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Open 7 Days A Week Behind the Yellow Screen...... Cheryl Dunye Retrospective...... Slap me! Spank Hurry up! I don’t have all day!...... Raucous : Bold New Shorts...... pocket And, of Course, Sex...... Censors...... Chicken Hawks & Spirits...... Retro Sex...... Ticket Info and other stuff...... Ticket Out on Screen thanx...... Mission Statement...... Programme Intro...... Programme Schedule...... Flaming Hearts...... Bite, Yell, Kick and Scream: Responses to Violence...... Michael Wallin...... Black Sheep Boy: An Evening With

Home Improvements: Renovating Family Values...... Body...... The Willful Listen to the Hands of our People...... Experigirl...... contents Virulent Images: Fabulous HIV...... Virulent Skin Deep...... Under Heat...... Media Forums...... Dreamy Girls...... So Are You...... Fights For Human Rights...... Positive Women Positive Men...... Call for submissions...... Index of films...... Libera La Loca...... Not Just Complaints...... 40 39 34 36 20 19 18 16 4 7 6 5 32 31 28 27 48 46 42 45 14 13 12 9 25 24 23 22

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Out On Screen is a non-profit society that exists to promote and exhibit films and videos of interest to the gay, lesbian and bisexual communities and the Out On Screen is committed to Vancouver population at large. promoting local artists and nur- Out On Screen recognizes film turing local talent through We could start by using that the choices made this work in a lesbian and gay and video as powerful media of exposure in the festival. We are clichés like, this year’s festival have resulted in a festi- festival. However, we feel that communication, empowerment committed to highlighting is bigger and better than val which proudly rep- it is crucial that this work be and self-determination. Our Canadian film and video. main purpose is to produce a ever, more sexy and resents the diversity of seen in a queer context, allow- festival, containing films and Out On Screen is committed to provocative, it’s magical, our queer communities. ing our community to discuss videos of interest to our com- fighting censorship in the arts. our best festival yet!. this issue amongst ourselves, Fortunately, we’re not lying. munities,not commonly avail- Another aspect of this year’s instead of the film premiering in Out On Screen is committed to Some clichés cloud delicious able in mainstream film/video festival which we’re proud to a homophobic setting which working in tandem and co- truths, and yes, we’d have to outlets. present are two media forums might distort the issues this doc- operation with other communi- admit that all the above are just which will give all of us an umentary raises. Out On Screen is committed to ty groups to co-produce cultural that - cliché but true! opportunity to discuss various promoting dialogue, communi- events and, at the same time, hot topics surrounding our Finally, Out On Screen continues cation and co-operation bridge the gaps of communica- The explosion of queer image- queer representations in videos to support Canadian work, between lesbians, gay men and tion and understanding making was more evident this and films today. Among the especially local artists. In pro- bisexuals of different races, cul- between various segments of year with hundreds of submis- various speakers at these viding childcare subsidies, more tures, backgrounds, ages, abili- our larger communities. sions pouring in, illustrating forums, we are extremely excit- ASL interpretation this year and ties, gender-definitions, socio- that queer voices are shouting ed by the festival’s two guest by making all our venues economic conditions and our to be heard. The only sensible artists: Midi Onodera and wheechair accessible, we recog- community at large. By making thing to do was to expand the Michael Wallin. Both will also nize the need to make this festi- images of lesbians, gays and bisexuals more accessible, and festival from 16 programs last be present to premier their val accessible to all. by accurately reflecting the real- year, to 24 exciting programs. most recent works. ity of our lives, we can cele- Unfortunately, with such a mas- Enjoy! brate the diversity of our sexual sive selection to choose from, Of course, we anticipate much identities and our communities. not all works of merit could be discussion, surrounding the We are also committed to mak- shown. In the end, our deci- screening of Chicken Hawk, the ing our organization, and its sions were based on the pro- documentary about NAMBLA. services and events, accessible gram themes we felt needed to Certainly, strong feelings will be to all. be explored. Ultimately, we feel expressed as to the inclusion of

4 5 out on info ticket screen # locations 688-WEST Little Sister’s Bookstore (ext. 2014) 1221 Thurlow St. Coordinating Collective: or # 669-1753 Liz Tevaarwerk, Andrew Power, 685-1159 Chloe Brushwood Rose, Allen CBO (Community Box Office) Braude, Ken Anderlini 1234 W. Hastings This year’s wonderful staff: # 280-2801 or Festival and Technical Coordinators: Liz Tevaarwerk, Marilou Esguerra, 1-800-665-5454 Marilou Esguerra, Kaz Amaranth Kaz Amaranth tickets Thanks to all festival event Harry’s (off Commercial) Thanks from our Fundraiser: $5-10 Programming Committee: office work and publicity Krista Tupper & Allen Braude, Liz 1716 Charles St. Wayne Yung, Winston Xin, Laurel Tickets go on sale May 15th, venues volunteers!! Tevaarwerk, Particia Kearns, # 253-1789 Swenson, Kathleen Mullen, and are sold on a sliding Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan, Pacific Cinémathèque, Personal Thanks To: scale ($5-10) including the Seanna McPherson, Carrie Martin, Shu Lea Cheang 1131 Howe St. Randy Shaw, Imtiaz Popat, Claudia opening night screenings. Kathy-Ann March, Paul Lang, PROGRAM SPONSORS: parties Francisco Ibáñez, Allen Braude, Morgado, Anne-Marie McInnes, Full festival passes are Video In, dr. luc magne & dr. marc raper 1965 Main St. Zachery Longboy, Corinne Lee, available for $90. Opening Night Party Maureen Bradley, Ken Anderlini, James Goodman and Garry Cori Howard, Linda Franchi, All audience members must SkinHeat Kaz Amaranth Wolfater The Caprice Theatre, Andrea Fatona have a valid 1995 965 Granville St. Thursday June 1, 1995 Graphics Committee: Dr. Phil Sestak Membership Card in order @The Underground, Jacqueline Verkley, Liz Tevaarwerk, Emily Carr Institute of Art Special Thanks To: to be admitted to each 1082 Granville St. Isabelle Swiderski, Laurel PROGRAM CO-SPONSORS: and Design (ECIAD) Vancouver International Film program. Cards are avail- cover charge $3 Swenson, David Sandford, International Lesbian Week (ILW) 1400 Johnston St., (South Festival, The Underground, The able wherever tickets or Building Audit.) Granville Carmen Mills, Wayne Louie, Kevin Emily Carr Institute of Art & Lotus, The Georgia Straight, The passes are sold. Cards from Island. Closing Festival Party Kirk, Kevin Foster, Susan Coward, Design Denman Station (Garry Penny), last year’s Flesh and Fantasy Gonzalo Carrasco Papa’s Place (Sam Castagner), festival may still be valid. DJ Psyche FRIENDS OF THE FESTIVAL: Pacific Current, The Riley Tea (Additional charges may Saturday June 10, 1995 Fundraising Committee: Smith & Hughes Lawyers @The Lotus, 455 Abbott St. Randy Shaw, Andrew Power, (Randy Newburg), Little Sister’s apply when ordering Bookstore, Kinesis, ILW, Harry’s through CBO). cover charge $3-5 Marilou Esguerra FESTIVAL SUPPORTER: (off Commercial), GVBA, Raymond Hatton Childcare Subsidies are avail- Media/Outreach Committee: Funsational Travel (Rick Hurlbut), able for all programmes, Liz Tevaarwerk, Lindsay Shephek, ASL Employment & Immigration CONTRIBUTOR: including the forums. Upon interpretation Barbara Chisholm, Allen Braude, (Tania Little), Cineworks Ruth Lea Taylor, L.L.B. request at each venue, par- Kate Barry, Leah Adrian (Meg Thornton), Chinese Cultural ents/ ASL interpretors will be present Centre (Remic and Stanley), RAFFLE DONATORS: guardians will be given a for the following programs: Policy Sub-Committee: Carnegie Centre (Videha Wave Hair Design, Videomatica, minimum of $10 per pro- Under Heat Kathy-Ann March, Chloe Frechette), The Bookmantle State of Mind, Topdrawers gramme for childcare costs. Skin Deep Brushwood Rose, Maureen Apparel, The Billi Wilton Group, Larger subsidies may be Bradley Retro-Sex Our Place Billiards, O-Tooz the given, depending on need And, of Course, Sex and availability of funds. Party Coordinators: Energie Bar, Modofini, Melriches Listen to the Hands Donations towards childcare Barb Snelgrove, Andrew Power, Coffee House, Luxy Bistro, of Our People Chloe Brushwood Rose Kimprints, HMV, Hairtech Studio, will also be accepted at all Deserving Thyme, Denman Place programs. ASL Thanks to Out-Going Board Cinema, D&R Clothing, Members: Champions Video, Antix Maureen Bradley, Winston Xin, Clothing Laurel Swenson, Kathy-Ann March

