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Camp Betty Cinema - Sister Mary Clancy of the Overflow does Vagina Dentata
A clip of a performance by Gaylourdes evoking the film-theory spectre of the Vagina Dentata as Sister Mary Clancy of the Overflow, during Camp Betty. This formed the first footage for a new collaborative film project launched at the Camp Betty Cinema exploring the themes of the double, the film within the film, the contamination of reality by dreams and the voyage in time...
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| Produced | 2007/06/12 |
| Duration | 6 minutes 43 seconds |
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Queer film is not just about re-interpreting straight storylines to accommodate 'gay' characters - it's an excuse to play with more than gender and sexuality... super 8, chroma key, sci-fi storylines about aliens and androgynous bisexual nymphomaniac fashion models and remaking Soviet propaganda into a transgender revolution were all examples in the Camp Betty Cinema film programme of how queer film can play with you, and cinema too.
Camp Betty crowds came along for queer shorts, a performance by Gaylourdes invoking the film
theory spectre of vagina
dentata in song and dance, 2 minutes of infamy for queer film makers and
a screening of the
cult 80s sci-fi movie Liquid Sky.
• MAGGOTS AND MEN (Trailer) by Oakie Treadwell (5 minutes):
In the style of a Soviet Propaganda film Maggots and Men recounts the
tragic events of the
Kronstadt Uprising (Russia, 1921). This history is combined with
fictionalized inter-personal
relationships between the sailors.
• PHINEAS SLIPPED by Oakie Treadwell (15 minutes):
A boy’s school class and their teacher discuss romance in literature.
Each boy has his own
interpretation on this. The film is one of the first genderqueer version
of schoolboy fantasies,
played by genny boys, trans boys and butches.
• A GIRL NAMED KAI by Kai Ling Xue (8 minutes):
An autobiographical vignette in three chapters about Kai Ling’s
relationships, self discoveries,
passions, secrets and dreams. Using digitally-edited Super 8 and 16mm,
this experimental
short is a journey from the highs of love to the lows of loss,
delicately threaded together with
original music.
• SUPERHERO by Salote Tawale (4 minutes):
A satirical take on the superhero genre. Multiplicities of identity are
explored – you can be the
hero and the victim in the same moment, play more than one
gender/archetype in a story.
• INTERMISSION w/ two minutes of filmic infamy and performance by Gaylourdes
• LIQUID SKY by Slava Tsukerman (1 hour 52 minutes):
Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for
heroin. They land on top of a
New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female,
androgynous, bisexual
nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human
pheromones created in
the brain during orgasm preferable to heroin, and the model's casual sex
partners begin to
disappear. This increasingly bizarre scenario is observed by a lonely
woman in the building
across the street, a German scientist who is following the aliens, and
an equally androgynous,
drug-addicted male model.
