OCTOBER
18-27, 2002

Introduction
Index of Films

10/18, Friday
10/19, Saturday
10/20, Sunday
10/21, Monday
10/22, Tuesday
10/23, Wednesday
10/24, Thursday
10/25, Friday
10/26, Saturday
10/27, Sunday

Print Version

CPArts

Queer Notions
Reel Affirmations Festival

24THURSDAY

The Day I Decide: Transgender YouthShorts
This program of short films explores the difficulties facing transgender teens. Screening: Dutch director Ingeborg Jansen's The Day I Decided to Be Nina, American director Preeti A.K. Mistry's Junk Box Warrior, and American director Sam Zolten's Just Call Me Kade.
At 6 p.m. at the DCJCC. Free.

For the Love of Funny: Women's Shorts
This program of short films looks at the lighter side of lesbianism. It includes Brooke Keesling's Boobie Girl and Lee Friedlander's The 10 Rules (A Lesbian Survival Guide).
At 7 p.m. at the DCJCC.

The Sea
A powerful smell of Catholic guilt and blood hangs over this cryptic, slow-moving Spanish-language feature, but even that doesn't make it sexy. Orphaned Ramallo (Roger Casamajor) grows up headstrong and handsome. Years later, suffering from TB, he settles into a island sanitarium, where he runs into conflicted childhood friend Manuel (Bruno Bergonzini), who adores Ramallo, and a sweet-faced girl training to be a nun. What follows is cryptic and oppressive: tattoos, petty crimes, an off-screen bull-goring, and much boyish talk about heterosex while the feelings of homosex stir. And that's it, except for the necrophilia. And the ax murder, the suicide, and the rape, which comes with a side of stabbing. And the part in which Manuel affixes Ramallo's clothes to the wall in cruciform and gets stigmata from humping them. For its own elusive purposes, The Sea makes Catholics and homosexuals both look like decadent perverts.
—Arion Berger
At 7 p.m. at the Lincoln Theatre.

By Hook or by Crook
This film by American directors Harry Dodge and Silas Howard follows two lesbians as they trek across the United States in search of family and fortune.
At 9 p.m. at the DCJCC.

Sex and the Not-So-Single Male
This program of short films examines breaking up, and making up, as a gay man. Includes Canadian director Mike Hoolbloom's In the City, German director Lutz Lemke's The Last Blow Job, and German director Angela Popp's Last Supper.
At 9 p.m. at the Lincoln Theatre.

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