This program features innovative approaches to the presentation of narrative in the short film, the avant-garde, and the feature-length narrative
Thursday, January 27th
9pm
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Etherington Auditorium
Open
dir: Jack Yuzna
2010 / USA / 88 min
The first American film to ever be awarded the Teddy Jury Prize at the Berlinale Film Festival, OPEN brings together cast of real intersex, pandrogenous, and trans people to create a revealing look at the pioneers of the new human experience, and the emerging possibilities for humanity at the dawn of a new millennium.
When young, intersex Cynthia meets Gen and Jay, a couple recovering from plastic surgery, she learns of Pandrogeny, in which two people merge their facial features in order to reflect their evolution from separate identities into one unified entity. Inspired by this, Cynthia abandons her husband and suburban life to embark on a road trip with Gen through the remnants of 20th century America. Simultaneously, a young trans-man, Syd, meets Nick, a cis-gender artist at a club and their instant attraction leads to a one-night stand, and Syd’s first sexual experience with a man. Syd and Nick find themselves falling into a love that forces them to confront how hormone treatments have forever changed sex and relationships. Community Sponsor: Committee on Gender and Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre
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Last Call
dir: Nick Corporon
2009 / USA / 18 min
On the way to reconcile with the love of his life, a man dies. An alcoholic, he ends up in purgatory-a bar-where he's given the chance to re-live moments from his life in an effort to get back to falling in love again.
Everybody
dir : Steve Reinke with Jessie Mott
2009 / Canada / 4 min
A collaboration between U.S-based visual artist Jessie Mott who wrote the script and drew the pictures and Bell Canada Prize winning video artist Steve Reinke who animated Mott’s drawings and created the soundtrack. A deer with a unicorn horn, a jackal, a rabbit, a bat and an animal of undetermined species share their feelings of desire and disgust with each other.
