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OPENING GALA: VANCOUVER 2010: LET THE GAYS BEGIN Friday, January 29th 7pm • Ellis Auditorium
Opening Gala Selection
From the somber to the silly, the political to the ridiculous, tonight we set our sights to the city that hosts the world in mere weeks. Hosted by Amber Dawn the Programming Director of Vancouver's Out on Screen Queer Film Festival.
 Warrior dir. Terry Haines2008 / Canada / 6 min A meditative search for balance between ancient and modern worlds with reference to man's role as warrior.  Rex vs. Singh dir. Richard Fung, John Greyson & Ali Kazimi2009 / Canada / 30 min This experimental video stages scenes from the trial of two Sikh mill-workers in 1915, entrapped by police in Vancouver and accused of sodomy. These scenes are told four times: as a period drama, as a documentary investigation of the case, third as a musical agit-prop, and fourth, as a deconstruction of the actual court transcript. What results is a speculative exploration of the interplay between homophobia and racism in this little known chapter of Canadian history.  Asylum dir. Lisa G2008 / Canada / 7 min Nurse Norma McMurdo shares compassionate memories of lesbian patients and the understanding that they weren't crazy during her recollections of working at the Riverview Mental Hospital from 1949-1951.  Sparklene dir. Leigh Fisher2007 / Canada / 3 min Can embodied contact with objects and living creatures occur outside fixed clichés of perception so that eyes can have multi-sensory effects?  On The Bus dir. Tracy D. Smith2009 / Canada / 6 min Teenager Jeremy, under anxiety of bullying and raging hormones, fantasizes a conversation with his crush Sean.  Pimp & Ho: The Dragon Fairy dir. Mark Kenneth Woods2008 / Canada / 11 min In this ode to Kung Fu movies, Jonny Pimp & Honey Ho are summoned to Hong Kong to track down "The Dragon Fairy" a racist, transphobic ex-agent intent on wiping out the entire Queer Secret Service!  Q-Case dir. Michael Mew2008 / Canada / 17 min Evidence leads Agents Mueller and Dina Pendrell to investigate the presence of "Extra Queerestrials". |
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