Fancy Pants
Sunday, November 19, 4 p.m.
Courthouse Theater
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These short works by lesbian artists look at ... lesbian artists. What does it take to become an icon? How do these images mirror the women who love them? If the videos in this program are any indication, it takes a lot of photography. The artists in Fancy Pants recreate a photographer’s biography, rephotograph Hollywood images, stalk women from a neighboring town, investigate a photographer’s death. All show how the camera and the photographic image can cross that boundary between the self and what’s outside.
- curated by the Festival Programming Committee (84 min.)

Dear Joan (Stephanie Gray, 1999, US, Super-8/video, b&w, sound, 4 min.) The passion for Joan of Arc belongs to the filmmaker.

The Apparent Trap • (Julie Zando, 1999, US, video, color, sound, 20 min.) Zando explores power relations of mirroring and likeness by mining and reshooting of scenes from The Parent Trap.

Passions (Leidenschaften) • • (Anna Gollwitzer, 1996, Germany, in German with English subtitles, video, color, sound, 15 min.) This stylish work full of Polaroids and latex posits a lesbian photographer as stalker.

Constructions • (Kathryn Xian, 2000, US, video, color, sound, 9 min.) A remembrance of the life and work of late artist/photographer Samantha Maeshiro.

The Fancy (Elisabeth Subrin, 2000, US, video, color, sound, 36 min.) Subrin interrogates and the cult of interest surrounding the life, work and suicide of ethereal photographer Francesca Woodman.