The tenth Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival continues from Friday, November 16, through Sunday, November 18, at Chicago Filmmakers, 1229 W. Belmont, and Rodde Center, 4753 N. Broadway. Tickets ($4 for most matinees, including 5 pm shows; $5 for most evening shows) go on sale a half hour before the first show; advance tickets can be purchased before the day of the show at Chicago Filmmakers. Festival passes are $25, good for six screenings only. For further information call 281-1981 or 281-8788.
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LOOKING FOR MY PENIS: THE EROTICIZED ASIAN IN GAY VIDEO PORN An illustrated lecture by Toronto video artist and writer Richard Fung, who will be focusing on the work of gay porn star Sum Yong Mahn. Fung will also show his own recent Steam Clean. (Chicago Filmmakers, 9:00)
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17
NOCTURNE Not to be confused with Joy Chamberlain’s British film of the same title that showed last week during the festival, this is a U.S. drama by Mark Harris about a pianist in his 20s who is just coming out and the handsome student he becomes obsessed with. (Chicago Filmmakers, 9:00.)
VOICES FROM THE FRONT A new feature-length video by the Testing the Limits collective that deals with the self-empowerment of people with AIDS and AIDS-related diseases; music by Jimmy Sommerville and Michael Callen. On the same program, Carl Michael George’s DHPG Mon Amour (1989), a short about a day in the life of a man and his lover who takes DHPG to combat an infection associated with AIDS. (Chicago Filmmakers, 7:00)
