OUTsider presents: Queer Rebels: The Fight for Home
A short video program curated by Queer Rebels (KB Boyce and Celeste Chan) and co-presented by Cine Las Americas.
From evictions and deportations, Diasporic longing and gentrification, we’re battling for home. Whether it is belonging within community, family, identity, culture, body, or geography – our fight for space is political!
Queer Rebels: The Fight for Home
Thursday, February 18th, 2016, 6:30pm
Salvage Vanguard Theater
2803 Manor Rd., Austin TX 78722
Tel. (512) 474-7886
Fierce drag queens battle the Google/Twitter/Yahoo tech buses of San Francisco. Black and Asian communities come together in the struggle for racial justice in the aftermath of the LA Riots, Rodney King’s beating, and Tian Sheng Yu’s death. A Two-spirit artist journeys in gender to find home within the self. Black Lives Matter from now to infinity with Afrofuturism. Home is displacement, a transtastic Hà Nội music video/ visual poem on the 40th anniversary of the Việt Nam War. For a Chican@ transgender teen in LA, what is home but a haunting? In Vietnamese, the word “nước” means water, country, nation, and homeland. To ask “nước nào?” is to ask, “Where is your country? Where is your home?”
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FEATURED WORK (listed in program order):
HOME
Erin O’Brien
2008, USA/Vietnam, video, color, sound, 5 min.
This is supposed to be my home. But I didn’t feel at home.
Google Google Apps Apps
Black Glitter Collective/Daddie’s Plastik (Persia, San Cha, Tyler Holmes, and Vain Hein)
2013, USA, video, color, sound, 3 min.
Facebook/Twitter me/Google google…..I just wanna wanna be white! Anti-gentrification drag in a music video.
ORIENT
Kevin Simmonds
2012, USA, video, color, sound, 12 min.
Excerpts of ORIENT, a new anthropology, a multimedia work about the historic and contemporary relations between Asian and Black Americans. Inspired by the death of Tian Sheng Yu in Oakland, 2010. Concept and performance by Kevin Simmonds.
edited communities
Gein Wong
2013, Canada, video, color, sound, 3 min.
edited communities is G20 Summit in Toronto 2010. 25,000 uniformed police officers, 1,000 security guards, and Canadian military forces deployed. Security costs for 4 days, 1 billion dollars.
You’re Dead To Me
Wu Tsang
2013, USA, video, color, sound, 13 min.
Andrea, a grieving Chicana mother, confronts an uninvited family member before her Día de los Muertos celebration. By night’s end, death offers her a choice that she couldn’t make in life. Directed by Wu Tsang, produced by Melissa Haizlip, and written by Adelina Anthony.
The Mechanics of Flying and Swimming
Cathy de la Cruz
2002, USA, video, color, silent, 1 min.
The Mechanics of Flying and Swimming addresses the sexualized, media portrayal of the cisgender female body in relation to the queer female body. In order to explore these themes visually, I took live action super-8 film that I shot and printed it out frame by frame on a combination of transparencies and paper before shooting it on a multi-plane animation stand. Dedicated to the late Marge Brown.
Self Portrait
Lares Feliciano
2010, USA, video, color, sound, 2 min.
A wild west adventure! An exploration of self! A country collage ballad for anyone traveling that long and dusty road!
Black Lives Matter, from now to infinity
MOON RAY RA (KB Boyce and C. Chan)
2015, USA, video, color, sound, 2 min.
Black Lives Matter, from now to infinity through Afrofuturism.
Of Truth A Canvas
Cosmo Monely Soltani
2012, USA, video, color, sound, 5 min.
The dappled reflection of a Two-Spirit artist emerges.
eclipse
Việt Lê
2015, USA/Vietnam, video, color, sound, 5 min.
Love. Sex. Wars. A “sexperimental,” transtastic Hà Nội music video/ visual poem for spirited lovers, spirits and the spiritual—on the 40th anniversary of the Việt Nam War. Soundtrack by controversial, legendary music pioneers Đại Lâm Linh.
Capsized
Erin O’Brien
2008, USA, video, color, sound, 4 min.
In Vietnamese, the word “nước” means water, country, nation, and homeland. To ask “nước nào?” is to ask, “Where is your country? Where is your home?”
Cine Las Americas International Film Festival co-presents this program, curated by Queer Rebels, as a community partner of the 2nd annual OUTsider Fest. OUTsider is an Austin-based nonprofit organization that celebrates the bold originality and creative nonconformity of the LGBTQI and Ally communities through the presentation of provocative, overlooked and out-of-the-box film, dance, theater, performance art, music, writing and visual art. Through its annual festival and conference, OUTsider unites queer artists, audiences and scholars from around the globe to exchange ideas, ignite conversations, transcend boundaries and experience new pleasures through artistic discovery. This year’s OUTsider Fest runs from Feb. 17-21, 2016.