SELF-REFLEXIVE
ARTISTS’ TELEVISION ACCESS • 992 Valencia St. S.F. • 5/23/12 • 8:00pm • $6
Programmed by: Lauren Soldano
Navigating queer desires has never been a walk in the park. Okay, maybe sometimes it consists of cruising in the park. Whatever. Senses of radical queer self-hood don’t just catalyze themselves, they take some serious nurturing. That nurturing can take a lot of forms — a sassy critique of ‘heterosexual values,’ a serious conversation about the gaps between theory and lived experience, or just some good old-fashioned masturbating. These are just a few of the strategies of this month’s filmmakers. It takes more than a haircut to disrupt systems of oppression — it takes self-reflection, an examination of how our selves are implicated in those systems, and sometimes it takes being kind of shameless. Get ready for some feelings talk with a dash of sacrilege, and yeah, of course — an exciting lineup of (some old, some brand new) queer experimental shorts!
Lineup:
Kehontas Rose
Alexis McCrimmon
Samara Halperin
Bug Davidson
Emily Wingren
Malic Amalya
Parke Ballantine
Lindsay Laven
Lauren Soldano
+ Emily Y. Wang