6 7 media a whole. own work and the festival as cerns represented within their issues, strategies and con- and guest artists will discuss held during the festival. Local two media forums will be queer artists and audiences, nities for discussion between emphasis to provide opportu- As part of Out On Screen’s FORUMS QUEER NATIONS? video. desirable within queer film and what, is or not considered addressed in asking who or with fantasy and desire will be inclusivity and diversity interact tions in queer cultures. How ies and desire, and representa- tations of lesbian and gay bod- between mainstream represen- differences and similarities and audiences to consider the The forum will ask both artists jects and objects of desire. how they represent queer sub- speak with the audience on show clips of their work and tation of desire. The artists will the construction and represen- local producers in a forum on Michael Wallin will be joined by based experimental filmmaker Onodera and San Francisco Canadian filmmaker Midi encouraged. towards childcare subsides Admission free. Donations Midi Onodera, etc. Guests: Michael Wallin,With Video In,1965 Main Street Sunday, June 4, 2 pm FLESH FETISH, FANTASY AND

a post-colonial state? does queer work contribute to truly a post-colonial state? How Canadian identities. Is Canada dominant lesbian, gay, and and cultural diversity challenge standings of multiculturallism forum will examine how under- Canadian productions. The within a history of queer and how they place themselves lesbians and gays in Canada their experiences of working as state. Participants will speak of their relation to the nation discuss queer identities and video artists and viewers will Canadian media. Filmmakers, ries of working as out queers in producers, as they tell their sto- with queer Spend an afternoon encouraged. towards childcare subsides Admission free. Donations Video In, 1965 Main Street Saturday, June 10, 2 pm 9 FILM/VIDEOprograms Thursday, June 1, 7:00 pm Thursday, June 1, 9:30 pm Program Sponsors: dr. luc magne & dr. marc raper The Caprice Showcase Theatre The Caprice Showcase Theatre 965 Granville Street 965 Granville Street SKIN heatUNDER deep

MEN’S OPENING NIGHT FEATURE WOMEN’S OPENING NIGHT FEATURE Peter Reed, USA, 1994, film, Midi Onodera, Canada, 1994, 90 min. film, 85 min. Steamy and emotionally Out on Screen is excited to pre- charged, UNDER HEAT com- sent a sneak preview of a new bines all the ingredients found lesbian feature to be introduced in the family dramas of Eugene by director Midi Onodera. A O’Neill and Tennessee Williams: Toronto based filmmaker, her ripe melodrama, healthy dollops work has screened at festivals of wit and a hint of tragedy. and cinémathèques throughout However, director Peter Reed Europe, Asia and North updates this recipe for the America. She has written and Under Heat queer nineties by taking the gay directed twenty short films subtexts and sensibilities hidden er’s self-destructive behaviour AIDS related illness just months including the critically acclaimed off-stage and unabashedly plac- and his mother’s own health before the film’s premiere, classic short on sexuality, TEN Skin Deep ing the gay content, not to crisis, Dean delays his moves beyond presenting AIDS CENTS A DANCE (1985), which As a body of work her films mention some very hot sex, announcement, only to find as a tragedy, refusing to cast raised a storm of controversy deal evocatively with issues of upfront and on-screen. himself joining his family in Dean as the noble hero stand- over its combination of lesbian identity, ethnicity, gender and confronting each member’s ing against the world. Instead, seduction, gay tea-room sex sexuality. Often provocative Starring Lee Grant, whose fans concerns around health, sexual- Reed roots Dean in a world of and straight phone sex. Her and minimal in design, her know that she can always be ity, addiction and the spectre of people struggling to face their Gemini award nominee docu- work has combined elements of counted on for a great perfor- his father’s suicide. It is this own deaths, thereby creating a mentary THE DISPLACED VIEW entertaining experimentation mance, UNDER HEAT centres journey, no doubt helped by a context through which Dean (1988) is a love letter to the with fiction and dramatic forms. around the return of the gay hot affair with one of the can face his own fears of living. women in her family and a Her critical essays have been New Yorker, Dean (Eric locals, that helps Dean gain Never losing sight of the power “slice of oral history” which published in The Very Inside, Swanson), to his upstate home perspective on his own crisis. of humour to temper the raw eloquently speaks of the intern- Fuse, and Fireweed. Her fea- in order to tell his mother Jane display of emotions, Reed is ment of Japanese ture film debut is a cooperative (Grant) and brother Milo Director Peter Reed, a dancer able to negotiate the complex and a third-generation Japanese venture which Variety has (Robert Kneeper) that he is HIV and filmmaker who died from and charged terrains he maps Canadian’s search for cultural declared “stalks fresh territory.” positive. Faced with his broth- out in UNDER HEAT, to create a identity. While we are unable to say

wonderfully juicy treat. Skin Deep more about the film, we invite you to preview this daring les- bian feature and spend an evening with the director. Midi Onodera will also be speaking at the media forum FETISH, FANTASY AND FLESH on Saturday, June 3. Under Heat

Total running time: 90 min. Total running time: 85 min. 12 ASL ASL 13 Community Sponsor Friday, June 2, 7:30 pm Program Sponsor: Dr. Phil Sestak Dedicated to all persons living with HIV and AIDS. Video In, 1965 Main Street virulent images fabulous

HIV curated by Francisco Ibáñez

This program is dictated by in Dying Moments Got Away the need to shake victim art and media representation off SAFE SEX IS FUN their complacent asses; the Paolo Broggi & Hans Gelke, need to interrupt their con- USA, 1994, video, 5 min. fessional and infectious A music-video style celebration opportunistic narrative (e.g. of safer sex and rubbers. “My Private Hell” in People Weekly, March 6, 1995); and

to provoke, seduce and flirt GOT AWAY IN DYING Safe Sex is Fun with death. We say that “the MOMENTS rectum is not a grave” to no Shoes Sparky’’s Dennis Day & Ian Middleton, avail. HIV diagnosis is still Canada, 1992, video, 5 min. AN EVENING WITH RICHARD LOCKE perceived as death or the SPARKY’S SHOES NO REGRET A video and dance collabora- Michael Balser & Richard Locke, birth of a vampiric patient Glen Cairns, Canada, 1995, Marlon Riggs, USA, 1992, tion on healing. Canada, 1992, video, 9 min. zero. Abnormal, disabled video, 18 min. video, 38 min. and sick people are to be An erotic performance by the The boundaries of love, loss Five Seropositive black gay men frigid. AIDS not only kills star of the ground-breaking and redemption are explored in speak of their individual con- fags dead, it kills everyone, Gage Trilogy. a tale of how love and eroticism frontation with AIDS, illuminat- but gay men are still greatly comfort where medicine and affected/infected by depres- ing the difficult journey black AIDS AND THE FAILURE sion, guilt, secrecy and inter- clinical care fail. men throughout America make OF LANGUAGE nalized stigmatization. This in coping with the personal and Otis Richardson, USA, 1992, program is a fabulous coup social devastation of the epi- THIS IS NOT AN AIDS video, 9 min. to the HIV edict. SPARKY’S ADVERTISEMENT demic. SHOES (1995) is the center- (PART ii) A commentary on the pandem- piece of this program and its Issac Julien, USA, 1987, video, ic and our lack of control over body and soul glory is sur- 5 min. its communication. rounded by images of hope, An assertion of the role of the self-assertion and delicious erotic to resist official narra- exploration. tives. This is not an Aids Ad. No Regret

