queer cinema
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Read More: Distraction Span: Disjointed Rapidfire Thought Requested
My friend Brian Goldfarb and I just released Distraction Span: Technologies of Productive Disruption at MediaCommons. “With this cluster of The New Everyday we initiate a conversation about social media…
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Read More: Hooters at FusionHooters, Anna Margarita Albelo’s documentary about the making of The Owls, will play this Sunday at 3 at Fusion, LA’s Queers of Color Film Festival. It’s a great film about…
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Read More: Bechdel’s Bechdel (1997)
I have been following Alex Vesy’s “Bechdel Test Canon” at Feminist Music Geek. The Bechdel Test seems to be going as viral as any lesbian thing ever could. I recently…
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Read More: i wanted every day to last forever: irwin swirnoff & Kevin J. EversonI had the rare pleasure of seeing experimental film two nights in a row this week, especially gratifying given the paltry mainstream fare I’ve been viewing lately to feed this…
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Read More: Films for the Feminist Classroom: “The Owls”FFFC, a new on-line journal that is a side-project of SIGNS, has just published my article, “A Lesbian Collective Aesthetic: Making and Teaching The Owls.” By including the written and…
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Read More: Funding Microbudget Queer Cinema
I just returned from an Owls screening at Outfest. As I’ve written here, the film cost about $25K, raised by small donations from its producers and the generous support of…
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Read More: Documenting the Documenters, Take Two: Owls ‘n HootersThe Owls, the collective, experimental docu/fiction lesbian thriller that I produced is showing, now, all over the world. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z6WV8UeurQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Look for June US screenings in SF and LA. The docu-comedy,…
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Read More: Documenting the Documenters: More from the AIDS Activist ArchiveI had the opportunity to view screeners of two new AIDS documentaries: Sex in an Epidemic (Jean Carlomusto) and ACT UP New York Highlights: I (Jim Hubbard, Sarah Schulman, and…
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Read More: Last Address: Buildings are BricksIra Sachs generously traded his new short film, Last Address, with me for my Video Remains. Both are elegies for lost friends, artists, and activists of the 1980s. I had…
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Read More: Watching Feminist Motherhood: Mind the Gap!I saw One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (Varda, 1977) in my graduate Women and Film class in the late 80s, with Professor Annette Michelson (one of those strangely women-averse female…