boyfriend and girlfriend have departed the
city. He broods, he remembers and after brief
encounters with both of his ex-lovers, he
begins a new relationship with Quentin, a
deaf mute.
The Third Annual Film Festival features films from six
Adam's World, (1989) Intercut with
different countries
illustrative stock footage, this film presents a
short lecture by Elizabeth Dodson Gray, a
Pink Ulysees, (1990), A new film from the
Looking for Langston (1988). Julian
feminist theologian, environmentalist, and
Temple’s ground-breaking film stretches the
Netherlands, Pink Ulysees is presented
futurist. She speaks to us about the severity of
courtesy of the San Francisco International
definition of documentary as it mixes archival our
global environmental crisis, and analyses
footage of Langston Hughes and the Harlem
Lesbian and Gay Rim Festival and Yuca
the root cause of this crisis as lying in the
Films. This sexy, artsy film is a patchwork of Renaissance with stylish renderings of black
perceptions,
beliefs and assumptions of the
ideas and gorgeous bodies held together (very gay life, both in the ‘30s and now. Lyrical and patriarchal system
we have inherited.,
lightly) by the 20 year journey of Ulysees'
erotic, the film uses Hughes’ poems, as well
return from the Trojan war.
as works by James Baldwin and Essex
The Goddess Remembered, (1989) This
Hemphill, to imagine a rich and ongoing black Canadian
film is a provocative and lively
Superstar, (1989) This is a summation of the gay tradition.
documentary
that traces the history of the
life of pop figure Andy Warhol. Superstar
Goddess civilizations before the patriarchy
takes a look at the phases of Warhol's career
4000
years ago. Keeping the female
and the path his stardom has taken since his
perspective as its central focus, the Goddess
death.
Remembered reveals Stone Age relics of the
females honored in prehistoric art Journeys
Le Jupon Rouge, (1989) Director Genevieve
to Malta, Crete and ceremonial mounds where
Lefebure's French film is a romantic story
the female deities were worshipped, clearly
about three women of various ages and social
expresses
the teachings of Goddess
backgrounds.
spirituality (know thyself). The Goddess
Remembered offers a sense of wonder,
mystery and the presence of the Goddess
herself.
She Must Be Seeing Things, (1987) Written,
Quest for Love, (1989) This is an intelligent
produced and directed by Sheila McLoughlin, and compassionate film that traces the
this film is an engaging comedy of sexual
political and sexual confusion of Alex, a
jealousy. Agatha (Sheila Dabney), a
woman recently released from a South African
competent lawyer .begins to doubt the
prison. In retrospect, Alex recalls the days
fidelity of her lover Jo (Lois Weaver), a flaky before her arrest which involved an affair with
filmmaker. Agatha discovers Jo is sleeping
Dorothy and knowledge revealed to her by
around with men and explores the extent to
Dorothy's boyfriend regarding atrocities
which sexual similarity and sexual difference committed by the police. Alex's experiences
are arousing for her and Jo.
have altered her viewpoints politically and
Silence = Death, (1990) Rosa von
most definitely, sexually. Follow along with
Praunheim's film hammers vividly at the
Kamikaze Hearts, (1986) This is a raw story Alex, feel her growth and search for identity.
politicization of artists in the AIDS era while about an impossible relationship between a
seething with rage and disbelief. This is feisty young woman (Tigr) and the porno star
Out of Our Time, (1989) This movie
and compelling film making.
(Sharon) she becomes obsessed with. Best
juxtaposes two circles of women, one a
described as a dramatic docu-drama, Kamikaze literary and artistic society of women in
Positive, (1990) Second in an uncompleted Hearts is an intensely personal narrative with Chicago circa 1930, the other a contemporary
real people playing themselves in scenes
trilogy by Rosa von Praunheim, Positive
group of feminists. The two circles are linked
from their lives. Resisting easy classification by Valerie Ward and Jacquelyn Matthews,
focuses on many topics-safe sex,
Straight to the Heart, (1989) The story of
homophobia, the meaning of death, healing
granddaughter and grandmother respectively,
Quentin, a photojoumalist who returns to
techniques and more. The film hits home,
who grapple with the frustrations of not
Montreal
after
a
harrowing
assignment
in
it is absurd, ironic and simultaneously brutal,
fulfilling themselves as writers, and share a
Nicaragua, only to find that both his
disturbing and tragic.
dream of being published.
Just Out and Cinema 21 presents
Reel Proud
REEL
PROUD
JUST OUT AND CINEMA 21
PRESENTS
PORTLAND’S
THIRD ANNUAL
INTERNATIONAL
LESBIAN AND GAY
FILM FESTIVAL
FRIDAY, JUNE 22
SALUT VICTOR!
USA
7PM
Le JUPON ROUGE
FRANCE
8:45PM
SUPERSTAR
USA
10:30PM
CINEMA
(Ml) REPERTORY
SATURDAY, JUNE 23
DOUBLE SHORTS
THE MINDERS
WITH
JUST PASSING THROUGH
NEW ZEALAND
2:30PM
URINAL
CANADA
4:45PM
QUEST FOR LOVE
SOUTH AFRICA
7PM
DOUBLE SHORTS
TONGUES UNTIED
WITH
LOOKING FOR LANGSTON
USA
8:45PM
KAMIKAZE HEARTS
USA
10:30PM
HOYT
KAMIKAZE HEARTS
USA
1PM
STRAIGHT TO THE HEART
CANADA
2:45PM
OUT OF OUR TIME
USA
4:30PM
SHE MUST BE SEEING THINGS
USA
6PM
POSITIVE
' Ml
Tongues Untied (1989). Marlon Riggs’
meditation on contemporary black gay life
employs dance, rap and poetry, as well as
more conventional interviews. Part personal
statement and part social critique, the film
uses the director’s experiences as a
springboard for a thorough examination of
racism and homophobia in the gay and black
communities.
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SUNDAY, JUNE 24
DOUBLE SHORTS
Salut Victor! (1988). A favorite at the film
festivals in San Francisco and Olympia, Anne
Claire Poirier’s film tells the story of two
older gay men who meet in an old age home.
Phillippe, aristocratic and reserved, is initially
put off by the frank friendship offered by the
irrepressible Victor, but gradually he learns
from him how to live life to its fullest. Tender
without being sentimental, the film offers a
rare and richly realized vision of older gay
lives. In French with subtitles.
Urinal (1988). A group of gay and lesbian
artists, including Sergei Eisenstein, Frida
Kahlo, Langston Hughes and Yukio Mishima,
are mysteriously summoned in 1937 to the
home of Toronto sculptors Frances Loring and
Florence Wylie. Once assembled, they are
somehow transported to the present, where
they are charged with investigating the
Ontario police crackdown on washroom sex.
The result is a unique mixture of high-minded
fantasy and down-and-dirty documentary.
Erudite and charming, director John
Greyson’s film plays something like a gay
Roger and Me.
DOUBLE SHORTS
POSITIVE
WITH
SILENCE = DEATH
USA
7:45PM
MONDAY, JUNE 25
DOUBLE SHORTS
GODDESS REMEMBERED
WITH
ADAM’S WORLD
CANADA
7PM
PINK ULYSEES
HOLLAND
8:40PM
WITH
USt
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