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DEAD LY DECEPTION Frameline presents a special evening celebrat ing two landmark films by California lesbian
ARE WE BEI N G SERVED? A PAN E L DISC USSION ON L ESB I A N Be G AY I MAG ES ON B RITISH T V
To complement our Day In The Life oj British
A T H O M E W I T H T H E STA R S ( PA R T O N E )
Y M A SUM AC : -i N CA PRI NCESS True camp followers will need no introduction to the legend that is Yma Sumac. For those of you who haven't heard of her, your world-view
Television screenings at the Eye Gallery, visit
may well change with this program., featuring
Tonight's program will feature a special
ing program-makers from Britain will talk
a 90-minute German documentary about Yma.
work-in-progress screening of Paris Poirier's
filmmakers Debra Chasnoff and Paris Poirier.
about the context for British broadcasting.
Originally from Peru, Yma's extraordinary
Last Call at Maud's. This fascinating film
The evening is intended as an information
eight-octave range brought her world acclaim
focuses on the closing of the oldest lesbian
exchange for American audiences. Is British
in the 50s. Her first album- The Voice oj
bar in the world, San Francisco's Maud's.
TV truly a utopia for lesbian and gay images?
Xtabay-is in a genre all of its own (file under
Tracking our history from the WWll lesbian
Should we aspire to producing the same images
Operatic Peruvian Fall? Song With full Orche
bar scene, to the birth of The Daughters of
here? How did Out oJ Tuesday get made, and
stra ) . With international success, and a few
Bilitis, to the closing of Amelia's last year, Last
how has it been received in Britain?
more albums (culminating in the truly ghastly
The panel will be moderated by Tim High
rock-disco medley Miracles), myths about Yma
ries of some of the major figures in San
stead, of London's Institute for Contemporary
multiplied. Could she really sing live? Was she
Francisco's lesbian community.
Arts. Panelists include Nigel Finch (editor
really from Peru? Spelt backwards, wasn't she
of BSes Arena series, and director of Lost
actually Amy Camus from Teaneck, New jersey?
Call at Maud's documents the lives and histo
Debra Chasnoffs 1991 Academy Award winning documentary, Deadly Deception is a
Language oj Cranes) , Kris Klarke, (maker of
powerful indictment of General Electric's
Amlistead Maupin Is A Man I Dreamt Up, and
Yma Sumac: Hollywood's l1ua Princess tackles
all the myths, and gets aL some even stranger
Gunther CzernelZky's well-researched bio,
nuclear weapons development in the United
Sex Change-Shadd Honor! Probe!), Clare
States. The film offers a disturbing documen
Beavan (director of l1lSide Gay Porn ) , and Ron
truths. CzernelZky starts out in the hills of
tation of GE's destruction of the environment
Santora, program manager for San Francisco's
Peru (asking peasants if they've heard of Yma) ,
and disregard for human lives in its release of
KQED, which will be airing episodes of Out
and proceeds La America, where he talks to
radiation, dumping of toxic wastes, and con
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record producers and, finally, the
tinued development of nuclear weapons. It's a remarkable, lesbian-made documentary. Both filmmakers will be present to intro duce their work. Partial proceeds from tOnight'S program will benefit the completion of Last Call at Maud's.
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man
who
Admission is Jree and seats are limited to 1 00.
managed her New York gay cabaret comeback
Doors will open at 6:40pm
in the early 80s. Along the way there's lots of
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S PO N S O R E D BY T H E B R I T I S H C O U N C I L
rare footage, including Yma s famous encounter with David Letterman. To make the show even more special, we shall be using live simultaneous translation of the Spanish and German segments, plus a re
DEADLY DECEPTION Dir. Debra Chasnoff ( 1991 ) USA 29 millS. 16mm -¢LAST CALL AT MAUD'S (work in progress)
peat screening of a Festival hit from 1986joe Westmoreland's hilarious At Home with t1te Stars: Jeatu.ring Patsy Cline witll Y1l1a Su.mac..
Dir. Paris Poirier ( 1 992) USA 45 millS. (approximately) video
AT HOME WIlli THE STARS Dir. joe
P R E S E N T E D I N ASSOC I AT I O N W I T H
Westmoreland ( 1984) USA 12 mUlS. video
T H E F I L M A RTS FO U N D AT I O N
-¢> YMA SUMAC: HOllYWOOD'S
INCA PRINCESS Dir. Gunther Czernetzky ( 1992) Germany 90 millS. video T H I S P R O G R A M S P O N S O R E D BY T H E G O ET H E I N ST I T U T E
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