Total running time: 89 min. 14 15 Friday, June 2, 9:30 pm Community Sponsor Program Co-sponsor: International Lesbian Week (ILW) Video In, 1965 Main Street retro SEX curated by Carrie Martin and Kathleen C. Mullen ROSEBUD Cheryl Farthing, UK, 1992, video, 14 min. A story about a young artist who, after moving The softness of her face KEEP YOUR LAWS OFF to a new apartment, finds her- lingers on my lips... MY BODY self fantasizing about the les- Playful Catherine Saalfield & Zoe BUTCH/FEMME IN bian couple next door. A Romantic Leonard, USA, 1990, video, 13 Sexy PARADISE min. colourful tale of desire and HOT voyeurism. Lorna Boschman, Canada, By juxtaposing intimate images 1988, video, 5 min. A sampling of erotic lesbian of a lesbian couple with shots —INTERMISSION— The Love Thang Trilogy shorts from over half a A lesbian sex fantasy, set of police breaking up an ACT against a backdrop of sensuous decade. Current hits, old UP protest, this film combines ET L’AMOUR rock formations, in which butch favorites, and some you the political and the erotic to Mary Kumiss & Ellen Seidler, BEYOND BODY MEMORY may have missed. meets femme in the wilds of demonstrate the intrusion of USA, 1993, 23 min. Neesha Dosanjh, Canada, 1993, . video, 5 min. the state into the bedroom. A hot story of an erotic inter- An erotic portrayal, using rhyth- lude between two women mically repeated images of a WOHOSHENI revealed through an unusual HER SWEETNESS LINGERS woman’s emerging sense of self Susan Harmon, Canada, 1992, juxtaposition of imagery. video, 7 min. Shani Mootoo, Canada, 1994, and sexuality. video, 12 min. THE WEIGHT OF Wohosheni, from the fictional WOMEN’S EYES “Falling -what a strange term language Laadan, means to feel DANGEROUS WHEN WET Maureen Bradley, Canada, for it.” joined to or part of someone, Diane Bonder, USA, 1994, 1994, video, 8 min. A garden tea party sets the without reservations or barriers. video, 5 min. “I know you want me...” The scene for this poetic and visual- Through the unabashed sensu- A story of a first orgasm and camera’s eye wanders over bod- ly stunning exploration of ality of an erotic encounter, this the difficulty in finding a lan- ies, blurred images combine Keep your Laws off my Body Laws off Keep your desire, love and fatal possibili- video examines both passion guage to describe that experi- with muted background-sound ties. and the way in which the ence. and voice-over detailing specific female body is viewed by the desire. spectator.

THE LOVE THANG TRILOGY Mari Keiko González, USA, 1994, video, 8 min. A sexy, playful look at desire, identity and fetishism, in three parts. Dangerous When Wet Dangerous Butch/Femme in Paradise Total running time: 100 min. 16 ASL 17

queer 18 Buddhist. Geoff Bannoff, Pat Hogan, gay United Church minister. Tim Stevensen, Guest Speakers expressed. which these links are being the various voices through gious/spiritual identities and between sexual and reli- diversity of connections starting point to explore the by people of colour, provide a in this program, the majority Western cultures. The videos appropriated and fetishized in ified and at other times traditions that are at times vil- revive and maintain spiritual religions, or by working to bians and gays by organized tion and oppression of les- by fighting against the rejec- identities is growing, whether ing their queer and religious gays who are openly integrat- The visibility of lesbians and SPIRITS lesbian Witch. Tibetan first openly

and her Muslim heritage. Nurudin’s lesbian S/M sexuality the connections between Fisher Price PXL video presents play of dark and light, this pet theatre's characteristic inter- Kulit" Malaysian shadow pup- Structured around the "Wayang video, 5 min. Azian Nurudin, USA, 1992, WICKED RADIANCE ences. various identities and experi- tions and intersections of her she is shaped by the interac- christian peoples" reveal how black and gay "among good witty stories of growing up whose poetic and Witness, Woodson, a lesbian Jehovah’s A complex portrait of min. Saalfield, USA, 1991, video, 30 Jacqueline Woodson/Catherine CHRISTIAN PEOPLES AMONG GOOD Among Good Christian People Total running time: 108 min. Video In, 1965 Main Street Kathy-Ann March Allen Braude and curated by taught to believe in.. social justice doctrine they were these churches contradicts the Brethren, whose rejection from and gay Mennonites voice to the struggles of lesbian This tape is the first to give Canada, 1994, video, 39 min. Nattall, Gordon Bowness, Cate Friesen, Greg Lichti, Holly DISSENT OF BODY Muslim wedding. backdrop of a South Asian Lesbian desire set against the 8 min. Shakila Maan, UK, 1990, video, FERDOUS —INTERMISSION— by colonialism. have been distorted or erased gender and sexuality which tual traditions and ideas about tures are reclaiming native spiri- from various First Nations cul- ways in which gays and lesbians indigenous peoples reveal the Interviews with Two-Spirit 26 min. Beauchemin, USA, 1991, video, Lori Levy & Michael LESBIANS & GAYS TWO SPIRIT PEOPLE:

Saturday, June 3, 4 pm CENSORS A discussion will follow. homosexuality. confuses child abuse with a homophobic culture which lives, and resist the efforts of continue to speak about our suggest the necessity that we Chicken Hawk and Blue Boys protect children. Together learning to empower and the process of healing and the necessity of this for both queer communities, despite become divisive even within power and consent has To speak about questions of offenders. ther pedophiles nor sexual young and old, who are nei- to target gay men and artists, laws have been used primarily amended child pornography imagination. Canada’s newly scapegoat in the homophobic who loves boys has become a family, the homosexual man place in the heterosexual majority of child abuse takes and Liberals alike. While the ed against gays by Reform child abuse have been target- recognize that accusations of our lives, it is important to mous pain it has caused in sexual abuse and the enor- denying the extent of child and homosexuals. Without prove the threat of sexuality (much like AIDS or S/M) to emerged as a spectre used opposition, pedophilia has attack from homophobic equality rights under With hawks chicken effectively criminalized S/M. 1990 “Spanner” trial which with those convicted in the mentary includes interviews rings. This hard-news docu- citizens fromand sex porn police claim they are protecting as media and owning gay porn, in Britain are brought to trial for Every year hundreds of gay men video, 25 min. Stuart Marshall, UK, 1992, BLUE BOYS Blue Boys &

Chicken Hawk Total running time: 80 min. Video In, 1965 Main Street alism and vilification. beyond homophobic sensation- tion about our ability to move pedophilia, this is also a ques- however one may feel about members, we are reminded that differences among NAMBLA drawing our attention to the side the gay community. By their detractors, within and out- ions from man/boy lovers to menting a wide range of opin- five NAMBLA members, docu- mentary focuses on the lives of This thought-provoking docu- 55 min. Adi Sideman, USA, 1994, video, WHO LOVE BOYS CHICKEN HAWK: MEN

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subtexts explicit. ing straights and making gay pleasures as jacking off, cruis- including such overlooked steamy joys of gay sex, foremost about the cation, this work is first and homophobia, and commodifi- ed by AIDS/HIV, racism, the ways gay sex is complicat- humour. While pointing out of passion, power and tapes look to sex as a place pleasures of gay eros. These the perils and video surveying A selection of new erotic of course,

He is Bold. He is a Racist. living with HIV. men feel about contracting and An exploration of how two Video, 6 min. Stuart Gaffney, USA, 1995, RE:GENERATION rather see you dead. a world which would often Thoughts on living and loving in video, 8 min. Aaron Pollard, Canada, 1994, GO EXTINCT GAY BOY: WE DO NOT SEX

We do not go Extinct Berlin, 1995. Best Gay Documentary at look’s facsist basis. Awarded visually reminding us of the macho image of the 90’s, while Berlin considers skins as the mentary on gay skinheads in A raw and provocative docu- 1994, video, 26 min. Jürgen Brüning, Germany, HE IS A FASCIST RACIST, HE IS GAY AND HE IS BOLD AND A of cruising straight men. A confession on the pleasures video, 7 min. Charles Lofton, USA, 1994, I LIKE DREAMING

live, “if living is without you”. and not being able to porn, A satire on pop culture, gay Canada, 1994, video, 5 min. David Collins & Ian Jarvis, MARIAH YOU SAY MARIA, I —INTERMISSION— Figaro aria from Cherubino’s gender-bending garbage dumpster, and set to of rare footage discovered in a An exquisite vision created out video, 5 min. Comstock, USA, 1993, William VOI CHE SAPETE Voi Che Sapete . The Marriage of

