What is QUEER|ART|FILM?

QUEER|ART|FILM is a monthly screening series held at the IFC Center in Greenwich Village in which some of New York’s most unique artists present and discuss the films that have most inspired them. Curated by filmmakers Adam Baran and Ira Sachs, QUEER|ART|FILM is intimate, provocative, inspiring… and like nothing else out there.

CURRENT SEASON

FALL 2016

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Jul 29, 2016 Vanessa Haroutunian

Monday, September 26 @ 8:00 PM

Jul 29, 2016 Vanessa Haroutunian

THE INCREDIBLY TRUE ADVENTURES OF TWO GIRLS IN LOVE

Presented by Donnetta Lavinia Grays

(Maria Maggenti, 1995) Maria Maggenti’s beloved lesbian love story stars Laurel Holloman (“The L Word”) as a tomboy whose romance with well-off Nicole Ari Parker (BOOGIE NIGHTS) faces resistance from friends and family. Can their relationship survive? Or are the pressures too great? Acclaimed actress and playwright Donnetta Lavinia Grays fell for the film in college. She writes, “It captured the innocence of young love and self discovery, and the familial dynamics of opposing economic and cultural backgrounds really stood out. Most of my writing deals with this moment of discovery in young queer women and the definition of family, so the film has definitely stuck with me.” You won't want to miss this rare 35mm screening!

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Jul 29, 2016 Vanessa Haroutunian

Monday, October 17 @ 8:00 PM

Jul 29, 2016 Vanessa Haroutunian

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF

Presented by Moisés Kaufman

(Richard Brooks, 1958) A possibly gay man (Paul Newman) and his wife (Elizabeth Taylor), turn on each other during a visit to their family home in this high octane adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ monumental play. Though the play’s overt depiction of homosexuality was toned down, audiences read between the lines. Tony-nominated director and playwright Moisés Kaufman (The Laramie Project, Gross Indecency) saw the film in Venezuela at age 12. He writes, “Brick’s struggle with his sexuality echoed much of my own experience growing up gay in Latin America in the ’70s. And hearing Big Daddy address his son so bluntly, and so compassionately, created for me a concrete image of what was possible.”

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Jul 29, 2016 Vanessa Haroutunian

Monday, November 7 @ 8:00PM

Jul 29, 2016 Vanessa Haroutunian

DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK

Presented by Louise Fishman

(Roy Ward Baker, 1951) After nude photos threatened to derail Marilyn Monroe’s burgeoning career, the starlet decided to take a series of dramatic roles to showcase her talent as an actress. This eerie, off-kilter psychological thriller meets film noir, in which Marilyn plays a very unusual babysitter working in an intrigue-filled NYC hotel, was one of her more successful efforts. To say more about the plot would spoil things, but our guest tonight, celebrated artist Louise Fishman, summed up the effect the film first had on her: “After seeing it at the tender age of 13, I fell in love with Marilyn and knew sexual passion for the first time.” A ringing endorsement if we ever heard one!

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Jul 29, 2016 Vanessa Haroutunian

Monday, December 12 @ 8:00PM

Jul 29, 2016 Vanessa Haroutunian

WILDNESS

Presented by D'hana Perry

(Wu Tsang, 2012) During its heyday, Wu Tsang’s Wildness party was known as the most inspiring queer nightlife spot in L.A. But the influx of hipsters at times led to clashes with the bar’s main clientele - trans women from local immigrant communities. Tsang’s pulse-pounding doc chronicles Wildness’s complex effect on all the attendees, one of whom was video artist and Kunq Collective DJ D’hana Perry, who says, “The film itself is so beautiful and captures the complexities of inhabiting multiple layers and identities as human beings in physical space(s), over a period of time. The implications of gentrification, gender expression, age, and race are examined, all while creating a love letter to the legacy of a space that had become a home for those who needed it.”

