Hello everyone who reads this. I’ve got some great news that I can’t announce yet but let’s just say that one of my favorite movies is going to be shown at the place it all started …
Category: Film festivals
November- December 2020
Some screenings to end this horrible year in an encouraging way:
I Am/YaliniDream is an Official Selection and Award Finalist for the Rameshwaram International Film Festival in Ramanthapuram, Tamil Nadu, India this November.
My Crazy Boxers will be shown at the Montreal Feminist Film Festival | Festival de films féministes de Montréal, Quebec, to be held December 2- 12, 2020.
#DaughterFail won the award to Jury’s Choice at the New Age Cinema and Scripts festival in Mumbai, India! This is the first time I’ve won and award, so I am very happy about it.
MAI Journal – MAI Feminism: Issue 6: COVID-19 Crisis-Connection-Culture
I’m surprised to say that something i wrote (with support from Dr. Eva Boodman and Dr. Paula Ioanide, a founding collective member Abolition: A Journal Of Insurgent Politics) was published in MAI: FEMINISM & VISUAL CULTURE
A non-hierarchical journal open to multivalent feminist expression, research & critique of visual culture.
“In the midst of COVID-19 crisis, inspired by The Movement 4 Black Lives, Mahan shares criticism of American cinema and proposes radical changes to the current film industry.”
September/October/November 2020 festivals
Here are some places (online, of course) where some of my films are graciously included:
Like A Riot
Streaming for free for the month of October. This is the last GenderReel, so don’t miss it.
Carol
August 17-31, 2020 FilmPride LGBTQ Film Festival, Brighton/Hove, UK.
September 17, 2020 Cinema Diverse: The Palm Springs LGBTQ Film Festival, Camelot Theatres, Palm Springs, USA.
October 8-17, 2020 ReelQ Pittsburgh LGBTQ+ Film Festival, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
My Crazy Boxers
October 13, 2020 Festival Des Cinemas Differents et Experimentaux De Paris (Focus #8, p. 51 of the catalogue)- a focus session (out of competition) around the theme “Dialect/Cacolect, atypical uses of speech in experimental cinema” which well be held at the Forum des Images on Tuesday 13 October 2020, Paris, France.
November 19, 2020 Queer Animations screening with Toronto Queer Film Festival, Toronto, Canada.
November 21, 2020 qFlix Philly, Suzanne Roberts Theatre, Philadelphia, PA, USA
November 28, 2020 Yes! Let’s Make A Movie! Film Festival, Montreal, Canada.
#DaughterFail
September 25, 2020 The Film Collective, Philadelphia, PA.
October 5-18, 2020 SQIFF The Scottish Queer International Film Festival, Centre For Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland.
October 30, 2010 WIPE Amateur Film Festival, FLUTGRABEN e.V., Berlin, Germany.
Autumn 2020
The world as we knew it is ending, for better and for worse.
Nevertheless, I’m happy to be included a few festivals, and I’m looking forward to seeing what people are making.
Here is some news! I’ve made a new movie this spring, and it will show at festivals this autumn!
It’s called #DaughterFail, and it is the story of Mom’s move into the nursing home, and me trying to make her stay there comfortable – but we were thwarted by COVID-19!
Here is a listing of screenings so far:
September 25, 2020: The Film Collective, Philadelphia
October 30-31, 2020: WIPE Amateur Film Festival, Berlin
ALSO: For the rest of August, you can watch CAROL in the “Love” program at FilmPride: The Brighton & Hove’s Pride Film Festival. There is a hilarious interview of me by Deborah Espect in the Q & A link. Watch me falter!
FilmPride on Latest TV Brighton
My parody of the aclaimed film CAROL will be shown on Wednesday 5th 9.30pm (BST) in the LOVE program. Then repeated on the same day and time w/c 10th August.
FilmPride Brigton be screening a selection of the films in a series of television shows from 3rd to 16th August, on Latest TV Brighton, Freeview 7 & Virgin Media 159, and on 13 local television channels throughout the UK.
