Films:

Karen bout Karen
(Aaron Park, QFC, 2001, Seattle, WA, USA, super8, color, sound, 5 min.)

Scenic Seattle
(Trever Smith, QFC, 2001, Olympia, WA, USA, video, color, sound, 4 min.)

Holy Matrimony?!
(Trever Smith & Kristi Shaefer, QFC, 2001, Olympia, WA, USA, super8, color, sound, 4 min.)

Aaron Park

QFC (queer film club) is DIY filmmaking challenging stereotypical queer images. Promoting local and national queer filmmakers, we hold open screenings in Seattle-Tacoma-Olympia, WA. Contact Aaron Park for more information.

FENCED OUT - West Coast Premiere!

(Paper Tiger TV/New Neutral Zone/Fierce, 2000, USA, video, color, sound, 20 min.)

This tape documents the fight for the Christopher Street pier - one of the only places in New York City where youth of color, low income, homeless and l/g/b/t/q youth can hang out. In the summer of 2000, fences were built on the spot where the kids congregated, for construction for a new state park. Now in the summer of 2001 most of the space has been taken over by this development. Not only are city developers interested in "fencing out" the kids, neighbors with apartments overlooking the water want these kids to leave as well. The youth have noticed an increased police presence that is not intended to keep them safe but as one officer stated quite bluntly "you are lowering the property value". At first, upset that they will lose the piers the producers of the documentary interview pierets about how important the piers are in their lives. To further explore their connection to the piers, the producers interview older l/g/b/t/q activists about the history of the piers and its connection to the gay liberation movement of the 60s. In turn they become more politicized and see how their struggle to save their public space connects to a larger historical and social movement. As the video comes to a conclusion, the young filmmakers' anger and sadness about losing the piers develops into a plan of action to save them.

Produced by Paper Tiger TV in partnership with New Neutral Zone, a drop in center for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, two-spirited and questioning youth and FIERCE a community organizing project for lesbian, gay, bisexual, Two Spirit, transgendered and questioning (LGBTSTQ) youth in NYC.

Turning Tragedy Into War

(Paper Tiger TV, 2001, USA, video, color, sound, 28 min.)

Turning Tragedy into War counteracts the corporate media's war driven and racist spin on recent events. The show critiques the media's coverage while providing a background of the U.S. involvement in the Middle East. Turning Tragedy into War uncovers the ways that the media takes advantage of the fear and confusion in US public opinion and offers a look at the anti-retaliation movement. The program includes studio commentary from Robin Andersen, professor at Fordham University, and Kamran Rastegar of Columbia University. The commentary is inter-spliced with numerous interviews and scenes from the streets of NYC from the week following September 11th.

Produced by Paper Tiger Television on September 23rd.

Spoken Word:

ALAN READE

Alan Reade is a writer and performance artist whose work examines how body image, language, and mass media are internalized. He examines how individuals in a culture so focused on sex, food, technology, and television can assimilate large cultural ideas into the components of singular identity. His central focus has always been the body--both the literal body and the symbolic body expressed through video talking heads, Barbie dolls, or even images in tarot cards--and how that body is shaped by and is shaping American culture.

Alan's solo and ensemble work has been presented at, among other places, the Jon Sims Center for the Arts, 848 Community Space, Theatre Rhino, and Artists’ Television Access (ATA) in San Francisco; the Pyramid Club, The Knitting Factory, Dixon Place, the Cherry Lane Theatre, and A Different Light Bookstore in New York City; and On The Boards, New City Theatre, AFLN Gallery, Tugs, and 911 Media Arts Center in Seattle. One of Alan's latest shows, Bear-A-Go-Go! was featured in the 2001 National Queer Arts Festival, as part of the Best of AIRspace series. This show was developed in summer 1999 at the Jon Sims Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Alan's new show, Touched by a Monster will premiere nationally in spring 2002, in conjunction with the release of a new spoken-word CD entitled "4 Seasons in a Day" on Kuma Chan Records. Alan is a member of the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture.

SEELEY QUEST

Seeley Quest is an Oakland writer, performance artist, singer, choreographer and organizer. Hir first full length solo multi-media work in progress, "Crooked" , debuted at New College of California in August 2001. For a year sie has been a featured performer and co-organizer for the monthly "Cabaret What!?" at the Oakland 40th Street Warehouse. Sie has also recently been seen performing at Ali Woolwhich's Mission bi-monthly "Labyrinth Alley Salon", the Berkeley 8th Street Studios' "Works in the Works series", and street clowning at the Powell Street BART station.

ROGER PINNELL

Roger Pinnell was formerly the vocalist and founder of Piglatin, the dysfunctional strip joint band of late 1980s San Francisco. He's spent the last several years focusing on short fiction, including a story in the upcoming issue of Bananafish magazine. Since the days of Piglatin, Roger has also lived in New York, and spent extended periods in Mexico. His journalism work has appeared in El Tecolote and The Guardsman, and last year he read at Boys Club, a spoken word event for queer male writers. He is not a poet.

Stick around for dj Jacob Laurent (Club K.Y.), dancing and refreshments!

a spike00 production