PITCHING CAMP: CAMP SHORTS & CAMP PANEL
Total Running Length of Films: 65 minutes does not include discussion.
Saturday, February 4th
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4 PM
Filmmaker in Attendance!
Camp
D. Alexis Mitchell
2010 / Canada / 25min
CAMP is a 3-part, single-channel, video essay exploring the secrets that underscore the filmmaker’s personal relationship to Jewish history and culture. Through a look at 3 camp environments, Mitchell engages with a queer re-telling of the traditional Purim story, the censored passages in Anne Frank’s diary, and a haircut given to Mitchell by grandfather in order to reveal the ways in which these secrets haunt the surface of our cultural moments. CAMP is framed through a play on the word ‘camp’ utilizing a camp sensibility amidst an analysis of temporary built environments. Through this frame the filmmaker engages with what we choose to keep hidden in these contemporary moments, and point to a larger fear of speaking out against injustice as a cause for silence.
AIDS Camp, or, Survival into the 21st Century
D. Gary Fembot
2009/USA/26min
English
AIDS is created by the government. Later, a real estate agent with AIDS is sent to camp for a strictly enforced meds regimen. The occupants of the compound escape and are given a remedy by a group of free spirits who only wish to heal.
Genderbusters
D. Sam Berliner
2010 / USA / 6min
In their fight for Gender Evolution Revolution, the Genderbusters drive around resolving the gender-binary dilemmas of folks all over San Francisco.
From Alex to Alex
D. Alison S.M. Kobayashi
2006/Canada/6min
In the fall of 2003 I found a letter on the Winston Churchill Blvd QEW overpass.?It was labeled From: Alex To: Alex. This is a film based on the contents of that letter.
Son of the Preacher
D. Jasmine Gervais
2008 / Canada / 6min
English
Billy, the son of the town’s preacher, secretly falls for a mysterious and pretty new parishioner. Unfortunately, she’s thinking about someone else.
Designer Gays
D. Mark Kenneth Woods
2004/Canada/3min
Creating a new queer-themed hit television show is easy. Just mix mainstream assumptions about sexuality and gender with plenty of stereotypes and throw in some pointless sexual content and you’ve got "Designer Gays", the ultimate in exploitive programming.