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Jul 29, 2016 Vanessa Haroutunian

Gallery

Queer|Art|Film co-curators Ira Sachs and Adam Baran on stage with presenter Desiree Akhavan and director Marialy Rivas at the 2015 screening of Young and Wild. (Photo by Vanessa Haroutunian)

Queer|Art|Film presenter Ariel Schrag introducing Natural Born Killers, December 2015. (Photo by Eric McNatt)

Queer|Art|Mentorship Mentor Moe Angelos at the 2016 screening of Slaves of New York. (Photo by Eric McNatt)

Queer|Art|Mentorship Fellow Troy Michie at the January 2016 screening of Slaves of New York. (Photo by Eric McNatt)

Queer|Art|Mentorship Fellow Mylo Mendez at the December 2015 screening of Natural Born Killers. (Photo by Eric McNatt)

Hari Neff and Queer|Art|Mentorship Fellow Colin Self at the August 2014 screening of The Queen. (Photo by Ryan Morris)

Queer|Art|Mentorship Mentor Carrie Moyer and partner Sheila Pepe at the February 2015 screening of A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde. (Photo by Ryan Morris)

Queer|Art|Mentorship Fellow Kerry Downey and Mentor Carrie Moyer at the February 2015 screening of A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde. (Photo by Ryan Morris)

Queer|Art Board Member Lily Binns at Queer|Art|Film. (Photo by Eric McNatt)

Queer|Art|Film presenters BUSHWIG before the July 2014 screening of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. (Photo by Ryan Morris)

Queer|Art|Film presenters Horrochata, Macy Rodman and Merrie Cherry of BUSHWIG on stage at the July 2014 screening of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. (Photo by Ryan Morris)

Queer|Art|Film audience at the July 2015 screening of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. (Photo by Ryan Morris)

Co-curators Adam Baran and Ira Sachs on stage with presenter Barbra Herr at the June 2014 screening of Suddenly, Last Summer. (Photo by Richard Davis)

June 2014 screening of Suddenly, Last Summer. (Photo by Richard Davis)

Drinks at Julius' post June 2014 screening of Suddenly, Last Summer. (Photo by Richard Davis)

June 2014 screening of Suddenly, Last Summer. (Photo by Richard Davis)

Co-curator Adam Baran and Colby Keller at the June 2014 screening of Suddenly, Last Summer. (Photo by Richard Davis)

Queer|Art|Film co-curators Adam Baran and Ira Sachs on stage with presenter Joseph Keckler at the March 2015 screening of Batman Returns. (Photo by Ryan Morris)

(Photo by Ryan Morris)

Friends of Queer|Art|Film at Julius' after the May 2014 screening of OUTRAGEOUS!. (Photo by Ryan Morris)

Queer|Art|Film presenter John Epperson with Charles Busch at the May 2014 screening of OUTRAGEOUS!. (Photo by Ryan Morris)

Queer|Art|Film co-curators Adam Baran and Ira Sachs on stage with presenter John Epperson at the May 2014 screening of OUTRAGEOUS!. (Photo by Ryan Morris)

(Photo by Ryan Morris)

Queer|Art|Film presenter John Epperson introducing the May 2014 screening of OUTRAGEOUS!. (Photo by Ryan Morris)

(Photo by Ryan Morris)

Co-curator Adam Baran on stage with special guest Flawless Sabrina at the August 2014 screening of The Queen. (Photo by Ryan Morris)

PRESS

About QUEER|ART|FILM

QUEER|ART|FILM has fast become one of the city’s most adventurous repertory programs. The overall picture that emerges from the series is of a queer cinema that is barely, if at all, concerned with the problems of representation and the burdens of identity politics, and that has never been shy to speak its name.

— Dennis Lim, New York Times

Elizabeth Thompson of Paper magazine interviews co-curators Adam Baran and Ira Sachs.

About TIMES SQUARE
Genny Visco writes in Time Out New York on the Ridykeulous screening of TIMES SQUARE

About the films of Charles Ludlam, restored by QUEER|ART|FILM

The Outfest Legacy Project Charles Ludlam Collection

That Ludlam made films is not surprising; he was one of our nation’s most prolific artists, whose inspiration for his productions—precursors of some of today’s performance art—came from B movies, penny dreadfuls, opera, and his own sense of glee when it came to making his manic spectacles.

— Hilton Als, New Yorker

It’s hard to decide which moment in Charles Ludlam’s intriguing silent film “Museum of Wax” is the most titillating: Is it when he, as a wigless drag queen in lipstick, false eyelashes and dangling earrings, passionately kisses the female on-duty employee of a Coney Island wax museum? Or is it a few minutes later, when he’s makeup-free and shirtless and making out with a dashing young man as the aforementioned woman looks on.

— Beth Greenfield, Time Out New York

The films have radically enlarged my perspective on Ludlam, just as they have instantly joined, in my mind, the best underground films of Jack Smith....

— Dan Callahan, The House Next Door