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Out On Screen
& Video In Studios present Vancouver’s Ninth Annual
Queer Film & Video
Festival
August 7th-17th 1997
Festival Guide
Out On Screen
& Video In Studios present
Vancouver’s 9th Annual
Queer Film & Video Festival
August 7th to 17th, 1997
PDF guide conversion, June 1998
Patrick Gunn
Out On Screen Queer Film & Video Festival
Box 521, 1027 Davie Street
Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4L2
CANADA
www.geocities.com/~outonscreen
email: outonscreen@geocities.comGet Your Tickets @ 2
F.Y.I. 4
Welcome 5
People In Your Neighbourhood
Mission Statement & Board Talk
Special Thanks
6
7
8
table of
Greetings
Gala Features at The Plaza
Leather Jacket Love Story
9
10
11
contents
The Watermelon Woman 13
Reel Youth 14
Made In Vancouver 16
Animated Queers 18
From Homo Heaven 20
Lady Golfer’s, Butchers & Talking Vulvas 21
girlPlay: Sexy Shorts 24
He Shoots, He Scores: Men’s Sex 24
Frustrated Pleasures: Programming Sex 26
As Seen on TV: Big Dykes on the Small Screen 27
Francoqueer 28
More Fish in the Sea: An Atlantic Showcase 30
I Was A Jewish Sex Worker 33
Festival Schedule 34
Travelogues 37
Queer Schtik: Nosh’n On Shorts 38
Out There Wacky Mixed Shorts 40
Positive Reflections 42
Fiercely Ruling! New Drag Shorts 45
Queer Video Is Alive & Well... 46
Transexual Express 47
Raunchorama 49
Johns 50
Chocolate Babies 51
Black Nations/Queer Nations? 52
Mariposas en Andanio (Butterflies on the Scaffold) 53
Queercore 55
Queer Aesthetics 101 57
Sexpot 59
Print Source List 61
Out On Screen Invites YOU to participate 68
31997 Out On Screen Childcare Subsidies
Membership Cards ($1) Childcare Subsidies are
F.Y.I. Out On Screen presents
films and videos which have
not been seen by the B.C. Film
available for all programs.
Upon request at each venue,
parents/guardians will be
Information and Listings Classification Board. Under given a maximum of $10 per
688-9378 (ext. 2014 & 2299) B.C. law any person wishing to program for childcare costs.
see these unclassified films Larger subsidies may be
Tickets ($4-$10) must belong to the Out On given, depending on need and
All tickets are sold on a Screen Film & Video Festival availability of funds. Donations
sliding scale ($4-10) and will Society and be 18 years or towards childcare will also be
be available at ticket outlets older. By joining the society, accepted at all programs.
until 4 PM on the day of show you are entitled to purchase
and until noon for matinees; tickets and to attend the Venues
afterwards tickets will only be Annual General Meeting. All Havana
available at the door. Day-of - audience members must have 1212 Commercial Drive
show tickets for all screenings a valid 1997 Membership Pacific Cinematheque
may be purchased at the Card, available for $1 at all 1131 Howe Street
individual venues starting 30 venues, in order to be The Plaza
minutes prior to each admitted. 881 Granville Street
screening. If a screening’s Video In Studios
allotment of advance tickets Ticket Locations 1965 Main Street
has sold out, rush tickets may Harry’s (Off Commercial)
be available 30 minutes 1716 Charles Street What is the Sliding Scale?
before showtime. Little Sister’s Book The sliding scale on ticket
& Art Emporium prices is the means by which
Festival Passes ($50-$80) 1238 Davie Street our communities honours a
Full festival passes are commitment to access. The
available for $50 - $80 on a Accessibility sliding scale allows for those
sliding scale. All passes are ASL interpretation that are able to pay in the
will be available for ASL upper range of the scale, while
strictly non-transferable and
passholders are required to Leather Jacket Love Story, low income audience members
show photo ID and valid Johns, Chocolate Babies, can pay at the lower end. The
membership. While a pass The Watermelon Woman, Out On Screen Festival relies
does not guarantee seating, a Reel Youth, girlPlay: Sexy heavily on anticipated revenue
generous allotment of seats is Shorts and He Shoots, He from festival attendance, so
reserved at every screening Scores: Men’s Sex. please respect the philosophy
for passholders. Please arrive All of our venues are of the sliding scale.
at least 30 minutes prior to wheelchair accessible.
showtime.
4Programming notes from
Welcome! The Out On Screen Collective
The Out On Screen Queer Film & Video Festival was programmed collectively by
members of many Vancouver communities. This is a unique strength we share with few
festivals in North America, and the range and diversity of this year’s programming is
the result.
This year’s festival includes many firsts....Out On Screen’s first local showcase
illustrates the range and excellence of Queer film and video being made right here in
Vancouver. Regional Canadian work finally gets its due with programs from the Atlantic
coast and La Belle Province in More Fish in The Sea and Francoqueer, while
Animated Queers shows the growing number of queers working with animation.
Out On Screen is proud to welcome visiting artists Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan,
who will be on hand to present the first retrospective of their ground-breaking film and
video work Lady Golfers, Butchers & Talking Vulvas. Shari Frilot will present her
video Black Nations/Queer Nations? and participate in a panel discussion around
cultural production by Queers of Colour. Marusya Borciurkiw’s performance/screening
As Seen On TV:Big Dykes on the Small Screen contextualizes recent consumption of
queerness by the mass media. And finally, for the first time in its nine year history, Out
On Screen is able to recognize excellence in film and video in the form of a juried award.
Two Gerry Brunet Memorial Awards will be presented to recognize work produced in
British Columbia and Canada.
Increasingly, queer work about the experiences of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and
transgendered people and how we see and experience the world has left many
essentialist approaches to identity behind. This year’s films and videos often look at
gender and identity as multiple, shifting and contextual. There is less an effort to create
stories about how a fixed identity affects how “we” live and to show it positively, than
there is a fascination with examining how the complexities of how( the influences of pop
culture/media, community) and where(community, location) we live affects who we are.
It has been argued queer culture is showing its maturation when it begins to critique
itself in so many complex ways - this is the stuff of the 1997 programming. Some work
comes easily, with laughs, lotsa sex, romance, happy endings. Much, however, is also
densely layered with re-positioned fragments of our pop culture that question its role in
framing our exclusion, how we look and how we experience desire. Queer film and video
is building in sheer number, audiences and momentum like never before. Out On Screen
is striving to keep up with such exponential growth. We invite you to witness it along
with us. Get your ticket and find your seat...
