US PREMIERE
SHORT FILM PROGRAM
WORLD PREMIERE
FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT
THROWBACK FROM
Selections from MIX NYC
The New York Queer Experimental Film Festival
Thursday
May 10, 2012
@
8:30 pm
Boston LGBT Film Festival 2012
For the first time ever we are collaborating with MIX NYC to bring the best in queer experimental film to the festival. Founded in 1987 by author Sarah Schulman and filmmaker Jim Hubbard, MIX NYC produces New York’s longest-running lesbian & gay film festival. MIX NYC promotes, produces and preserves experimental media that is rooted in the lives, politics, and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and otherwise queer-identified people. MIX’S work challenges mainstream notions of gender and sexuality while also upending traditional categories of form and content. (This program was curated by Bug Davidson.)
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This short film program includes the following films:
Common Strands
Common Strands exposes a hidden act that takes place within a family’s home, leaving the viewer to question intimacy and its varying levels within a culture. The subject matter alludes to cultural preservation in response to displacement, and to the pressures that a new society has on the body image of the displaced, hinting at the dichotomy that can be created through rejection and/or assimilation. The event portrays each family member’s varying thoughts surrounding a shared interest.
Forbidden Cigarette
Forbidden Cigarette is a brief but vivid journey into a deviant world of consensual misconduct. Told through a self-destructive haze of sexual bravado, the darkly poetic narrative is peppered with graphic hyperbole. It is an assault on the sensibilities while remaining humorous and engaging. You won't have a more entertaining cringe all day.
Generations
In the spirit of mentoring and passing on the tradition of personal experimental filmmaking, Barbara Hammer, 70 years old, hands the camera to Gina Carducci, a young queer filmmaker. Shooting during the last days of Astroland at Coney Island, New York, the filmmakers find that the inevitable fact of aging echoes in the architecture of the amusement park and in the emulsion of the film medium itself.
Have You Ever Seen A Transsexual Before?
Have You Ever Seen A Transsexual Before? is both a document of a live performance in the alienating “real world” and a fantastical adventure into another world of queer likeness and identification. The first half of the video records a guerilla performance, and through repetition, becomes a declaration and a campaign for Female-To-Male (FTM) transsexual visibility. When the campaign proves futile I enter a magical animated world where I observe and am greeted by colorful and flamboyant wildlife.
It’s About the Night
I’d like to serenade you with the very heavens that hang above our heads [this] is about the contradictory pain/pleasure of interpersonal relationships. The constant need to connect, to feel, to articulate when you’re breathless. These texts are often lost in translation... in the hot air that evaporates as we speak. I can’t begin to understand, but I want to touch and be touched. Hold on
It’s Nothing Personal
A glimpse into the dating woes of young, queer, twenty-something year olds, It’s Nothing Personal is a three-channel series of short video scenes existing somewhere between fictional narrative and experimental art house film. The stories portray the protagonists, Kris and Kasey, and their individual experiences with dating in their small, queer, urban enclave in Boston, Massachusetts.
Les Malaventures de Zut-Alors
The story of Siamese brother and sister, Zut and Alors, and their quest for love. Uses clock-work puppetry.Materials include book covers, crepe paper, bicycle bells, party blowers and more.
Looking For Jiro
Looking For Jiro is a queer meditation on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Jiro worked in the prison mess hall and liked muscular men. How did this dandy gay bachelor survive imprisonment? This queer musical mash-up video features drag king performance, U.S. propaganda footage, muscle building, and homoerotic bread making.
September Song
Known since the 1980s for his Super-8 films and performances, Luther Price has, in recent years, turned to 16mm film, creating new works from discarded prints of old documentaries, snippets of Hollywood features, and other examples of cinematic detritus. He re-edits the footage by hand, effaces the image through scraping, buries the films to rot and gather mold, and adds chaotic visual patterns using colored inks and permanent markers. For soundtracks, he frequently uses only the brutal electromechanical noise generated by sprocket holes running through the projector’s audio system.
