| Selected Summaries of Works Chosen for the 2001 |
| Queer Articulations Experimental Film Festival |
| ...presented by the Princeton University Pride Alliance |
| http://www.princeton.edu/~pride |
| Thursday, March 8 | McCosh 10 |
| Friday, March 9 | McCosh 10 |
| Saturday, March 10 | Betts Auditorium (School of Architecture) |
| ...all viewings begin at 8 PM |
| THURSDAY |
| [ Icky and Kathy Trilogy, Kathy High ] |
| [ 1999, 9 minutes ] |
| Shot in black and white film, this rough and ready trilogy is about twin sisters who "act out" and actup in their own best interests. At the age when a young girl might discover her own sexuality, they explore themselves (and even each other) in their "games" and playtime together. In the three sections, Icky & Kathy Find Liberty, The Babysitter and Learning To Suck, the girls engage inslightly illicit acts together. Being naughty can be fun! |
| [ Animal Attraction, Kathy High ] |
| [ 59 minutes ] |
| Animal Attraction is a documentary about the relationship between people and animals, questioning the way we project our hopes and desires onto our pets, imbuing their gestures with human qualities and attributes. The tape was inspired by the plight of the filmmaker who was frustrated by the obnoxious behavior of her cat, Ernie. As a last resort, she gave in to a friend's suggestion to contact an animal communicator. This is her journey following an interspecies telepathic communicator, Dawn Hayman, from Spring Farm CARES, an animal sanctuary in upstate New York. Both the filmmaker and the viewer become involved in a complex examination of our relationship to "nature". |
| [ Just Don’t Tell, Ara Tucker ‘01 ] |
| [ 5 minutes ] |
| Just Don’t Tell is an experimental "documentary" that uses coming out experiences of young adults to explore the impact negative parental reactions can have on the parent/child relationship. Look for this piece again at 185 Nassau Street the week of April 17 as a part of Ara's Thesis Show. |
| FRIDAY |
| [ The Lesbian Impress Card, Ingrid Wilhite ] |
| [ 3 minutes ] |
| Are you a doldrum dyke? No one calls when you're out? Still single? You need the Lesbian Impress Card. Watch this (spoof) ad and see how it will change your life! A comic commentary on butch, femme and consumer culture. |
| [ Yellow Fever, Raymond Yeung ] |
| [ 26 minutes ] |
| A love story set in 90s London, following the life of Monty, a gay Chinese anglophile, desperately seeking his "white knight". A modern comedy with a dash of camp and a trace of glamour, Yellow Fever is an offbeat and witty portrayal of gay Chinese subculture in a European-dominated society. |
| [ Fingered!, James Raymond ] |
| [ 12 minutes ] |
| A sexually frustrated lesbian stalks a dexterous concert pianist, who will eventually become the answer to her chronically solo sexual peaks. This lighthearted queer comedy satirically portrays the power of sex and its ability to entrap one within an inappropriate relationship. |
| [ A Kiss in the Snow (Kysset Som Fikk Snoen Til A Smelte), Frank Mosvold ] |
| [ 22 minutes ] |
| Teenagers can be experts at talking circles around what's really on their minds. It is usually the weighted spaces between those words that speak volumes, as they do in A Kiss In The Snow. Mosvold's young characters pull the common teen angst of sexual awakening into the much less familiar territory of same-sex attraction. |
| [ Sleep Come Free Me, Laurie Schmidt ] |
| [ 19 minutes ] |
| Natalie, a disenchanted office worker, lives in the space between dreams and reality. When her dream life overlaps with reality, her dull 9-5 existence is flooded with overwhelming and unexpected desire, and Natalie is forced to sink or swim. |
| [ Love Story, Catrine Clay ] |
| [ 60 minutes ] |
| In 1942 Berlin, LiIly Wurst was a model Aryan hausfrau with a picture of the Fuhrer on the wall, a husband in the army, and a German motherhood medal for bearing four sons. With this distinction came mother's helper Ulla Schaaf, who unbeknownst to Lilly was deeply involved with the Jewish underground. When Lilly boasted that she could "smell a Jew", Ulla tested her by introducing her to Felice Schraderheim, aka Felice Schrader, a 20 year old Jewish woman living in hiding. The result of that meeting is an unusual love story whose arc is followed through recollections, documents, and archival footage in this beautifully made documentary. |
| SATURDAY |
| [ Bayou, Dina Ciraulo ] |
| [ 7 minutes ] |
| Bayou combines the politics of travel with the power of love. Part travelogue and part diary, the film is an intimate account of a trip taken to the South. Over images of a beautiful and forbidding bayou the filmmaker narrates an idealized vision of t ravel and the nightmare of red-necks with shotguns. Bayou is a filmic On the Road with the added tension of being openly lesbian in rural America. |
| [ Relax, Christopher Newby ] |
| [ 25 minutes ] |
| London, 1990. Steve scrubs himself neurotically prior to going to the doctor for an HIV test. Once there the doctor tells him: relax. This short film, captures t he hopes and fears and the deadly waiting time faced after being tested for HIV. |
| [ Want, Brian Davis ] |
| [ 13 minutes ] |
| Want is a hard-edge drama about self-hatred and repressed homosexuality. Two straight-seeming guys drive through gay neighborhoods shouting at "faggots;" later, they return to their apartment, where one tries to suppress his sexual interest in the other. |
| [ Maya, Catherine Benedek ] |
| [ 10 minutes ] |
| After persistent prodding from her mother, Maya agrees to go on a date with Zach, an eligible young cardiologist. Her mother wants her married, but Maya has other plans. Using the money her mother gives her for therapy, Maya instead takes dance classes where she meets Sasha. Her feelings for Sasha fill Maya with desire, and the courage to stand up to her mother. |
| [ Faggots are for Burning, Barry McKay ] |
| [ 10 minutes ] |
| Faggots Are For Burning is an intense, impressionistic and compelling melange of sound and image. It is a story strongly controversial t o t he church, yet a personal story. The film deals with a young gay man's inner conflict with his sexuality and subsequent journey though the world of Christian Fundamentalism in search of answers. Faggots... portrays the effect upon the individual when these two intrinsically opposed forces are brought together. |
| [ Get Your Stuff, Max Mitchell ] |
| [ 97 minutes ] |
| Phil and Eric are waiting to adopt a baby with the help of their friend Gloria. But in the interim, they find their lives -- and Beverly Hills abode -- turned upside-down by the arrival of two foster kids. An offbeat and touching look at an alternative to an already "alternative" definition of family. |