Latest TV is available in Brighton and surroundings on Freeview 7 & Virgin Media 159. (They stream some of their shows online, but FilmPride will not be streamed)
Summer 2020 News
I hope you and your loved ones have stayed safe during these perilous times.
The next screening for CAROL will be in Brighton, UK, as part of FilmPride: The Brighton and Hove Pride Film Festival, August, 2020.
“We are Brighton & Hove Pride’s official LGBTQ+ film festival, now in our second year.
Like many festivals in 2020, due to the Covid-19 crisis, we’ve had to cancel our live events and switch to delivering our programme online. We’re proud to be bringing you over 50 fantastic LGBTQ+ short films, documentaries, animations and feature films, along with Q&As with some of the filmmakers. The FilmPride Online Film Festival will run from 17th to 31st August via our partner’s website, latestbrighton.”
Included in the program are:
I Know Her
Dir: Fawzia Mirza
In the afterglow of a seemingly fated hookup, two women realise that perhaps they have a little too much in common.
Abomination
Dir: Nicky Larkin
A radical Northern Irish theatre company make the world’s first documentary opera, taking every homophobic phrase said by the DUP, and putting it to music, verbatim.
Cwch Deilen
Dir: Efa Blosse-mason
Through a striking illustrative style, this is the story of Heledd and Celyn, who navigate the undiscovered and murky waters of entering a new relationship.
The Task
Dir: Sander Houwen, Sjoerd Weening
In a God-fearing village, local goldsmith Alain delivers wedding rings to gay couple Sam and Daan.
Swivel
Dir: Lois Norman
What if, an intimacy of touch, a truth of want, Swivels around your doubt and trusts? What if, love is not a gender, it is a swivel of the heart?
Turn it Around
Dir: Neils Bourgonje
When fifteen year-old Bram falls for Florian at a house party, there’s only one problem: nobody knows Bram is gay.
Bath Time
Dir: Alice Trueman
Comedy sketch about the perils of taking a bath when you and your partner are feeling slightly different vibes… From the sketch web-series ‘Spoon the Prune’.
Jericho
Dir: Matt Parsons
A brief moment of love, grief and loss.
(F)our Seasons
Dir: Miguel Gabaldón
Throughout the four seasons of the year, four couples meet, live, split and meet again in the cities of Madrid, Chicago and New York.
The Last Romantics
Dir: João Cândido Zacharias
Two young men share different points of view of the same sexual encounter in a public space.
Atomic Love
Dir: Imogen McCluskey
It’s 1988. Recently married Dana helps her eternally-single friend Aleea make a video profile for a dating service, provoking a confession which forces them to address the nature of their relationship.
A Big Fat Taiwanese Same-Sex Wedding Banquet
Dir: Larry Tung
To celebrate becoming the first Asian country to legalize same-sex marriage, Taiwan threw a big wedding banquet in front of its Presidential Building in Taipei.
Carol
Dir: Krissy Mahan
This short film is a parody of Todd Haynes’ 2015 film “Carol,” that presents a hilarious and necessary class analysis, with better sex.
Stallion
Dir: Zachary Smith
Reece, a closeted college football captain, struggles with the toxic behaviours of his teammates, and those behaviours bleeding into his relationship with his partner and fellow teammate, Beau.
Sappho Singing
Dir: Tzeli Hadjidimitriou
The lyric poet Sappho, presented as a modern woman, turns up in her birthplace, Eressos on the island of Lesvos, and moves among its modern-day inhabitants.
London Short Film Festival 2019
Elated that Team Dykeumentary will be included in this prestigious festival! My Crazy Boxers is in the Up To And Including Her Limits screening, and a saucy re-writing of the sexist biblical tale The Genesis of Butch & Femme is in the Fringe! B Movie Resistance program. Grateful!!! Excellent!!!
NEW SHORTS: Up to and Including Her Limits
18:30 Wed 15 Jan 2020
Regent Street Cinema
Navigating societal constraints and internal upheaval, the female characters at the centre of these works contend with a loss of control and spiralling selfhoods.
