A night of film storytelling in conjunction with the current window installation “Necrocapital: AIDS in the Age of Surplus Value”
MATT WOLF:
SMALLTOWN BOYS – 21min – 2003
The historical relationship between AIDS activist artist David Wojnarowicz and Sarah Rosenberg, a fictional teenage lesbian from New York’s Upper West Side are imagined in this experimental documentary.
MIKE KUCHAR:
THE PICTURES OF DORIAN GAY – 23 min – 1995
Paint drips and body fluids ooze in this “tell all” and “hide nothing” documentary about two San Francisco males.
BLUE BANSHEE -14.3 min – 1994
Commissioned to be a “promo” for a loud punk rock band, Mr. Kuchar feared that the noise the band made would spoil the mood of his visuals, so he used the sound of a lush orchestra to score the picture and the antics.
THE STONE BOY – 6 minutes – 2011
New work!
CHRIS VARGAS:
LIBERACEÓN – 15 min – 2011
Rescripts the biography of Liberace—the late, flamboyant yet closeted, and apolitical pop pianist—in order to insert him into a queer history of radical AIDS/HIV activism.
Mike Kuchar in person.
Chris Vargas in person.
This program is organized by Jason Fritz Michael, Eric Stanley and Margaret Tedesco.
