Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:00:38 -1000 From: Mia H H Lam Subject: canadian film/video program curated by Richard Fung (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 15:56:24 -1000 From: Gaye MG Chan Subject: canadian film/video program curated by Richard Fung Millennial Funk Canadian Independent Film and Video Curated by Richard Fung, Toronto Videomaker UHM Art Building Auditorium Friday, October 29 - 7:30 pm suggested donation $4 General $3 UH Students and HGLCF members The Program, centred on our pre-millennial obsession with ideas of death and passing, is by turns poignant and funny, sexy and politically impassioned. Many of the works touch on physical mortality, of course, but the cross-country compendium features riffs on all kinds of emotional and social fatalities. There is even a resurrection, though not one any church is likely to endorse. And the only angel in the program comes with leather straps and a harness. In thirteen short works the program surveys the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from Toronto to the Arctic. The approaches are varied, but all are marked by conceptual intelligence and creative precision. Positiv, by internationally renowned experimental filmmaker Mike Hoolboom, brilliantly manoeuvres between HIV autobiography and Michael Jacksons "Thriller". Why I Hate Bees , by Sarah Abbott, is a quirky childhood tale of life, death and emergent sexuality. Gordon Wong draws on magical animation techniques to tell a story of romantic disappointment and his mothers enduring belief in the power of love. On the historical front, Dana Inksters Africville posits a queer past for the forcibly dismantled Atlantic settlement of African-Canadians. And the nineteenth century practice of grinding buffalo bones into fine porcelain provides Dana Claxton with a striking metaphor for her meditation on destruction of aboriginal ways of life. (program length: 93 minutes) Supported by Outreach Section, Canada Council for the Arts. Jointly Sponsored by Intersections UHM, Honolulu Gay + Lesbian Cultural Foundation Contactperson: Debbie Drexler 956-8474