Steffie Yee manifests the language lost between matrilineal generations through pencil and plasticine, alongside animator Flóra Anna Buda’s sensual, lucid imaginings of a braless queer future. Video artist Hannah Perry probes our culture’s relationship to death, mental health and the underlying weight of gender in an experimental elegy, whilst Krissy Mahan tires of the incessant gendering of underwear. Guest programmed by Jenna Roberts. 83’
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Flóra Anna Buda 10 mins (HU, 2019)
A film about queer relationships in a future without bras.
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Hannah Perry 21 mins (UK, 2019)
An intensely personal yet universal exploration of the experience of loss, marking the first time Perry has chosen to address the tragedy of the recent suicide of her best friend and artistic collaborator, Pete Morrow. Using a custom rigged 360° camera, this is a moving inquiry into romance, psychosis and our relationship to death.
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Madeleine Sims-Fewer / Dusty Mancinelli 22 mins (CA, 2019)
A ten year old girl struggles with the residual trauma of her sexual abuse.
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Krissy Mahan 9 mins (US, 2019)
Suicidal – or just a working class butch dyke caught in the wrong underpants? Seems that the boxers were the bigger problem, according to my treatment team. Based on the director’s actual meetings with hospital staff while in a psychiatric hospital system.
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Steffie Yee 2 mins (AU, 2018)
Inspired by the poem On Ç by Hiromi Itō, a woman looks at the matrilineal inheritance of linguistic tones in her family, mourning the parts of language that become extinct through semantic evolution.
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Lasse Linder 19 mins (CH, 2019)
Christian lives with his two cats Marmelade and Katjuscha. As he is yearning to become a father, he decides to fertilize his beloved cat Marmelade by an exquisite tomcat from abroad.
NEW SHORTS: Fringe! B-Movie Resistance
13:00 Sat 18 Jan 2020
Rio Cinema, London
When the going gets tough, the queers grab our cameras and make DIY, B-movie resistance films bursting with political power, revolt, and lashings of glitter. From a much-needed rewrite of the creation story, to zombie drag queens and goth punks… It’s so much more fun on the B-side! Programmed by Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Festival. 95’
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Sam Crainich 18 mins (US, 2017)
Set in the very near future, America is in the throws of Fascism a group of underground queers struggle to survive.
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Dann Parry 3 mins (UK, 2019)
Two wrestlers approach each other to battle for male dominance, but soon the fight descends into something even more animalistic, as hypermasculinity clashes with desire.
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Juan Rodrigues 9 mins (BR, 2017)
Explorations of homosexuality, race and social class with a little bit of glitter.
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Aaron Immediato 15 mins (, 2018)
When a clique of mean girls bully Cassie for not “looking like a girl” in the school bathroom, they awaken a dangerous rage deep within her in a creative response to controversial “bathroom bill” legislation.
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Krissy Mahan 6 mins (US, 2015)
Fisher price toys re-imagine the creation story ss a Butch & Femme story.
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Val Phoenix 44 mins (UK, 2019)
Drag queens and goth punks get turned into zombies by the patriarchy’s toxic foundation (like, the make-up kind) and they get saved by a butch undertaker who feeds them with breastmilk.
Sip; Screening #4/ Prison Abolition & Nurturance
Sip; Screening #4/ Prison Abolition & Nurturance
This is a FUNDRAISER for CHEZ STELLA, a local org that provides legal support by and for sex workers!
Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 7:30 PM – 11 PM
Le Cagibi
6596 St. Laurent, Montreal, Quebec H2S 3C6
FOR FREAKY QUEERS DARLING DEVIANTS & GENTLE FOLK Come watch some gorgeous post-porn with us! The films selected for this screening are centred around the theme of :
PRISON ABOLITION//NURTURANCE CULTURE
What does that mean?
PRISON ABOLITION: the opposite of a system that isolates, punishes and shames as one that occurs in communion and nurturance. We think that reflecting these values in our intimate practices can help create other ways of responding to conflict and abuse within our spaces. So we are screening films centred on:
COMPASSION – COMMUNION – COLLECTIVISM – RECIPROCITY – NURTURANCE – TRUST- HONOURING.
