Paris Is Burning (1990)
Coined by film scholar B. Ruby Rich in a 1992 piece for The Village Voice , the concept of New Queer Cinema is less a conscious effort by a group of artists with an aesthetic synchronicity and more a watershed moment in independent cinema during which queer identities both on screen and behind the camera were reconfiguring established genres to author their own cinematic languages. Programmed by major festivals such as New Directors/New Films and Sundance, this new genre was defined by the energetic works of then-emerging filmmakers such as Gregg Araki, Cheryl Dunye, Todd Haynes, and Rose Troche, and established auteurs Derek Jarman, Isaac Julien, and Gus Van Sant, all of whom released feature films in the 1990s featuring queer subjects and themes, and were platformed in Rich’s landmark essay. To complement the museum’s installation Outside the Mainstream , on view through August 4, 2024, this series offers a dynamic survey of the pioneering works that jumpstarted a liberating moment of radical self-expression for LGBTQIA+ artists which reverberates today. Programmed by K.J. Relth-Miller. Notes by Sari Navarro and K.J. Relth-Miller. LIMITED SERIES FULL OF PLEASURE: THE BEGINNINGS OF NEW QUEER CINEMA JUN 15–JUL 11, 2024
OUTSIDE THE MAINSTREAM is curated by Exhibitions Curator Jenny He, with support from Curatorial Assistant Manouchka Kelly Labouba.
to get Max on a date with Ely (V.S. Brodie), an older lesbian Max initially disregards. As Max and Ely find themselves drawn to each other, Max realizes Ely isn’t as available as she thought. Go Fish was one of the first films made following B. Ruby Rich’s 1992 article owing its genesis to the piece and to the frustration of the lack of lesbian representation during this pivotal time in queer independent cinema. DIRECTED BY: Rose Troche. WRITTEN BY: Guinevere Turner, Rose Troche. WITH: V.S. Brodie, Guinevere Turner, T. Wendy McMillan, Migdalia Melendez. 1994. 83 min. USA. Color. English. Rated R. 4K DCP. Digitally restored by the Academy Film Archive and the UCLA Film & Television Archive in conjunction with the Sundance Institute. Funding provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Amazon MGM Studios, Frameline, Sundance Institute, and the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
GO FISH
Go Fish in 4K Sat, Jun 15 | 7:30pm | TMT West Coast Restoration Premiere
The Hours and Times Sun, Jun 16 | 3pm | TMT
Lesbian college student Max (Guinevere Turner) is let down by the current state of her love life. Her roommate Kia (T. Wendy McMillan) devises a ruse
A fly-on-the-wall account of John Lennon and The Beatles’s manager Brian Epstein’s single night in a
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