VIKA KIRCHENBAUER PGM 1
Six experimental shorts by Vika Kirchenbauer, from a seductive address out of a black void to a work on the impossibility of tickling yourself. She is there in person.
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VIKA KIRCHENBAUER PGM 2
Four shorts by Vika Kirchenbauer that take on the art economy's labor politics and its complicit institutions, from a welcome address to a study of early public art exhibitions. The filmmaker attends.
VACANCES
Filmed over ten years at a Provence villa, this documentary follows a bohemian countess grandmother and her strained family around the pool. The filmmaker will be there in person.
PLAYING WITH FIRE: AN ECOSEXUAL EMERGENCY
Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens close their ecosexual climate trilogy with a film about fire, narrated partly by a white peacock, and they open each show with a performative "Ecosex 101."
WOMEN IN ANIMATION PGM 1: ANIMATED ANIMALS
Ten shorts spotlighting women in animation, from a silent flower-fairy film to Mary Ellen Bute and Sally Cruikshank, many from 35mm and 16mm. Mindy Johnson and Rachael Guma introduce.
AVATARS: THE DOMINATRIX SLEEPS TONIGHT
Six shorts spanning four decades, by or with people from the leathersex scene, treat the dominatrix as an elusive figure of artifice. Includes Beth B's band video and overlooked and censored work.
WOMEN IN ANIMATION PGM 2: ON BEING A WOMAN
Nine animated shorts by women, from a 1930s Lotte Reiniger film to Signe Baumane's Birth, with Faith Hubley and Caroline Leaf in between, all on the subject of being a woman.
SEDUCTION: THE CRUEL WOMAN
Monika Treut and Elfi Mikesch's film follows Wanda, a dominatrix and gallerist who lets patrons watch her scenes, and uses Sade's "Venus in Furs" to question the spectator's role.
WOMEN IN ANIMATION PGM 3: SUNFLOWER LANE
A new film by six artists plays alongside shorts by Caroline Leaf, Sandy Moore, and Faith Hubley, including a digital restoration of a 16mm work and a Hubley film on 35mm.
NARROW ROOMS: LES FANTÔMES DU HARD + FISTULE
Experimental documentaries dig through the videotape archive of a pioneering gay BDSM club's founder, paired with Emre Busse's tragic, camp short built around an anal fissure.