What is Post porn?
In short it was a wave of porn that came about to extend sexual and sensual narratives of what could be considered erotic as well as redefine bodies, fluids and whatever surrounds us. It tends to be freaky, artistic and seeks to carve out space for bodies that are normally pushed aside in intimate practices! It’s about having more control over the creation, about fair work practices and expansion!
This is a FUNDRAISER for CHEZ STELLA, a local org that provides legal support by and for sex workers!
DOORS: 19h30
SCREENING STARTS: 20h00
DJ set by LaFhomme: 21h30
10$ PWYC//NOTAFLOF (No one turned away for lack of funding)
ACCESSIBILITY:
There is a ramp, 5 feet long to go on top of two steps at the height of 11 inches. Door frame is 3 foot 96 inches
Both bathrooms are gender neutral and one is wheelchair accessible.
There is a changing table in one of the bathrooms.
This is not a sober event but there are some tasty non-alcoholic drinks available!
Please message us if we are missing anything in terms of accessibility that could be added here, we would consider it a great help!
There will be someone on site for active listening and trouble-shooting/discomfort sifting.
There will be free catered food by MIDNIGHT KITCHEN to help promote the accessibility of the event.
PROGRAM // PROGRAMMATION
>Baby (8 min), Evie Snax<
A captivating and romantic dreamscape of divine mystic witch Lucifer Rising taking a lavish milky hot bath with herself in the futuristic steam machine. Oozing femininity and sensuality, she grabs your attention and leaves you creamy and wet.
>Morsures (8 min), Jules Delisle<
Portraits rapprochés et intimes des étapes entourant l’acte de mordre et de se faire mordre.
>Shattered (5 min ) Salty Cherie<
How many queers do you need to change a lightbulb? A kinky short film about intimacy and safe spaces
>Dear Babe (3 min) Ethan Folk<
A home-alone-houseboy is hungry, and not just for breakfast. What will daddy think when he reads about the houseboy’s filthy antics?
>Criolo Etérea music video (5 min), Toni Monetti<
Project “Etérea”, a song by the singer-songwriter which video and making of feature representatives from various queer art groups from Brazil, in performances and behind-the-scenes interviews.
>Cirolo Etérea Documentary (9 min), Toni Monetti<
>I am/Yalini Dream (2 min), YaliniDream and Krissy Mahan<
Lankan Tamil Blood, Manchester-Born, Texas-Bred and Brooklyn-Brewed, performs a poem of refugee/migrant love for self and the world, through dance and a hiphop beat.
>Kitchen Talk (5 min), Evie Snax<
A group of 12 Black, Indigenous and People of Color in porn gather to create self-directed content. During the shoot we ended up gathered in the kitchen crying, laughing and holding each other. Here is an excerpt of that conversation.
>Eros (2min), Evie Snax<
In this epic portrait of trans feminine vibrancy and unadulterated creative expression, playful movement artist and dancer Manon Praline explores intimacy through a vulnerable and moving performance. Captured by Evie Snax and set to an ephemeral score by rising Azaadi pop star Kohinoorgasm, this short solo tease will leave hearts fluttering and open to the undeniable intimacy in this conversation between muse and lens. Baby is a story of queer romance, obsession, radical self acceptance, freedom, and lesbionic vanity.
MicroActs at The Chateau, Camberwell, London
Thursday 21st November 2019
The Chateau, London
Invert Visions, a cinematic space that celebrates the Queer gaze in Artist Film, sharing
our lives & stories, our voices & expression. From playful documentary to punk collage
and phantasmagorical animation, this collection of short films showcases the breadth
of styles & experiences in contemporary Queer moving image. Reappropriating the
late 19th/early 20th century term ‘Invert’ (used to refer to a homosexual person*), this
screening proudly explores the ‘inverted’ world; the internal landscape of emotion &
intimacy, and public experience of Otherness, erasure, and finally, community.
MicroActs presents 22 LGBTQ+ shorts from around the world, filled with joy & pathos.