Go Fish. 1994. Directed by Rose Troche The Devil Inside. 1995. Directed by Jennifer Reeder

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Go Fish. 1994. USA. Directed by Rose Troche. Courtesy Orion Pictures Corporation

Go Fish. 1994. USA. Directed by Rose Troche. Screenplay by Troche, Guinevere Turner. With V.S. Brodie, Guinevere Turner. 4K DCP courtesy Park Circus. Digital restoration by the Academy Film Archive and UCLA Film & Television Archive in conjunction with Sundance Institute. Funding provided by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Amazon MGM Studios, Frameline, Sundance Institute, and UCLA Film & Television Archive. 88 min.

Set in 1990s Chicago, Rose Troche’s Go Fish, produced on a shoestring budget during the height of the New Queer Cinema movement, is pure 16mm, guerilla-style filmmaking gold. Cowritten by star Guinevere Turner, Go Fish is about queer love—or, rather, the search for love. Max (Turner) is a college student who has been going through quite the dry spell. After pontificating about relationships and sex with her roommate Kia (T. Wendy McMillan), she meets Ely (V.S. Brodie), and while the pair hit it off, Ely’s long distance relationship puts a damper on things. When Ely eventually reappears with a new haircut and newly available…cue the relationship! Developed amid the AIDS crisis, Go Fish gave voice to marginalized young folks, celebrating love and solidarity as a response to societal exclusion. Troche described it as an “antidote to despair.”

Preceded by

The Devil Inside. 1995. USA. Directed by Jennifer Reeder. 8 min.

Part one of a three-part series chronicling the adventures of a girl superhero named White Trash Girl, who has toxic bodily fluids and a knack for disrupting polite society

This film accompanies Girls to the Front: Nineties and Now.

Past events

Wed, Mar 26, 2025, 4:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2
Fri, Mar 21, 2025, 7:00 p.m.

Introduced by Guinevere Turner

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

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