Location:Powerhouse Arena, 37 Main St. , Brooklyn, New York, 11201, US
The New York Photo Festival is proud to announce its last invitational to be held at The POWERHOUSE Arena; entitled "The Last Picture Show". We are looking for the best new documentary, and fine art photography being produced today to showcase in this historic event which will exhibit from September ...
Location:Gallery 263, 263 Pearl St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, US
Propose an exhibition for Fall 2015 at Gallery 263! Our Curatorial Proposal Series provides the opportunity for artists of all media and experience levels to experiment with the organization and presentation of contemporary art, with guidance and support from the 263 team. Open to solo and group proposals. Online submissions ...
Location:Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11231
Ester Martin Bergsmark, Something Must Break.
For many of the few who have been able to see it, Something Must Break is considered one of the best attempts at transgender representation and the psycho-social complexities that this subjectivity entails. Located in contemporary Stockholm, the film gives us a glimpse in ...
Location:Participant Inc, 253 East Houston Street, New York, New York, 10002
House of Color (Robert Garcia, Wellington Love, Robert Mignott, Jeff Nunokawa, Pamela Sneed, Jocelyn Taylor, Julie Tolentino), I Object, video, 5min., 1990 Nguyen Tan Hoang, Maybe Never (But I’m Counting the Days), video, 15min., 1996
The Clit Club was a “floating” queer and sex-positive lesbian nightclub held in NYC ...
Location:Spectacle, 124 South 3rd Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11249
Jerry Paris, The Grasshopper, 35mm on video, 98min., 1970
Criminally neglected trashy classic follows naive Canadian hitchhiker Jacqueline Bisset to Los Angeles and Las Vegas as she makes it as a showgirl and VIP “party girl.” Along the way, she becomes the mistress to a wealthy, aging Joseph Cotten and ...
Location:Stonewall Inn, 53 Christopher Street, New York, New York, 10014
ManChyna, Chinese Up Them Eyes Like Beyonce, digital video, Canada, 2014 Lu Yang, Uterus Man, digital video, 11:19min., Shanghai, China, 2013 Alison S. M. Kobayashi, Dan Carter, video, 15min., Canada, 2006 Tanwarin Sukkhapisit, I’m Fine, video, 3:20min., Thailand, 2008 Yozmit, Sound of New Pussy, digital video, US ...
Location:Don Pedro, 90 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, 11206
Bathsalts was a weekly "drag night for fuck ups," hosted by Macy Rodman, the first recipient of the crown for M(r)s. Williamsburg, and Severely Mame. Located in a dive bar which typically caters to rock shows, Bathsalts brought a queer clientele to the bar, in large part ...
Location:Pyramid Club, 101 Avenue A, New York, New York, 10009
Various Artists, John Sex performance documents, 1983-1989
John Sex (1956 - 1990) was a wily and ribald staple of the East Village scene immortalized in books like Art After Midnight. With his sizzling singles like "Hustle With My Muscle" and "Bump and Grind It," Sex began his career developing signature ...
Location:Maysles Cinema, 343 Malcolm X Blvd. , New York, New York, 10027
Marlon Riggs, Tongues Untied, video, 55min., 1989
Tongues Untied is a film essay by Marlon Riggs, a Texas-born African American poet, filmmaker, educator, and gay rights activist. The film, which Riggs describes as his legacy, celebrates black men loving black men as a revolutionary act. The film, which features spoken ...
Location:Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Avenues, New York, New York, 10003
Gregg Araki, The Doom Generation, 35mm, 83min., 1995
Hit the road with Jordan White, Amy Blue, and Xavier Red, when a couple of angst-fueled teenagers rescue a wayfaring stranger from a gang of homophobic goons (played by Skinny Puppy). After a pit stop at a quickie mart turns homicidal, these ...
Location:Union Docs, 322 Union Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, 11211
Christopher Lee & Elise Hurwitz, Christopher's Chronicles, video, 30min., US 1996 Christopher Lee & Elise Hurwitz, Trappings of Transhood, video, 27min., US 1997
This program highlights the documentary work of late transgender filmmaker and activist Christopher Lee (1964-2012). Lee's first film, Christopher's Chronicles, a record of the artist's transition from ...
Location:Stonewall Inn, 53 Christopher Street, New York, New York, 10014
Richard Fung, Steam Clean, video, 3:30 min., Canada, 1990 Erica Cho, School Boy Art, Super-8 on digital video, 10:50min., US 2004 Nguyen Tan Hoang, 7 Steps to Sticky Heaven, video, 24:00min., US 1996 Patty Chang & Anie Stanley, Paradice, Super-8 on digital video, 15:00min., US 1996 ...
Location:Le Petit Versailles, 346 East Houston Street, New York, New York, 10009
John Maybury, Read Only Memory, video, 186min., 1998
Filmmaker John Maybury (perhaps best known for Love is the Devil or the "Nothing Compares 2 U" music video) creates a portrait of his friend Leigh Bowery (who died four years before this video was completed) in this trip elegy to club ...
Location:Callicoon Fine Arts, 49 Delancey Street, New York, New York, 10002
G.B. Jones, Hot Dogs, super 8mm on HD video, 1:34min. (loop), 1987/2015
Toronto punk icon G.B. Jones' Hot Dogs is a short, bite-sized video of juicy wieners slowly turning on their warming spigots, here looped in tantalizing and mundane perpetuity. Hot Dogs can be seen as ...
Location:The Spectrum, 59 Montrose Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, 11206
Kevin Hegge, She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column, video, 64min., 2012
She Said Boom: The Story of Fifth Column is a documentary about the pre-riot girl, all women, Canadian, queer, experimental punk band, Fifth Column. Fifth Column was formed in Toronto in the early 1980s by a group ...
Location:Hub, Union Theological Seminary, 3041 Broadway, New York, New York, 10027
In 1994 WAVE, a group composed largely of women of color, (Marcia Edwards, Alexandra Juhasz, Aida Matta, Juanita Mohammed, Sharon Penceal, Glenda Smith, Carmed Velasquez) came together to support each other and explore their roles as caregivers within the HIV/AIDS crisis. WAVE produced videos, including a series of self ...
