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What's in the Experiment?

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May 8, 2010

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Boston LGBT Film Festival 2010

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What’s in the experiment? A bit of everything, and then some. Featuring experimental work, music videos, animation and new narrative explorations, this program surveys the strange and beautiful, the super-saturated, the sensually textured, the intimate, the uncomfortable and the wacky. Reworked film and video footage and still images are collaged to reclaim and queer gender and sexuality. Masculinity is exposed through domestic tasks and poetry. Femininity is celebrated through strength, the knowing gaze, and cake. BDSM intoxicates. The experiment is a delicious mix of subversion, sexuality, and humor. Program curated by Aliza Shapiro.
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This short film program includes the following films:

All That Sheltering Emptiness

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All That Sheltering Emptiness is a meditation on elevators, hotel lobbies, hundred dollar bills, the bathroom, a cab, chandeliers, cocktails, the receptionist, arousal, and other routines in the life of a New York City callboy. Gorgeously hand-processed in full 16mm glory, this film is a collaboration between Gina Carducci (Stone Welcome Mat) and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (author of So Many Ways to Sleep Badly; editor of That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation).

El Abuelo

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Shot on location in San Antonio, Texas, El Abuelo is an intimate portrait of local educator and poet, Joe Jimenez. Through the meditative process of ironing his clothes (a duty often identified as “women’s work”), we experience Joe in that familiar goal of finding the perfect crease. Of all domestic chores, ironing is the only one a “homeboy” is more than happy to master, as masterful ironing is the key to reaching an appearance of perfection. And to a homeboy, perfect creases work hand in hand with the power of attraction.

EZ Heeb

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EZ Heeb is a mix tape, roller skate, fantasy date in Atlantic City. A brand new music video for Athens Boys Choir.

Failure

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Images of beauty rituals - both masculine and feminine - focus on the removal of body hair. Scenes of adolescent embarrassment are played out in adult life. Gender confusion lurks behind the curtain. Impoverished aesthetics. Popular music.

Family Living

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A self-portrait of the artist is constructed through a video collage of still images of her different families. Huh first traces the past roots of her birth family and later imagery reveals the life she has shared with her found queer family. Pairing visual collage with a recording of Gertrude Stein’s “The Making Of Americans” (recorded 1933), “Family Living” brings personal family representations to a broader queered context.

Girl!

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A post-Halloween sleepover opens another dimension into debauched, smeared, day-glow storytime. This video uses gentle, awkward pauses to capture the intimacy of these trashed out characters. The guests trade tales about pervy sex in common spaces, painting an insider’s picture of backroom queer carny shop talk. (taken from MIX2009)

Hey F*** Face

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Hey F*** Face is part two of a three part series of short video poems that explore the puzzling and often hazardous task of being human. Medical specimens, gender bending Christian clergy and kinky sex are just a few of the topics the whimsical narrator touches on during this four and a half minute video. Originally shot on black and white Super 8 film, Hey F*** Face was created as part of the Project 8 Boot Camp, 2008.

House Bunny

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Cat makes a journey to visit the House Bunny, animated and drawn directly on 35mm film. Soundtrack by The Tape-beatles.

I & I. We

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On an elevated NYC subway train, a young queer named Bob cruises a beautiful older Butch. Filmmaker Alotta brings hirself invisibly into the mix, rhythmically narrating inner thoughts on desire and the familiar - recognition and mirroring - as the heated passing-by ensues.

Kip Masker

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The absurd combination of the body and the misappropriated use of clothing enlist the viewer into a fluid stream of sculptural moments and constructs that dissolve after a fleeting manifestation. (…) The performance intends to analyze and play with ideas about the body, the fetishization of clothing, and lastly, question whether it is possible to rethink the perception of the (nude) body.(…) In Kip Masker I unite the roles of performer and camerawoman (video artist). I see these two functions united in one person as an expression of a new, expanded concept of feminist self evidence.

Lezzieflick

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Lezzieflick is a deconstructive remix of stereotypical representations of lesbian sex in hetero porn. The body forms become fluid, continually changing, and the women no longer appear to be available as the passive object of voyeuristic desire. The content of the image as well as the usual position of the subject are shifted. The material of the film appears to dissolve in satisfaction. Is there such thing as beautiful ‘hardcore’ camera work?

Mouse's Birthday

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Mouse's Birthday is a four-part music video/fairietale about a mouse, a cockroach, and a "gay" symbolising gluttony, list, vanity, sexuality, and homophobia. Masks, Puppets, hand drawn sets, and special effects, come together in the whimsical visual poem that explores "drag" of all kinds.

My Dead Brain

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The modern female mind is a junkyard. Plagued with body image anxieties, virgin-whore fantasies, consumer lust, and baby-making fears, a woman travels through the labyrinth of her brain.

Pianos and Bricks

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Official music video for Pianos and Bricks by Dorian Wood, directed by Dino Dinco (www.dinodinco.com) and produced by Tracey Landon. Pianos and Bricks -- Wood's ode to the kind of obsessive homo-desire that refuses to quit - appears on his debut album, BOLKA, available from www.dorianwood.com

Play With Me

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Visually stimulating glimpse into an African-American soft stud attending her first play party.

Project B*mbi

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Project B*mbi contains three pivotal scenes from the disparate genres of animated feature, pornography, and epic drama. Sequences from Bambi, Debbie Does Dallas, and The Deer Hunter, were re-framed, re-cut, and re-mixed to create surprising and subversive textual relationships. When the narratives and imagery commingle, subtext is revealed as each film becomes a critical lens in which to review and reconsider representations of gender, sexuality and death, ultimately transforming the appropriated elements into an entirely new work.

To All the Boys I've Loved Before

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To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is a love letter to yourself. A darkly humorous, stylish and surrealist examination of why he never calls when he says he’ll call and a gentle reminder to stop giving a f***.

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