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Film of the Day
Thanks to our partnership with Frameline,
the leading educational media distributor solely dedicated to lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) film and video since 1981, we will
have a "Film of the Day" every day during the conference. The
daily film screenings will take place at 19:00 Hrs in ContempoCinema
(Plaza del Angel, Zona Rosa).
Our Partner Frameline
has a media collection including more than 200 documentary, fiction,
experimental and animation titles reflecting the best of LGBT filmmaking
from around the world. Frameline films are for use in schools, colleges
and universities, libraries, and community groups.
Frameline invites you to visit their website
to browse the collection ranging over 70 different subject areas
including Gender/Women’s Studies, Social Issues, American Studies,
Film Studies, Pop Culture and many, many more. While at the Frameline
website, please sign up for the informative and free monthly
e-newsletter, the Frameline Distribution Dispatch, with the latest in
LGBT media developments and special discounts and packages offered only
to subscribers. Frameline films represent the most artistically
innovative, thematically rich and socially relevant LGBT images and
ideas from around the world.
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La pelicula del dia 8 de diciembre / Film des Tages 8.
Dezember/ Film of the Day 8. December
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| Barney and Dimi are young and in love.
Barney's father, Dan, is dying of AIDS. Dan wants to get
out early; he is planning his suicide and wants Barney's
blessing. Barney wants him to face up to the mistakes of
his past. Dimi, suddenly an outsider, feels like he is
losing Barney and wants to connect with his own father.
A journey for both of remembering, grief and
reconciliation. |
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| RSVP
is a lyrical piece which explores the emotions felt by a
group of people when a man they all know dies. The
story is woven together not with dialogue, but rather
with the song “La Spectre de la Rose” (from
Berlioz’ Les Nuits d’Ete, performed by Jessye
Norman) which Andrew (the deceased) had requested
several weeks prior to his funeral from a local radio
station. His lover, Sid, returns home from
Andrew's funeral, turns on the radio and, ironically,
the d.j. announces Andrew's request and plays this
hauntingly beautiful aria. The music forms a link
between various family members and friends listening to
it; through their images, reactions and memories we
learn about Andrew's life and that he has died of AIDS.
Sid (and the viewer) takes a small step forward in the
grieving process. RSVP
is an almost wordless tour-de-force about the impact of
one man's death on those who loved him. |
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La pelicula del dia 9 de diciembre / Film des Tages 9.
Dezember/ Film of the Day 9. December
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| A gay Indian filmmaker travels across
America with his family visiting from India, as he
struggles to come out to them. He was tested for HIV
before he left for the trip and will not recieve his
results until they return. Under the threat of terminal
illness, made very real by an unsafe encounter with an
HIV-positive man, the filmmaker explores the dynamics of
secrecy and love that mark this very close family.
Pushing the limits of personal documentary every moment,
every achingly intimate moment -- including coming out
to his mother -- is caught on tape. |
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La pelicula del dia 10 de diciembre / Film des Tages
10. Dezember/ Film of the Day 10. December
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During the twelve years from the
Stonewall Rebellion (1969) to the first reported cases
of AIDS (1981) there was a search for a definition of
what it meant to be gay. And for the most part, that
search required openly exploring a sexuality that for
decades had been forbidden. Americans in New York and
elsewhere were cutting loose from puritanical values and
ascribing to the catchphrase of the time “if it feels
good, do it.” Suddenly, not only was sexuality allowed
for gay people, sexuality was in and of itself a good
thing. Today, most people – even young gay men –
have no idea of what life was like in the streets of New
York at that time. There are few left alive to tell them
of the astounding sexual freedom and sexual excitement
of day-to-day life. Considerable attention has been
given to Stonewall itself and to the 80s in terms of HIV
and AIDS, but much less notice has been given to the
period of time between the two. This film provides that
“hidden history” in a frank and thoughtful way,
raising questions about how far the gay liberation
movement has come and how acceptance of sexuality can
affect sexual behavior, promiscuity, and the sometimes
murky relationship between liberation and integration.
