The 12th Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival continues Friday through Sunday, November 13 through 15, at Chicago Filmmakers, 1229 W. Belmont. Tickets ($4 for most matinees, $6 for most evening shows) go on sale a half hour before the first show and can be purchased in advance. For further information call 281-1981 or 281-8788.
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Not the Nicholas Ray feature but a program of nine short films and videos, leading off with Sadie Benning’s lovely, funny, and affecting video It Wasn’t Love and concluding with Suzie Silver’s outrageous and funny music video The Spy (Hester Reeves Does the Doors). The other seven offerings, none of which I’ve seen, are: Joseph Frank’s P.S. You’re Dead!, Katrin Barben’s Swiss Bad Girl Bar, James Raymond’s video Fingered!, Paul Avedisian’s Next in Sequins, Azian an Nurudin’s video Wicked Radiance, Myra Paci’s Transeltown (1991), and Susan Muska and Hra Gunnarsdottir’s video Staford’s Story. (7:00 and 11:00)
Daddy and the Muscle Academy
Drawing the Line: Lesbian Representation
Eleven film and video shorts. The films are Sara Whiteley’s Rapture, Simeon Hunter’s St. Mulekicker, and Jennifer Johns’s Nexus. The videos are Leslie Asako Gladsjo’s Stigmata: The Transfigured Body, John Yahnke’s His Red Snow White Apple Lips (1991), Wallace Gorell’s Acid Housewife “Wash This Way” (1990), Amy Wilson’s Hood Ring, Charline Boudreau’s Canadian Perilous Liaisons (1991), Katharine Setzer’s Canadian Trust You (1991), Joe Kelly and Danny Facs’s Skullfuck, and Rick Castro’s Automolove. (7:00 and 11:00)
Three pieces from the BBC TV “Out” series: Rosalind Haber’s Oy Gay, about gay and lesbian Jews; Stephen Lennhoff’s Skin Complex, about the skinhead phenomenon from a gay perspective; and Susan Ardill’s Gay Sera Sera, which reexamines the debate about whether gay and lesbian attributes are innate or developed. (1:00)
Salut, Victor!
