Dreamers of the Day (34th Anniversary Retrospective)
February 3 @ 7:00 pm - March 8 @ 9:00 pm
Out of the Archive: Canada’s Lost Lesbian Decade, 1990-1999
The 1990s saw a flourishing of queer filmmaking in Canada, including more than a dozen feature films being released centering lesbian storylines. “Out of the Archive” presents two lesser-known titles from this moment that both demonstrate the power and complexity of queer communities. Dreamers of the Day (1990), a narrative feature that would not be possible without help from the Kingston community, is about the ingenuity, perseverance, and comradery needed to put lesbian stories on screen. Another film about filmmaking, Skin Deep (1995) explores themes of obsession, pain and pleasure, as well as offering an early portrait of transmasculinity within queer spaces. Though representations may have evolved and changed, each film provides an opportunity to revisit the generative historical contexts and ongoing legacies of 1990s queer Canada.
This screening series is part of a larger research project by Queen’s Film and Media professors Tamara de Szegheo Lang and Dan Vena. It is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund.
Dreamers of the Day – dir. Patricia Rivera Spencer/Canada/94:00/1990
Audiences love this lesbian romantic comedy and give it standing ovations almost everywhere it shows! Watch it just for fun, watch it to learn about the community, or watch it for the sheer pleasure of seeing Canadian talent in a film shot right here in Kingston!
A writer/filmmaker with an acknowledged passion for women, Andra has everything in the current project carefully plotted. Except for Claire. It’s a story about two women who help each other to be all that they can be, and who fall in love in the process. It’s a movie about being true to who you are.
Featuring a post-screening conversation with filmmaker Patricia Rivera Spencer aka “Patty Spencer”.
Patricia Rivera Spencer (“Patty Spencer”) Although Patty Spencer earned her living doing a multitude of jobs ranging from newspaper reporter and photographer, to technical writer, to hospice nurse, writing has always been her core passion. Working as a technical writer in software-development companies including the Discovery Channel, she used her logical brain for requirements and business process analysis. But her true love has always been creative writing. She began learning the craft of writing fiction by writing screenplays, and made one of her scripts into a feature-length movie, Dreamers of the Day. After that gruelling experience, she realized that though she loved the visual aspects of storytelling, it was much simpler and less expensive to write novels than to make films. Most importantly, she didn’t have to fund-raise to do it. She could just sit at the keyboard and make it happen. So she switched to writing novels. She is the author of Lie With Me, The Hum of Bees, The life Bestowed, and the I’ll Get You Home trilogy. She also authored a nonfiction book, How to Survive Suicide, where she shared her story about how she overcame the loss of her 17 year old transgender son to suicide.
Out of the Archive: Canada’s Lost Lesbian Decade, 1990-1999
The 1990s saw a flourishing of queer filmmaking in Canada, including more than a dozen feature films being released centering lesbian storylines. “Out of the Archive” presents two lesser-known titles from this moment that both demonstrate the power and complexity of queer communities. Dreamers of the Day (1990), a narrative feature that would not be possible without help from the Kingston community, is about the ingenuity, perseverance, and comradery needed to put lesbian stories on screen. Another film about filmmaking, Skin Deep (1995) explores themes of obsession, pain and pleasure, as well as offering an early portrait of transmasculinity within queer spaces. Though representations may have evolved and changed, each film provides an opportunity to revisit the generative historical contexts and ongoing legacies of 1990s queer Canada.
This screening series is part of a larger research project by Queen’s Film and Media professors Tamara de Szegheo Lang and Dan Vena. It is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund.
Audiences love this lesbian romantic comedy and give it standing ovations almost everywhere it shows! Watch it just for fun, watch it to learn about the community, or watch it for the sheer pleasure of seeing Canadian talent in a film shot right here in Kingston!
A writer/filmmaker with an acknowledged passion for women, Andra has everything in the current project carefully plotted. Except for Claire. It’s a story about two women who help each other to be all that they can be, and who fall in love in the process. It’s a movie about being true to who you are.
Featuring a post-screening conversation with filmmaker Patricia Rivera Spencer aka “Patty Spencer”.
Patricia Rivera Spencer (“Patty Spencer”) Although Patty Spencer earned her living doing a multitude of jobs ranging from newspaper reporter and photographer, to technical writer, to hospice nurse, writing has always been her core passion. Working as a technical writer in software-development companies including the Discovery Channel, she used her logical brain for requirements and business process analysis. But her true love has always been creative writing. She began learning the craft of writing fiction by writing screenplays, and made one of her scripts into a feature-length movie, Dreamers of the Day. After that gruelling experience, she realized that though she loved the visual aspects of storytelling, it was much simpler and less expensive to write novels than to make films. Most importantly, she didn’t have to fund-raise to do it. She could just sit at the keyboard and make it happen. So she switched to writing novels. She is the author of Lie With Me, The Hum of Bees, The life Bestowed, and the I’ll Get You Home trilogy. She also authored a nonfiction book, How to Survive Suicide, where she shared her story about how she overcame the loss of her 17 year old transgender son to suicide.
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