queer cinema
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Read More: social justice. social mediaAlex: Hi Kyle. Kyle: Hi Alex. Alex: Sorry. I kind of hijacked you. I was having a planning meeting with you about our partnership on the imminent release of my…
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Read More: a constant stimulationAlex: Hello, my friends and collaborators, Bea and Z. I am so grateful for you taking a little time out today on the weekend when so much else is going…
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Read More: groovy women can do groovy thingsAlex: Good morning, Erin. It’s morning for me. And what time for you? Erin: It is 15:48. Alex: Yeah, very British of you! I thank you for taking the time…
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Read More: festival of lights: 2nd time’s a charmWe were sitting in a circle at a late point in the evening. We were together at an intimate Hanukkah party at the home of my friends Chloe and James.…
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Read More: The audience as community: Visual AIDSLast night I had the pleasure of seeing the premier of Visual AIDS’ annual Day With(out) Art video program at the Whitney. Red Reminds Me … is playing this week…
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Read More: The audience (2): at MIX Fest 2024On Friday night I went to the Quad cinema to see the 9 pm program, Corporealities and Cures, at the newly relaunched MIX, New York’s storied queer experimental film festival.…
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Read More: they are lost to vision altogetherLast night, I saw an ingenious and moving double bill at BAM: Tom Kalin’s they are lost to vision altogether (1989) and Gregg Araki’s Totally Fucked Up (1993), one pairing…
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Read More: My VHS Archives: confessions from the field of queer feminist media praxisCommitted media praxis is a doing as much as it is a knowing. Queerness is a manner of being as much as it is a politics, theory, or set of…
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Read More: In conversation with Barbara HammerOver tea and croissants at her Westbeth Studio, filmmaker and artist Barbara Hammer met feminist film scholar and filmmaker Dr. Alexandra Juhasz for a lively back and forth about Hammer’s…
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Read More: Radical Queer Culture in “Mainstream Places”: Taylor Mac, Transparent and the Watermelon WomanI’ll begin with a shout-out, a dream-out—not a review but a reverie—of Taylor Mac’s “A Twenty-Four Hour History of Popular Music,” an unforgettable opus, atheistic tent revival, and hootenanny that…