Self-Pleasuring soft porn footage. soft porn subtext takes over rescanned straight media is fulfilled as gay dream of seeing gay erotica in The realization of an adolescent video, 12 min. Bruno Leydet, USA, 1995 , TACKY GREEK MOVIE how and why they jerk off. thoughts of a range men on tape does document the talking head documentary, the Certainly not your standard video, 17min. Saeed Khan, Canada, 1992, SELF-PLEASURING Total running time: 99 min. ASL BED SPACE Bed Space HIV+, white lover. negative Asian to his older, A love letter from a young sero- video, 5 min. Wayne Yung, Canada, 1994, FUCKING PETER PETER FUCKING WAYNE of it...” guilt, and my desire to rid you room, you are still confused by “... In the privacy of your bed- film on video, 8 min. Eric Rancourt, Canada,1994, Saturday, June 3, 10 pm

Video In, 1965 Main St. 21 Sunday, June 4, 7 pm Sunday, June 4, 9 pm Community Sponsor Video In, 1965 Main Street Community Sponsors: The December 9th Coalition Video In, 1965 Main St. FIGHTS positive for positive WOMEN human MEN rights curated by curated by Zachery Longboy Maureen Bradley

Injustice and discrimination These videos both document STICK FIGURES personal accounts that exam- are not things of the past; Diane Bonder, USA, 1993, ine the impact of HIV and homophobic, colonialist, video, 3 min. racist and sexist treatment AIDS on the lives of women A child’s rendering of the and men. Canadian directors still abounds. Their effect on human form, appears gender- Michael Balser and Darien people and the struggles and less until the signifiers of cloth- Taylor have created a power- victories experienced by those ing, hair or other objects are ful series of portraits conduct- people is pitifully covered by ed from Toronto to San the media, but skillfully cap- added. Francisco. The interviews fea- tured in these videos. SHASTA WOMAN ture artists, filmmakers, AIDS A panel discussion will follow. Crystal Mason, USA, 1992, community workers, writers

Positive Men video, 37 min. and volunteers who work The story of Norma Jean Croy, within the communities expe- VOICES OF POSITIVE POSITIVE MEN who was charged with conspir-

riencing and responding to Story The Perry Watkins WOMEN Michael Balser, Canada, 1995, acy to commit murder, and is AIDS. Darien Taylor & Michael Balser, video, 53 min. serving a life sentence for a Canada, 1993, video, 28 min. Positive Men opens as a docu- crime neither her nor her broth- –INTERMISSION– A documentary collection of drama illustrating the impact of er Hooty commited. Her brother personal accounts that examine the AIDS epidemic on gay men appealed his death penalty and SIS: THE PERRY WATKINS the impact of HIV & AIDS on in the early 1980’s. Memories was released while Norma Jean STORY the lives of women. A power- of New York and San Francisco was denied parole. This is a Chiqui Cartagna, USA, 1994, video, 55 min. ful series of portraits of women becomes the back drop for dra- story of courage, injustice, and A groundbreaking documentary speaking about their experi- matic scenes designating the racism that has yet to have a that explores the explosive issue ences. intersection of community sup- happy ending. of gays in the military and high- port, medical science and gay lights the case of Perry J. politics that have emerged in Watkins, the first openly gay response to the AIDS epidemic. man to defeat the ban against gays in the military. We do not go Extinct do not We Positive Women

Total running time: 81 min. Total running time: 95 min. 22 23 Monday, June 5, 8:00 pm Tuesday, June 6, 7 pm Community Sponsor Video In, 1965 Main Street Community Sponsor: The Pride Society Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe St. so are DREAMY YOU curated by girls Ken Anderlini

Who says lesbians don’t have Moving beyond politically cor- a sense of humour and DREAM GIRLS rect and incorrect, these visu- style?!! This programme Kim Longinotto & Jano Wiliams, ally stunning tapes take on proves that myth wrong! 1993, Japan/UK, film, 50 min. questions of desire and eroti- We’ve included a fascinating cism, and the ways in which look at gender-bending mixed Japan’s Takarazuka School and —INTERMISSION— they are complicated by with stunning costumes, Revue Company has a cult fol- racism. In asking how we see musical drag performances, I LIKE DREAMING lowing among women in Japan. each other and ourselves, this and a healthy shot of camp. Charles Lofton, USA, 1994, What makes this so queer is work reflects on how our Get ready for a program of video, 7 min. that the Takarazuka Revue per- Carmelita Tropicana sense of self and our desires Skin Complex wild, alluring and fabulous formers are all women. The are created in the interaction A confession on the pleasures of women. women in drag in the male of culture, community and SKIN COMPLEX cruising straight men, raising (Ela Troyano’s Carmilta CARMELITA TROPICANA Stephen Lennhoff, UK, 1991, roles interract seductively history. questions about race, class and Tropicana is Winner of the Ela Troyano, 1993, USA, film, video, 20 min. Paul Wong will be present the construction of masculinity. Best Lesbian/Gay Short at the onstage with the women in the 30 min. for the premiere of SO ARE While white gay men have 1994 Berlin Film Festival.) female roles. The audience of YOU, a new work which lays mostly young teenage girls What you get when a lesbian drawn inspiration from hetero- SO ARE YOU bare, uncomfortable, and swoon and scream with delight. prison flick meets West Side sexual macho images, the Paul Wong, Canada, 1995, ugly social mores smoothed adoption of the skinhead look video, 28 min. This gender twisting documen- Story meets an after school spe- over in the mainstream raises questions about style and tary is sure to tease and cial. A performance artist in media. Wong pushes sexual An ambitious interrogation of politics. Is the skin style symp- enthrall. platform shoes takes on roach- and racial stereotypes in the racist and sexist stereotypes and tomatic of white gay men’s fail- es, the Right, and HIV, breaking viewers face in this subversive their role in forming our under- into song or a tango along the challenge to oppression. ure to acknowledge racism? standing of our selves as distinct way. Guest Speaker from others. The viewer is con- HEAVEN, EARTH AND Paul Wong, Video Artist. fronted with a mirror of ambi- HELL guity, ambivalence, fear and Thomas Allen Harris, USA/Canada, 1993, video, 26 oppression in a collage of media min. stereotypes. Reflecting on the Trickster in African and First Nations cul- tures while telling the story of a first love, this is a moving lament for the loss of inno- cence in a world without

I Like Dreaming magic. Yet this is a work of redemption as Harris recreates a magical queer Eden, even as he Dreamy Girls Dreamy grieves.

Total running time: 81 min. Total running time: 80 min. 24 25 an cinematic magic. engaging and entertaining work offers an evening of experimental film, Wallin’s tried the pleasures of queer those of you who have never a search for sexual love. For (1975), a personal account of BETWEEN OUR BODIES (1988), and THE PLACE found footage, DECODINGS award-winning work with program will include his the MOMA in New York. The the U.S., including in 1990 at have screened throughout retrospectives of his work ed filmmakers working today, the most exciting and talent- and visual poignancy. One of work marked by its honesty for producing experimental ships, while refining his talent intimacy, and sexual relation- Wallin has explored desire, Over nearly three decades people” and “sexual objects”. the tension between “real nation of sexual fantasy and BLACK SHEEP BOY, an exami- duce the world premiere of er Michael Wallin will intro- San Francisco based filmmak- with evening

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michael SHEEP

Hoctel, tender to the touch.” (Patrick beguile even as it probes areas less work that manages to “Decodings is a magical, seam- and 50s found footage. the search for identity using 40s A beautifully told allegory of film, 15 min. Michael Wallin, USA, 1988, DECODINGS AIDS. it a nostalgia for an era before even if it is hard not to bring continues to resonate today, charged fucking scene, the film hunt” and ending with a discussion of the “endless relationship. Beginning with a ing and the start of a first love personal cinema on sexual long- A frank and tender work of film, 33 min. Michael Wallin, USA, 1975, OUR BODIES THE PLACE BETWEEN Place Between our Bodies

San Francisco Weekly BOY Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe St. ). Total running time: 83 min.

