Facilitate This! considers representations of “the meeting” in queer imagination and history. How do we imagine meeting? How do we come together? Whether it is a collective house meeting, a feminist art collective, a direct action planning session, or a GLBT-specific NA, “the meeting” holds many of our fears and fantasies about collective possibilities.This program includes a montage of fabulous meetings from features and movements past; a selection of short films, including Bill Basquin’s latest, and the premiere of CASH FREE, featuring Xylor Jane, Andrea Lawlor, Naima Lowe, Bernadine Mellis, Miranda Mellis, Juanita Nelson and Dean Spade; and presentations for the “perfect meeting” from kara lynch, Sarah Schulman, and Ginger Brooks Takahashi. Facilitate This! will be a lively, passionate, funny, inspiring and contradictory array of perspectives with space for collective and individual imaginings: live utopian gestures, deep listening, and creative movements. Don’t miss this one!
EE Miller, guest curator. TRT: c. 75 min.
November 19, 2009
6 PM
The 10,000 mile bike race: parT 1
Bill Basquin
2009, USA, Super8mm, B&W, silent, 5 min.
Commissioned for Bay Area Now 5 by kino21 as part of a live music-film-narration event, this film interprets a chapter from Alfred Jarry’s 1906 novel, The Supermale. A race between a five-man bicycle and a locomotive results in a team victory.
The poliTics of inTimacy [excerpT]
Julie Gustafson
1974, USA, video, B&W, sound, 10 min.
“The setting for The Politics of Intimacy, a feature-length documentary, recalls the widespread consciousness-raising (CR) groups in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s inspired by the emerging feminist movement. In the tape Dr. Sherfy, one of the first doctors to write about female sexuality, and nine women of different ages, sexual preferences, and economic and social situations discuss their sexual experiences.” – Video Data Bank
The making of sTop men,
markeT sTreeT
Lovewars, (Siobhan Alluvalot & Sara Thustra, Eds.)
2008, USA, video, color, sound, English, 5 min.
A document of a 2007 installation on a busy San Francisco street.
cash free
EE Miller with Bernadine Mellis
2009, USA, video, color, sound, 20 min.
A collective meets to hear a proposal; a former member vents, and two activists discuss some of the underlying issues. CASH FREE employs fantasy, documentary, and improvisation to expand conversations about sustainable artful living, struggles of individual queers working in groups, and tensions between public and private solutions to the challenges we share. Free supplementary zines will be distributed at the screening! Contributors to the project include: Xylor Jane, Andrea Lawlor, Naima Lowe, Bernadine Mellis, Miranda Mellis, Mecca Normal, Juanita Nelson and Dean Spade.
plus...performances by
kara lynch, sarah schulman, and
ginger brooks Takahashi!
Kara Lynch is an award-winning time-based artist. She is the director of a feature documentary: Black Russians, and is an associate professor of Video and Critical Studies at Hampshire College. She is a member of La Linea Interdiciplinario, a collective of women writers and artists in dialog across the US/Mexico borderlandia. Her current projects include: Invisible - an episodic speculative non-fiction, and Oriental Express - a collaborative live trio performance of dance, sound and image.
Sarah Schulman is the author of 14 books, most recently The Mere Future (novel) and Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences (nonfiction). She is co-founder with Jim Hubbard of MIX and the ACT UP Oral History Project. (www.actuporalhistory.org)
Ginger Brooks Takahashi is a visual artist and musician and a member of the hot new band “men.” She was a founding member of the feminist art collective LTTR.