Jennifer Fisher
Programming & Technical Coordinator
5People in your neighbourhood
The OUT ON SCREEN Collective
Board of Directors Programming Committee Promotions Committee
Allen Braude Allen Braude, Chair Drew Dennis
Susan Buie Robyn Badger Mel Gill
Drew Dennis Phillip Banks Marie Zaugg
Mel Gill Mehmet Behti
Alasdair Hooper Maureen Bradley Publicity Committee
Alix Mathias Susan Buie Alasdair Hooper
Karl Uhrich Fionna Chong Klodyne Rodney
Kevin Dempsey Jeff Rotin
1997 Staff Daryl Gaetz
Programming Phillip Hannon Special Events Committee
& Technical Coordinator: Paul Lang Robyn Badger
Jennifer Fisher Mark Livesay Peter Bates
Chris Mack Andrew Boyle
Publicity & Promotions Alix Mathias Diane Chandler
Roisin Mongey Nina Chatelain
Coordinator: Kevin Dempsey
Ava Samuel Kathleen Mullen
Renee Penney Drew Dennis
Eric Rancourt Sophie Hackett
Karl Uhrich Mark Kershaw
Finance Coordinator Denise Woodley Shelley Maclean
Alix Mathias Winston Xin Payal Taneja
Wayne Yung Harris Taylor
Volunteer Coordinator E. Centime Zeleke Sarah E. Wakefield
Robyn Badger
Graphics Committee Distribution Committee
Web.Site Design Nina Chatelain Robyn Badger
Aviva Lazar Patricia Escalon Peter Bates
www.geocities/~outonscreen.com Patrick Gunn Fionna Chong
Melissa Nelson, copy edit Victoria Deschanel
Fund Development Renee Penney, copy edit Shelley Maclean
Allison MacFarlane Carmen Schwartz Gabriela Rosales
Alix Mathias Karl Uhrich
Annthea Whittaker Paula Wellings
Poster & Guide Design
Paula Wellings
6WELCOME TO VANCOUVER’S 9TH ANNUAL
QUEER FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL
On behalf of the entire collective including the
Board of Directors, our Festival coordinators and all
the volunteers, we welcome you. Creating the 1997
Festival has truly been a labor of love. We hope you
will enjoy the next eleven days as much as we have
Mission Statement
delighted in preparing them for you. The Vancouver Out On Screen Film and Video Society
This year will likely be remembered for how well is a non-profit society that exists to promote and
we grooved with each other, how much we laughed
and how so many of our wishes came true. With so exhibit films, video and other forms of communication
many good vibes in the air we’ve had to wonder if the arts of interest to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered
inescapable happy face and daisy symbolism on the and transsexual communities and the Vancouver
street was setting up residence in our collective population at large. Out On Screen recognizes film
psyche.
and video as powerful media of communication,
Our positive attitude was sustained by the
overwhelming support of community groups and local empowerment and self-determination. It is important
businesses. We would like to give special thanks to to us to produce a festival containing films, video and
our Festival Sponsors - the Human Resources other forms of communication media arts of interest
Development Canada, the Canada Council, Xtra West, to our communities that are not commonly available
LetterTech Graphics and Dr. Marc Raper. This year’s
Festival is also made possible by an unprecedented in mainstream Film/Video outlets. Out On Screen is
number of individual program sponsors. Please look committed to promoting dialogue, communication
over our Thank You page and take note of who is and cooperation between lesbians, gay men,
ensuring that Queer film and video is seen in bisexuals, transsexual and transgendered people of
Vancouver.
various races, cultures, backgrounds, ages, abilities,
Out on Screen remains unique among festivals in
that we charge no entry fee and actually pay artists for gender definitions, health statuses, socioeconomic
work screened at the Festival. We are proud of this conditions and our community at large. By making
distinction and recognize that this is only possible images of queers more accessible, and by presenting
because of the incredible support we receive from our the conditions and experiences of our lives, we can
sponsors and the community.
For the first time this year we will present the celebrate the diversity of our sexual identities and
Gerry Brunet Memorial Award to two artists for the communities. We are also committed to making our
best Canadian and the best B.C. produced submissions organization, and its services and events, accessible
to the Festival. We are grateful to our jury for to all. Out On Screen is committed to building
contributing countless hours toward selecting our alliances within the collective and across communities
winners.
This is our second year co-producing the Festival in the work towards ending inequality and oppression.
with the wonderful folks at Video In. As an artist run Out On Screen is committed to stopping homophobia,
production, exhibition and distribution centre their heterosexism, racism and sexism. Out On Screen is
contribution to Festival programming is invaluable. committed to fighting censorship in the arts in all
Furthermore, the support they have given to our
forms, including access to media, representation and
collective throughout the year has been especially
helpful in bringing greater stability to Out on Screen. funding. Out On Screen is committed to working in
Again, we would like to thank our sponsors, tandem and cooperation with other community
volunteers and everyone in the audience for helping to groups to co-produce cultural events and at the same
make our 9th Festival another great success. time, bridge the gaps of communication and
Drew Dennis & Alix Mathias understanding between various segments of our
Board Members larger communities.
7special
thanks!
Festival Partners
Canada Council
Community Sponsors
GAB
Visiting Artists
Shari Frilot
Human Resources Shvesters: Jewish Queer Shawna Dempsey
Development Canada Women’s Group Lorri Millan
LetterTech Graphics Monsoon
Dr. Marc Raper Richmond Gay Lesbian The Jury
Bisexual Youth Drop-In Lorna Boschman
Festival Media Sponsor VASM barbara findlay
Xtra West Youthquest! Henry Koo
Zampro Paul Wong
Program Sponsors
AIDS Vancouver Festival Supporter Special Thanks
Celebrities Dr. Phil Sestak Chris Adkins, Ken Anderlini,
English Bay Water Polo Maureen Bradley, City Wide
Graeme V.R. Keirstead, Friend of the Festival Printing, Melissa Davis,
B.A., LLB. Karl Uhrich Victoria Deschanel,
Little Sister’s Book & Art Keeper Kard, Linda Diano,
Emporium ‘It’s Elementary’ Helene Genest,
National Film Board Sponsors Ingrid Kuran, David Love,
The Odyssey Dahl findlay Connors Scenario Designs,
Paramount Furniture & Evans Kevin Shortt, Laurel Swenson,
Womyns’ Ware GALE - BC Vancouver Cultural Alliance,
Special thanks to the Jen Whie, Athena Wong,
Media Sponsors Surrey Teacher’s WYSIWYG, Laura Canning
Chisel Media Association
‘The Coming Out Show’, Extra Special Thanks
Co-op Radio The Mighty To all the FABULOUS
Kinesis Martini Mayhem FESTIVAL VOLUNTEERS!
The Loop Co-Sponsors
Outlook TV, Rogers Urban Chocolate
8Programming notes from Queer
Greetings! Locations/Video In Studios
From mainstream queer culture,to single dyke moms fighting for economic justice, to queer
Asians who feel that the mainstream white community can’t even spell the word “invisible”, to punk
queers who’d rather hang the dj at the local disco, our community has fragmented to such an extent
that many queer people are choosing to align themselves with a variety of other communities . We’ve
finally reach a point in our movement where the notion of a monolithic community is a fallacy which
attempts to group together people from vastly different backgrounds in gender, race, class, political
outlook, and different stages of coming out. Even the words in which we identify ourselves with -
words such as gay, lesbian, dyke, or queer - are contentious.
