Queer Rebels (SF Bay) at MIX NYC
Afro-Asian Visions: Exploding Lineage II!
What histories do we inherit, and what do we need to create? Queer Rebels is thrilled to return after our 2012 MIX NYC debut. Afrofuturism. The Asian avant-garde. Genderqueer love. Anarchy. Ancestral trauma. These films reflect the past and imagine our collective future.
WHEN/WHERE:
Wed - Nov 13 - 7:30 PM
The MIX Factory
521 3rd Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11215
TICKETS: $13: http://www.mixnyc.org/26/programs/?item=program-101
Th...
Queer Rebels (SF Bay) at MIX NYC
Afro-Asian Visions: Exploding Lineage II!
What histories do we inherit, and what do we need to create? Queer Rebels is thrilled to return after our 2012 MIX NYC debut. Afrofuturism. The Asian avant-garde. Genderqueer love. Anarchy. Ancestral trauma. These films reflect the past and imagine our collective future.
WHEN/WHERE:
Wed - Nov 13 - 7:30 PM
The MIX Factory
521 3rd Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11215
TICKETS: $13: http://www.mixnyc.org/26/programs/?item=program-101
The 26th MIX Festival will be from November 12-17, 2013
ABOUT THE CURATOR(S): Queer Rebels Productions (QRP) showcases queer artists of color, connects generations, and honors our histories with art for the future. Queer Rebels is led by K.B. Boyce and Celeste Chan. www.queerrebels.com
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL: MIX NYC is proud to present the latest in queer experimental film and previously unseen works from legendary lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and other queer-identified figures in avant-garde cinema. www.mixnyc.org
FILMS:
Persistence of vision (KB Boyce and Elitrea Frye, World premiere) seeks the intangible; it finds magic in the mundane.
The Heart’s Mouth (Erica Cho, NY premiere). An excerpt from Cho’s forthcoming experimental film Golden Golden, this short scene depicts an encounter between two Asian youth, set to the voice of Nat King Cole.
If I Found the Place (Leeroy Kun Young Kang, NY premiere). This video is a dedication to 1992, a K-pop idol, and “the boys," through a collage of found video footage, a mirrored dreamscape of fantasy and desire becomes transposed into a kaleidoscope of romantic bliss.
Each Night (Vũ T. Thu Hà. NY premiere). The public and the private. The city and the bedroom. Super8 film expresses the intimate roughness and the gritty softness of an urban love poem.
Can’t be Frantic (Naima Lowe, NY premiere). You heard your feet dangling over the edge. Can’t feel without gravity. Can’t let ‘em see you sweat.
Marvelous Miramol (Laura Kim, NY premiere). Miramol’s hypnotic journey to the subconscious involving narcissism and constant fascination towards the unknown.
sour plum blues (K. Boyce, Celeste Chan, Vanessa Huang, NY premiere). An imagined moment in Chinese American history, featuring a butch barber during 1920’s-30’s San Francisco.
Free Jazz PT II (EXCERPT) (Gary Fembot Gregerson, Brontez Purnell and Jerry Lee Abram, NY premiere). Free Jazz is electric-60’s experimental choreography.
Birthmarks (EXCERPT) (Naima Lowe, NY premiere). Birthmarks is an experimental non-fiction film about how Bill Lowe got beat up by the Newark Police during the riots in 1967, and how he spent much of his life telling the tale to his daughter. This film is about how fathers and daughters make beauty out of trauma and art out of living.
Speculum Orum (film by M. Lamar, directed by Stephen Winter, NY premiere). Speculum Orum or Speculum Oris refers to a device used on slave ships to hold open the mouths of enslaved Africans force feeding those who refused food. In this film M Lamar wants to understand this history through his black body and the body of his white male friend and also play with role reversals.
Malaysian Memories I (Celeste Chan, World premiere). Sizzle. Pop. Fry. Projections of wok cooking, recalling the Japanese occupation of Malaysia during WWII.
Lamka Lamsa (Anna Luisa Jeepneys, NY premiere). Lamka Lamsa is a term that comes from the distant future, describing a kind of nostalgia or longing for a culture that has been destroyed or lost. Music - “Rawroo” (excerpt) and “Lamka Lamsa.” jeepneysjeepneys.com
queer daikaiju (Miki Foster, NY premiere). Big Mysterious Monster// issei anarchists // queer mega shadows in violent acts of failure.
I Thought I Found You But v1.0 (Yvette Choy, World premiere), keeps us searching but for what or whom? Our only clues are the subtleties that our subjects' offer as they insist upon a closer look, a different look and a deeper look.
Love Bang (Việt Lê, NY premiere). Saturated with eye-popping colors and insatiable desires, Lê’s “sexperimental” music video examines historical trauma, collective memory and the effects of rapid modernization in Cambodia and Vietnam. {Original Trilingual "Hip Pop" Love Song: Khmer, English, Vietnamese}
Total run time: approximately 70 minutes