Black Sheep Boy the older man. and “the nurturing impulse” of the allure of the younger man who is in control in the case of and object of desire, asking power dynamic between desirer ty. Wallin takes on the shifting and create its own fragile reali- sy, and its power to assert itself An examination of sexual fanta- film, 35 min. Michael Wallins, USA, 1995, BLACK SHEEP BOY

Tuesday June 6, 9:00 pm 27 Wednesday, June 7, 7 pm Program Sponsor: The Vancouver Lesbian Connection Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe St. BITE, KICK andYELL, SCREAM responses to curated by violence Maureen Bradley STICK FIGURES Diane Bonder, USA, 1994, video, 3 min. Sexist, Racist, Homophobic, A child’s rendering of the Colonial violence. Violence human form, that appears gen- against and between us, our derless until the signifiers of Hotheads many selves, our many com- clothing, hair or other objects munities. are added. How do violence and anger intersect in our lives and how SCREAMERS do we live through them? As THICK LIPS, THIN LIPS Paula Fairfield, Canada, 1994, lesbians and gays, our experi- Paul Lee, Canada, 1994, film, 6 film, 30 min. min. ence of violence is often A dark and tense drama about reduced to homophobia. A musical experimental film breast implants and people who Many intersecting oppres- about racist and homophobic can’t scream or are in the

sions capture and mark us Screamers violence. process of learning how. from an early age; racism, sexism, and child abuse inter- sect with homophobia to pro- EAST RIVER PARK HOTHEADS duce these responses often Zoe Leonard, USA, 1994, film, Jennie Livingston, USA, 1993, silenced in our celebratory 10 min. video, 6 min. communities. The videos and The personal and persecuting Uplifting and comic interviews films in this program elegant- nature of graffiti is a chilling with comics Reno and Diana ly make the links between the THE MARK OF JAIN reminder of the attitudes and Massa (creators of HotHead different and overlapping Alethea Lahofer, Canada, 1993, fears perpetuated by ignorance. Paisan) about their defiant ways we are taught fear. Stick Figures video, 10 min. encounters with homophobic The burden of hatred and jerks. cycle of violence in our cul- Who is responsible ? Am I TERRA NULLIUS ture weighs heavy on many responsible? Anne Pratten, Australia, 1992, of us, it dampens our joy and film, 21 min. our desires. Here are some CAN’T TAKE THAT AWAY A beautiful and striking story of reactions, responses to and FROM ME an Aboriginal girl who is taken meditations on the many Kevin Adams, USA, 1992, from her family only to be sub- forms of intersecting violence video, 13 min. jected to abuse in her white that affect us and how, A horrific look at one story sometimes, we transcend adoptee home. them. The images are beauti- among many. ful and disturbing, enraging and defiant. Thick Lips, Thin Lips

Total running time: 99 min. 28 29 Wednesday, June 7, 9:30 pm Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe St. flaming HEARTS

Sexuality and family relations collide and clash in two intriguing films which use relationships with Mom and Dad as their starting point. While two very different explorations of troubled rela- tionships between parents Your Heart is all Mine Your and daughters, both offer a visual feast with generous BRINCANDO EL CHARCO portions of comedy, melodra- Frances Negrón-Mutaner, USA, ma, and passion. 1992, video, 55 min. A blend of fiction, archival footage and soap-opera con- ventions weave the story of Claudia Marín, a middle-class, light skinned Puerto Rican artist attempting to construct her community in the US. The —INTERMISSION— death of her estranged father reetings and brings forth issues of sexuality, YOUR HEART IS ALL G MINE/MEIN IST DER identity and racism in the GANZE HERZ Best Wishes to Puerto Rican community, and Elke Götz, Germany, 1993, film, leads Claudia to contemplate 50 min. (German with English the Seventh Annual her relationship with her family. subtitles). Out On Screen A film about Hilde Dopfner, her mother and their complex fan- Film/Video Festival. tasy life. When Hilde seduces and brings home to her mom Gisella, the butch butcher, the chemistry goes all wrong.

Hon. Emery Barnes M.L.A. Vancouver-Burrard

#422 1033 Davie Street, Vancouver B.C. V6E 1M7

PHONE (604) 683-6659 FAX (604) 775-0147 Brincando el Charco Total running time: 105 min. 31 programme SCHEDULE tuesday wednesday thursday friday Junesaturday sunday monday June June June1 2 3 June 7:00 PM 7:30 PM 4:00 PM 2:00 PM 4 8:00 PM Under Heat Virulent Images: Queer Spirits Media Forum: 5So Are You Fetish, Fantasy @The Caprice Fabulous HIV @Video In @Video In and Flesh @Video In 9:30 PM 7:00 PM @Video In Skin Deep 9:30 PM Chicken Hawks & Censors 7:00 PM @The Caprice Retro Sex Positive Women/ @Video In @Video In Positive Men 10:00 PM @Video In venues And, of course, Sex 9:00 PM Pacific Cinémathèque, @Video In 1131 Howe St. June Fights for Human 6 Rights Video In, June 1965 Main St. 7 @Video In June June The Caprice Theatre, 8 965 Granville St. June June Emily Carr Institute of Art 9 10 and Design (ECIAD) 1400 Johnston St., (South 7:00 PM 7:00 PM 7:00 PM 7:00 PM 2:00 PM 4:00 PM11 Building Audit.) Granville Dreamy Girls Bite, Kick, Yell, and Raucous Queers: Cheryl Dunye Media Forum: Home Improvements: Island. Bold New Shorts Retrospective Queer Nations? Renovating Family @Cinémathèque Scream: Responses Values to Violence @Cinémathèque @ECIAD @Video In 9:00 PM @Cinémathèque @Cinémathèque Black Sheep Boy: 9:30 PM 7:30 PM 7:00 PM An Evening with 9:30 PM Slap me! Spank Behind The Yellow Listen to the Hands 7:00 PM Michael Wallin Flaming Hearts Me! Hurry Up! I Screen of Our People Not Just Complaints Don’t Have All @Cinémathèque @Cinémathèque @Video In @Video In @Cinémathèque Day! @Cinémathèque 9:30 PM 9:30 PM 9:30 PM Experigirl The Willful Body Libera la Loca @ECIAD @Video In @Cinémathèque

32 33 Thursday June 8, 7:00 pm Community Sponsor: Youthquest Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe St. raucous bold newQUEERS shorts curated by Allen Braude and Winston Xin

HOTHEADS Jennie Livingstone, USA, 1994, Filled with brazen dykes, video, 5 min. cocky fags and fabulous drag queens, this collection of new From the director of Paris is shorts highlights the audacity, Burning, here’s a quicky in Drag on a Fag and the love of camp and which comic Reno, and kitsch which fuels queer cul- Hothead Paisan creator Diane PS YOU’RE DEAD ture. These raucous shorts Di Massa prove that anger and Joseph Frank, USA, 1993, film, prove just how innovative, wit are a potent combination 11 min. subversive and fun queer when dealing with homophobic Tarina Davenport is the film noir film-making can be. PS You’re Dead PS You’re jerks. femme fatale that Hollywood forgot about. LAWN BUTCH Sheryl L. Ritschel-Cederbaum, JUST DESSERTS USA, 1991, video, 1 min. Monica Pellizarri, Australia, DOTTIE GETS SPANKED Being a co-dependent doesn’t 1994, film, 10 min. Todd Haynes, USA, 1994, film, 30 min. mean you can’t trim the DRAG ON A FAG This witty and reflective story of hedges... Nicolas Stagias, Canada, 1993, From the director of POISON video, 5 min. an Italian-Australian girl’s ado- this film is set in the stifling lescence as told through her LESSONS IN BABY DYKE Clothes and poses. Lets face it, world of late 1950s suburbia.

Lawn Butch memories of the food each sex- THEORY girlfriend, style is everything! Stevie is a shy and artistic Thirza Cuthand, Canada, 1995, ual discovery evokes in her. young boy who is obsessed video, 3 min. PORCARIA with the television personality Baby Dyke’s hilarious search for Filipe Paulo, Canada, 1994, film Dottie. This feuls his vivid imagi- her seemingly invisible contem- on video, 35 min. nation which he uses to cope poraries. Watch the sparks fly as a cocky with his father’s disapproval and college boy with a irresistable his peers insults. Fate has Stevie derriere disrupts a straight-laced winning a contest to meet his Portugese couple’s home. Can beloved Dottie. He subsequent- the hunky husband desl with all ly witnesses a filming of a this cheek? Will the wife samba spanking episode leading his into someone else’s arms? Set imagination into more disturb- in 1960s Toronto with a hip ing territories. A remarkable

bosa-nova soundtrach, this is a Drag on a Fag portrait of a queer child’s con- hot and hillarious treat. fusion in a homophobic world.

