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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
ASU’s 11th Annual Queer Film Festival
Here's an upcoming campus event you may be interested in...
Five Mondays starting 9/13.
All films will be shown at 7:30 pm in Room 114 in Belk Library and
Information Commons. Screenings are free and open to the public.
Discussion will follow the film.
Monday 9/13. 8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION (2010. USA. 80 minutes).
“Equality for Some.” This documentary provides a searing indictment
of the Mormon Church's historic involvement in the promotion and
passage of, California’s anti-same sex-marriage legislation,
Proposition 8, and the Mormon religion’s secretive, decades-long
campaign against gay rights from Hawaii to New York. Narrated by
Dustin Lance Black, Academy Award winning screenwriter of MILK.
Monday 9/20. GEN SILENT (2010, USA. 63 minutes.) An award-winning
film documenting elderly LGBT people who go back into the closet to
survive in the healthcare system. Here we see meet six LGBT elders and
a wide range of paid caregivers: From those who are specifically
trained to make LGBT seniors feel safe, to the other end of the
spectrum, where LGBT elders face discrimination, neglect or abuse. As
we journey through the challenges that these men and women face, we
also see reasons for hope as each subject crosses paths with a small
but growing group of impassioned professionals trying to wake up the
long-term and healthcare industries to their plight.
Monday 9/27. WERE THE WORLD MINE (2008, USA. 95 minutes.) If you had a
love-potion, who would you make fall madly in love with you? Timothy,
prone to escaping his dismal high school reality through dazzling
musical daydreams, finds out. After his eccentric teacher casts him
as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, he stumbles upon a recipe to
create the play's magical, purple love-pansy. Armed with the magic
flower, Timothy's fading spirit soars as he puckishly imposes a new
reality by turning much of his narrow-minded town gay, beginning with
the rugby-jock of his dreams. Ensnaring family, friends and enemies,
Timothy forces them to walk a mile in his musical shoes. As
Shakespeare writes, “The course of true love never did run smooth.”
Monday 10/4. UNDERTOW (CONTRACORRIENTE). (2009, Peru. In Spanish with
English subtitles. 100 minutes.) An unusual ghost story set on the
Peruvian seaside; a married fisherman struggles to reconcile his
devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.
Monday 10/11. THE OWLS (Older, Wiser, Lesbians) (2010, USA. 66
minutes.) Four older lesbians kill a younger one and try to get away
with it in director Cheryl Dunye’s newest work, a funny, mysterious
and humane generational anthem starring some of the most popular
underground artists in Lesbian Cinema. Made for $22,000, THE OWLS is
a collective act, re-thinking how to make films that matter outside
the system. “We created our own system, peopled by lesbians, queers
and people of color, film professionals all raising themes about aging
as well as inter-generational dialogue; loneliness and community;
dreams raised and deferred; butch/trans anxiety; cross-racial and
inter-racial desire and strain; and the history of lesbian cinema and
self-representation.”
Five Mondays starting 9/13.
All films will be shown at 7:30 pm in Room 114 in Belk Library and
Information Commons. Screenings are free and open to the public.
Discussion will follow the film.
Monday 9/13. 8: THE MORMON PROPOSITION (2010. USA. 80 minutes).
“Equality for Some.” This documentary provides a searing indictment
of the Mormon Church's historic involvement in the promotion and
passage of, California’s anti-same sex-marriage legislation,
Proposition 8, and the Mormon religion’s secretive, decades-long
campaign against gay rights from Hawaii to New York. Narrated by
Dustin Lance Black, Academy Award winning screenwriter of MILK.
Monday 9/20. GEN SILENT (2010, USA. 63 minutes.) An award-winning
film documenting elderly LGBT people who go back into the closet to
survive in the healthcare system. Here we see meet six LGBT elders and
a wide range of paid caregivers: From those who are specifically
trained to make LGBT seniors feel safe, to the other end of the
spectrum, where LGBT elders face discrimination, neglect or abuse. As
we journey through the challenges that these men and women face, we
also see reasons for hope as each subject crosses paths with a small
but growing group of impassioned professionals trying to wake up the
long-term and healthcare industries to their plight.
Monday 9/27. WERE THE WORLD MINE (2008, USA. 95 minutes.) If you had a
love-potion, who would you make fall madly in love with you? Timothy,
prone to escaping his dismal high school reality through dazzling
musical daydreams, finds out. After his eccentric teacher casts him
as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, he stumbles upon a recipe to
create the play's magical, purple love-pansy. Armed with the magic
flower, Timothy's fading spirit soars as he puckishly imposes a new
reality by turning much of his narrow-minded town gay, beginning with
the rugby-jock of his dreams. Ensnaring family, friends and enemies,
Timothy forces them to walk a mile in his musical shoes. As
Shakespeare writes, “The course of true love never did run smooth.”
Monday 10/4. UNDERTOW (CONTRACORRIENTE). (2009, Peru. In Spanish with
English subtitles. 100 minutes.) An unusual ghost story set on the
Peruvian seaside; a married fisherman struggles to reconcile his
devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.
Monday 10/11. THE OWLS (Older, Wiser, Lesbians) (2010, USA. 66
minutes.) Four older lesbians kill a younger one and try to get away
with it in director Cheryl Dunye’s newest work, a funny, mysterious
and humane generational anthem starring some of the most popular
underground artists in Lesbian Cinema. Made for $22,000, THE OWLS is
a collective act, re-thinking how to make films that matter outside
the system. “We created our own system, peopled by lesbians, queers
and people of color, film professionals all raising themes about aging
as well as inter-generational dialogue; loneliness and community;
dreams raised and deferred; butch/trans anxiety; cross-racial and
inter-racial desire and strain; and the history of lesbian cinema and
self-representation.”
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
How To: Blog
You will be creating a blog of your own on Blogger.com. We'll go through it step by step in class. You are going to use your blogs to post your first web writing assignment as well as other homework, comments, news, links, and discussion.
If you have questions about your blog, try consulting Blogger Help. Should you decide you would like a few tips on editing html code, one place to visit is the Bare Bones Guide to HTML. We'll be working on helping you customize and tweak your blog during the semester, so don't worry too much about the fine points of its appearance right now.
When your blog is ready, email me the address of your blog at stanovskydj@appstate.edu
As a first post to your new blog, please share with us one or more links to your favorite odd website or sites. Here's a link to help get you started, here are 99 Things and 99 More Things you should have seen online. You might also want to browse Know Your Meme for more inspiration. What else do you think we should have seen? Share your favorite links with us along with your editorial comments on your blog.
You should have your blog created and email me the link by Monday, 8/30.
Friday, August 20, 2010
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