US PREMIERE
SHORT FILM PROGRAM
WORLD PREMIERE
FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT
THROWBACK FROM
Becoming Lesbians
A Program of Shorts
Friday
Jun 14, 1996
@
6:00 pm
12th Annual Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival
Included are Northamptonite Lizzie Donahue’s hilarious infomercial I Became a Lesbian and So Can You (1994, 11 min.) and erotic, amusing videos by E.T. Baby Maniac—Sex Fish/Sex Bowl (1994, 13 min.) and Chu Lea Cheang’s—Fingers & Kisses
and Coming Home (1995, 9 min.). Greetings from Africa by Cheryl Dunye (1994, 8 min.); Lisa Hayes funny Dike (Canada, 1996, 9 min.), about a young woman with a perspiration problem; and a couple of tales about love triangles: Mermaids, Fish,
and Other Non-bipeds by Ginger Rinkenberger (Canada, 1995, 16 min.) and Marilyn Freeman’s passion-filled Meeting Magdalene (1995, 25 min.).
Wicked Queer is proud to co-present this program with
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This short film program includes the following films:
I Became a Lesbian and So Can You
Just your basic infomercial extolling the virtues of lesbianism.
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Sex Fish
An erotic lesbian video involving swimming upstream, female power, and fish love. Made as a collaboration under the name E.T. (Ela Troyano) Baby (Jane Castle) Maniac (Cheang).
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Sex Bowl
All forms of human sport become sites for sexual play and celebratory eroticism.
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Fingers and Kisses
Cheang has taken her camera to the streets for a candid glimpse of lesbian public sexuality. If Asian women and lesbians share a certain amount of invisibility in the culture, Fingers and Kisses offers not only a bold representation of both, but a challenge to the question “What do lesbians do?” Tokyo’s own out-and-loud music by Chu punctuates the narrative as what begins in the streets continues under the sheets.
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Coming Home
This humorous video begins with two women—one white, the other Asian—attempting to fit into a Japanese bathtub. The awkward fitting of bodies into a small space is just one of the allegorical scenarios dramatized in a pressing appeal for lesbian rights. In a game of hanafuda (flower cards), the terms of lesbian domesticity are cleverly played out according to such legalities as joint property, social security, and pensions.
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Greetings from Africa
Cheryl, playing herself, humorously experiences the mysteries of lesbian dating in the ’90s.
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Mermaids, Fish & Other Non-Bipeds
Nikki is in love with her roommate, Lauren, a former dancer. But Lauren is seeing J.D., an exotic tropical fish store owner. A fishy tale of lesbian love and lust.
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