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The
Third Sexers
The
relentless drive towards visibility has backfired into a flood of
assimilated, plastic people currently populating gay and lesbian
cinema. Fortunately, a few queers with artistic integrity continue
to eschew the mainstream by going back to the source, be it pre-liberation
homosexual identity or contemporary cybersex. Imaginative discoveries
are entertained on society’s margins through troubled youth, naughty
beauty professionals, Parisian webheads, and a historic love story.
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University Chisholm • • • (Robby Abate, 1999, US, 16mm, color, sound, 10 min.) A young voyeur experiences self-reckoning in this exploration the sexual free-fall of the truly clueless. Oblivion (Tom Chomont, 1969, US, 16mm, color, silent, 5 min.) This early erotic film creates a shimmering 3-D fantasy of love that performs a memory trick on the viewer. Ritual • • • (Tracey MacCullion, 2000, US, 16mm, b&w, sound, 8 min.) Blood-sucking students enraged by contagious enigmas of sexual identity haunt this part-Argento, part-Romero horror homage. Come Softly • • • (Robby Abate, 1999, US, video, color, sound, 11 min.) Constructed of web feeds from porn newsgroups to CNN, this assemblage tape positions the Internet as the site for a new sexual alienation. Taking Back the Dolls (Leslie Singer, 1994, US, video, b&w, sound, 43 min.) Revisit this classic lesbian tale of high glamour, low camp, feminism, drugs and super models. Viva la psychodrama!
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