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SATURDAY
JUNE 14
1:00PM 		Royal Canadian Legion
1820 Cornwall Street

With cash bar & snacks

GOD GONE WILD - THE IMMORALITY OF MORALITY
ALL THESE FILMS, IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, GATHER THEIR DRAMA, INTENSITY AND EMOTION FROM THE OPPOSITION EXPRESSED TOWARDS INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS WHO IDENTIFY AS GAY, LESBIAN, BI-SEXUAL, AND QUEER. IN THESE DOCUMENTARIES AND PERSONAL MONOLOGUES, WE ARE SHOWN THAT THIS OPPOSITION OR HOMOPHOBIA IS JUSTIFIED THROUGH THE BANNER OF RELIGION AND THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT WHO CONTINUE TO USE "LOVE THE SINNER, HATE THE SIN" AS A MORAL MANTRA. THROUGH THESE DISTURBING DOCUMENTS OF TIMES PAST AND PRESENT, WE SEE HOW MORALITY AND RELIGION CONTINUES TO HARM AND OPPRESS IN THE NAME OF GOD.

THIS PROGRAM WILL BE PRECEDED BY AN ADDRESS TO THE AUDIENCE BY TOM LUKIWSKI, CONSERVATIVE MP FOR REGINA/LUMSDEN/LAKE CENTRE.

Mansfield 1962 William E. Jones, USA, 2006 video, silent, 9 min. In the summer of 1962, the Mansfield, Ohio Police Department photographed men having sex in a public restroom under the main square of the city. A cameraman hid in a closet and watched the clandestine activities through a two-way mirror. Filmed over a three-week period, the resulting movie was used to obtain the convictions of over 30 local men on charges of sodomy. With some of this footage the Mansfield Police later produced Camera Surveillance, an instructional film circulated in law enforcement circles. It showed how to set up a sting operation to film and arrest "sex deviants." William E. Jones found a degraded version of the film on the internet, then reedited the footage to make Mansfield 1962, a haunting, silent condensation of the original.
Mentalitet: Marche des fiertés de Belgrade (The First Pride March of Belgrade) Stefan Orlandic Stojanovski, Serbia, 2002, video, 6 min. Frightening footage of the first Pride march in Belgrade in 2001. Marchers were met by hundreds of skinheads armed with heavy sticks and bigoted attitudes. The peaceful march became a riot of anti-gay hatred. Warning-this film contains graphic violent images. English Captions
I Just Wanted to Be Somebody Jay Rosenblatt, USA, 2006, video, 10 min. What do the religious right and the gay liberation movement have in common? Both were fortified by the efforts of one woman - Anita Bryant. Part document and part poem, I Just Wanted To Be Somebody brings us back to the late 1970's and reflects on Bryant's life and the impact she had.
Relative Freedom Joe Kuehne, USA, 2006, video, 9 min. Relative Freedom documents the director's journey to interview members of his immediate family about their feelings on his homosexuality. Over the course of three days, the director and his filmmaking team traveled from Washington, D.C. to Ohio and Michigan to interview his parents and five siblings. The film documents the family's difficulty reconciling their love for their son/brother with their firm religions beliefs.
Freeheld Cynthia Wade, USA, 2007, video, 40 min. Lieutenant Laurel Hester is dying. All she wants to do is leave her pension benefits to her life partner - Stacie, so Stacie can afford to keep their house. Laurel is told no; they are not husband and wife. After spending a lifetime fighting for justice for other people, Laurel - a veteran New Jersey detective - launches a final battle for justice. Knuckle-biting, dramatic Freeheld chronicles a dying policewoman's bitter fight to provide for the love of her life. Winner of the 2008 Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject.


SATURDAY
JUNE 14
3:00PM 		Royal Canadian Legion
1820 Cornwall Street

With cash bar & snacks
DRAMA QUEENS
STORIES WITH A BEGINNING, MIDDLE, AND AN END. THIS COLLECTION OF NARRATIVE SHORTS CELEBRATES THE STORYTELLER, AND THE IDEA THAT LIFE IS SO MUCH MORE WITH A LITTLE BIT (OR A LOT) OF DRAMA THROWN IN.
Private Life Abbe Robinson, UK, 2006, 35mm to video, 16 min. In 1952 England, Ruth leaves the monotony of her work at a textile mill and secretly takes the train to Manchester where a secret rendezvous reveals that nothing is quite what it seems.
Airplanes Jen Heck, USA, 2006, video, 11 min. Airplanes tells the love story of two teenage girls from the moment they first see each other to their eventual break-up. While an educational-style voice-over discusses the science and art of flight, the characters, like airplanes themselves, take off, struggle to fly, and eventually come in for an emergency landing.
if you lived here, you'd be home by now Tamar Glezerman, Israel, 2006, video, 10 min. Noa just wants Shira out of the house. The afterglow of the break-up lasts a little longer than either expected. Hebrew with English Subtitles
Outside Jenn Kao, USA, 2004, video, 22 min. In a post-apocalyptic society a young woman risks everything to make contact with the outside world.
Invulnerable Alvaro Pastor, Spain, 2005, video, 24 min. Elías is just beginning his career as a high school teacher and just beginning his relationship with Pedro when he finds out that he's HIV positive. How will he tell his new lover? Spanish with English Subtitles


