Platinum Showcase | Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival

Platinum Showcase Platinum Section Program Running Time is 74 min Dive into the annals of queer archives to explore the present and future of queer bodies in this exciting array of recent short film experimentation. Premiering Patrick Staff’s immersive exploration of the Tom of Finland Foundation and exploding normative ideas around the trans body with Vika Kirchenbauer’s YOU ARE BORING!, this annual event reigns with pearl pistols, solar anuses, urban gentrification and pink steam. You Are Boring! Directed By: Vika Kirchenbauer Germany, 2015, 14 min YOU ARE BORING! discusses the troublesome nature of “looking” and “being looked at” in larger contexts including labour within the new economy, performer/spectator relations, participatory culture, contemporary art display and queer representational politics. Pearl Pistols Directed By: Kelly Gallagher USA, 2014, 3 min A brief work of experimental animation blending its namesake accoutrement with a call to arms delivered by Queen Mother Moore to Greenhaven Federal Prison in 1973. Opaque Directed By: Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz 2014, 10 min Both a document and a recreation of a performance, OPAQUE takes place in an abandoned public swimming pool. A series of curtains are drawn back, revealing layers of hot pink animal print and plumes of smoke, ultimately obscuring a Jean Genet inspired lipsynch. The Foundation Directed By: Patrick Staff United Kingdom, 2015, 28 min Installation artist Patrick Staff details the domestic interiors and social structures assembled within the Tom of Finland foundation to create an immersive tapestry as intimate and playful as Tom’s graphic subjects. The Bowels of the Universe (With Shining Knees) Directed By: Madsen Minax USA, 2015, 3 min An industrial assemblage of found disaster footage and original source materials drawing ties between cataclysmic public spectacles and quotidian body horror. Scream of the Mandrake Directed By: Gary Fembot USA, 2015, 16 min Gary Fembot’s blanched Super 8mm film, SCREAM OF THE MANDRAKE, unspools like a dystopic send-off to the City by the Bay, lost as it is to tech zombies and hipsters who declaw the predatory gay carnival of SF’s glorious hey day.