The eighth annual edition of the Chicago Lesbian and Gay Film Festival concludes this weekend at Chicago Filmmakers, 1229 W. Belmont. Tickets cost $4-$5.50 per show or $25 for six screenings. For program information and updates, call Chicago Filmmakers at 281-8788.
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GAY EXPERIMENTAL FILMS Nine short films, all but two of them from the U.S. Tom Chomont’s Oblivion (1969), Jabbok (1967), and Razor Head (1984), Jerry Tartaglia’s A.I.D.S.C.R.E.A.M. (1988), Larry Brose’s An Individual Desires Solution (1986), Robert Gates’s Communication From Weber (1988), and an excerpt from Jim Hubbard’s Homosexual Desire in Minnesota (1985) comprise the American selections. From France comes Yann Beauvais’ Super-8 Miles (1985), and from Canada Midi Onodera’s Ten Cents a Dance (Parallax) (1985). (Saturday, October 15, 5:00)
REVOLUTIONS HAPPEN LIKE REFRAINS IN A SONG A remarkable and sensitive blend of the personal and the political, the conclusion of Nick Deocampo’s trilogy from the Philippines on the theme of “poverty and prostitution,” shot in Super-8, is both distinctive and powerful. Narrated by Deocampo in English, the film documents the anti-Marcos revolution, the life of Oliver (a transvestite who was the subject of the first film in the trilogy), child prostitution, and the filmmaker’s own personal history, including his homosexuality, his filmmaking, and his travels abroad. The tone is reflective, lyrical, and sufficiently impassioned to bridge the film’s occasional technical limitations. Deocampo will be present at the screening. (Saturday, October 15, 8:30)
WOMEN’S VIDEOS Half a dozen videos, all of them done since 1985 in the U.S.: Mindy Faber’s Suburban Queen, the late Lynn Blumenthal’s Doublecross, Ingrid Wilhite’s It’s a Lezzie Life: A Dyke-u-mentary, Julie Zando’s Let’s Play Prisoners, Jean Carlomusto and Maria Maggenti’s Doctors, Liars and Women, and Suzie Silver and Lawrence Steger’s Peccatum Mutum (The Silent Sin). (Sunday, October 16, 1:30)
