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THURSDAY
JUNE 12 7:00PM |
Royal Canadian Legion 1820 Cornwall Street With cash bar & snacks |
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TEXT MESSAGE A COLLECTION OF FILMS AND VIDEOS THAT INCORPORATE TEXT, WHICH BECOMES A DEFINING AND DISTINGUISHING FORM OF THEIR EXPRESSION. U R 2 B PREPARED 2 READ. |
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| I'm not so sure the world deserves us | Raul Fuentes, Mexico, 2007, video, 4 min. | A pulsating take on The Graduate seen through the eyes of young Mexican lesbians. |
| Why Always Instead of Just Sometimes - excerpts | Deirdre Logue, Canada, 2005, video, various | The five videos included in this program are from a series of twelve short videos that comprise Why Always Instead of Just Sometimes. These self-portraits record accomplishments without impact, small feats of moderate strength and moments of mild impudence. They are reflections on aging, breaking down and reparation. They are works that describe our need for intimacy and our fears of exposure. They are always, when we really wish they were just sometimes. |
| Repair | 1:35 min. | Repair reflects on the impossibility of fixing the truly broken. It shows two hands, busy at work, trying desperately to mend, to repair and rebuild. More hands follow immediately behind, in the wake of the first. These are the mess makers, the ones who brought about the chaos, the ones who are responsible for this destruction. |
| Sisyphus | Maureen Bradley, Canada, 2005, video, 4 min. | A hand-processed message to a broken heart and soul. |
| The Role I Was Born to Play | Lucas Blakk, Canada, 2007, video, 9 min. | Using borrowed clips from three films about gender bending - two comedies and a tragedy - a personal gender landscape is created. This piece touches on the assumptions and strategies for survival and a commitment to discussion that alternate gender expressions evoke. |
| Crash - Why Always Instead of Just Sometimes | Deirdre Logue, Canada, 2005, video, 1:25 min. | 2 tri-cyclists intentionally run into one another, fall, right them selves and begin again. This is their only ambition, their only accomplishment. |
| How to Build a Man | Krys McGuire, Canada, 2007, video, 4 min. | Sound and text blast the message home. |
| Discopedia | Ho Tam, Canada, 2005, video, 8 min. | A night in AsianXpress at the Club 5ive in Toronto. The video is a documentary of the participants, mostly queer Asian youths in their negotiation of identity in the margins. It's raining men? No, it's raining text. |
| That Beauty - Why Always Instead of Just Sometimes | Deirdre Logue, Canada, 2005, video, 1:05 min. | Existing somewhere between being lost and finding oneself, she hides within her own invented solar system, she is spectacular, like a dying star, burning bright. |
| Barbara Cartland | Tom de Pekin, France, 2007, video, 4:30 min. | The famous romance novelist is the inspiration for another fantastical animation from Monsieur de Pekin. |
| On Message | Stephen Andrews & John Greyson, Canada, video, 10 min. | An analog animation using the same set of drawings to tell four different versions of the same story. The emotional fallout of two witnesses to a police shooting, a musical about groovy gay boys making the scene, a cop show about the chase and arrest of a suspect and a news report about soldiers on leave in Iraq. |
| Failure | Nelson Hendricks, Canada, 2007, video, 6:41 min. | Images of beauty rituals - both masculine and feminine - focus on the removal of body hair. Scenes of adolescent embarrassment are played out in adult life. Gender confusion lurks behind the curtain. Impoverished aesthetics. Popular music. |
| Wheelie - Why Always Instead of Just Sometimes | Deirdre Logue, Canada, 2005, video: 30 sec. | Repetition drives this reflection on blaming others for what are our own, obvious mistakes. |
| Snapshots | Anne Smolar, Belgium, 2006, video, I min. | Men know why... |
| Suspect | Patricia Rozema, Canada, 2005, video, 7 min. | In this interpretation of a Mark Kingwell essay, acclaimed director Patricia Rozema questions our desires for tidy fictions and resolution. |