This ability to critique and criticize our community is not necessarily a bad thing since it dispels
the notion of “sameness” and acknowledges the differences and problems which we as a
“community” have yet to work on. However, it’s a privilege found only in the West where we’ve
achieve a degree of liberation. In other places around the world, where lesbians and gay men are
still trying to form a community, the act of staging a pride march can lead to imprisonment.
Queer Locations is a program of video which begins to touch on these issues by examining
sexuality, belonging and community. These works point to ways of understanding queer which are
fluid yet firmly grounded to a sense of place. Queer means different things to different people and
these tapes celebrate the very instability of the term and the reason why we decided to use it in the
first place.
Since there’s no better place to start then home, we begin our program with Made in
Vancouver- ground zero - to look at what our local videomakers are up to. Locations, then takes us
to two tapes, Phillip Roth’s I was a Jewish Sex Worker and b.h. Yael’s Fresh Blood which sums up
a lot of the themes which we’re trying to tackle here - how individuals try to bridge and integrate
their culture, their sexuality and their politics with their sense of self.
In contrast, Spiro’s witty Greetings from Out Here and Butterflies from the Scaffold, a
fascinating portrait of transvestites in Cuba, look at location in terms of place and the courageous
lives of queers finding and celebrating their strengths in an often hostile environment. With veteran
queer filmmaker, Rosa von Prauheim’s Transsexual Menace, we see group of people who are not
strangers to hostility and marginalisation. Yet, this is an unapologetic look at the transsexual
movement in the US and their fierce determination to claim a space in our socio-political and sexual
landscape.
With the last two programs in our series , Queercore and Queer Aesthetics 101, we see the
merging of straight and queer. In our tribute to Allen Ginsberg, Gang of Souls and in Pierre and
Jules, A Love Story, we see our cultural landscape have been profoundly changed by the artistic
vision of queers, and straights who seem “queer-er” than queer, broadening the definition of what the
term “queer” can include. This can also be stated for our program, Queercore, which is a look at an
alternative culture which sometimes excludes and invites queer imagery for the sake of pure
unadulterated rebellion.
From queer punks, to art fags, to transvestites in Cuba, Queer Locations is a program which
begins to look at the various ways in which individuals in our communitie(s) identify and locate
themselves, often moving beyond stereotypical images promoted by even our own media.
Winston Xin.
9Gala Features
at the Plaza
ASL This year the festival has gathered more extraordinary feature length queer films
than ever before. Leather Jacket Love Story takes you on a sex-filled romp through
one young man’s search for love, leather and bad poetry. Cheryl Dunye’s critically
acclaimed first feature The Watermelon Woman takes mainstream historical images
and throws them back at us, infused with rich African American queer subtext and Dunye’s
wry humour. Johns is an unflinching story of one veteran LA hustler’s(David Arquette)
attempts to stay alive on the street, protect a gay teen (charmingly played by Lukas
Haas) and the relationship that evolves between them. Chocolate Babies is like no
movie you’ll see in a cineplex. It’s in your face, multi-gendered take on the HIV/AIDS
crisis, race, hypocrisy and plain old romance will leave you breathless.
10Thursday, August 7th 7pm at The Plaza
Leather Jacket
Love Story
Program Sponsor: Media Sponsor:
ASL David DeCoteau, 1997, USA, 85 mins. 16 mm.
This exceedingly funny, stunningly sexy feature from L.A. is one of the most
refreshing and honest gay love stories of recent times. Bored by the shallow and plastic
lifestyle of West Hollywood, 18 year old Kyle, an aspiring poet, moves to funky Silver
Lake. Surrounded by colourful locals, including fierce drag queens and coffee house
poets, Kyle meets hunky 30 year old Mark, a construction worker and leather man, and
an intense sexual relationship begins. But can love grow between the experienced Mark
and wide-eyed Kyle, when differences in age, class and approaches to sex and
relationships threaten to turn this hot blaze into smoke and ash?
Making the most of its fresh, funny dialogue and
its boldly explicit sex scenes, Leather Jacket Love
Story makes most gay features seem coy in
comparison. The film chronicles a young man's search
for his place amongst the diversity of gay subcultures
and explores the complex emotional terrain of a new
relationship without compromising its light-hearted
approach. Filled with hot, cute guys, bad-ass drag
queens and a rare appearance by Mink Stole (of John
Waters fame), Leather Jacket Love Story offers high
production values, playful humour and raw sensuality.
The perfect romantic comedy for the gay '90s.
Leather Jacket Love Story will be preceeded by:
Frostbite
Wrik Mead, 1996, Canada, 9 mins. 16 mm.
A lighthouse attendant lives out his fantasy
when he rescues a man frozen in the snow. The latest
jewel from Mead featuring his trademark use of live
action pixilation.
1112
Thursday, August 7th 9pm at The Plaza
The Watermelon
Woman
Media Sponsor:
ASL Cheryl Dunye , USA 1996 , 90 min. 16 mm
Winner of the prestigious Teddy Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival, and the first
known feature film by an out black lesbian, The The Watermelon Woman is a hilarious
and sassy romp through the terrains of identity, race, representation and inter-racial rela-
tionships, driven with a clever sense of irony, easy-going humour and a free-wheelin’
style. Filled with cameos by popular queer writers, including a not-to-be-missed perfor-
mance by Camille Paglia, and a fab sex scene between Dunye and Guinivere Turner of
“Go Fish”, that yet again raised controversy around NEA grants for queer artists, Dunye’s
debut feature offers a satisfying combination of charm, panache and an intelligent
approach to complex issues.
Set in Philadelphia, the film stars Dunye as ‘Cheryl’, an aspiring filmmaker who
“temporarily” works in a video store with her best friend, the quick-witted Tamara.
While struggling to find a topic for her film, Cheryl becomes obsessed with a mammie
character actress in 1930’s Hollywood films known only as the “Watermelon Woman”.
Her cinematic adventure to unearth information about this elusive woman leads to the
discovery that this actress, who’s real name is Fae Richards, not only lived in Philadelphia
but was a ‘sister’ in more ways than one. However, while Cheryl’s excitement builds
about uncovering a piece of hidden black lesbian history in film, her personal life reaches
the boiling point when her affair with a rich white girl (Turner), strains her relationships
with her black lesbian friends.
Vancouver audiences have always enjoyed
Dunye’s political savvy and affectionate
lampooning of lesbian lifestyles, as made
clear by the popular retrospective of her
work at 1995’s Out On Screen. The
Watermelon Woman is certain to expand
the numbers delighted and enriched by
Dunye’s work.