Total running time: 87 min. 34 35

Program Sponsor: Vancouver Activists in S/M (VASM) 36 risk. censor and enter at your own Remember, you are your own we just have to show off. own business, but sometimes within our bedrooms is broken and whatever we do Expectations are made to be your potential in S/M. your desires and discover where you’re at, challenge and fag/fag. No matter of work: dyke/dyke, dyke/fag, this program offers a mixture level is, novice or advanced, Whatever your experience on’s” which only exist in S/M. interested in seeing “turn is for all queers who are and respected. This program in, limits are both challenged game we choose to engage choices we vary. Whatever desires we differ, within our our leather folk. Within so is the community of diverse as our community is, depths of your desires. As peaks of intensity and to the S/M trip! You’ll be led to the voyeurs, you’re in for a real Fasten your seat belts, tasies. into expressions of dark fan- well executed and exciting look looked at as a whole, offer a disjointed vignettes which when plot to follow, just seemingly beauty. There is no verbalized sacrifice raunch for artistic A stimulating work that doesn’t Canada, 1994, video, 18 min. M.M. Serra and Maria Beatty, EVIL ONE A LOT OF FUN FOR THE and only the skeleton remains. when you strip everything away A real look at how we are UK, 1993, video, 5 min. Robin Forster & James Barrett, AN/AESTHETIC

The Evil One scene. sanct black and white S/M The Bible collides with a sacro- min. Troy Boyd, USA, 1992, video, 3 LORD AND MASTER None of The Above Laurel Swenson Paul Lang, and Seanna McPherson, curated by

The Attendant piercings. the pleasures of temporary A visually luscious depiction of video, 7 min. Georgia B. Wright, USA, 1994, STELLIUM IN CAPRICORN —INTERMISSION— dant’s S/M fantasies come alive. Africa” were a museum atten- painting “Scene on the coast of A sumptuous meditation on the min. Issac Julien, UK, 1992, film, 8 THE ATTENDANT

How To Lesson fun. can be serious work. Learning Negotiating S/M need not be video, 7 min. John Topping, USA, 1992, HOW TO LESSON and leather queen. young man’s pleasure as drag An intimate portrayal of a video, 10 min. Canada (Quebec), 1993, film on Ralf Jürgens and Janet Neely, (LES FLEURS DU BIEN) STARTING TO BLOSSOM Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe St. Total running time: 80 min. look at S/M play. A hyperreal, lush and lovely This is S/M fashion and fantasy! 1993, film, 13 min. Penny Fowler-Smith, Australia, NONE OF THE ABOVE laughter. response from shock to roaring elicited every imaginable A Warholian video that has video, 9 min. John Topping, USA, 1992, SMACKS

Smacks Thursday June 8, 9:30 pm 37 Friday, June 9, 7:00 pm Program Co-Sponsor: Emily Carr Institute Emily Carr Institute (South bldg audit.) Why not 1400 Johnston St, Granville Island drop in cheryl after a dunye screening? RETROSPECTIVE Philadelphia/New York based COMPLICATED FLESH Cheryl Dunye has been pro- (with Kristina Deutsch) ducing independent queer media since 1991. Cheryl’s Cheryl Dunye, USA, 1993, video, 14 min. videos have been immensely TT An interracial story of passion, h popular at festivals around hee love and pussy. EEdd the globe. Her work is gge refreshingly honest, intimate, coffeee bar THE POTLUCK AND THE and fun. Cheryl’s voice is a 1148 Davie Street cornerstone of the new queer PASSION Vancouver, B.C. cinema of the 90s. The Cheryl Dunye, USA, 1993, video, works in this program man- 30 min. V6E 1N1 age to be probing and politi- A lesbian couple celebrates their cal, while retaining a first anniversary with a potluck. humourous and sexy edge. A Close friends bring everything gamut of issues are examined Complicated Flesh that all rely fundamentally on from fried chicken to Afro-centrici- Cheryl’s identity as an JANINE ty to the table in this funny, warm African-American lesbian. Cheryl Dunye, USA, 1991, look at love, desire and Black The success of her work relies video, 10 min. pride. on her ability to introduce A young Black lesbian explores her attraction to a privileged formal innovation and politi- —INTERMISSION— cal groundedness to her white woman. videos, while keeping a wide AN UNTITLED PORTRAIT audience always in mind. SHE DON’T FADE Cheryl Dunye, USA, 1992, Cheryl Dunye, USA, 1994, video, video, 20 min. 4 min. A very personal tape on the A young Black lesbian tells of artist’s relationship with her broth- her “new approach to women” er. and embarks on a journey to find the woman of her dreams. GREETINGS FROM AFRICA

Cheryl Dunye, USA, 1994, film, 8 VANILLA SEX min. Cheryl Dunye, USA, 1993, A dry witty rumination on lesbian video, 5 min. dating 90s style. Part of a video installation which examines the different construction of sexuality among white and black women. Total running time: 91 min.

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the 40 Community Sponsor: Gay Asians of Vancouver Area (GAVA)

video artist. Ming Yuen S. Ma Guest Speaker: and gay white mainstreams. from both the straight Asian ing a culture that is distinct ute to their success in nurtur- tumes, and comedy is a trib- This spicy stir-fry of sex, cos- on recent Canadian tapes. America, with a special focus Asian men across North concerns shared by gay East experiences and common tapes speak of the diverse gay Asian community. These the blossoming of a vibrant local gay scene has witnessed Asian metropolis and the Vancouver has become an YELLOW

, Los Angeles behind

Aura screen violence. about racist and homophobic A musical experimental film video, 6 min. Paul Lee, Canada, 1994, film on THICK LIPS, THIN LIPS gay Asians in California. tural celebration produced by This drag show is a unique cul- video, 7 min. Ming-Yuen S. Ma, USA, 1991, AURA

Thick Lips, Thin Lips —INTERMISSION— HIV+, white lover. negative Asian to his older, A love letter from a young sero- video, 5 min. Wayne Yung, Canada, 1994, FUCKING PETER PETER FUCKING WAYNE Area. colour in the San Francisco Bay experiences as gay men of Four Filipinos describe their video, 25 min. Pablo Bautista, USA, 1992, FATED TO BE QUEER Wayne Yung curated by Asia and North America. recount their experiences in translation as gay Asian men with language, meaning and This documentary experiments video, 21 min. Ming-Yuen S. Ma, USA, 1992, TOC STOREE

Fated To Be Queer RECEPTION/SOCIAL TO FOLLOW THE SCREENING AT VIDEO IN

ships. identity, desires, and relation- the author’s explorations of his This personal essay describes 9 min. Kirby Hsu, Canada, 1994, video, G.O.M. Canada. porary Asian experience in and images around the contem- An experimental collage of text 7 min. Ho Tam, Canada, 1994, video, YELLOW PAGES G.O.M. Total running time: 85 min. karaoke videos. A queer Asian spoof on video, 5 min. Wayne Yung, Canada, 1995, (East End Re-Mix) ONE NIGHT IN HEAVEN Video In, 1965 Main St. Video

Friday, June 9, 7:30 41 Friday, June 9, 9:30 p.m. Program Co-Sponsor: Emily Carr Institute Emily Carr Institute (south bldg, audit) 1400 Johnston Street, Granville Island experi GIRL curated by Seanna McPherson and Laurel Swenson

