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TUESDAY
JUNE 10 8:00PM |
Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre & Gallery 203-1856 Scarth Street FREE / THIS PROGRAM IS RATED 14A |
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Queer City Cinema Satellite ProgrammingQUEER YOUTH - BUDS & BLOSSOMSAS YOUNG PEOPLE, WE FIGURE OUT WHO WE ARE WITH THE HELP (OR INCONVENIENCE) OF OTHERS. ULTIMATELY, HOWEVER, IT IS OUR OWN DECISION TO NEGOTIATE, RESOLVE AND CREATE CLOSURE IN ORDER TO MOVE ON, UP AND/OR OVER. THESE FILMS AND VIDEOS CAPTURE REAL MOMENTS AND EXPRESS IMAGINED REALITIES OF THE ROCKY TERRAIN FACED BY MANY QUEER YOUTH. |
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| eddie | Quentin Kruger, USA, 2007, video, 10min. | This film tells the tale of a 10-year-old tomboy who enjoys playing kickball with the boys. But as the story progresses we see Eddie being forced to deal with her sexuality and learns that sometimes being yourself, means being different. |
| Summer | Hong Khaou, UK, 2006, 35mm to video, 10 min. | Will and Leung are pals, searching the woods of Hampstead Heath for botanical material Leung needs for a school class. Along the way, they engage in horseplay, and Will discloses that his girlfriend recently fellated him. As they walk on, they keep coming back to the subject of oral sex. Is it curiosity and braggadocio, or are they flirting with each other? Leung crosses a line and declares himself: how will Will react? |
| Small-town Boy | Moby Longinotto, UK, 2007, video, 13 min. | For over a hundred years the annual summer carnival has been a celebration of traditional family values in the village where all its inhabitants of all ages get involved in. Each year the prettiest young girl in the town is paraded through the main square as the carnival queen. But this year the festivities are going to be turned on their head, because this year David is the first ever gay male carnival queen. Under huge pressure from the locals who feel he is bringing shame on their village - David, in his lilac dress, is determined to stand up be proud of himself in front of all his doubters. |
| The Saddest Boy in the World | Jamie Travis, Canada, 2006, 35mm to video, 14 min. | Timothy Higgins, picked last for the team, is the saddest boy in the world. Friendlessness, suburban complacency and prescription drugs have conspired against the youngster to make this his worst year yet. Musical Chairs and birthday cake can't save him now - at his ninth birthday party, Timothy prepares for a show-stopping suicide. |
| From Alex to Alex | Alison S. M. Kobayashi, Canada, 2006, video, 6 min. | This offbeat slice of queer adolescence is based in the contents of a real letter that the filmmaker found in 2003 on the Winston Churchill Boulevard QEW overpass. |
| S/He | Gina Pei Chi Chen, Taiwan, 2007, video, 10 min. | This dramatic film traces the internal journey of a 12-year old girl Shane, who has always dreamed of being a boy. However, her dream is broken when she reaches puberty. In grade 6, the observation of her female classmates' growing bodies triggers her anxiety because she realizes that she cannot control the natural progression of her emerging feminine traits. |
| Rock Pockets | Trevor Anderson, Canada, 2007, video, 5:10 min. | A short, personal documentary disguised as meta-music video. A sugar rush of sex, politics, and rock 'n' roll as seen through the eyes of a 10-year-old boy at the fair. |
| Sponsor: Soil Digital Media Suite; Common Weal Community Arts | ||
