November – December 2021 screnings

I’m so proud to have been selected for the Third Edition of the Burnt Video Art and Experimental Film Festival.  My work was included in Burnt 3.4, which shows in November 2021.

From Burnt Video Art and Experimental Film Festival 3.4 “Crown Branches” program:
Rites and othering

To be on the wrong side of the lens. On the margins of a memory, a story, a social construct. To explore through intimate and symbolic portraits, one’s foundational story, sexuality, trauma and healing.

Six short films are part of the latest program for Burnt Fest’s third edition. Films that revolve around parental relationships, transgenerational fears, identity and impulses and try to make sense, through gestures of peeling, of smoothing, of confrontation of characters, their journey of different realizations.

Remembering only the photographs in their materiality while stripping them from their surroundings, the photographs become more vivid than the lived memories.

“To find the day of 21st” by Kieko Ikehata, explores the memory taken over by images, by photographs that erase what isn’t in them and limit one’s past to bits and pieces of what remains seen. It examines how recorded images can become more vivid than our original memory, an impure historical evidence.

The time when a photograph is taken, a photograph is seen and then the time when it’s looked at again.

How much can one rely on the photographs? And how does one make sure a day is remembered when it does not have a signifier? Ikehata’s film is a mixture of archives and landscapes but also the narrator’s memories and those of their mother. A blend of past and present where mother/daughter realities, memories and their physical existence in a space in different times, intertwine.

The overlap in Masha Vlasova’s “Her Type”, is that between the filmmaker and their father. By the manipulation of a photograph through a masculinizing application, Masha now resembles her dad. The space between the mother’s gaze and the photograph on the phone becomes that of a romantic recollection, a longing for a deceased lover. A space where intimate desires surface and tension between the subject and the camera is palpable.

Where the object of desire is digitally fabricated in “Her type”, the object of fear is genetically transmitted in Nat Portnoy’s “42 Dni/ 42 Days”. Portoy’s film is that of confrontation of the self, not only with the disease but also with her surroundings. It is a body on the margins trying to accept its fate and desires, wondering if they are one’s own. How can one feel at home in the world when they feel failed by their body and lineage and through their visual diary, try to regain control?

Such is also the case of “Letter to my mother” by Amina Maher. A work of art consisted of many layers being stripped and shaved and peeled, where the protagonist tries to regain control over their narrative and trauma.

Amina Maher’s relationship with her mother had already been captured on film by Abbas Kiarostami in Ten. In one of the scenes, Amina as a child expresses that “we must grow up before we belong to ourselves”. When sexual abuse is denounced in “Letter to my mother”, those words hold the grown ups accountable of their failure to protect as well as their denial in order to preserve the spectacle of normalcy.

In “1975 of my mother and me” by Jun-Yuan Hong, this spectacle of marital bliss under patriarchal domination is questioned by the filmmaker who tries to merge memories and fictional narrative in order to make sense of, or question and critique a past. The film unfolds as vignettes of a woman’s life, through which we feel the impotence and inability to change one’s fate as if driven by external forces in addition to traditions and customs .

A fate manipulated by some external hand, such as in #DaughterFail by Krissy Mahan in which the small characters are gliding through the screen on a piece of paper navigating a preconceived path that situates them in a bigger narrative.

November 2021
c.partamian

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Also November 2021:
Gilbert Baker Film Festival 24 November – 12 December 2021

2021 Gilbert Baker Film Festival offers specially curated LGBTQ+ content including mixed short film programs, feature-length film screenings, moderated live watch parties, Q&As and plenty of opportunities for audience engagement.

Each week of live programming will accommodate for different global regions/time zones to extend the reach and accessibility of this festival as per the vision of the festival to connect people and reach marginalized, isolated, rural LGBTQIIA+, Sapphic, Achillean, or Diamoric communities worldwide. 

FilmPride – Brighton, UK

My new movie “Have You Ever Thought Why” will be making it’s world premiere at the Brighton & Hove Pride’s official LGBTQ+ film festival, FilmPride now in our third year.

2nd – 31st August 2021– online & on TV:  use this link to sign up  to view the programs.

I’m screening with:

IS IT ME: Dir: Christopher McGill – 9:45, UK
Les Gorges (Canyons): Dir: Elsa Thomas – 18:54, France
Never Tell Anyone About This: Dir: Kate Sedlyarova – 38:20, Russian Federation
MOTTA: Dir: Nish Gera – 15:30, UK
Eve: Dir: Joe Solomon – 13:04, UK
BEAT 97: Dir: Washington Calegari – 11:51, Brazil
PARTNER – Big Gay Hands: Dir: Lesley Marshall – 3:22, Canada
The Act: Dir: Thomas Hescott – 17:58, US
Modern Queer Heroes: Dir: Kate Jessop – 5:00, UK
Pure: Dir: Natalie Jasmine Harris – 12:20, US
Trans Happiness is Real: Dir: Quinton Baker – 8:05, UK
Venus: Dir: Faye Carr-Wilson – 5:40, UK
Build Black Futures: Dir: OnRaé LaTeal Watkins – 1:20, US
From A to Q: Dir: Emmalie El Fadli – 18:52, UK
Récit de Soit (Oneself Story): Dir: Géraldine Charpentier – 4:53, Belgium
Factory Talk: Dir: Lucie Rachel, Chrissie Hyde – 4:31, UK
Teddy: Dir: Milda Baginskaite – 12:30, UK
Flamenco Queer: Dir: Ana González, Frederick Bernas – 22:46, Spain
Photographing Bisexuality: Dir: Meryem Ait Aghnia – 5:07, Morocco
Lonesome – a Malaysian LGBTQ+ Voicemail Documentary: Dir: Justice Khor – 17:00, Malaysia
Would you Realise that I’m a Survivor?: Dir: Carlos Ledesma – 2:46, Argentina
Masisi Wouj: Dirs: Zé Kielwagen, M. Serafim, S. Simeon – 22:00, Haiti
Roadkill: Dir: Aliza Brugger – 15:00, US
Sebastienne: Dir: José Alberto Andrés Lacasta – 13:29, Spain
No Historical Precedent: Dir: Mae Hoffman – 9:31, US
Lessons: Dir: Sam Seccombe – 15:14, UK
#TMI (webseries): Dir: Ashlei Shyne – 23:23, US
Spinach and Eggs: Dir: Lee Campbell – 5:38, UK
Have You Ever Thought Why?: Dir: Krissy Mahan – 1:59, US

aGLIFF / Prism Film Festival

Isn’t it hilarious that my parody of Carol will be screening at the prestigious aGLIFF / Prism Film Festival this year?!  Did you know that Austin is where it all started — I entered the My Gay Movie competition in 2004 and won the prize for the weirdest movie.  And it’s only gotten weirder since then.  Here’s the lineup:

A BRONX STORY BELL SOTO
Carol Krissy Mahan
COVID SUMMER Todd Verow
Fluid Bound Rob Fatal
Hajun Blooms Ji Yoon Kim
ISHTAR Mia Georgis
Lilies Joni Renee Whitworth
Pote de baise (Fuck Buddy) Daniel Sterlin-Altman
Sanctity of Love, The Alí Meyer
Show For Ghosts James Medley, Em Haverty

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.”

 

What Could Abolitionist Feminist Cinema Be?

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.

 

 

 

 

FilmPride on Latest TV Brighton

Poster for CarolMy 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)

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.

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