The sublime and beautifully Kiss the Boys and Make then Die. crafted films and videos in this program explore secrets, FEELING ANYTHING KISS THE BOYS AND passions, rantings, meanings BEING EXISTING MAKE THEM DIE and fantasies. This is a col- Liz Tevaarwerk, Canada, 1993, Margaret Stratton, USA, 1994, lection of fun, eclectic and film, 7 min. video, 30 min. provocative new work that A poetic trilogy exploring the Rhetorical musings of death, investigates new ways of expression of love, the cate- identity, mothers and a million telling and pushes the bound- gories of sexuality and the com- other things. aries of perception. Queer plex meaning of two women and peculiar, odd and obses- making love. sive, this is a visceral visual MONSTERS IN THE —INTERMISSION— The Ideal Narration feast. CLOSET Jennifer Todd, USA, 1993, film, LETTER #2 MR B THE IDEAL NARRATION Yau Ching, USA, 1994, video, LONG EYES OF EARTH 15 min. Cathy Sissler, Canada, 1994, Yau Ching, USA, 1993,video, 4 4 min. Lawrence F. Brose, USA, 1994, video, 7 min. min. Girlhood tales and stories from film, 12 min. A satirical and surreal visual let- A lyrical and hilarious gender the closets of childhood and Distorted and disintegrating ter, an exquisite corpse. A lush and passionate two spir- bending performance. adolescence. archival images of cultural revo- ited tale. lution and colonialism. SHADES PAROLE Diane Bonder, USA, 1993, Jamika Ajalou, USA, 1994, KISSY SUZUKI SUCK video, 9 min. Monsters in the Closet Monsters video, 12 min. Alison Murry, U K , 1992, video, The construction of sexuality Issues surrounding what it is to 18 min, through the discourse of medi- be black enough. The delirious sexual fantasies of cine and psychology. two bleached blondes in a car. Feeling Anything Being Exsisting Kissy Suzuki Suck

Total running time: 118 min. 42 43 Saturday, June 10, 7 pm Community Sponsor: The Gay and Lesbian Centre (GLC) Video In, 1965 Main St. listen to the HANDSof ourpeople

This program features two important works by AnnMarie “Jade” Bryan, founder of Deafvision Filmworks, a cen- tre for artists committed to exploring multi and cross-cul- tural identities among deaf and people of colour. The dialogue in these two pieces are filmed in American Sign Language, with voice-over and written captions. An ASL interpreter will also be pre-

sent at this screening. Bird Cutting the Edge of the Free

CUTTING THE EDGE OF LISTEN TO THE HANDS THE FREE BIRD OF OUR PEOPLE AnnMarie Bryan, USA, 1994, AnnMarie Bryan, USA, 1993, film on video, 15 min. video, 90 min. The portrayal of an African Seven deaf men and women American deaf woman trying to living with AIDS, expose the decide whether to go to many difficulties experienced by Gallaudet or NYU. the deaf or hard of hearing, including: the need for more interpreters in hospitals; the poor medical care due to lack of communication between patients and staff; and the mul- tiple discrimination experienced by patients who are deaf and people of color. Listen to the Hands of The People

Total running time: 105 min. ASL 45 Saturday, June 10, 9:30 pm Video In, 1965 Main St. thewillful BODY

curated by Seanna McPherson and Laurel Swenson In what ways do we use our bodies to resist? The discus- 100 SECONDS WITH sion about bodies is pervasive SASHA and complex in mainstream Hans Gecker and Uta Stork, USA, 1993, video, 2 min.

and queer culture. This pro- Body Stigmata: The Transfigured gram investigates the possibil- A fast, dry and witty interview ities of transforming the body with Sasha! KATCHAPATI and challenges contemporary Georgia B Wright, USA, 1993, notions of the ideal body. video, 1 min. This work deals with willful An exquisitely simple represen- body manipulation, explo- ration of one’s body in rela- tation of female ejaculation. tion to desire, and the possi- bilities for resistance and A PERVERT EXPLORES AN

empowerment in the context Naked Bodies Three INSTANT of the cult of the perfect Georgia B Wright, USA, 1994,

body. THREE NAKED BODIES SEWING BREASTS Katchapati video, 21 min. What are the implications for Allene Hebert, USA, 1993, film, Anie Stanley, USA, 1992, film An erotically powerful work, the transformation of our 8 min. on video, 2 min. that reveals the imaginative and bodies? Is it queer? Is it rad- STIGMATA: THE Three poetic testimonials, that Innovative possibilities of erotic transformative possibilities of ical? Is it a way for us to TRANSFIGURED BODY challenge the fickle notion of crafts. discovering personal pleasures. regain control of our colo- Leslie Asako Gladsjo, USA, nized bodies? Is it cultural the contemporary ideal body. 1991, video, 27 min. appropriation? Is it 90’s ABERRANT MOTION #4 A graphic depiction of the Urban Dyke code? Is it stim- SEWING ON GENITALS FACE STORY/STAGGER many ways that women modify ulating? Is it trendy? Anie Stanley, USA, 1993, film STORY their bodies, through piercing, on video, 1 min. Is it disturbing? Cathy Sissler, Canada, 1994, tattooing, branding and cut- video, 14 min. tings. This is a documentary A performance that investigates about self determination and movement and presence of the sexuality, beauty and the use of body in public. the body as a tool for self dis- covery. 100 Seconds with Sasha Sewing on Breasts

Total running time: 76 min. 46 47 Community Sponsor: ATISH Network Society Sunday, June 11, 4:00 pm Program Sponsors: James Goodman and Garry Wolfater Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe St.

JAREENA: A PORTRAIT OF A HAJDA HOME Prem Kalliat, USA, 1994, video, improvements 25 min. renovating The cult of Hijda has thrived for family centuries in India. Numbering in MY GRANDMOTHER’S the tens of thousands, and pri- values LADY CABARET curated by marily concentrated in the Elizabeth Myers, UK, 1992, film, Seanna McPherson and cities, the Hijda community KHUSH REFUGEE Imtiaz Popat 10 min. shrouds itself in myth and Needi Singh, Canada, video, 30 While visiting her grandmother, secrecy. This is the story of min. a young dyke discovers a won- Kids with queer parents, Jareena, of her Hijda communi- A South-Asian and a European derful family secret. parents with queer kids, ty in Bangalore and of her man overcome racial and cul- dyke grandchildren with homecoming to her family in tural barriers as they build their lesbian grandmothers and WOMAN WOMAN CHILD Kerala. relationship together. queer siblings bonding with Diane Barbarash, Canada, their straight siblings. This 1995, video, 2 min. collection of films and DESTINY DESIRE AND A lyrical eulogy bestowing the videos redefines and DEVOTION possibilities for lesbian mother- expands the definition of Zahid Dar, UK, 1994, film, 10 hood. min. family. Poignant and com- pelling this program investi- This film adopts a mother’s per-

gates and celebrates our Frankie and Jocie LIKE MOTHER LIKE SON spective in examining her rela- queer and chosen families. Annette Kennedy, UK , 1994, tionship with her gay son. The DAUGHTERS OF DYKES FRANKIE AND JOCIE film, 3 min. family members can be seen to Amilca Palmer, USA, 1994, Jocelyn Taylor, USA, 1994, This remarkably charming represent the internal codes video, 15 min video, 18 min. mother and son duet discuss and regulative practices of a Teenage girls talk about dyke A conversation between a black pleasures of crossdressing, com- close-knit Asian community. moms, peer pressure, vibrators lesbian and her straight brother panionship and shopping at and life. that attempts to untangle ten- Woolworths. sions between black hetero DINNER AT BUBBY’S men and queer women.

–INTERMISSION– and Devotion Destiny Desire Ziad Touma & Kim Segal, USA, 1994, film, 10 min. MOTHER FUCKERS Bubby’s expectations are chal- Laurel Swenson, Canada, 1995, lenged when her son brings his video, 6 min. boyfriend home for dinner. A dyke mother questions the recent trend of romanticizing motherhood and family within lesbian relationships. Jareena Daughters of Dykes Total running time: 129 min. 48 49 Sunday, June 11, 7:00 pm Sunday, June 11, 9:30 pm Community Sponsor: MOB Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe St. Community Sponsor: Grupo Vida Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe St. not just libera COMPLAINTS LALOCA

curated by Francisco Ibáñez.

