Homoeroticisim in the Avant-Garde Shorts Program 3:00pm

Reeling returns to its experimental film roots with this program of films shown in the early years of our festival. Kenneth Anger’s groundbreaking Fireworks (1947) is a stunningly photographed psychodrama of sexual awakening; his classic Scorpio Rising (1963) is a flamboyantly colorful mixture of homoeroticism and pop culture. The Place Between Our Bodies (1975), by Michael Wallin (whose new short, To Hold a Heart, is also showing in the festival), is a celebratory portrait of gay male sexuality in a pre-AIDS age. Filmmaker Todd Haynes writes that Place "seems to come from another planet, another epoch, in its frank and tender extrapolation of gay sexual hunger and the kindling of a first relationship." Author and filmmaker James Broughton was something of the poet laureate of queer experimental film. Showing are two of his films, Song of the Godbody (1978) and Hermes Bird (1979) (both made with Joel Singer), which combine his love of words and of the male body. The outrageous Confessions (1971), by bad boy Curt McDowell, captures the filmmaker recounting his "sins of the flesh" to his parents.  16mm, Total: 116 min.

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