FILM LOVE presents QUEER SAN FRANCISCO
1970-1980
In the 1970s, San Francisco became an international vanguard of
the Gay Liberation movement. In campy, anarchic film and theater works and
onscreen explorations of their own sexual experience, gay and lesbian filmmakers
in 1970s San Francisco fused politics, sex, and art, and created a body of work
that is as radical as it is entertaining. As part of the five-day arts festival
Mondo Homo, Film Love
presents two nights of rare films from a legendary time and place in queer
history.
Part one
BODIES: the sexual revolution on screen Saturday, May 23, 2009, 7:00 pm
(EARLY START TIME - we will begin right at 7:00!)
at
Eyedrum
part of
Mondo Homo
followed by a special performance by Kiki and Herb's
JUSTIN BOND
BODIES is co-sponsored
by the following organizations and departments at Emory University: American Studies, the office of LGBT
Life, Studies in Sexualities, and Women's Studies
still from Barbara
Hammer's Dyketactics (1974)
Ranging
from tender to political to obsessed, each of these San Francisco filmmakers
represents sex on screen as a revolutionary act. Barbara Hammer’s pioneer 70s
films brought explicit lesbian sexuality to audiences, while Curt McDowell’s
direct, brutally frank filmmaking style culminates in Loads, a
notorious filmed diary of his anonymous sexual encounters, and Ronnie, a
humorous and affecting portrait of a straight hustler who will switch teams if
the money's right. Coni Beeson’s Holding
documents the intimacy of a young lesbian couple at the beginning of the Women’s
Movement, while Michael Wallin’s The Place Between Our Bodies explores
the filmmaker’s search for emotional (and sexual) connection in the cruising
atmosphere of mid-70s San Francisco.
NOTE: This program contains graphic imagery.
PROGRAM: Dyketactics (Barbara Hammer, 1974) 4
minutes, 16mm Ronnie (Curt McDowell, 1972) 7 minutes,
16mm screened on video Holding (Constance Beeson, 1971) 13
minutes, 16mm The Place Between Our Bodies (Michael
Wallin, 1975) 33 minutes, 16mm Multiple Orgasm (Barbara Hammer, 1977) 10
minutes, 16mm Loads (Curt McDowell, 1980) 22 minutes,
16mm
Michael Wallin, The
Place Between Our Bodies (1975)
