Queer and Uncensored: Queer Adjacent

Film

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Bettie Page in the 1950s. Courtesy Photofest

MARILYN TIMES FIVE. 1973. USA. Directed by Bruce Conner. 14 min. 16mm
BREAKAWAY. 1966. USA. Directed by Bruce Conner. 5 min. 16mm
Love Making. 1970. USA. Directed by Scott Bartlett. 13 min. 16mm
Baby Doll. 1982. UK. Directed by Tessa Hughes-Freeland. 5 min. 16mm
The Exotic Dances of Bettie Page. 1960s. USA. Directed by Irving Klaw. Approximately 60 min. DCP

Program run time: Approximately 101 min

MARILYN TIMES FIVE sees Bruce Conner attempting a visual exercise, replaying the same footage on loop in an examination of how playing with form changes perception. Constructed with found footage from a famous porn film starring a Marilyn Monroe lookalike, and set to Monroe herself singing “I’m Through with Love,” the film aims to examine “the roles people play” and the links between the self and a public persona. BREAKAWAY, also by Bruce Conner, stars Toni Basil dancing to her song “Breakaway” and is often touted as the precursor to the music video. These are followed by Scott Bartlett’s Lovemaking, which is “an imaginative, suggestive, artistic, non-clinical evocation of the sexual act,” and Tessa Hughes-Freeland’s Baby Doll, a slice-of-life short about two lounge dancers. And The Exotic Dances of Bettie Page sees Irving Klaw, “King of the Pin-ups” film, assemble a series of clips of Bettie’s dances.

This film accompanies Queer and Uncensored.

Past events

Sun, Jun 15, 4:30 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1
Mon, Jun 9, 4:30 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

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