Foreign Tongues -International Gay Shorts
Frantz Fanon : Black S kin , White Mas klThe Dar ker Side of Black
Friends in High Places: The Art of Survival in Modern-Day Burma
Friday June 14 6:00 pm Herbst $7.50 Mem/$8.50 Gen (FOTON14)
Wednesday June 19 1 :00 pm
Saturday June 22 1 1 :00 am
Castro $5. 00 Mem/$6.00 Gen (FANON19)
Castro $5. 00 Mem/$6.00 Gen (FRIEN22)
FRANTZ FA N O N : B LAC K SKI N , WH ITE M AS K is 2002 Fra meline Award winner Isaac J u li e n's biogra phy of the pre-emi nent a nti -colonia l ist the orist of the 20th century. Fa non's two major wo rks, Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth, were pioneering stud ies of the psychologica l i m pact of racism on both colon ized and colon izer. This i n n ovative fil m restores Fa non to h is rightfu l place a t the center of contem pora ry d iscussions of postcol o n i a l identity, a s J u l ien elega ntly weaves together i nterviews with fa m i ly mem bers a n d fri ends, documentary footage, rea d i ngs from Fa non's work and d ra matizations of key moments in h is l ife. In T H E DAR KER S I D E OF B LACK, J u l ien takes us beh i n d the p u b l ic face of d ance h a l l , h i p-hop and gangsta ra p t o reveal t h e violence, m isogyny a n d homophobia that ta i nt these musical gen res-which have al so been the sou rce of some great, l ife-affi r m i n g m usic. Thoughtful comments from Ice C u be, Chuck D., Monie Love a nd M ichael Franti mix with h id eous ra nts by h it-ma kers Sha bba Ranks, who " knows" God hates homosexuals, a n d B uj u B a nto n , whose hit s o n g " Boom Bye-Bye" celebrated kil l i ng gay men. Activist Donal d S uggs wa rns of the da ngers, and Cornel West and Tricia Rose offer h istorica l perspective without excusing vi l e behavior. B ritish writer David D i bosa adds a per sonal note by recal l i ng how " Boom Bye-Bye" inspired people he thought were his "neigh bors and brothers" to attack h i m and his lover in the street.
" Did you fuck the genera l? " When it's a spi rit ta l ki ng through its chosen med i u m , you have to be pre pa red for such unexpected q uesti ons. O r it c o u l d j ust be t h e extra-sharp tongue o f t h e gay male med i u m . For spi rits and gay men form a holy a l l ia nce i n modern B u rma that has defied both m i litary rule and the offi cial rel igion of Buddhism. The spi rits, or nats, come i n many forms, from Lord of the Wh ite H orse to Tough M other to M r. Fa mous. When the B u rmese people need to consult a nat a bout business, hea lth or a way ward spouse, they seek the help of a med i u m . A n d i t tu rns o u t that gay m e n make t h e best one-sto p-shop med i u ms , beca use they ca n channel both male and female na ts. With the help of two sprightly a u nties i n their seventies, this fi l m goes i nto t h e world of ord i nary Bu rmese to show a country that's sti l l resil ient even as i t rema i ns c u t o ff from the world u nder m i l itary rule. H ow cou ld it not be when gay men put on makeup a nd crowns and make busi ness d ea ls with spi rits ( l i ke " H e l p my tea shop prosper and I'll have a great feast for yo u " )? Even the nats, who a re su pposed ly the spir its of people k i l led by ki ngs and q ueens, a re not a bove their l ittle foi bles. M r. Fa mous was a great woma n i zer. Lady Si lver Wi ngs was u n l u cky i n love . O f course, some don't bel i eve i n t h e spi rits . B ut to be on the safe side, everyone ha ngs u p a coconut for the household nat. Who wa nts to risk a ngeri ng a nat-or its acid-tongued gay med i um?
Th ursday June 20 1 :00 pm Castro $5. 00 Mem/$6.00 Gen (FOTON20)
Our progra m kicks off with EXH I B IT I O N , a n AI DS prevention short that leaves very I ittle t o the i magi natio n . Two h i larious gay su perheroes do their th i ng i n THE ADVEN T U R ES OF T H E S U P E R POWER FU L, and from Italy comes the brief but sexy B UTTER FLY. An Africa n dance class triggers c h i ld h ood m e m o ri es i n the Chi nese short DAN C E, then a wal k through a Paris cemetery offers rewa rds i n S H ADOW BOX. A you ng B razi l ia n has a wet but safe d rea m in FANTASY, w h i l e Ron decides to j u m p off the I nternet a nd risk an i n- person meeti ng i n Israel's O P ERAT I O N YY. Next a re two stu n n ing da nce shorts from Fra n ce, E R t M t LA M t LA a n d B ESA M E M U CH O , and it's one hell of a n ight for Diego i n N I G H T KISS. N ew t o Berli n , Boris real izes there's more to gay l ife in the city than gay pride and ma rriage rights in B R EAKFAST? Our pro gra m fi n ishes with the del ightfu l French short FI NAL EXA M S , a look at the l ives of th ree yo ung people as school ends and s u m mer begi ns . Exhibition d i r Ma rkus R i beiro 2001 Brazil 2 min video The Adventures of the Super Powerful d i rs J u lia Jordao & Lico Queiroz 2001 B razil 10 min video Butterfly dir Valentina Lucari 2002 Italy 3 min video Dance dir Doris Ng 2001 China 9 min video Shadow Box dir Pierre Yves Clouin 2000 France 2 min video Fantasy d i r Ma rkus Ri beiro 2001 Brazil 2 m i n video
Operation YY dir Oded Lotan 2000 Israel 1 8 m i n 1 6 mm Ere Mela Mela dir Daniel Wiroth 2001 France 6 m i n 35mm Besame Mucho dir Alfredo Diaz Perez 2001 France 6 min 35mm Night Kiss dir Boris Rodriguez 2000 Mexico/Canada 1 4 min 35mm
Friends in High Places: The Art of Survival in Modern-Day Burma
Breakfast? dir Alexander Pfeuffer 2002 Germany 1 4 min 35mm Final Exams dir Pascal Vincent 2001 France 1 8 min 35mm All fi lms with Engl i s h subtitles
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask d i r Isaac J u lien 1996 U K
dir Lindsey Merrison 2001 Germany/Switzerland 85 min 35mm
65 m i n 35mm The Darker Side of Black d i r I saac J u l ien 1993
in Burmese with English su btitles
UK 59 min video El igible for the Stu & Dave's Excellent Documentary Award
Tota l R u nn ing Time: 104 m i n
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