US PREMIERE
SHORT FILM PROGRAM
WORLD PREMIERE
FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT
THROWBACK FROM
Sex and Politics
Thirteen short videos by lesbians
Thursday
Aug 22, 1991
@
7:30 pm
7th Annual Boston International Gay & Lesbian Film and Video Festival
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The lesbian film and video makers in this program address issues of politicas and popular culture in relationship to sexual identity. Included is a series of music videos by Ilse Gassinger of Austria which probe similar issues using a visually desnse, viscerally evocative langauge.
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This short film program includes the following films:
Laws and Skin
A fantasy of popular gay culture, juxtaposing a Brazilian Carnival with lesbian and gay pride day.Each of the bodies portrayed are challenging the psycho-social laws: that is, the rules and regulations which limit the expression of gender and sexual identity.
Laura, Ingrid and Rebecca
Three activists from ACT UP speak sagely about their experiences with group politics. They talk about the difficulty of making the men of ACT UP acknowledge the connection between men's and women's health issues--and in one educational and vividly funny anecdone, they describe a sit-in at a downtown bank's men's room. Laura, Ingrid and Rebecca integrates anger and action, AIDS activism and pro-choice work.
Keep Your Laws off My Body
The intrusion of lawmakers into the most personal areas of our lives is here made palpable as this tape intercuts intimate, at-home images of lesbian loveres with an extensive catalogue of riot police responding to an ACT UP demonstration at New York City Hall.
What do Pop Art, Pop Music, Pornography and Politics Have to Do with Real Life?
Using clichés and role-playing, Nurudin challenges traditional concepts of race, gender, sexuality and the relationship between art and pop culture. Nurudin intercuts a puffy, celebrity talk show (hosted by the videomaker as Andy Warhol, and casting stand-ins for other pop celebrities), with footage of urban squalor from some of San Francisco's more downtrodden areas to create a troubling juxtaposition.
Music Videos by Ilse Gassinger
"Her figues and characters remain chinerid, her bodies phandtasmal. She knows that there is no such thing and here and now in video" - Karl Sierek, film critic (Vienna). Includes Versehen/Verzerhrt (9m, 1984), Quick Lunch (4m, 1986), Die Evidenz des Kalkuls (8m, 1987), Splash (2m, 1989), Magnetique (2m, 1988), Eisenherz (3m, 1989) and Exposed (8m, 1989).