13Friday, August 8th 7pm at Havana
REEL
YOUTH
Curators: Denise Woodley, Roisin Mongey, Mehmet Behti,
ASL Chris Mack, Karen Rusk, La Toya Kitchens, Adrian Desmarais
Community Sponsors: Richmond Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Drop In
Program Sponsor: English Bay Water Polo Club
Media Sponsors: The Coming Out Show
First Year Love 'n Latex
Trac Vu, 1996, USA, 5 mins. 16mm. Claudia Sperber & Sheelah Murthy,
1995, USA, 24:16 mins. video
This collection A split-tongued tale about a
young immigrant who A collage of youth voices
discovers his sexuality in present their views on sex
of shorts has the public library and blue- education, dealing with the
light specials of K-Mart. topics of sexuality, safer sex
been brought and abortion.
What Makes You Happy?
INTERMISSION
to you by the Shawn Fowler/Triangle Program,
1996, Canada, 10 mins. Working Baby Dyke Theory :
An over-the-top campy and
letters "Q", candid docudrama about
the diasporic impact of
cross-generational barriers
what makes some of the
"U", and "E" kids at Toronto's schools
Thirza Cuthand, 1997, Canada,
5:53 mins. video
happy and gay.
The alienation of a girl by "a
and sometimes My Very Own After community".
"R". And by School Special
Allyson Mitchell, 1997, Canada,
Home
Nir Ne'Eman, 1994, Israel
5 mins. video 9 mins. 16mm.
the numbers It's been a long time At the tail end of a one
coming. night stand, a 17 year old
6 and 9. ponders the uncertainty of
his future and the comforts
of home.
14Queer Theory Temptress Bisexual Wannabe
Meets Jailbait Thirza Cuthand, 1997, Canada,
Shawna Richler Lancit, 1997, 3 mins. video
Canada, 3 mins, video A young dyke, frustrated
with a recent relationship
Sugar and Spice explores bisexuality and has
Tania Trepanier, 1997, Canada, an enlightening discovery.
video
A young couple prepares
for visiting an Aunt with a I Dream of Gay Genie
variety of results. Mariana La Blanc & Alex
McClelland, 1997, Canada,
13 mins. video
Tragic lesbian love songs &
lipstick falling from the sky
as seen through the eyes of
Queenie Quintessential.
15Friday, August 8th 9:30pm at Video In Studios
Made In
Vancouver
Curator: Wayne Yung
Check out what The Time Being
Kenneth Sherman , 1997, 3 min.
PG
Alexandra Hatzisavva, 1996,
the locals have A preview trailer for his 6 mins.
been shooting upcoming film. Look for the
local premiere this autumn.
A box of porno mags leads
a girl down the slippery
here at home. road to mannequin sex,
Ripcord #1 penis transplant and Elvis
Fifteen of Chris Vautor, 1997, 30 sec. impersonation.
Vancouver's And now, a message from
Ripcord #2
our sponsor...
hottest fags and Chris Vautour, 1997, 30 sec.
dykes will present Wipe My Bum Sometimes I just don't
Paul Lang ,1997, 3 mins. feel fresh.
their latest work, World Premiere
When you really gotta go... Condola
in a potpourri of Jonathan Wells & Geoffrey
sex, drag, Fistfull Topham, 1997, 11 mins.
Vancouver Premier
Laurel Swenson, 1997, 6 mins.
raunch, dance, Vancouver Premiere A post-modern dystopic
politics and piss. One dyke's meditation on nightmare? An intervention
desire, fisting and safer sex. into masculinity? A trashy
Mix it up at drag fantasy? You decide.
Surfer Dick
a party after the Wayne Yung, 1997, 4 mins. Festival of the Babes '96
show. Try and World Premiere Tara Cowell-Plain & Linda Diano,
1996, 5 mins.
A dance video with
pick out Scrabble, cross-dressers Babes gather in San Fransisco
to play soccer - an excuse
(or pick up) the and surfer guitars.
to frolic in uncomfortable
featured artists! shoes.
16Hose A Stretch Of Time "Star Trek : Disco
artfag collective, 1997, 5 mins. Michael Ghent and Generation
World Premiere Katherine Walker, Canada Gordon Wong, 1997, 5 mins.
Pissed on, pissed off and 1995 10mins. video The crew of the Enterprise
just plain pissed... thanks to An inspirational portrait of defeat the Borg invasion
Project P for materials and two local men living with with the power of disco.
inspiration. AIDS
Untitled Ripcord #3
Kenneth Sherman, Canada Chris Vautour, 1997, 30 sec.
1995 3 mins. film on video For those really heavy
A short experimental film days...
playing with notions of
manipulation. Her
Maureen Bradley, 1997, 5 mins.
Bisexual Wannabe World Premiere
Thirza Cuthand, 1997, 3 mins. "It was that type of passion,
Vancouver Premiere a passion so intense it
Girlfriends are a bitch, but makes you miserable...
are boys any better?
17Saturday, August 9th 4:00pm at Havana
Animated
Queers
Curator: Allen Braude
Spike and Mike eat Star Trek : The Disco Fairest of Them All
Generation Jason Stalman, 1995, UK,
your hearts out! 5 mins. 16 mm.
Gordon Wong, 1997, Canada,
From Claymation 5 mins. video A battle of wits and weights
Tomboys to Disco In the Enterprise crew's in a drag club dressing room.
Diva action figures, ongoing battle with the
Borg, the best weapon Angst
this program of all proves to be a queer Thonda Richie & Jay Wilson,
1996, Canada, 5 mins. video
animated work is sensibility.
Love and heartache among
built to please Don't Bug Me high school students both
whether you're a Alyson Mitchell, 1996, Canada, gay and straight.
long standing 1 min. 16mm.
If only we could all Adam
animation fan, communicate this clearly. Andrea Stoops, 1996, USA,
getting in touch with 4 mins. 16mm.
your inner child, or The Ambiguously Being mistaken for a boy
Gay Duo #1 has its benefits in this
just looking to have J.J. Sedelmaier, 1996, USA, claymation tale of
some fun. Featuring 3 mins. video childhood opportunism.
work by both men Superheros Ace and Gary
save Metroville from evil
The Ambiguously
and women in a villains who can't stop Gay Duo #2
diverse range of wondering what is or J.J. Sedelmaier, 1996, USA,
isn't going on between 3 mins. video
styles, these shorts these two well built guys A battle of queens as Ace
illustrate the playful in tights. and Gary take on an alien
power of the queer villanness.
imagination.
18Law of Averages A Few Good Ken The Ambiguously
James Duesing, 1996, USA, Bepen, 1995, New Zealand, Gay Duo #4
15 mins. video 5 mins. video J.J. Sedelmaier, 1996, USA,
A surreal computer A colourful tale of sex, love 3 mins. video
animated work that and fabulous wardrobes. Some buddy to buddy
questions the function of safety tips from our beloved
escape in a society whose Charlene's Angels super heroes.
demand of conformity Donna Quince, 1996, Canada,
breeds complacency. 10 mins. video Green Pubes
Barbie dolls star in this all Anonymous Boy, 1995, USA,
The Ambiguously dyke spoof of the famous 25 mins. video
Gay Duo #3 70's TV series. Queer punk animation rules!
