[Nouveaux dépôts]

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  Flyhole
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  2017 - 00:06:00 - Fichier Quicktime
  In this dual projection slide show of collaged imagery, FlyHole tells the story of a housefly who transitions into a man in order to cruise gay bars. Text and images are photocopied from the March 1985 issue of the adult, gay digest magazine, Manscape, including illustrations by Mike Kuchar. Text and images in FlyHole are appropriated from the short erotica, “The Dildo in my Pocket,” published in Manscape (March 1985). The original story is about a “woman” who “disguises herself” as a man in order to pursue the gay man “she” is in love with. Despite using outdated language and transphobic tropes, the story accurately depicts the concerns and fears many trans-masculine people have about passing, takes seriously the gay desires that some trans-masculine people have for men, and portrays the main character as a competent lover, capable of bringing a cis gay man—and, presumably, Manscape’s readers—to orgasm. Through the use of collaged images of flies onto sections of text from “The Dildo in my Pocket,” the main character is transformed into a housefly who transitions into a man. Through this alteration, the transphobic notion of trans people are grotesque is reworked into a science-fiction, anti-assimilationist parable. FlyHole holds onto Mascape’s trans-masculine history, while circumventing heteronormative gender-assignment.
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  Song for Rent, after Jack...
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  2019 - 00:07:00 - Fichier Quicktime
  With Kate Smith singing God Bless America looped in the background, experimental filmmaker Jack Smith starred as Rose Courtyard—a drag character based on Rose Kennedy—in his 1969 film, Song for Rent. In this adaptation, Barbarella Bush joins Rose in a campy exploration of US nationalism, queer assimilation, and denunciation. 
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  Sub Rosa
  de Robert Withers
  

  1975 - 00:22:00 - Fichier Quicktime
  Structured by a Bolex camera, a tripod, and a dance in the forest; camera springs and hot splices measuring frames. Music by Ciao Ciao World War: Humphrey M. Evans III and Robert Withers. Thanks for all the great years of Kodachrome. Music and film about 1975, combined in 2019.
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  Chemical Wedding
  de Robert Withers
  

  1975 - 00:08:40 - Fichier Quicktime
  A postmodern structural circle dance with Bolex and summer trees.
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  Splash
  de Thomas Allen Harris
  

  1991 - 00:07:00 - Fichier Quicktime
  A fable-like tale, Splash explores the interplay between identity, fantasy, and homosexual desire in pre-adolescence within the narrow confines of black masculinity. The tape is an exploration of the filmmaker’s psycho-social and sexual development within a society that encourages the consumption of whiteness and heterosexuality. Splash reveals how the family becomes the agency through which sexual repression and gender conformity are carried out.
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  Black Body
  de Thomas Allen Harris
  

  1992 - 00:05:00 - Fichier Quicktime
  Black Body is a harsh and compelling meditation on the contradictory values assigned to black bodies in American culture: they exist as both desired and feared, abject and powerful. The “black body” is a body whose surface reflects projected fears and repressed desires; as such, it exists as a site of ideological struggle, a surface which is simultaneously eroticized and denegrated. With nightmarish narratives and loaded terms hovering over an image of a naked torso bound with wire, Harris shows how these contradictory values continue to cripple and contort the self-image of blacks. The video conveys a powerful sense of confusion and trauma, the problem of inhabiting a body that is a cultural taboo.
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  Heaven, Earth & Hell
  de Thomas Allen Harris
  

  1993 - 00:19:00 - Fichier Quicktime
  Reflecting upon the figure of “Trickster” in African and Native American culture while recounting the story of his first love, Harris creates a graceful, deeply moving lament for the loss of innocence in a world without magic.
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  Dangerous Light
  de Robert Todd
  

  2012 - 00:07:00 - Fichier Quicktime
  Shards of light from an imaginary past.
  
  Ressources web autour de ce cinéaste :
  http://www.roberttoddfilms.com
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  Flow
  de Robert Todd
  

  2015 - 00:07:00 - Fichier Quicktime
  Il n'y a pas de synopsis anglais pour ce film
  
  Ressources web autour de ce cinéaste :
  http://www.roberttoddfilms.com
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  Life in the Shadows
  de Robert Todd
  

  2018 - 00:09:30 - Fichier Quicktime
  Active Elements at play, in toil, and retreat, seeking peace.
  
  Ressources web autour de ce cinéaste :
  http://www.roberttoddfilms.com