SUMMER FESTS
This summer I’m very happy to report my video FANTASY VISION MEDITATION MEGAMIX EDIT will be screening at both L.A.’s OUTFEST (in their PLATINUM SHOWCASE of queer experimental work) AND at the Chicago Underground Film Festival in my new home!
Here are details:
CUFF SCREENING (Gene Siskel Film Center AKA BEST PROJECTION EVER):
SHORTS PROGRAM ONE: SCHOOL OF VELOCITY – 9:15pm
2009-10, Various directors, Various countries, ca. 76 min.
Two internationally renowned art personalities enter into a group marriage with two obscure Marvel superheroes in Torsten Zenas Burns and Darrin Martin’s WHAT IF? BEYOND A CARNAL LOVE (2010, 17 min.). Jesse McLean’s THE BURNING BLUE (2009, 9 min.) observes the thrill, terror, and boredom found in watching mass spectacles and the unexpected loneliness when you miss them. The moments of the discovery of “pure evil” from various Hollywood narratives are isolated and examined in Roddy Bogawa’s MEMYSELFANDI (2010, 11 min.). Also: new works by James P Finnegan and James Thatcher, Thorsten Fleisch, Wago Kreiger, Jason Livingston, Ivan Lozano, and Alexander Stewart. Various video formats. (Bryan Wendorf)
Platinum Showcase Sat, Jul 17th 7:30pm REDCAT
Shorts
Program Running Time is 71 min
A gunslinger trapped in time, an incantation to raise disco’s dead, and a barefoot interpretation of lesbian novels past are just some of the curiosities in this hypnotic mix of experimental works. With longing, mischief and defiance, the artists in this year’s Platinum Showcase continue to define the cutting edge of queer film and video.