Documentary producer/director Joseph Lovett (producer of
the first in-depth AIDS investigations for national
television at ABC News’ “20/20”) focuses his lens
on the unbridled sexual passion and exploration that
marked those twelve years. This outpouring of sexuality
is put into perspective by looking at what gay life was
like before 1969. In an era when same-sex attraction was
seen as pathetic or threatening, and fulfilling same-sex
relationships were considered impossible, what set the
stage for the explosion? With access to a filmic and
photographic treasure trove of erotic life on New
York’s West Side Piers, trucks, bars, dance clubs,
bathhouses and beaches, Lovett’s cast of storytellers
(including Larry Kramer, Scott Bromley, Barton Benes,
Rodger McFarlane, and others) takes us from the
remarkably repressed pre-Stonewall period to an era of
sexual liberation unparalleled since ancient Rome.
Straightforward, funny and titillating at the same time,
their stories are told with remarkable wit, humor and
perspective. For younger people – those who became
sexually active during the age of AIDS – this film may
be a startling revelation.
Mr. Lovett is available for some in-person visits for
those interested in having him accompany the film and/or
participate in panel discussions. Please contact
Frameline for more information. |
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The Dead Boys' Club is the story
of a young man in a world haunted by the absence of an
entire generation of men that have gone before him: a
generation that he should have known but, because of
AIDS, is a generation that he can only imagine.
Awkward and shy, Toby is visiting his New York cousin
Packard, who gives him a pair of shoes previously owned
by Packard's recently deceased lover. When Toby dons the
shoes, he is transported to the pre-AIDS 1970s world of
promiscuity, hot guys and glitter balls. The Dead
Boys' Club is an evocative, sexy and humorous
exploration of a young man's coming out, and an homage
to the generation that paved the way -- some with their
lives -- before him.
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La pelicula del dia 11 de diciembre / Film des Tages
11. Dezember/ Film of the Day 11. December
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James Wentzy's in-your-face FIGHT
BACK, FIGHT AIDS is a compilation of footage
documenting the first ACT UP meeting in 1987 on New York
City's Wall Street and continues to 2002. Amateur video
recording – at the demonstration level and from the
private, behind-the-scenes meetings and training –
reveals the astonishing camraderie that united a
politically enraged community, regardless of age, race,
ethnicity or gender.
Recognizable faces among the hundreds of ACT UP
activists, timelessly captured over the 15 years of
footage, are likely to be moving. Particularly
noteworthy is seeing activist and author Vito Russo
issue a speech equating AIDS to war then demanding to
know how the two landscapes differ.
Whether or not your own political views are aligned with
ACT UP’s today, this infinitely relevant political
group taught us to fight back against government
complacency, to protest the high cost of pharmaceutical
drugs, and to simply ask others, "Where is your
rage?"
--San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film
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Steve Levitt's Deaf
Heaven is about AIDS, angels, faith and the
Holocaust; it is also an accomplished and affecting
drama about a young man tending to his dying lover.
A man who is losing his lover to AIDS encounters a
Jewish Holocaust survivor in a sauna at his health club.
The survivor senses the man's sadness; after the young
man shares his impending loss, the survivor shares what
it means to lose someone within a historical context and
what it means to be a witness to history.
Deaf Heaven is a
landmark work that offers the clearest and strongest
comparison yet between the AIDS pandemic and the
Holocaust.
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La pelicula del dia 12 de diciembre / Film des Tages
12. Dezember/ Film of the Day 12. December
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From the maker of Zero
Patience and Lillies...
Eisenstein, Mishima, Frida Kahlo and other dead artists
are uncannily summoned on a mission to probe the
policing of public toilets in Ontario. They discover
that, since 1981, hundreds of men have been arrested,
victims of video surveillance. The key to all this seems
to be a portrait of Dorian Gray. Part news story, part
surreal comic invention, John Greyson's Urinal
is at the cutting edge of new gay cinema: passionate,
playful, complex and sharp.
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