Zoe Leonard
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Read More: #85, make productive fake documentariesIn an article, “The Increasingly Unproductive Fake,” I wrote about The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996), I film that I produced and also acted in: “We took up fake documentary…
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Read More: #38, the NEA matters, fight for the least-seen to speak truth to powerTwenty years ago, on March 13, 1997, Frank Rich penned an op-ed, “Lesbian Lookout,” in support of the NEA, which was under threat. The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996), which…
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Read More: Man-o Man-ifesto!I hope you will go see my short review of Julian Rosefeldt’s impressive, spectacular art show, “Manifesto” now online on the Brooklyn Rail. I conclude with my own (wo)manifesto, in…
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Read More: The opposite of archiving: Zoe Leonard, Fae Richards, and the Watermelon WomanSometimes things align, but mostly, really, it’s because they are already connected. Such is the case with the showing of Zoe Leonard’s compelling new body of work, “In the Wake,”…
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Read More: Jason and Shirley: Loving incantation of a state we all can identify with, the state of JasonAfter seeing Jason and Shirley (Stephen Winter, 2015) this weekend at Outfest, I am moved to respond here to Milestone Film & Video‘s recent and scathing critique of the film…
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Read More: AIDS Activist Shorts and the Emergence of Queer CinemaLast Friday night, I attended a screening of nearly twenty-year old AIDS activist videos (the scenes of my youth; the research topic of my juvenalia) which were part of the…