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CineMental Presents: Channeling
Wednesday
May 13, 2009
@
9:30 pm
Boston LGBT Film Festival 2009
CineMental brings back the short experimental program Channeling. Curated by Chicago-based artists Ethan White and Latham Zearfoss Channeling is a program of experimental moving image work that summons the ghosts of the and the specters of the future. If we imagine the technologies of film and video as occult mediums rather than technological ones, then perhaps we can make a kind of spiritual contact with the emotional and physical realities that are often invisible (ghostly) in everyday life. In this sense, both the camera and the ghost stories it captures can serve as powerful instruments in the act of queer worldmaking. Please join us for this special screening of truly experimental and groundbreaking work by emerging queer filmmakers.
Wicked Queer is proud to co-present this program with
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This short film program includes the following films:
(tell me why): The Epistemology of Disco
(tell me why) The Epistemology Of Disco is an often humorous, at times sarcastic and poignant look at the role that disco music has played in the formation of gay male identity. The tape challenges the notion of disco as merely a "leisure activity" by positing disco as an important cultural space created as an expression of gay sexuality. –Vtape
9 is a Secret
Part of the short film collection Channeling. Renwick recounts a sad time in her life, when a friend was dying and she suddenly became aware of the presence of crows…[Renwick] craft[s] a lyrical and moving essay that works its magic through poetic accretion rather than narrative logic. -Holly Willis, L.A. Weekly
Carol Anne is Dead
“Robinson recycles his family’s home movie version of Poltergeist, made when he was ten, into a raw look at the performative.” – Onion City
Compromise
I locate my video-based work within the dance community with the proposition that dance is an embodied shift that can exist without a represented body as its location. Casting the audience as subject and performer, I desire to generate a hyper-self-awareness in the viewers, who join the performance by gazing at their selves. –Jillian Peña
Some Ghosts
Some Ghosts incorporates embroidery and stop-motion animation techniques to create a colorful dreamscape in which an unwitting spaceman looses angry spirits from a haunted medicine cabinet. Audio production was done in collaboration with Alexis Gideon. –Aay Preston-Myint. Chicago-based artist Aay Preston-Myint works across a multitude of mediums, primarily fiber-based installations, printmaking and drawing. Some Ghosts is his first foray into video and animation, and has screened as part of The Chicago Short Film Brigade. His work is self-distributed.
Somethings Gonna Soon
EMR has created a sigil, a magic sex symbol abstracted from the words TRUST ME (NOT) TO HURT YOU that is spread across rituals of the beast. Discordant sound and psychic image imagine a cross formation, speak from the hole, say nothing. Untie the knot and let down the pony, somethings gonna soon. –EMR
Well Dressed
This experimental documentary meditates on the space between two bodies and explores three key bodies in transition: the erotic “cruising” body, the transgender body, and the pregnant body. In depicting moments of change or redefinition for these physical bodies, Well Dressed imagines unexpected points of convergence. –Elyse Montague
Whispering Pines #7
In this episode of the Whispering Pines series, Moulton's character Cynthia is confronted with a distorted mirror image that slips between the grotesque and the exotic, depending on her posture. While Cynthia performs her nose-pore cleaning routine in front of the mirror, a sphinx appears and sings a song from the animated movie "The Last Unicorn," which laments becoming a woman. –Electronic Arts Intermix
