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Rats in Glitter
From psychiatric evaluations to avant-garde karaoke music videos, these dancers, directors, activists, and deserters endeavor to get things right (or defiantly wrong) in this multifarious selection of experimental short films. Interweaving the high and the low, these films incorporate a wide range of aesthetics and storytelling devices to explore an idea, celebrate a moment, or pose a deceptively simple question. The performance artist Narcississter spins, poses, and works her way into the ideal woman in Every Woman. Suicide! Car crashes! An evil twin! embody the drama of Sinaki's Pop!, set in the consumer glamour of 1960s Tehran. An all-encompassing jam session of musicians, dancers, and artists lets loose in Free Jazz: Parts 1 & 2. All this and more, in a selection of 13 short and explosive films that abandon ship, burn down the fort, and haunt the home they grew up in.
Short films showing in this program:
Every Woman
The performance artist Narcississter spins, poses, and works her way into the “ideal woman” set to the iconic Chaka Khan song.
The Fortune Teller
Fortune Teller is an acid trip through the past present and future of Gay Male Iconograpny/Culture, using found footage montages to show our oppression, tradition and resilience. It’s part music video, part documentary and part time capsule.
Free Jazz: Parts 1 & 2
Free Jazz: Parts 1 & 2 is an eclectic, '60s-inspired jam session between musicians, dancers, set designers, and cameraman. Directed by Gary Fembot Gregerson, in collaboration with Brontez Purnell Dance Company and Jerry Lee Abram.
Like Rats Leaving a Sinking Ship
Rats are glorious deserters and we must admire them. Rats don't want to be captains trying to keep the cause afloat. But swim on open water.
Martindale
Martindale is a collaborative work between Two Left Feet dance company and filmmaker Bug Davidson.
Wildblood
Wildblood takes its inspiration from queer ‘zines and the Homocore music scene of the early ’90s. It is constructed entirely of Xerox collages, reminiscent of the artist’s roots, and type of ’zine making indicative of this period.
CounterPULSE
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