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 FREE PROGRAMS WHITE LIGHT CURIOUS & CARTOONED CURATOR BIOGRAPHIES TICKETS ----------------------- FREE PROGRAMS Queer Youth / Queer Aboriginal / Homo Made in Saskatchewan Queer City Cinema presents three programs which address the subject of communities and the role of the individual within these communities. The importance of making accessible the means by which to communicate collective, cultural, and individual experience and expression is demonstrated through the proactive efforts of film festivals, artist run centres, and cultural organizations. The Queer Youth and Aboriginal programs were sponsored by Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre and Gallery who wish to acknowledge funding support from: Canada Council for the Arts, Saskatchewan Arts Board, City of Regina, Saskatchewan Lotteries, SMPIA Saturday, April 24 Saturday, May 1 Saturday, May 8 ----------------------- top --- WHITE LIGHT: A History of International Queer Film and Video As a means to trace the origins and histories of various genres and Îmovementsâ in queer film and video, as a way to take stock of what has been and where queer film and video may be going, and in an attempt to investigate the progressions, transgressions, and regressions of queer film and video in the context of impacting communities, artistic expression and popular culture, Queer City Cinema 5 has gone into the archival closet to present a series of ten programs that comprise the special programming focus of this yearâs festival. Consequently an historical, and in turn, a contemporary overview of queer cinema is the focus of Queer City Cinema 5. Part 1: QCC Curated Programs Monday, April 26 : 7PM : 9PM Tuesday, April 27 : 7PM : 9PM Part 2: Guest Curated Programs Monday, May 3 : 7PM : 9PM Tuesday, May 4 : 7PM : 9PM Monday, May 10 : 7PM : 9PM ----------------------- top --- CURIOUS AND CARTOONED: Programs of Fiction and Fantasy Anti-Queer Films from 1950 ö 1990 / Queer Animation Tuesday, May 11 : 7PM : 9PM ----------------------- top --- CURATOR BIOGRAPHIES Thomas Waugh Thomas Waugh personally survived the 1970âs when he started teaching Film Studies at Concordia University (Montreal), where he also developed curriculum around HIV/AIDS and the program in Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality. His forthcoming book on queer Canadian film and video (University of Toronto Press, 2005) is The Romance of Transgression in Canada: Sexualities, Nations, Moving Images. His other books include Hard To Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film From Their Beginnings to Stonewall (1996), The Fruit Machine: Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema (2000), and Out/Lines: Underground Gay Graphics From Before Stonewall (2002). Barbara Hammer Barbara Hammer is considered a pioneer of lesbian/feminist experimental cinema. She has made 80 films and videos and received the Frameline Award in 2000 for making a significant contribution to lesbian cinema. She chooses film/video as a visual art form to make the invisible, visible. Her work reveals and celebrates marginalized peoples whose stories have not been told. Her cinema is multi-leveled and engages an audience viscerally and intellectually with the goal of activating them to make social change. Her trilogy of documentary film essays on lesbian and gay history has received numerous awards: Nitrate Kisses (1992), Tender Fictions (1995), History Lessons (2000). Hammer's most recent work has turned to global issues outside her community as she has investigated a revolutionary filmmaking 'collective' in Japan in the feature-length documentary, Devotion, A Film About Ogawa Productions, 2000, (Jurors' Merit Award at the Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival) and My Babushka: Searching Ukrainian Identities, 2001, funded by a grant from Soros Documentary Fund of the Open Society Institute. Barbara Hammer was awarded a Fellowship at Harvard University through the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, 2001-02 to continue her research and edit her latest film, Resisting Paradise, 2003 which is screening on the Sundance Documentary Channel 2004-06. Jim Hubbard Jim Hubbard has been making films since 1974. Among his 19 films are Elegy in the Streets (1989), Two Marches (1991), The Dance (1992) and Memento Mori (1995). His films have been shown at the Berlin Film Festival, the London Film Festival, the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, the New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tokyo, London, Torino and many other Lesbian and Gay Film Festivals. His film Memento Mori won the Ursula for Best Short Film at the Hamburg Lesbian & Gay Film Festival in 1995. He co-founded and is president of MIX ö the New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival. Under the auspices of the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, he created the Royal S. Marks AIDS Activist Video Collection at the New York Public Library. He curated the series Fever in the Archive: AIDS Activist Videotapes from the Royal S. Marks Collection for the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The 8-program series took place December 1-9, 2000. Anne Golden Anne Golden has been involved in the curation, distribution and production of independent video and film since 1985. She studied film at Concordia University. She has been a film and video programmer for The Montreal International Festival of Films and Videos by Women and for Image + Nation Gaie et Lesbienne. Golden is co-director of Groupe Intervention Video, an artist-run distribution centre for videos directed by women. She is an independent curator and writer whose most recent programs include Foregroundings (herland, 1999), Springboards (Out on Screen, 1999), and Horizontal Holds / Vertical Views: Recent Canadian Art Video (MusŽe du QuŽbec, 2001). Golden has been making videos since 1991. Her work includes Les autres (1991), Fat Chance (1994), Big Girl Town (1998), Brothers (1998), and Tourism (1999). As part of the Lock Up Your Daughters collective, Golden participated in a website project, Fantasmagoria, designed by Carla Wolf. She has recently completed the tapes Site (2002) and Somme (2004). Shari Frilot A Harvard/Radcliffe University, and Whitney Independent Study Program alumna, Shari Frilot produced television for the CBS affiliate in Boston and for WNYC and WNET in New York before creating her own independent award-winning films including A Cosmic Demonstration of Sexuality, What Is A Line?, and the 60-minute documentary, Black Nations/Queer Nations? funded by the Ford Foundation. She was the festival director of the MIX festival in New York from 1992ö1996 and co-founded MIX BRASIL and MIX MƒXICO film festivals. She was the co-director of programming for OUTFEST (1998ö2001) and is presently a programmer for the Sundance Film Festival. She has completed a 16-minute narrative film entitled Strange & Charmed which is currently enjoying a worldwide festival tour. Ellen Flanders Ellen Flanders is a filmmaker and photographer living in Toronto. She holds a MFA and a MA in Critical Studies and is an alumni of the Whitney Program in New York. Ellen is the past Executive Director of Inside Out, Toronto's Lesbian and Gay film and Video Festival, and served as the Director of the Persistent Vision Conference, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in 2001. Her latest short film, Once, premiered at the 2001 Berlin International Film Festival and she is currently working on a documentary about the conflict in Israel and Palestine through the lives of lesbian and gay Israeli/Palestinian couples. Bill Taylor Bill Taylor started his curating and archiving in Vancouver in 1996. First starting out at Out On Screen, he began curating successful programs such as Farmers Daughters, Small Town Boys, and Other Queers in the Bushes which dealt with rural queer life, and the sold out program Directors For A New Millennium which showcased new directors from around the world that were leading the way into the (what was then) new century. He took a 'sabbatical' from Out On Screen to focus on independent curated projects. His first program, I Sold My Soul On Ebay, was a cornucopia of 16mm oddities delved from the online auction house. His next show, Lock Up Your Sons And Daughters premiered in Vancouver in August 2002, and is currently touring festivals worldwide. ----------------------- top --- TICKETS $4 Per screening $6 Double bill $35 Festival Pass TICKETS AND PASSES AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR |
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