Santa Barbara Lesbian & Gay Film Festival This is the schedule for the First Annual Santa Barbara Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, November 13 and 14, 1992, Victoria Street Theatre. For more information call 805-963-3636 or email mary@ferkel.ucsb.edu. Friday, November 13, 8:00 PM "Rosebud" by Cheryl Farthing A sharply sexy story of personal awakening. Kay finds herself unexpectedly intrigued by the open sexuality of the lesbian couple who live next door. Surprised and excited by the intensity of her feelings, she embraces her own repressed desire, and sets out to turn fantasy into reality. 1992, UK, 16mm, 14 minutes. CHANGING OUR LIVES: THE DR. EVELYN HOOKER STORY From the '40s to the present, this powerful drama investigates the makings of a hero for the gay and lesbian community with the aid of startling archival footage and illuminating interviews. Through her initial friendship with a gay student who introduced her to Los Angeles' secret gay world of the late '40s and '50s, Dr. Hooker began pioneering studies which resulted--in 1974--in the removal of homosexuality from the list of official mental disorders. A tribute to a true hero for the lesbian and gay community. 1992, USA, 16mm, 75 minutes. In Person: Director Richard Schmiechen and Producer David Haugland. Friday, November 13 10:00 PM Opening Night Reception Saturday, November 14 11:00 AM "Eye to Eye" by Isabel Hegner A moving documentary about the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe told by his long time lover and model Jack Walls, narrated over many of Mapplethorpe's portraits. 1989, USA, 16mm, 18 minutes. "A Certain Grace" by Sandra Nettlebeck Zelda meets Alice and they begin to work together on a photography project. Their relationship develops, and as the erotic tension between them heightens, the lines blur between subject and object of desire. 1992, USA, 16mm, 40 minutes. "Relax" by Christopher Newby A remarkably electric, imaginative and intense short in which Steve, a young gay man, explores his feelings leading up to the result of an HIV test. A visual feast. 1991, UK, 16mm, 25 minutes. "Spin Cycle" by Aarin Burch A personal narrative that confronts Director Aarin Burch's fears and aspirations as a lover and as an artist, portraying her struggle with self-doubt and internal turmoil. 1991, USA, 16mm, 5 minutes. "Dreams of Passion" by Aarin Burch An exploration of desire between two black women through movement and dance. 1989, USA, 16mm, 5 minutes. In Person: Director Aarin Burch "Flames of Passion" by Richard Kwietniowski A commuter steals an intriguing photostrip on a commuter-railway station platform, them comes face to face with the young doctor it depicts. 1989, UK, 16mm, 18 minutes. "Doll Shop" by Christine Rasmussen Working in a doll shop, Melanie feels for the first time that she may be attracted to her female co-worker Barbara. In a daydream, Melanie imagines she is a doll and walks through the store getting advice from the other dolls in the shop in order to resolve her ambiguity. 1992, USA, 16mm, 10 minutes. In Person: Director Christine Rasmussen Saturday, 2:00 PM "State of Mind" by Angie Black An experimental sexual journey as a butch babe on a motorcycle recalls a past lover. 1990, Australia, 16mm, 13 minutes. AMERICAN FABULOUS by Reno Dakota Meet Jeffrey, queen of the open road. AMERICAN FABULOUS is the oral biography of the late Jeffrey Strough, a wild, storytelling homosexual whose unglamorously picaresque life makes for compulsively` addictive narratives that are unbelievable, hilarious and movingly tragic. Shot entirely from the back seat of a black 1957 Cadillac as it moves aimlessly through Columbus, Ohio, this fascinating individual gives a vivid account of his relentlessly wild life in a collection of thirty-five segments of true-life tales, anecdotes, witticisms and tantrums. 1991, USA, 16mm, 105 minutes. Saturday, 4:00 PM Single Exposure: The Challenge of Achieving Greater Visibility for Gay and Lesbian Films. Free panel workshop with Judith Raiskin, Aarin Burch, Christine Rasmussen, Richard Schmiechen, and more people than i want to type right now. Saturday, 5:45 PM "Night Out" by Lawrence Johnston Tony's world is shattered when he is viciously attacked and taken on a hellish car ride. He fails to tell anyone, including his lover, but a surprise visit reveals the truth. 1989, Australia, 16mm, 50 minutes. "Because the Dawn" by Amy Goldstein An alluring, modern-day vampire musical comedy in which a female photographer's sensual obsession with a female vampire helps to quench the ultimate thirst of the vampire--to be recognized in the modern world. 1988, USA, 16mm, 40 minutes. "How to Kill Her" by Ana Maria Simo and Ela Troyano Maura is obsessed with Elsa, but neither a visit to her therapist or thoughts of methods of killing or torturing Elsa can completely exorcise the memories of happier times. 1989, USA, 16mm, 15 minutes. Saturday, 8:00 PM "True Blue" by Maureen Brownsey A surreal dark comedy where Elizabeth, a lesbian woman, is haunted by pregnant women, large dead bugs, women's shoes and a headless boss. 1992, USA, 16mm, 7 minutes. In Person: Director Maureen Brownsey "The Dead Boys' Club" by Mark Christopher Toby's cousin gives him a pair of shoes previously owned by his deceased lover. When worn, he's transported to the '70's pre-AIDS world of disco, hot guys and glitter balls, juxtaposing the generational differences that AIDS has wrought. 1992, USA, 16mm, 25 minutes. THE TWIN BRACELETS by Yu-Shan Huang THE TWIN BRACELETS is a lesbian version of RAISE THE RED LANTERN, taking place in the '80s. Hui-hua is a bright-eyed rebellious teenager of a Chinese minority tribe, growing up in a fishing village where people have no concept of human rights, women's liberation, lesbian love, or even divorce. While our heroine is confronted with the daily oppression of the ancient traditions, she seeks love and escape in the arms of her childhood buddy Hsui. The beautiful details of the Chinese minority village life and the atmospheric cinematography are truly a feast for the eye. A remarkable film, written and directed by women. 1990, Hong Kong/Taiwan, 35mm, 100 minutes. Saturday, 11:00 PM "Always on Sunday" by Connie B. DeMille A group of sailors in a bar on a Sunday afternoon, cruising an ambitious group of "gals." 1960, USA, 16mm, 9 minutes. "We're Talking Vulva" by Tracy Traeger and Shawna Dempsey A five minute feminist romp concerned with the care and feeding of happy female genitalia. 1989, Canada, 16mm, 5 minutes. "Beauties Without a Cause" by David Weissman Four lawless drag queens prepare for a night of light crime in this delicious moral comedy with compelling hairdos and an excitable soundtrack. Like all great American cinema, it's about our country's mythology: youth, speed, peroxide blondes and a car crash. 1986, 16mm, 7 minutes. VEGAS IN SPACE by Phillip R. Ford An outer-space musical comedy dealing with glamorous, irrational behavior on a 23rd Century, all-female pleasure planet. The four-man crew of the U.S.S. Intercourse races on a secret mission to the Planet Clitoris, a "babes-only" world where men are forbidden to touch down. Ordered by the Empress of Earth to swallow gender-reversal pills, the spacemen swap their sex to go undercover as 20th Century showgirls and are propelled into a dizzying caper to capture the perpetrator of a heinous crime that has hurled the orbiting resort on its path of doom. 1991, USA, 16mm, 85 minutes. In Person: Director Phillip R. Ford, Actor Miss X, William Massey Mary Cardenas mary@ferkel.ucsb.edu