)
A hospital cleaning lady dances the patients’ lives away. But damn, she’s got moves.

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?

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.

Yellow Mellow  
U.S. Premiere
Nicolas Provost (2002, Belgium, video, 2.5 min.)
A nocturnal transmission of a heartbroken lion wandering the urban wild.