We are pleased to welcome pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer back to the festival with her latest films A Horse is Not a Metaphor and The Diving Women of Jeju-Do. Note: Unfortunately Barbara Hammer will not be able to join us for this screening of her two latest films. The film screening will proceed as planned.

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Frequently marginalized within a community that already struggles against marginalization – that is, the gay, lesbian and bisexual community – African American transgender males make their voices heard in this film from Kortney Ryan Ziegler. Six articulate black transmen – who are also artists, students, husbands, fathers, lawyers and teachers – speak candidly about race, gender, body image and status.

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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.

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