CHANNELING: an invocation of spectral bodies and queer spirits
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Collection: Curated Compilations
Tags: Body, Dance, Death and Dying, Gender, LGBT, Performance, Religion/Spirituality, Sexuality
CHANNELING is an entryway into the spirit realm and the queer body politic: a program of experimental moving image work that calls up the ghosts of the past and the specters of the future. The intent of the program is to re-imagine film and video as occult technologies that allow us to connect with the bodies, experiences, and emotions that are often invisible--ghostly even--in everyday life. The works in the program take a personal approach in dealing with the political and historical problems that haunt the queer experience: the AIDS pandemic (Renwick, Di Stefano), the body in transition (Montague), the idealized nuclear family (Peña, Robinson), and the narrow cultural standards of desirability (EMR, Moulton). CHANNELING presents emerging and established artists critically engaging with these concerns on their own campy, poetic, sexual, humorous, and even utopian terms, using a variety of aesthetic approaches such as digital video, homemade effects, saturated 8mm, home movies, animation, green screen, and more.
CHANNELING is a film and video program curated by Latham Zearfoss and Ethan White.
Included Titles
"Renwick recounts a sad time in her life, when a friend was dying and she suddenly became aware of the presence of crows... (Renwick) craft(s) a lyrical and moving essay that works its magic through poetic accretion rather than narrative logic...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: death and dying, lgbt |
This experimental documentary meditates on the space between two bodies and explores three key bodies in transition: the erotic "cruising" body, the transgender body, and the pregnant body. In depicting moments of change or redefinition for...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: body, gender, lgbt, trans-sexuality |
In this episode of the Whispering Pines series, Moulton's character Cynthia is confronted with a distorted mirror image that slips between the grotesque and the exotic, depending on her posture. While Cynthia performs her nose-pore...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: body, feminism, gender, performance |
A family embraces the heart of evil in this Poltergeist re-make/drag show, circa 1992. "Robinson recycles his family's home movie version of Poltergeist, made when he was ten, into a raw look at the performative." ...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: family, found footage, gender, performance |
EMR has created a sigil, a magic sex symbol abstracted from the words TRUST ME (NOT) TO HURT YOU that is spread across rituals of the beast. Discordant sound and psychic image imagine a cross formation, speak from the hole, say nothing. Untie...
Collection: Single Titles |
Some Ghosts incorporates embroidery and stop-motion animation techniques to create a colorful dreamscape in which an unwitting spaceman looses angry spirits from a haunted medicine cabinet. Audio production was done in collaboration...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: animation, religion/spirituality |
Compromise is Episode 1 of the video art trilogy, This is More Than Love I Feel Inside, in which Jillian Peña traces a queer relationship from inception to demise. Focusing on the interior and imaginary worlds of the partners,...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: body, dance, lgbt, performance |
(tell me why): The Epistemology of Disco is an often humorous, at times sarcastic and poignant look at the role that disco music has played in the formation of gay male identity. The piece challenges the notion of disco as merely a "...
Collection: Single Titles |
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