Gender/Queer Film Series - Spring, 2015
Tuesday, Feb. 17, 212 York, Room 106, 7:00 pm
A Tribute to 1960s Underground Superstar and Female Impersonator Mario Montez with artist Conrad Ventur
Lupe (José Rodriquez-Soltero, 1966, 16mm) and original work by Ventur. Post-screening conversation with Ventur
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Tuesday, March 31, 212 York, Room 106, 7:00 pm
Chinese Filmmaker Cheuk Cheung
Screening of My Way (Cheuk Cheung, 2011), which explores the Cantonese Opera tradition of male Dan performers, men who play female roles, against the backdrop of a Hong Kong society increasingly putting less value on art. The film follows two young men committed to the fading tradition of playing female roles in Chinese opera as a path to self-realization. Cheuk will introduce the film and participate in a post-screening discussion.
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Tuesday, April 7, Whitney Humanities Center, 7:00 pm
Pedro Almodovar’s Gender/Queer Films in Glorious Color and 35mm
All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar, 1999)
The Skin I Live In (Almodovar, 2011)
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Tuesday, April 14, 212 York, Room 106, 7:00 pm
Screening of Kumu Hina (Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson, 2014)
Kumu Hina is about the struggle to maintain Pacific Islander culture and values within the westernized society of modern day Hawai’i. It is told through the lens of an extraordinary Native Hawaiian who is both a proud and confident mahu, or transgender woman, and an honored and respected kumu, or teacher, cultural practitioner, and community leader.
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Thursday, April 16, 212 York, Room 106, 5:00 pm
Photographer and Videographer Joseph Maida
The “New Natives” series
The subjects of NEW NATIVES are aspiring male models of mixed ethnicity and race from Hawaii, whom Maida scouts through social media and photographs in their local landscape. Drawing from Hawaii’s royal history as well as its Eastern and Western influences, NEW NATIVES presents multifaceted visions of masculinity, identity, and sexuality, which upend conventional hegemony on multiple registers.