| Worry - Why Always Instead of Just Sometimes | Deirdre Logue, Canada, 2005, video, 1:30 min. | Since childhood worry has been both a preoccupation and a driving force. Now in adulthood, worry is a burden, unshakeable, relentless and likely fatal. |
| escrito | Mónica Enríquez, USA, 2007, video, 2 min. | escrito poetically gestures to the contradictions of what it means to be a queer immigrant in the U.S. |
| Every Wandering Cloud | Tom Kalin, USA, 2005, video, 7 min. | Every Wandering Cloud is the first installment in a series of experimental videos inspired by the writings of Oscar Wilde. Interweaving text from Wilde's "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" with hand-drawn animation derived from Eadweard Muybridge's Human and Animal Location, Every Wandering Cloud is a meditation on themes of freedom and imprisonment. |
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WEDNESDAY
JUNE 12 9:00PM |
Royal Canadian Legion 1820 Cornwall Street With cash bar & snacks After Party @ La Bodega |
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I WANT YOU TO WANT ME... FROM TIME TO TIME, WE ALL WANT TO BE LIKED (AND LOVED) A LITTLE BIT MORE, FOR THE PERSON WE ARE OR, IF THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH, FOR THE PERSON THAT WE THINK WE NEED TO BE IN ORDER TO GAIN ACCEPTANCE AND APPROVAL. THIS PROGRAM IS ABOUT GETTING WHAT YOU WANT WHETHER YOU REALLY EVER WANTED IT OR NOT. |
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| Butch or Consequences | Liz Singer, Canada, 2006, video, 17 min. | Louise, an old school butch, falls for a pretend TV lesbian; in her desperation to be with her she participates in a fictional makeover show, Inside Out: Deviant Dyke to Diva. |
| Today I Become a Man | Mocha Jean Herrup, USA, 2007, video, 9 min. | A documentary about a man who tries to pass as a "real" drag king – meaning, he's a man pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man. Featuring "The Infiltrator" Harmon Leon and drag kings The Lancebian, Woody B. Goode, The Boss of You, and cameos by members of the Austin Dragsters. Shot on location at the International Drag King Community Extravaganza in Austin, Texas. Music by Scream Club. |
| My Girl 2012 | Safiya Randera, Canada, 2005, video, 6 min. | Through a darkly disturbing, eerily voyeuristic lens, the film asks, "can the oppressed become the oppressor?" |
| Le jeu du chat | Simon Lanctôt, Canada, 2005, video, 6 min. | Cat seeks mouse... mouse seeks cat... French with English Subtitles |
| Possession | Herve Joseph Lebrun, France, 2007, video, 24 min. | A man, after spying his neighbor night and day, decides to kidnap him. Love and pain, torture and tenderness... A death love story. "You don't want to die? Me neither, believe it or not. Of course I'd love to pass another 40 years with you, in your arms, sniffing your neck, telling you things I've never dared tell a man. What do you think? I'm not doing all this out of the lightness of my heart. And anyway, I'm doing you a favour. What would you do all alone with two out of three chances or becoming contaminated? It's that what you want? Look at me. Have you seen my body, do you want to end up in the same way? Here with what I'm planning you can go over to the other side in full beauty. It's young, I know. I also think that dying at 40 is a bummer. But there's nothing we can do about it. It's written that we go together. I've just push destiny's hand a bit." French with English Subtitles |
| Police Box | Josh Kim, Korea, 2006, video, 4 min. | In Hong Kong, a girl writes love letters to a policeman and puts them in a police box on his beat. One day a jealous boy sees her tampering with the box and decides to play a trick on the two. |
| Casting Pearls | Andrea James, USA, 2006, video, 7 min. | Andrea directed Casting Pearls a short comedic film by Deep Stealth Productions which illustrates the difficulties transwomen face in Hollywood. Calpernia Addams stars as The Actress, as we follow her on a hectic series of auditions. Despite all the horrible, funny and cruel things said by various Hollywood industry people, The Actress carries on with plucky determination and professionalism, showing that decades of bias can't hold back the artistic contributions of transgender people in the media. |
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