J.J. Sedelmaier, 1996, USA, In a dingy punk club two
3 mins. video 8 Ball Love guys fight over a cute punk
Ace and Gary must rescue a Andrea Stoops, 1996, USA, who has more than just the
kidnapped Santa Claus. Can 2 mins. 16mm. hair on his head dyed green.
you guess what's on the Two hot claymation dykes, a Find out who gets to go
kidnappers mind? pool table, latex and a home with him. Watch just
voyeuristic mouse. how hot animated sex can be.
19From Homo Heaven
by Janine Fuller
Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan production that most people viewing it
have created some of the most at first glance assume it is an actual
challenging and innovative Performance Life Magazine. They have survived all
Art and Video over the past ten years. the ups and downs of being artists in
While they now make their home in this country, living on a shoestring,
Winnipeg, Manitoba, at their official working from project to project. They
residence known to visitors as “Homo have had an unflinching commitment to
Heaven,” they developed their the integrity of their vision and the
relationship in theater working in quality of their work and that is what
Toronto for companies such as Theater keeps audiences coming back.
Passe Murielle and Nightwood Theater. They have also survived as partners
While Shawna was well on her way to in the truest sense of the word, living
being established as a Performance and collaborating together first as
Artist with her piece We’re Talking lovers and today as best friends. What
Vulva it was the subsequent rock video really connects all their material is a
tape of this performance, released in strong sense of irony and an ever
collaboration with Lorri Millan, which present sense of humor. Their work is a
enabled her material to reach an uniquely humorous, lesbian, feminist
international audience. This began what perspective and in all of their different
has become one of the most influential media, is anticipated around the world
creative teams in the Arts in Canada at festivals, art galleries, and theaters.
today. Capturing their work on video It is an honour for Little Sister’s to be
and combining it with performance art part of this retrospective and for me on
was a natural link for them. a more personal level, having been
Since then Shawn and Lorri’s work friends and room-mates with both
has encompassed a variety of media. Shawna and Lorri, to see them get this
They created a spoof of Life Magazine, kind of recognition. It is a testament
titled In The Life, which is an adoring to all their uncountable hours of work
vision of 1950’s butch/femme culture which has resulted in an ever lasting
and is so detailed in its design and image of our lives.
20Saturday, August 9th 7pm at Havana
Lady Golfers, Butchers
& Talking Vulvas
Program Sponsor:
Curator: Maureen Bradley
Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, prairie- What Does a Lesbian
based performance artists, are renowned Look Like?
1994, 2 mins. video
for their film We're Talking Vulva. Created
as part of the 1990 Five Feminist Minutes We're Talking Vulva
1990, 5 mins. 16mm.
Series, this hilarious musical features
Dempsey as a luxuriously monumental Medusa Raw
1992, 9 mins. video
vulva gleefully "rapping" about her parts
and function. Since 1989 the dynamic duo A Day in the Life of a
have collaborated on a series of costume- Bull-Dyke
1995, 10 mins. video
based performances and produced a half
dozen films and videos, proving that Object/Subject of Desire
feminists do have a sense of humour. 1993, 5 mins. video
Described as "rebel feministas" they have Good Citizen : Betty
carved a niche for themselves in queer Baker
cinema and theatre across the country 1996, 27 mins. 16mm.
Don't miss their latest film,
entertaining a wide range of audiences a cartoon-like cliff-hanger
with politically engaging and magnificently chronicling a 50's
artful social commentary. Ms. Dempsey housewife's seduction into
the lesbian lifestyle by a
and Ms. Millan will host this screening. mysterious lady golfer.
21Saturday, August 9th 9:30pm at Havana
GIRLPLAY:
SEXY SHORTS
Curators:
ASL
Kathleen Mullen, Jennifer Fisher, Denise Woodley
Program Sponsor: Media Sponsor:
From fistfulls
of snatchcandy
to juicy LOVIN' My Cunt The Asian Heat In Me
Kimberly Saree Tomes, 1996,
Deb Strutt & Liz Baulch, 1996,
spoonfuls, these Canada, 6 mins. 16mm. USA, 3 min. video
A re-reading pleasure into
shorts are A rant and rave about cunts
that will leave you in dyke sex in straight porn.
brimming with stitches.
Cowgirl
skin, sex, rants, Angustia Claudine Sartain, 1997,
Claudia Morgado, 1996, Australia, 7 mins. 16mm.
and seduction. Canada, 4 mins. 16mm. Across a crowded bus, a
cowgirl spies her dream
We're servin' up A silky blindfold, the right
love song, and text written angel.
feast-size on the body give new
meaning to an erotic Skin-es-th-esia
helpings, sure experience alone. Vicky Funari, 1997, Canada,
18:07 mins. video
to make you Don't Bug Me Anatomically correct in the
laugh and Allyson Mitchell, 1996,
Canada, 1 min. 16mm.
most thorough of ways, this
gal's performance is
leave you with Animated stick dykes tell it nothing like what you
like it is. always thought they do
something to behind those peek-a boo
doors.
chew on. School
Kika Thorne, 1996, 3 mins. video
A pretty schoolgirl learns
her lesson.
22Fistfull
Laurel Swenson, 1996,
Canada, 6 mins, video
One dyke discovers the lure
of the sting of a slap and a
warm fist.
8 Ball Love
Andrea Stoops, 1996, USA, 2
mins. 16 mm.
Safe sex for pool playin’
claymation dykes.
Looking For Another Girl
Jane Cottis & Meena Nanji,
1997, USA, 3 mins. video
Two dykes croon about
seeking that "new girl".
Chaahath (Desire)
Lily Gupta, 1996, Canada, 4
mins. video
An erotic dance among the
amphoras.
Soimeme
M.M. Serra, 1996, USA, 6
mins. 16mm.
A stripper pleases herself
for a change.
Dinner Party
Lisa Cholodenko, 1996, USA, 9
mins. 16 mm.
An unexpected surprise
awaits during dinner.
Sour Juice
Shoshanah Oppenheim, 1996
USA, 4 mins. 16mm.
The smell of a lover lingers
on well into the evening.
23Saturday, August 9th 9:30pm at Video In Studios
He Shoots, He Scores:
Men’s Sex
ASL Curators: The men of the programming collective
Media Sponsor:
A program for Andy Maybe Never (but I'm
Steve Reinke, 1996, Canada, counting the days)
anyone and 9 mins. video Nguyen Tan Hoang, 1996, USA,
everyone who Andy discusses how he 15 mins. video
decorates, while showing us With wit, style, panache
likes to think how he mastur..... and some fierce licking,
about, talk about, Karen Black Like Me
Asian queers reveal their
sexual "I've never..." stories.
dream about, David Briggs, 1997, USA,
17 mins. film on video Dysfunctional
laugh about, and
In this witty spoof of 70s Mirha-Soleil Ross, 1997,
of course, watch horror flicks, uptight Emil Canada, 9 mins. video
sex between receives a birthday surprise Hot and tender sex between
when he is savagely a man and a pre-op male to
men. This attacked by the monstrous female transsexual.
