Part Two concludes the series that brings together a broad palette of international Queer Cinema produced since the late 1980s—a wide range of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender film and media from North America and Western Europe, as well as less-available works from sub-Sahara Africa, India, Thailand, Holland, Bolivia, Mexico, Spain, and China. This new wave of queer filmmakers investigates cinematic form in relationship to the complexities of their sexual identities and the world in which they live, and continues to query the possibilities of film and media aesthetics.
Organized by Charles Silver, Associate Curator, Department of Film and Media; David A.
Gerstner, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, CUNY, College of Staten Island and author of Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema; Jim Hubbard, filmmaker, curator, and archivist; Thomas Beard, Program Director, Ocularis. Special thanks to Mahen Bonetti, Ann Butler, V. J. Carbone, S. Leo Chiang, Tom Chomont, Nelson Gonzalez, Stephen Kent Jusick, Abina Manning, Ralph McKay, Olivia Newman, Brent Phillips, William Phuan, Cordelia Swann, Dorothy Thigpen, Basil Tsiokos, Debra Zimmerman; and for the loan of prints, First Run Features, Sneak Preview Entertainment, Strand Releasing, Zeitgeist, Miramax, Swank, Water Bearer Films, New Zealand Film Commission, and the individual artists.