WITH THE FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE!
Artists A.K. Burns & A.L. Steiner are launching a 2013 US Tour of their sociosex film COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER and coming (!) to Austin for a special screening at the North Door. Polari is excited to present this wildly imagintive film featuring the very queer talents of folks from MEN, Lesbians on Ecstasy and Light Asylum to Justin Vivian Bond and Wu Tsang. Experimental Response Cinema is proud to be co-presenting this show along with Polari and Homoscope!
Event Details
June 7th, 2013
7pm
The North Door (map)
Free!
COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER incorporates the erotics of a community where the personal is not only political, but sexual. This project was heavily inspired by 1970’s porn-romance-liberation films which served as distinct portraits of the urban inhabitants, landscapes and the body politic of a particular time and place. COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER is a unique contemporary womyn-centric composition that serves as both an ode and a hole-filler. Sex, sexuality and the complexities of gendered bodies are inherently political. This project is a small archive of an intergenerational community built on collaboration, friendship, sex and art. The work attempts to explore a consideration of feminist fashion, sexual aesthetics and an expansive view of what is defined as ‘sex.’ The video seeks to expose and reformulate typical porn paradigms, intentionally exploiting them for their comical value, critical consideration and historical homage. The artists have created a reason to reflect on the cultural realness of homo-grown lesbian sexuality, and the work aims to be a hedonistic and distinctly political adventure.
Burns and Steiner worked with artists and performers who created infinitely complex gender and performance roles that are both real and fantastical, set to a soundtrack of music culled from the worldwide sisterhood: Chicks on Speed, Effi Briest, Electrelane, K8 Hardy, Lesbians on Ecstasy, Light Asylum, MEN, Motherland, NGUZUNGUZU, I.U.D. (Lizzi Bougatsos & Sadie Laska), Kinski and Thee Majesty (Genesis P-Orridge), and featuring original compositions by Justin Bond, Nick Hallett & Sam Greenleaf Miller, Ashland Mines & Wu Tsang, Sergei Tcherepnin and Tri-State Area with AV Linton.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS FILM CONTAINS NUDITY AND SEXUAL SITUATIONS