King Dong.
collection of erotic CainUncuT
men's shorts will Growing to Darkness Stephen Velky, 1996, USA, 22
Kevin D'Souza, 1995, Canada, mins. film on video
show you just 5 mins. video This behind-the-scenes
how innovation A South Asian man explores documentary reveals horny-
his desire for a dark skinned as-fuck porn director Cain
and imagination - lover. MacKinnon in all his naked
not to mention glory! Cum with Cain as he
takes on his hungry boy
lots of naked pussy, anti-porn freaks and
guys - can heat the world!
up the screen.
24Going Down Wacka-Spewy
Doug McClelland & Andre Steven Clair, 1995, USA,
Tardif, 1997, Canada, 7 mins. 8 mins. video
video Oh yeah, cum on, shoot
An e-mail message leads to that load. Fags can be so
a vivid recollection of a hot silly sometimes!
bathroom encounter.
Tool Time
Keanu's Wet Dream Doug McClelland & Andre
Museo Contempo, 1997, USA, Tardif, 1997, Canada, 7 mins.
3 mins. video video
According to this piece, yes The second installment
he is. in this series of locally
produced 'digital age' porn.
A construction site is
the setting for a hot
encounter, with a few
unexpected twists.
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25FRUSTRATING PLEASURES:
PROGRAMMING SEX by Allen Braude
the popularity of Out On Screen’s men’s sex If you think that putting together such a
If program is any indication, there is a healthy
contingent of people who enjoy watching men
program would be fun, you’re right. But it is also
frustrating. Gay men’s work often seems to be all or
getting it on with each other. The availability for nothing - straight forward sex or no sex at all. Of
both purchase and rental of hundreds of gay male course, something need not be explicit in order to
pornographic videos, despite the censorship be arousing, for the erotic, to paraphrase Roland
courtesy of the notoriously vicious BC film Barthes, is often the skin flashing between two
classification board, seems to also indicate that articles of clothing which seduces with the
people attend this program to see things that anticipation of more to follow. But explicit is also
commercial gay porn does not offer. If you think good, and is definitely desired by programmers.
I’m going to say ‘art’, you are mistaken. The much Unfortunately it is hard to find work which
bandied about distinction between porn (not art) combines explicit sex with the non-explicit aspects
and ‘erotica’ (art) strikes me as arbitrary, and all too of arousal, including the excitement generated
often ladened with value judgments which claim when expectations are subverted. While gay men
that watching sex for the sake of getting turned on certainly have some very innovative and unusual sex
is inferior (to put it nicely) to watching it for fantasies, and are familiar with how intoxicating -
‘aesthetic’ reasons and amazingly frustrating - cruising and persuing
One attraction of the men’s sex program is the someone can be, these experiences and dreams
opportunity to see sexually explicit short works, rarely make it to the screen. Moreover, it is difficult
which both lack a commercial venue and are to find sexually explicit work by and about people of
unlikely to be programmed by other festivals. But colour. However, considering that queers of colour
this is not the program’s only attraction, for while I struggle against invisibility, fetishisation, and racism
often enjoy watching and am turned on by both inside and outside the gay community, and
commercial gay porn, I am not blind to its highly often lack support and access to resources, it is not
formulaic nature (yes my finger hovers over the fast surprising that filming sex isn’t always at the top of
forward button) and its various shortcomings, the list.
notably in the areas of creative sound and But enough complaining. Sorting through
cinematography, art direction (white socks on a sexually explicit films and videos is not exactly a
white couch against a white wall is hard to pull off). hassle, and the joy of finding hot interesting work
sense of humour and the appearance of anyone far outweighs the feeling that there isn’t a lot to
who is isn’t well muscled, well endowed, hairless choose from. I am excited about this year’s
and, for the most part, white. Thus, far from program, which is filled with work that is diverse,
presenting shorter versions of what’s already out full of humour and, of course, sex. Although sex is
there, Out On Screen attempts to bring together not all that being queer is about, with all its
works which are hot and exciting and which also pleasures and frustrations it is a significant part of
look good, sound good, are innovative, expand one’s our lives, and is an important part of the festival.
ideas of what is sexy and show a variety of bodies. My only hope is that the coming years will bring an
increasing diversity of work to choose from, so that
Out On Screen can continue to showcase the
sexiest and most interesting work available.
26Sunday, August 10th 4pm at Havana
As Seen On Tv:
Big Dykes On The Small Screen
Presented by Marusya Bociurkiw
From I Love Lucy to Ellen's coming
out, As Seen on TV examines the
different visible and invisible ways that
lesbian signifiers flicker between the
scan lines of your living room TV.
Whatever the mainstream buzz, lesbians
always have and always will be queering
the screen. This hour-long performative
lecture pastes together subtext, satire,
spectatorship theory and that old
lesbian standby, desperate (televisual)
desire. This lecture takes the audience
on an entertaining romp through the
lavender channels of TV history with
dozens of vintage and contemporary
clips and lots of laughs, analysis and
gossip along the way.
27Sunday, August 10th 7pm at Havana
Francoqueer
Curator: Eric Rancourt, Robyn Badger
Program Sponsor:
National Film Board of Canada
Est-ce que le mot "Queer", a été Francisé au Promis, Juré
Québec? Si oui, est-ce qu'on commencera a Olivier Peyon, 1996, France, 5
mins. video. original language
l'épeler "Quouir" pour le dictionnaire, comme Un jeune homme marche dans les
dans: "Est-ce que t'es quouir, toé?" Dans les rues rues vers un rendez-vous, prenant
de Paris, on peut entendre l'espression "Gay en chemin de multiples
résolutions pour conjurer
Pride" avec le mot "weekend" dans la même l'éventuelle mauvaise nouvelle
phrase, comme dans: "Est-ce que tu vas au gay qu'on pourraît lui annoncer.
A young man walks the streets
pride ce weekend?" Est-ce que la culture gaie est towards a meeting. Along the
universellement inspirée de la culture populaire way, he makes multiple
resolutions to counter the
gaie anglophone de l'Amérique du Nord? Les possibility of bad news.
courts-métrages de ce programme sont la
preuve que dans la francophonie, il y a des voix Ma Vie
Denis Langlois, 1992, Canada,
qui s'expriment très bien dans leur propre langue 21 mins. 16 mm. subtitles
et culture, avec peut-être quelques Un écrivain infructueux se tourne
emprunts aux Anglais! vers son passé pour trouver
l'inspiration.
