2008 PRIDE Event Schedule
January 17, 22 & 24-26

Updated 1/09/08: See below for newly added events

There are five separate screenings over the course of the weekend and each will include a selection of short films and a feature-length movie. Friday’s late night screening is adults-only, and tickets to Saturday’s screening include admission to the PRIDE Dance Party. Visiting filmmakers will also discuss their films and the filmmaking process in special, to-be-scheduled discussion sessions throughout the weekend. Be sure check back often, as more events are added. 
 

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 17

8:00PM to 9:30PM
“Sex Didn’t Start With You!” Erotica Short Films and Cinematic Histories of Queer Desire.
Community and Leadership Development Center (CLDC) at IU's Read Center

A special screening of rarely-seen erotic films from The Kinsey Institute archives. The screening will include a discussion facilitated by Sarah Sinwell from IU’s Gender Studies Department. Space is limited so please come early!

TUESDAY, JANUARY 22

7:30PM to 9:30PM
Gender Blender 101: Rethinking the Gender Divide
Collins Coffeehouse on the IU campus

A PRIDE Film Festival teaser and panel discussion featuring the award-winning documentary Boy I Am (USA, 2006, 81 min., dir. Sam Feder, Jules Rosskam). Boy I Am is an exploration of the experiences of three young transitioning female-to-male transgender men in New York City as they go through major junctures in their transitions, as well as through the voices of lesbians, activists and theorists who raise and address the questions that many people have but few openly discuss. The film will be followed by a discussion with the filmmakers behind Boy I Am. Space is limited so please arrive early! Attendees will also get sneak peak of two short films appearing in the festival — What Hot Guy? and 41 Seconds.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 24

5:00PM to 7:30PM
Race, Gender, Voice, and Representation: A Retrospective of the Work of Marlon Riggs
Whittenberger Auditorium, Indiana University

This special retrospective of the work of experimental filmmaker and artist Marlon Riggs will be accompanied by a screening of The Aggressives (USA, 2005, 75 min., dir. Daniel Peddle), a feature documentary that explores the lives of six women-of-color living in New York City who assume the gender category “aggressive.” Following the screening will be a discussion of the films and an examination of Riggs' revolutionary filmmaking and iconic influence on representations of black sexualities since his death in 1994. Guest speaker Shaka McGlotten, Assistant Professor of Media, Society, and the Arts from Purchase College, will explore why there remain so few contemporary works that take up Riggs' layered investigations of racial and sexual difference, cultural politics, and expressive cultures. This event is FREE and open to the public!

8:00PM TO 11:00PM - Screening #1
Buskirk-Chumley Theater

• Love is Love (7m)
• The Essay Assignment (5m)
• Four Feet (3m)
• Hitchcocked (8m)
• Airplanes (10m)
• Enraged by a Picture (13m)
- INTERMISSION
• The Bubble (117m)

FRIDAY, JANUARY 25

4:00PM
"Queer Animation" followed by a discussion with Judith Halberstam
Indiana University - Ballantine Hall, Room 006

7:00PM to 10:00PM - Screening #2
Buskirk-Chumley Theater

• Billy's Dad is a Fudge Packer  (10m)
• Rock Pockets  (5m)
• VGL-Hung  (20m)
• Happenstance Step  (8m)
• A Girl Named Kai  (8m)
• Today I Become a Man  (9m)
• My Last Ten Hours With You  (15m)
• Attack  (7m)
• Black Men & Me  (6m)
- INTERMISSION
• Cruel and Unusual  (64m)

10:30PM TO 12:30AM - Screening #3  (Adults Only)

• Trannymals Go To Court  (13m)
• His Name is Cosmo (18m)
• Seven Secrets to Perfect Porn  (32m)
- INTERMISSION
• Enough Man  (61m)

SATURDAY, JANUARY 26

2:30PM to 5:00PM
Incite!/Insight?: FTM and Lesbian Representations Pushing the Dialogue
at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater

A screening of the science-fiction short film The Gendercator by Catherine Crouch, the award-winning short documentary Mind If I Call You Sir?, and the short documentary Thorn In Your Side. The Gendercator, well-received at the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, was removed from the San Francisco International GLBT Film Festival in June 2007 after a firestorm over its representation of transsexuality. The screenings will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with internationally recognized and distinguished scholars Judith Halberstam, Professor of English and Director of Women’s Studies at University of Southern California; Susan Stryker, 2007–2008 Ruth Wynn Woodward Chair in Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University; and Suzanna Walters, Professor and Chair of Indiana University’s Gender Studies Department.

7:00PM TO 10:00PM - Screening #4

• 41 Seconds  (4m)
• What Hot Guy?  (3m)
• Breakdance Hunx  (5m)
• Love Struck  (2m)
• Casting Pearls  (7m)
• My First Time Driving  (18m)
• A Trip To Prague  (4m)
• Prada Handbag  (22m)
- INTERMISSION
- Quarryland Men's Chorus, Live Performance  (15m)
• Itty Bitty Titty Committee  (87m)

10:30PM
PRIDE DANCE PARTY!

PRIDE is sponsored by: Lisa J. Baker DDS, The Word,  Farm Bloomington,  The College Arts & Humanities Institute, IU CMCL Dept., Bloomington Convention and Visitors Bureau, IU Libraries: Kent Cooper Room Services, BloomingOut Radio, Bloomington Chamber of Commerce

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