SATURDAY
JUNE 14
7:00PM 		Royal Canadian Legion
1820 Cornwall Street

With cash bar & snacks
SOUL SURVIVOR
IN THIS PROGRAM NOTIONS OF ALONENESS, SOLO-NESS, SOLITUDE, AND INDEPENDENCE ARE EXPRESSED AS A MEANS OF NAVIGATION AND SURVIVING SELF.
Just Because You Can Gracie Bucciarelli, USA, 2006, video, 7 min. One selection from a series of portraits about personal identity and performance in public space. A volcanologist cracks her bullwhip in the great outdoors... You would too, if you could.
Tuesday Be My Friend Chris Chong Chan Fui, Malaysia/Canada, 2005, color, sound, 5 min. Within Malaysia's modern-day pluralistic society, much antagonism and tension still exists between the many ethnic and cultural groups. In this award-winning film about making choices, a young Chinese Malaysian girl's secret love for Muslim headscarves (tudung) leads her to overstep her boundaries. With the little interaction between the Chinese and Malay communities, Shiuan fears that none of her friends or family will understand. So on this Tuesday, she decides to take a leap of independence towards her own self-discovery.
Acorda (Wake Up) Roberta Marques, Brazil/The Netherlands, 2005, video, 16 min. Sydney sells birds on the beaches of Fortaleza. Tired of the life he leads, he wants to leave Brazil and become a star. Then he meets Robert, a foreigner who takes an interest in him. Sydney sees the chance to make his dreams come true, but at what cost?
The Saddest Boy in the World Jamie Travis, Canada, 2006, 35mm, 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.
Hello, My Name is Herman Karine Silverwoman, Canada, 2007, video, 9:30 min. Hello, My Name is Herman poignantly and humorously describes the relationship between a 91-year Jewish man, his lesbian granddaughter and her girlfriend. This documentary explores intergenerational and interracial relationships, coming out, aging and the process of accepting difference and love.
Veneration X Daniel McKernan & Richie Rennt, USA, 2007, video, 3 min. An homage and attempt to reach each other. Ghost-like images of the two of us fade in and out of static and seem to always just miss each other. Sing me that love song again.
Life #2 Dennis Day, Canada, 2007, video, 5 min. "When does the dinner table go from being prepared to being set? When exactly is that moment when things shift from intention to fact? As an artist I have always questioned these facts, but in my second career as a video and film editor, I am often asked to simply move these facts around. But what about the unease, excitement or even frustration that we feel before everything arrives in its place? Life #2 is a small attempt at illustrating just that."
We Are All In Your Head Sacha Fink, Canada, 2007, video, 4:20 min. Like a sleepwalker, an emotionally empty and dependant woman has all the vitality in her life projected on her by a controlling and aggressive other.
Auto Pilot Charles Lum, USA, 2007, video, 5 min. Just one of those days…
Perfect Day Paul Wong, Canada, 2007, video, 7:30 min. The artist records himself at home proudly indulging in the happiness of a drug (heroin and cocaine) inspired perfect day. The music of Lou Reed: Heroin and Perfect Day. Recorded on Sunday - edited on Monday.
Samstag Abend im Eagle (Saturday Night at the Eagle) Marc Adelman, USA, 2007, video, 6 min. A piece that considers the place of shame in relationship to identity construction, Samstag Abend im Eagle (Saturday Night at the Eagle) brings together the laying of tefillin (phylacteries), leather fetishism, German, The Jazz Singer, and HIV/AIDS as a means for rethinking counterpublics and assimilation. German with English Subtitles
Lost Owen Eric Woods, Canada, 2007, video, 5:30 min. The anonymity of computer technology allows for the expression of our innermost thoughts and desires, free of consequence. However, is this expression an accurate depiction of who we really are? Or does it merely serve as a venue for socially unacceptable behaviour at times when we find ourselves lost?
Self_Love Roberto Ratti, Italy, 2007, video, 3 min. In collaboration with Black Sun Productions for their new album, Chemism. Featuring Emiliano Pesenti and Massimo & Pierce masked, in an abandoned art school (Juventus Schule) in Zurich where they were squatting at the time. This work is set in an urban reality and touches on the last man's crash encounter with himself, where he is his own nemesis.
Walk Matthew Snead, UK, 2007, UK, video, 3 min. Performance artist Taylor Mac walks the streets of London, sharing his inner thoughts on fear and politics.