A blocked writer turns to his past
This program asks the question: Is gay culture to find inspiration.
universally inspired by the gay Anglophone
popular culture of North America? The short films
and videos in this program are proof that in the
Francophone world, there are voices which can
express themselves very well in their own
language and culture, with perhaps a few things
borrowed from the English!
28La Mouette (The Seagull) Les Larmes du SIDA Dedans (Inside)
Nils Tavernier, 1996, France, (AIDS Tears) Marion Vernoux, 1996, France,
6 mins. 35mm. subtitles Paul Vecchiali, 1996, France, 7 8 mins. 35mm. subtitled
Valeria est en amour avec min. video Un homme parle de toutes les
Laurence mais n'a pas le courage Témoinage d’un homme marié en choses qu'il aurait aimé faire s'il
de lui dire. amour avec un homme qui a le n'avait pas été malade.
Valeria is in love with Laurence SIDA. A man tells the camera all the
but doesn't dare tell her. A testimony of a man in love things he would have liked to
with a man with AIDS. have done if he hadn't been sick.
Des Majorettes
dans l'Espace L'usure (By Attrition) Une Robe d’été
(Cheerleaders in Space) Jeanne Crépeau, 1985, Canada, (Summer Dress)
David Fourier, 1996, France, 8:30mins. 16mm. subtitles Francois Uzon, 1996, France,
6 mins. 35 mm. subtitles Deux femmes se donnent rendez- 15 min. video
Dimitri aime les majorettes. vous dans une allée pur remettre
Catherine et Laurent aiment faire en question leur relation. Paulo et son frère
Two women meet in a back alley
l'amour. Jean Paul II aime les
to discuss their relationship. (Paulo and his brother)
aéroports et Vincent aime les Jean-Phillipe Labadie, 1996,
garçons.
Dimitri likes cheerleaders. Tapin du Soir France, 4:30 mins. 35mm.
Paulo et son frère, tous les deux
Catherine and Laurent like to (Night Prostitution) sourds, se souviennent de leur
make love. Jean Paul II likes Anne Fontaine, 1996, France,
airports and Vincent likes boys. enfance.
6 mins. 35mm. subtitles Paulo and his brother, both deaf,
Un prostitué vent plus que de are lying on their childhood bed
Coco reminiscing.
Anna Margarita Albelo, 1996, l'argent comme paiement.
A hustler wants more than cash
France, 16mins. video as payment.
Un voleur essaie de s'échapper
du millieu "underground"
Parisien.
A thief tries to escape the
Parisien underground.
29Sunday, August 10th 9pm at Havana
More Fish In The Sea:
An Atlantic Showcase
Curator : Renè Penney
Program Sponsor: Graeme V.R. Keirstead, BA (Mt. A); LL.B. (UNB)
Tucked away, Queer, Dyke, Fruit Dance of a Totally
Michael Weir, 1996, 7 mins. video Unified Person
east of Montreal, Julie Andrews would be Dreux Ellis, 1991, 7 mins. film
swarms of queers proud of this queerified, A hand-processed film that
life-affirming adaptation of
frolic in the icy Do, Re, Mi.
blurs the false duality of
gender roles and the
Atlantic ocean. dubious distinctions
Survivalists by Cherries between feminity and
Thom Fitzgerald & RenÈe masculinity.
nature, humourists Penney, 1996, 8 mins. video
at birth, they spin A true period piece. A The Rainbow's End
woman celebrates her James Worthen, 1996, 5 mins.
yarns of monthly cycle by baking a video
menstrual cycles, vulva cake and reminiscing. The mystical world of
"whishlers", or pixies who
fairies and drag The Dream of Every Girl grant wishes, becomes a
queens. This James Sheddon, 1995, metaphor for heaven to a
7 mins. video man coming to terms with
showcase A playful story of two living a life with AIDS.
honours the rich dolls who speak of the trials
and salty, down and tribulations of love and How Lesbians Kiss
the downside of being a Jane Van Kansas, 1993, 6
to earth, queer marketable commodity. mins. video
voices from the A Sunday afternoon couch
video. The search for the
geographically perfect lesbian kiss.
isolated.
30Van Dyke The Water's Tale
Liz Van Berkel & Jane Van Ann Verrall, 1995, 45 mins.
Kansas, 1992, 12 mins. video video
Upon confirmation that the A rich and beautiful tale of
national magazine a child who dives into the
MacLean's is going to sea to unravel the
include her in a queer mystery of her nanna, and
article, Liz realizes the discovers the myths of the
urgency of coming out to fairies and martyrs
her parents. A heart- before her.
wrenching, on the spot
record of her coming out
telephone conversation.
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32Monday, August 11th, 7pm at Video In Studios
I Was A Jewish
Sex Worker
Curator: Video In Studios
Phillip B. Roth, 1996, USA, 75 mins. video
Articulate and sexy, Phillip Roth's humourous autobiographical
documentary traces the apparent contradictions in his life including his
sexuality, his Jewish identity and his professional career. At the heart of
the film is an examination of the sex trade as a pleasurable alternative
to mind-numbing office work and Roth's typically gay male angst over
the possibility of sustaining meaningful relationships. Weaving together
archival footage, interviews with his family and excerpts from his
earlier short films, Boys/Life and 25 Year Old Gay Man Loses His
Virginity to A Woman, with Annie Sprinkle, Roth takes us on an
uninhibited journey of personal exploration. What could have
descended into an unabashed ego fest is saved by Roth's engagement
with experimental film techniques and his willingness to ask himself
questions with no simple answers.
33Thursday, August 7th
Friday, August 8th Saturday, August 9th
7pm ASL
Sunday,
Leather Jacket Love Story 7pm ASL 4pm
@ The Plaza Reel Youth Animated Queers 4pm
@ Havana @ Havana As Seen
On The S
9pm ASL @ Havana
The Watermelon Woman 9:30pm 7pm
@ The Plaza Made In Vancouver Lady Golfers, Butchers &
@ Video In Studios Talking Vulvas 7pm
@ Havana Francoqu
@ Havana
9:30pm ASL
girlPlay 9pm
@ Havana More Fish
@ Havana
He Shoots, He Scores
@ Video In Studios
Out On Sc
Thursday, August 14th Friday, A
Wednesday, August 13th 7pm 7pm
Transexual Menace Johns
Havana
7pm @ Video In Studios @ The Pla
1212 Commercial Drive Positive Reflections
Pacific Cinematheque @ Pacific Cinematheque
9pm 9pm
1131 Howe Street
Raunchorama Chocolat
The Plaza
881 Granville Street
9pm @ Video In Studios @ The Pla
Video In Studios
Fiercely Ruling:
1965 Main Street New Drag Shorts
@ Pacific Cinematheque
34st 9th
Sunday, August 10th
4pm Monday, August 11th
As Seen On TV: Big Dykes Tuesday, August 12th
On The Small Screen 7pm
@ Havana I Was A Jewish
Sex Worker 7pm
hers & @ Video In Studios Queer Schtik
7pm @ Havana
Francoqueer
@ Havana 9pm
Travelogues: Fresh Blood 9:30pm
@ Video In Studios Out There Wacky
9pm Mixed Shorts
More Fish In The Sea @ Havana
@ Havana
ores
n Screen Festival
Saturday, August 16th Sunday, August 17th
ust 14th Friday, August 15th
4pm 7pm
Black Nations/ Queer Aesthetics 101
7pm ASL
Queer Nations? @ Video In Studios
ce Johns @ Video In Studios
@ The Plaza
9pm
9pm ASL
7pm Sexpot
Mariposas en Andamio @ Video In Studios
Chocolate Babies @ Video In Studios
@ The Plaza
9pm
Queercore
@ Video In Studios
3536
Monday, August 11th, 9pm at Video In Studios
Travelogues:
An examination of Location & Identity
Curator:Video In Studios
Greeting From Out Here
Ellen Spiro, 1993, USA, 58 mins, video
Accompanied by her dog, Sam, and a video camera, Spiro
takes us on the back roads of the Southern US in this
spectacular travelogue capturing out life from Virginia to Texas.
