Artists' Television Access

Films of Still Here San Francisco

Friday, April 29, 2016, 8:00 pm, $7-$10

Separate Together Still for Still Here An evening of short films by queer filmmakers raised in San Francisco and still living in the Bay Area. Short films programmed by Still Here Productions. Still Here Productions brings together artists and community to explore the experiences of Queer/LGBTQI individuals raised in San Francisco during the 1980s and 1990s in the context of the rise of HIV/ AIDS and currently still living in San Francisco/Bay Area. Still Here’s narratives of queerness, coming out, sex, loss, AIDS/HIV, memory, legacy, and more stake a claim to San Francisco. They disrupt the assumption that everyone in San Francisco is from somewhere else and redefine the meaning of home, family, and identity in a “gay mecca.”

Still Here is produced by longtime best friends, Cristina E. Mitra and Natalia M. Vigil. To see more visit https://www.facebook.com/StillHereSanFrancisco

Film Program:

Sex Tapes: Portraits of Our City 1986-1996 by James Q. Chan and Tina Bartolome

This experimental short documentary weaves together the candid re-telling of intimate queer experiences in San Francisco from 1986 to 1996 with current images of the places these encounters occurred. The filmmaker's set up a confidential voicemail to capture the poignant stories of queer people growing up in San Francisco and use them to create a powerful portrait of San Francisco.

Sissy Song by Kegan Marling and Brian Thorstenson

In this vivid collaborative short, images of San Francisco's diverse queer community illustrate the poem Sissy Song.

Love Letter Project by Raquel Vigil and Amanda Vigil

This documentary short for "anyone who's ever loved or lost in San Francisco" slices together LGBTQQ people raised in San Francisco as they share an actual love-letter they wrote as a San Francisco teen, a letter coming out to someone they didn’t get to come out to when they were younger, or a letter to a past queer love. The result is funny and heartfelt.

Separate Together by Amanda Vigil

A queer coming of age love story, an experimental narrative snapshot of fluid attraction and identity– San Francisco style.


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