New York City Queer Experimental Film Festival Begins
Derek Jackson's haunting video "Kisser" will be screened tomorrow night at the QEF Festival.
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For those of us that find ourselves perpetually bored (if not nauseated) by the visual images that have become commonplace in the ephemera of our post-Will and Grace, quasi-mainstream gay culture, every now and then we find solace in a some good old fashioned, nasty queer fun.
(Brontez Purnell in "Younger Lovers")
Case in point: America’s best anti-L.O.G.O. alternative, the New York City Queer Experimental Film Festival, begins tomorrow in the South Street Seaport. I’ll be checking out a piece by photographer and video artist Derek Jackson, who is one of the artists whose work I am very interested in in the context of my dissertation. Derek’s video is one of the festival’s several delicious, anti-normative treats produced by queer artists of color. The others include Ignacio Rivera’s video “They” and a piece entitled “Younger Lovers” featuring the work of black Bay Area queer club-kid/avant-garde artist extraordinaire Brontez Purnell.
Ignacio Rivera's "They" (which deals with Black Boricua Trans-identities) will be screened Saturday.
Dope shit. Check it out.
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