A humourous and tender Latino Queer Images are a program about home, family gesture of independence (chosen and biological), and from exotic stereotypes, straw coming of age, old and hats, La Bamba, “Andale, young. The relationships Andale” and Jalapeños that

between women are charted When Shirley met Florence interrupt the suffocating in these poignant and inti- queer narratives of straight- WHEN SHIRLEY MET mate short works. The acting and straight-looking FLORENCE films/videos in the program now in vogue. It is an

COMPLAINTS OF A Ronit Bazalel, Canada, 1993, Carmelita Tropicana suggest what is on the hori- unabashedly ethnocentric, DUTIFUL DAUGHTER film, 28 min. zon for the second wave of insolent and loud scream of Deborah Hoffman, USA, 1993, queer cinema, where lesbian This documentary charts the unleashed locas in the bland AIDS IN THE BARRIO film, 42 min. identity is a given and issues extraordinary sixty year friend- landscape of Canadian multi- Frances Negrón-Mutaner, USA, beyond sexuality are explored In a rare but sweet moment of ship between two Montreal cultural representation. A 1991, film, 28 min. lesbian visabiliy, this film by syncopated carnival of voices, by lesbian film/videomakers. Jewish women, one straight , SAMUEL & SAMANTHA: An award winning documentary faces and opinions about Deborah Hoffman was nomi- one lesbian. Shirley and ON THE EMANCIPATION what it is to be a loca in on the impact of AIDS within a nated for an Academy Award. Florence talk about their grow- OF ALL gringoland and beyond the Puerto Rican neighbourhood in Voted most popular documen- ing-up years on the Plateau, border. Jorge Lozano, Canada, 1994, Philadelphia, focusing on drug tary at San Francisco’s Lesbian about Shirley’s marriage to Gracias Claudia Morgado y video, 23 min. abuse, the use of condoms, and Gay Film/Video Festival, it is Florence’s brother, about Ricardo Acosta por la ayuda A documentary on the realities machismo and poverty. a must see. Deborah Hoffman Florence's lover Sophie, and prestada. faced by Latino gay men as sketches a lovely, honest, and about the traditional Yiddish seen through the eyes of a emotional portrait of her rela- music they play together. Salvadoran living in Toronto. CITIES OF LUST tionship with her vibrant but Raul Ferrera-Balanquet, USA, ailing mother who has 1993, video, 22 min. Dutiful Daughter JUST DESSERTS Alzheimer’s. The director reveals CARMELITA TROPICANA Monica Pellizari, Australia, An experimental documentary heartache, intimacy, and 1993, film, 10 min. Ela Troyano, USA, 1994, video, filmed in Merida, La Habana humour as she and her lover 30 min. The witty and reflective story of and Chicago. navigate through difficult expe- What do you get when lesbian an Italian-Australian girl’s ado- riences. Though her mother’s prison flick meets West Side lescence as told through her condition is first posed as a Cities of Lust Story meets after school special. memories of the food each sex- problem, Hoffman’s frank dis- A performance artist in plat- ual discovery evokes in her. cussion of dealing with an form shoes takes on roaches, aging parent whose personality the Right, and HIV breaking is altered by Alzeimer’s, brings into song or a tango along the us to a place of understanding way. and acceptance of the condi- tion many of us have learned to fear. Total running time: 80 min. Total running time: 103 min. 50 51 It’s All Fun & Games Ltd.

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Representing extra-talent for film and television work 682.5251 index of LIKE MOTHER LIKE SON...... 49 FILMS LISTEN TO THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE...... 45 STARTING TO BLOSSOM...... 37 LONG EYES OF EARTH...... 43 videos STELLIUM IN CAPRICORN...... 37 LORD AND MASTER...... 36 STICK FIGURES...... 23, 29 MONSTERS IN THE CLOSET...... 42 STIGMATA: THE TRANSFIGURED BODY...... 47 MOTHER FUCKERS...... 48 TACKY GREEK MOVIE...... 21 MR B...... 43 TERRA NULLIUS...... 29 DRAG ON A FAG...... 34 MY GRANDMA’S LADY CABARET...... 49 THE ATTENDANT...... 37 DREAM GIRLS...... 25 NO REGRETS...... 14 THE IDEAL NARRATION...... 43 100 SECONDS WITH SASHA...... 47 EAST RIVER PARK...... 28 NONE OF THE ABOVE...... 37 THE LOVE THANG TRILOGY...... 17 A LOT OF FUN FOR THE EVIL ONE...... 36 ET L’AMOUR...... 17 ONE NIGHT IN HEAVEN (East End Re-Mix)...... 41 THE MARK OF JAIN...... 28 A PERVERT EXPLORES AN INSTANT...... 47 FATED TO BE QUEER...... 40 PAROLE...... 43 THE PLACE BETWEEN OUR BODIES...... 27 ABERRANT MOTION #4...... 46 FEELING ANYTHING BEING EXISTING...... 42 PETER FUCKING WAYNE FUCKING PETER...... 21, 41 THE POTLUCK AND THE PASSION...... 39 AIDS AND THE FAILURE OF LANGUAGE...... 15 FERDOUS...... 18 PORCARIA...... 34 THE WEIGHT OF WOMEN’S EYES...... 17 AIDS IN THE BARRIO...... 51 FRANKIE AND JOCIE...... 48 POSITIVE MEN...... 22 THICK LIPS, THIN LIPS...... 29, 40 AMONG GOOD CHRISTIAN PEOPLES...... 18 G.O.M...... 41 PS YOU’RE DEAD...... 35 THIS IS NOT AN AIDS ADVERTISEMENT...... 14 AN EVENING WITH RICHARD LOCKE...... 15 GAY BOY: WE DO NOT GO EXTINCT...... 20 RE:GENERATION...... 20 THREE NAKED BODIES...... 46 AN UNTITLED PORTRAIT...... 39 GOT AWAY IN DYING MOMENTS...... 15 ROSEBUD...... 17 TOC STOREE...... 41 AN/AESTHETIC...... 36 GREETINGS FROM AFRICA...... 39 SAFE SEX IS FUN...... 14 HE IS BOLD AND HE IS A RACIST, TWO SPIRIT PEOPLE: LESBIANS AND GAYS...... 18 AURA...... 40 SAMUEL & SAMANTHA: ON THE HE IS GAY AND HE IS A FASCIST...... 20 BED SPACE...... 21 EMANCIPATION OF ALL...... 51 UNDER HEAT...... 12 HEAVEN, EARTH AND HELL...... 24 BEYOND BODY MEMORY...... 17 SCREAMERS...... 29 VANILLA SEX...... 39 HER SWEETNESS LINGERS...... 16 BLACK SHEEP BOY...... 27 SELF-PLEASURING...... 21 VOI CHE SAPETE...... 21 HOTHEADS...... 29, 35 BLUE BOYS...... 19 SEWING BREASTS...... 46 VOICES OF POSITIVE WOMEN...... 22 HOW TO LESSON...... 37 BODY OF DISSENT...... 18 SEWING ON GENITALS...... 46 WHEN SHIRLEY MET FLORENCE...... 50 I LIKE DREAMING...... 20., 24 BRICANDO EL CHARCO...... 31 SHADES...... 42 WICKED RADIANCE...... 18 JANINE...... 39 BUTCH/FEMME IN PARADISE...... 16 SHASTA WOMAN...... 23 WOHOSHENI...... 16 JAREENA: A PORTRAIT OF A HAJDA...... 49 CAN’T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME...... 28 SHE DON’T FADE...... 39 WOMAN WOMAN CHILD...... 49 JUST DESSERTS...... 35, 50 CARMELITA TROPICANA...... 25, 51 SIS: THE PERRY WATKIN’S STORY...... 23 YELLOW PAGES...... 41 KATCHAPATI...... 47 CHICKEN HAWK...... 19 SKIN COMPLEX...... 24 YOU SAY MARIA, I SAY MARIAH...... 21 KEEP YOUR LAWS OFF MY BODY...... 16 CITIES OF LUST...... 51 SKIN DEEP...... 13 YOUR HEART IS ALL MINE...... 31 KHUSH REFUGEE...... 49 COMPLAINTS OF A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER...... 50 SMACKS...... 37 KISS THE BOYS AND MAKE THEM DIE...... 43 COMPLICATED FLESH ...... 39 SO ARE YOU...... 24 KISSY SUZUKI SUCK...... 43 CUTTING THE EDGE OF FREE BIRD...... 45 SPARKY’S SHOES...... 14 For more information regarding LAWN BUTCH...... 34 distribution of the films and videos DANGEROUS WHEN WET...... 17 LES FLEURS DU BIEN/STARTING TO BLOSSOM....37 presented at this year’s festival pick up DAUGHTERS OF DYKES...... 48 a distributors listing at one of the LESSONS IN BABY DYKE THEORY...... 34 DECODINGS...... 27 venues or contact Out on Screen at LETTER #2...... 42 DESTINY DESIRE DEVOTION...... 49 685-1159. DINNER AT BUBBY’S...... 48 DOTTIE GETS SPANKED...... 35 .

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