Intimate portraits of lesbians and gays of celebratory events
like the Texas Gay Rodeo, Rhythm Fest, a gay Mardi Gras ball
and the Rural Fairy gathering make Greeting From Out Here a
funny and courageous road trip which captures the richness
and vitality of Southern queers.
Fresh Blood : A Consideration of Belonging
b.h. Yael, 1996, Canada, 55 mins, video
A savvy and sensual look at the intersections of identity via a
focus on belly dancing and Iraqi Jewish culture. Toronto-based
videomaker Yael returns to her homeland to meet her
biological father and discovers her mother's Arab and Iraqi
heritage. With belly dancing as its central metaphor the video
is a personal meditation on Jewish racialized identity, politics,
community and sexuality.
37Tuesday, August 12th 7pm at Havana
Queer Schtick:
Nosh’n On Shorts
Curators: Alix Mathias, Ava Samuel, Allen Braude, Melissa Nelson
Program Sponsor:
Community Sponsor: Shvesters: Vancouver Queer Jewish Women’s Group
This fruitful Bad Jews in My Kitchen
Tai Uhlmann & Alessandra Ogren,
Surviving Memory
Ellen Flanders, 1996, Canada,
group of Queer 1996, USA, 21 mins. video 9 mins. 16mm.
Enjoy San Francisco's A poetic and sensual
Jewish artists Jewish Dyke community as narrative that uses the end
they kibbitz at the kitchen of a relationship as the
invite you to an table about the naches and starting point for an
evening of tsores of their dual identity. exploration of the layers of
loss and memory which
poetry, humour Home construct one woman's
Nir Ne'Eman, 1994, Israel, identity as a Jewish dyke.
and politics. This 9 mins. 16mm.
At the tail end of a one- In Living Memory
international night stand, a 17-year-old Amy Gottlieb, 1997, Canada,
14 mins. video
selection of ponders the uncertainty of
his future and the comforts When faced with her
shorts will of home. father's loss of memory
about his past, Gottlieb
explore issues Bald develops a new relationship
Reena Mitchell Katz, 1996, with him, showing the
of identity, Canada, 6 mins. video importance of living in the
anti-semitism, A Jewish dyke explores the
contrast between
moment. This film is a
poignant and visually rich
sex and the constructing identity tribute to a daughter's pride
through the voluntary in her father's life-long
evolving role shaving of her head and the commitment to activism in
forced shaving of women's the arts, and to a father's
of Queers in heads during the holocaust loving acceptance of his
as a means of erasing daughter's differing politics
Jewish culture. identity. and sexuality.
38~intermission~
Nana, George and Me
Joe Balass, 1997, Canada,
48 mins. video
What do you get when you
ask your 92 year old Nana
and a 72 year old man you've
just met questions you've
only dared to dream of and
get answers more outrageous
than you could have
imagined? The answer is a
funny, intimate, sometimes
shocking and always
heartwarming look at two
Iraqi Jewish lives: one a
traditionally raised woman
and the other a completely
unconventional gay man.
39Tuesday, August 12th 9:30pm at Havana
Out There:
Wacky Mixed Shorts
Curators: Jennifer Fisher, Allen Braude
Media Sponsor:
You'll laugh,
you'll giggle, Cracker Barrel My Ass The Source
Jane Farrow, 1997, Canada, Georgina Corzine, 1996, USA,
you'll chuckle, 7 mins. video 20 mins. video
you'll scratch A cheeky and politically This is a dazzling display of
savvy mockumentary about no fear surfer dykes and the
your head in a satirical campaign to water that loves them. You'll
combat homophobia. come out of this ride love
amazement. sick for these ocean
White Trash Girl :
From the The Devil Inside
goddesses or just plain
seasick.
sweetly Jennifer Reeder, 1996, USA,
Delta Don
8 mins. video
humourous to Flushed down the toilet at Roy Mitchell, 1997, Canada,
birth, white trash girl is all 8 mins. video
the downright grown up and she's here to Armed with a framed
photograph and a cheesy
bizarre, this kick the asses of everyone
who deserves it! soundtrack, Delta Don
eclectic program scours truck stops in search
Hey Amigos of his lost love.
will remind you Angus Strachan, 1996,
Australia, 11 mins. video ~intermission~
just how Can the Woof sisters rescue
outrageously their Boofy blokes, recently
kidnapped by the Ciccone
fun being queer sisters? And what the hell's
going on with that TV
can be! reporter?
40Forever Linda! So Over the Rainbow Tragic but True
Nguyen Tan Hoang, 1996, USA, Jane Farrow, 1997, Canada, Malcolm Burt, 1996, Australia,
12 mins. video 6 mins. video 18 mins. 16 mm.
Canadian super model While on a road trip, a dyke Manipulation and
Linda Evangelista finds her and a fag give voice to the dysfunction are the stars of
true vocation as the pop- love/hate relationship so this hilarious tale of a love
culture-spiritual-guide for many of us have with our triangle. Lloyd is the love of
an Asian teenager coming 'community'. D'arcy's life. Lloyd, however,
out. You go girl! has his sights set on hunky
Retro Sheilas In : and hetero Nick, and both
White Trash Girl : Space Aliens are Lloyd and D'arcy are not
Law of Desire Tooling our Sheilas afraid to take increasingly
Jennifer Reeder, 1997, USA, Juliet John, 1996, Australia, desperate steps to get what
18 mins. video 8 mins. film on video they want. Haven't we all
White Trash Girl is back to Their wigs alone should be been there?
avenge the mistreatment of enough to help these
a suspiciously androgynous bizarre superheros save
Mexican prostitute. Australia from alien
invasion.
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