Artists' Television Access

Author: Fara

  • sistah Sinema: Money Matters The Movie

    sistah septA feature length narrative film that explores many of the difficulties facing queer youth of color.At the heart of the picture is a strong and complicated mother/daughter dynamic. Pamela (Aunjanue Ellis of Men of Honor, Ray, Undercover Brother, The Mentalist and The Help) plays the mother, a troubled soul dealing with abusive relationships and a sordid past that was populated with drug use and prostitution. Still fighting every day, she has been committed to giving her daughter Monique “Money” Matters (Terri Abney) a better opportunity than she had. Abney plays and it is one of the more complex portraits of adolescence that you’re likely to see. Introspective and socially awkward, Abney has a defiant but loving relationship with her mother who has turned to a religious mania in the search for strength.

    But her primary journey is one of self-discovery, just who is she and where does she fit in? As Abney starts to be pushed by teachers and a new bond with a local girl, her independence and confidence start to shine. But as unsavory elements that haunt the two women’s past start to surface, Abney must confront some unpleasant truths. Can these realizations set her free or might they destroy her?

    Trailer:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFfRt-0U4To

     

  • BAHAHAHAHA: a queer comedy short movie showcase

    silence=filthWe all could use some humor medicine, so how about sharing together some QUEER COMIC SHORT MOVIES!!!!!???? The best way to laugh is with a group of people, so join us the third Wednesday in September (September 17) and prepare to laugh your ass off in the dark with a bunch of like minded folks. We are accepting queer comic short movies now until we get 85 minutes of programming. You got a short movie or short movie idea that is funny? BRING IT!!! Be a good consenting queer and submit! And put down your phone or keep it in your hands and make a movie with it and send it to us and get your booty to the cinema! Got a movie? Send a high quality downloadable link to lorin@periwinklecinema.com

  • PAPER CIRCUS

    PAPER CIRCUS 11X17 SF online versionPaper Circus is a 45 minutes screening of Luca Dipierro’s cut-out animations, with a live soundtrack performed by Italian experimental band Father Murphy. Dipierro’s animations, described as “a perfect mix between creepy and charming” by the Huffington Post, are carnivalesque tales of acrobacy and death, both sorrowful and comical. The texture of the images is enhanced by the texture of Father Murphy’s music, sonic blocks echoing the flow of the film, almost shot by shot. It makes for an extremely visceral and fun viewing.” OR ALTERNATIVELY, BUT LONGER “A night of cut-out animations with live soundtrack showcasing the work of Luca Dipierro, Italian illustrator and animator living in Portland, OR, and Father Murphy, one of the leading bands of what Simon Reynolds has termed “new Italian occult psychedelia.” The music is neither improvisation nor a collection of songs, but rather a soundtrack echoing and transfiguring the flow of the film, shot by shot, with a technique reminiscent of cut-up and sound collage. Dipierro’s short films, called “a perfect mix between creepy and charming” by The Huffington Post, are carnivalesque tales of acrobacy and death that draw from the traditions of Italian commedia dell’arte and Sicilian teatro dei pupi (marionette theater). Sorrowful and comical at once, Dipierro’s animations tell stories of aged infants, screaming rocking horses, puppet funerals, monkeys, prestidigitators, ghosts, and a woman birthing a fish. Father Murphy’s music—described by Carla Bozulich as “a window into many minds all at once”—will haunt you, move you, paint you black.”