Queer and Uncensored: On Stage

Film

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Lupe. 1966. USA. Jose Rodriguez Soltero. Courtesy The Film-Makers’ Co-Op

Lupe. 1966. USA. Jose Rodriguez Soltero. 50 min. 16mm
Take Off. 1972. USA. Directed by Gunvor Nelson. 10 min. 16mm
American Flag Bikini. 2002. USA. Directed by Michael Love Michael. 4 min. Digital
Plates. 1990. USA. Directed by Gary Goldberg. 11 min. 16mm
Enduring Ornament. 2015. USA. Directed by MM Serra and Josh Lewis. 14 min. Digital

Program run time: 89 min

Take Off, avant-garde filmmaker Gunvor Nelson’s experimental short about a stripper, pushes boundaries in its exploration of female identity and sexuality. This is followed by Michael Love Michael’s playfully provocative music video American Flag Bikini, and Gary Goldberg’s short Plates, which casts a wry, satirical eye on gender roles and how they manifest in domestic spaces. MM Serra and Josh Lewis’s Enduring Ornament, made with found footage, engages with the theme of burlesque through peep shows, and Jose Rodriguez Soltero’s Lupe, a “color-saturated, gorgeous dime-store baroque,” tells the story of Mexican actress Lupe Velez and her “rise from whoredom to stardom, her fall into fractured romance and suicide, and her ascension into the spirit world.” Across all these works, disjointed structures and layered visuals disrupt the conventional cinematic experience, creating a complex and often unsettling examination of the female form, identity, and the societal gaze.

This film accompanies Queer and Uncensored.

Past events

Thu, Jun 12, 2:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2
Fri, May 30, 7:00 p.m.

Introduced by scholar and critic Vera Dika

MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

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