Queer Women of Color Film Night

ANOTHER QUEER WOMEN OF COLOR FILM NIGHT
Urban/Love/Stories: Claiming our Space

Please join filmmakers, artists, and grassroots organizers for another Queer Women of Color Film Night:

Urban/Love/Stories: Claiming our Space
Tuesday, June 17, 2003, 8 pm
LGBT Community Center
1800 Market @ Octavia
San Francisco, CA

Queer Women of Color Film Nights celebrate the art, culture, and resistance of queer women of color and our communities. What makes these nights “queer” is a vision of liberation for all the world’s peoples – a world free of war, racism, homophobia, class exploitation, transphobia, colonial violence, and sexism.

This event will explore the cultural dynamics of love, community, and desire in urban areas with a focus on the Bay Area. Films include Skate Her (Kristin Wygal, 2003), Welcome to Africville (Dana Inkster, 1999), Off the Map: A Journey Through the Excelsior (Cristina Mitra, 2003), Oakland: The Selling of A City (Kristina Lovato-Hermann, 2003), Each Night (Vu T. Thu Ha, 2003), Troo Bloo (Debbie Ng, 2003), and 100% Human Hair (Ann Kaneko, 2002). A question and answer session with several of the filmmakers will follow the screening.

This event is sponsored by the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Program, the Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women's and Transgender Coalition, and the Queer Cultural Center and is part of the National Queer Arts Festival and is curated by Madeline Lim and Darshan Elena Campos.

Admission is free. All ages are welcome. The venue is wheelchair accessible. For more information, please email darshan [at] ucsc.edu.

Complete Program (including film descriptions and director biographies):

Skate Her (Kristin Wygal, 2003). From the joy of a skateboarding addiction to the challenges of being ignored by the dominant skateboarding culture, this digital video explores what it means to be a queer woman of color skateboarder. KRISTIN WYGAL is a queer mixed-race dyke filmmaker, musician, and wannabe skateboarder. She lives, works, and plays in San Francisco.

Welcome to Africville (Dana Inkster, 1999). This film mixes fictional and historic footage into a surprising tale of desire, sex, and gentrification in Canada. Dana Inkster is a filmmaker based in Canada, and Welcome to Africville is her film film.

Off the Map: A Journey Through the Excelsior (Cristina Mitra, 2003) This digital video takes viewers through a cinematic tour of a little-known but well-loved neighborhood in San Francisco from the perspective of its residents. CRISTINA MITRA is a native San Franciscan who never thought she would be a novice filmmaker.

Oakland: The Selling of A City (Kristina Lovato-Hermann, 2003) Oaklanders speak up as their city, struggling against longstanding economic strangulation, is being sold to the highest bidder. KRISTINA LOVATO-HERMANN, a mixed-race native of the east bay, is obsessed with major urban areas where history, race, class and politics collide. This is her first film.

each night (Vu T. Thu Ha, 2001). An urban love poem, this visceral short expresses the many textures of desire. VU T. THU HA is an inter-disciplinary artist in film, photography and conceptual art. Her work strives to create visual dialogue around Asian American issues such as identity, language, assimilation and immigration.

Troo Bloo (Debbie Ng, 2003) Come on, we all love(d) Madonna. Sing along to Troo Bloo - A/PI dyke style! Whether you are a romantic or a cynic, this digital video brings you back to your first crush, when love was new, pure, sexy, and oh-so-sappy. You too can find tru luv at your local bubble tapioca shop! DEBBIE HELEN NG is a Chinese American girl who, at the moment, lives for love (ala Pat Benatar), family, friends, and Hot Ginger Tapioca (with half the sugar, please). Troo Bloo is her first digital video production.

100% Human Hair (Ann Kaneko, 2002). With seventeen songs and an even greater number of wig changes, 100% Human Hair refashions the image of Los Angeles to reflect its multiracial composition. Ann Kaneko uses generic conventions and poignant human interactions to explore political issues in a cinematic language all her own.