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Lollipop Generation , G.B. Jones,  Canada, 2008, TRT: 70 min

Filmed piece-by-piece for over a decade and a half, The Lollipop Generation is a loose narrative that pays homage to the grungy, life-on-the street subculture of writer-director G.B. Jones. Shot on grainy Super 8 with spurts of jarring video, the fast cuts and simplistic dialogue belie the subject matter of social deviants, hustlers and smut peddlers who revel in defying society’s norms of decency.

The film follows four mischief-making runaways who make up their own kind of childlike family. Led by pseudo-den mother Georgie, they turn tricks, rob perverts, run from a mysterious red van full of “horrible homos,” and make every abandoned lot and junkyard their personal playground. The sleaze starts to feel almost conventional in this experimental hodgepodge, filled with everyday actions of punks making porn, territorial pink-haired hookers, bathroom blowjobs and masturbation, social commentary on streetwalkers and, of course, a hell of a lot of lollipop licking.

With cameos by underground queer performance artists and indie musicians, including Marcus Ewert, Vaginal Cream Davis and Jane Danger, The Lollipop Generation has an appropriately rockin’ soundtrack of songs, all with references to sugary sweetness on a stick.

Rainy Monday-Craig Goodman, RT: 4:45 Super-8  1995

How sad can sad be? Decorative candles shed real tears as memories melt away.

In Search of: “In Search of Margo-go”  -Jill Reiter, RT: 5:00  Super8mm/16mm -1995/2009

Jill Reiter’s unfinished epic piece “In Search of Margo-go” – starring Kathleen Hanna,  was filmed in 1994 on super 8 and 16mm film in NYC and SF.  Developed as a feature that was ultimately unfunded, it remains a cult mystery.  Rarely screened clips will be shown from this record of mid-nineties queerpunk/pre-new wave resurgence history, starring luminaries from the queer underground & riot grrrl scenes of the early nineties.

In May 1959, a decade before Stonewall, Los Angeles had its own gay riot. Cooper’s Doughnuts was an all night doughnut shop on Main Street in downtown Los Angeles, nestled between Harold’s and the Waldorf, gay bars dating back to the 1930s. Cooper’s was a late-night hangout for drag queens, butch hustlers, street queens and johns.

Fifty years after it served as a site of gay rebellion against police abuse, COOPER’S DOUGHNUTS exists as a queer collective which aims to showcase, document, archive and embrace queer art, performance, film and action. We hope to share and build resources within the various queer communities of Los Angeles and beyond. Ultimately, we seek to reinvent the worlds we dream possible in memory of our collective histories of resistance.

The program will be inspired and influenced by the story of Coopers Doughnuts. Films TBA
Programmed by Rudy Blu, et. al

A timely examination of human values and the health issues that affect us all, ¡Salud! looks at the case of Cuba, a country blockaded by the U.S. with what the BBC calls ‘one of the world’s best health systems.’  From the shores of Africa to the Americas, !Salud! travels with some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and explores the hearts and minds of international medical students in Cuba—now numbering 30,000, including nearly 100 from the U.S.  Their stories plus testimony from experts around the world bring home the competing agendas that mark the battle for global health—and show how socialist Cuba is the leading example of how health care can and should be a human right. 93min., 2006.