9pm - Courthouse Theater

Opening Night Gala: The Coming Revolution     [buy tickets]
Cruisers, intervention artists, militias, pimps, post-punks and school kids who've graduated from smoking in the boys' room to more indecent activities: the hot, gutsy shorts in this all-premiere program rush the barricades of "official" gay culture and sound the clarion call of revolt. The Coming Revolution reignites queer cinema with the rebel spirit of counter culture, a hormonally stoked erotic edge, and not a small dose of revolutionary optimism. MIX kicks off its sweet 16th year with a collection that kicks some serious ass. Homos of the world, join us-you have nothing to lose but your modesty! Curated by the Festival Programming Committee
-program running time: 99 min.

Opening Night gala party to follow

FILMS IN PROGRAM:

La Tombola (Raffle)
Ximena Cuevas (2001, Mexico, video, 7 min.) NY premiere

Take back the airwaves: Mexico's video art doyenne Ximena Cuevas books herself onto the tabloid talk show "Tombola (Raffle)," toying at first with whimsical deconstruction until she turns the whole affair on its head by seizing the televisual flow itself.

Le Chateau (The Castle)
Pierre Yves Clouin (2002, France, video, 2:55 min.) world premiere
An impressionist fever-dream of cruising. Stationing the lens at crotch level, Le Chateau flaunts Clouin's promiscuously devouring gaze, spooling off a fluidly hypnotic series of "automatic" compositions while compulsively scanning for a glimpse of flesh somewhere in the labyrinth, but not so driven by lust that he can't be stopped in his tracks by random visual epiphanies.

Historia de amor en baño publico (Love Story in a Public Restroom)
Pablo Oliverio (2001, Argentina, 16mm, b&w, 7 min.) NY premiere
Homeless boy falls in love with a junkie and trades drugs for sex, until the police interfere. Keep your eyes on Argentina, the winds of change are blowing strong there...

Who Do You Think You Are?
Stephanie Gray (2000, USA, Super 8-to-video, b&w, 4 min.) NY premiere

Zoom to 1986, a revisiting of one eighth grader's Fuck X-Mas Day, an eloquent study in Metallica appreciation as fellow family members retaliate. Who do you think you are to blast Metallica on X-mas morning, Miss Individuality?

Freeplay
Simone Moir & Chantal Rousseau (2001, Canada, video, 4:45 min.) NY premiere
Ready for their close-ups, these shameless bad girls dress up, dress down, and get their phreek on under the forensic stare of the surveillance cameras.

Desperate - Not Desperate
Susanne Oberbeck (2002, Great Britain, 16mm, 10 min.) US premiere
Sharon is upwardly mobile.

Freunde: The Whiz Kids
Jan H. Krüger (2001, Germany, 35mm, 22 min.) NY premiere
Two sixteen year old boys, Marco and Johannes, spend their days racing, wrestling, hanging out, watching videos and playing hide-and-seek. Boundaries begin to fade, and eventually-invevitably-dissolve. Based on an original story idea by A.M. Homes, Jan Krüger's diploma film from the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne is a startlingly assured exercise in bruised lyricism. Best short film award, 2001 Venice International Film Festival.

Phineas Slipped
KeriOakie (2002, USA, video, 13:30 min.) world premiere
Restless schoolboys have dirty daydreams while in class.

Sssssss
Christina Zeidler (2002, Canada, 16mm, 3 min.) US premiere

Ssssssssssomthing's after me!!!!

The Salivation Army
Scott Treleaven (2001, Canada, video, 22 min.) NY premiere

A tale of blood, spit, sex and cult recruitment: for three years the Salivation Army operated a counterculture zine aimed at restless queercore punk youth. But during their brief existence what began as a small, local gang transformed into an increasingly dangerous cult network.

Packin'
John Greyson (2001, Canada, video, 4 min.) NY premiere

In April 2001, legions of anti-globalization warriors from far and wide descended on Québec City to storm the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) summit. Prolific queer filmmaker John Greyson (The Law of Enclosures, MIX 2001) fashions both a stirring paean to the youthful protesters and a slyly affectionate homage to Joan Jonas's Vertical Roll.

Ssion
Cody Critcheloe (2002, USA, video, 2:30 min.) NY premiere

I don't want New Wave and I don't want the truth.