SATURDAY
JUNE 14
9:00PM 		Royal Canadian Legion
1820 Cornwall Street

With cash bar & snacks

JOIN US AFTER THE SHOW FOR OUR CLOSING NIGHT PARTY @ THE OUTSIDE (GLCR – 2070 BROAD ST.) ADMISSION TO THE OUtSIDE IS FREE WITH TICKET STUB FROM THE 9 PM SCREENIING
PARTY SPONSORED BY OUT TV and the GLCR
LIVE CUTE ANIMALS, CARTOONS, AND AWESOME ANIMATION
STEP INTO A WORLD OF CUTENESS, SATURATED COLOR, AND MESMERISING AND HAUNTING VISUALS AS THESE ARTISTS TAKE YOU ON A JOURNEY TO THE OTHER SIDE, SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW.
Sensing the World by Echo Mark Taylor, USA, 2006, video, 18 min. Sensing the World by Echo is a "Frankenstein's monster" of a movie stitched together with parts robbed from the B-movie graveyard of horror and sci-fi films. A colorful, animated paper collage, the film is assembled from scraps of 1950s and '60s children's books, home and how-to manuals, science texts and encyclopedias. Sensing the World by Echo tells an unconventional narrative about growing up feeling like an alien from outer space and of finding one's place in a mad, mad world.
Copain de Paris Jacob Owens, Canada, 2006, video, 6 min. No hamsters were harmed in the making of this film, but one fell in love. A gay hamster moves from Paris to Halifax and finds happiness.
Artist Statement Daniel Barrow, Canada, 2006, video, 5:20 min. In his most recent video Artist Statement, Barrow uses a Commodore computer and mouse to illustrate and animate his "gratuitously honest", personal manifesto. With music by The Ballet.
Nebula Hilary Harp and Suzie Silver, USA, 2006, video, 10 min. A synthesis of vibrant colors, glassy surfaces, sparkling facets, and digital mirroring technologies create a spatial enigma that is simultaneously crystalline and liquid, effervescent and rocklike. We are drawn perpetually inward in a cosmic journey that is perpetually transforming, transporting us into a zone of science fiction inspired fantasy.
Nijuman no Borei (200,000 Phantoms) Jean-Gabriel Periot, France, 2007, video, 10:30 min. In 1914, the Genbaku Dome in Hiroshima was a dazzling center of elegant urban life in Japan. On August 6, 1945, the atomic bomb called Little Boy detonated 500 feet away from the building, killing 78,000 people and leveling the city within a single second. But the dome miraculously survived, and in 2006 it stands as a silent reminder of the horrors of nuclear power. In this experimental short film, the history of the 20th century flies past, illustrated by 600 photographs of the Genbaku Dome.
Transfer Point Jenny Lin, Canada, 2007, video, 5:23 min. Transfer Point is a study of the movement of commuters in an urban transit system. The rhythmic repetition of the everyday intersects with memory and fantasy pulling the passive observer into a digressing, daydreaming state of mind.
Copain de Paix Jacob Owens, Canada, 2006, video, 6:00 min. Copain the hamster is once again forced to fight for his love. Will he be deported back to France and separated from Henry forever? Will his film make it into the Atlantic Film Festival? And will hamster love triumph over adversity? All will be revealed in the long-awaited sequel to Copain de Paris.
Get OVER It, Honey Flavio Flaviani, USA, 2005, video, 10 min. A dark, bloody comedy about the ugly pitfalls of homo conformity. Hot muscle zombies, disillusioned studs, a lap dog with 'issues' and lots of booze in hell... see you there.
Do You Know That Bad Girls Go to Hell? Tom de Pekin, France, 2004, video, 5:20 min. Lesbian Hells Angels would do anything to free one of them kidnapped by skeletons. Music video for the girl rock band Flaming Pussy.
A Bear, Where? Jeremy Stewart, Australia, 2007, video, 3 min. In Jeremy Stewart's dreamy short, a teddy bear is lost in a bear guy's world.
Copain de Memoires Jacob Owens, Canada, 2007, video, 13 min. An epic love story of an entirely different species. On his deathbed, Copain recalls his youthful romance with Pierre during war-torn France. The lovers, indeed all the characters, are played with tender restraint... by hamsters.
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