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2007

FRI, OCT. 5, 2007, 7:30pm

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Kate Clinton: 25th Anniversary Tour

(Andrea Meyerson, 2007, USA, 60 min)
PLUS SHORTS!
Kate Brown animation
Human Thing
(Kate Brown, 2007, Canada and U.S., 3:40 min)
Animated music video for the Be Good Tanyas. This is a hand-made cottage industry animation using the technique of rotoscopy, and experiments in animation with beads. Each frame is digitally photographed with back light allowing many layers for each frame.
Before the screening
Amy Villarejo 2007
Cornell University media scholar Amy Villarejo introduces the evening with a brief but engaging presentation about the changing lesbian media landscape from the early 90s to 2007: Lesbian Looks 15th Anniversary Introduction by Amy Villarejo.
Modern Languages Auditorium / FREE
Post screening reception
Live music from Sabra Faulk and Mitzi Cowell at Old Town Artisans!
Kate Clinton

The Lesbian Looks Film Series opens its 15th season of free screenings on Friday, October 5 with Andrea Meyerson’s 2007 documentary Kate Clinton: 25th Anniversary Tour.

With a quarter century of stand-up under her belt, Kate Clinton calls herself “the last lesbian comic standing.” But where Kate really stands is at the forefront of the lesbian movement, where her sharp, politically charged humor has made her a celebrated voice of enlightenment and empowerment.

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FRI OCT 12, 2007, 7:30pm

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Paris Was a Woman

(Greta Schiller and AndreaWeiss, 1995, UK/USA, 75 min)
Modern Languages Auditorium / FREE
Still from Paris Was a Woman

Mesmerizing portrait of the creative community of women writers, artists, photographers and editors who flocked to the Left Bank of Paris in the early decades of the 20th century. Using groundbreaking research, newly discovered home movies, and a wealth of rare archival footage, “Paris” intertwines interview with anecdote to evoke the mood and flavor of this avant-garde artistic community in Paris during its most magical era.

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FRI, OCT 19, 2007, 7:30pm

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Itty Bitty Titty Committee

(Jamie Babbitt, 2007, USA)
The Loft / FREE
Still from Itty Bitty Titty Committee

The wildly entertaining story of a group of radical feminist punk activists called Clits in Action, or C(I)A. Shy Anna (Melonie Diaz), dumped by her girlfriend and rejected from college, still lives with her parents, and works at a plastic surgery clinic. Fate brings her in contact with Sadie (Nicole Vicius), who’s demonstrating against the patriarchy by spraypainting Anna’s office windows. With an undeniable attraction to this sexy, rebel grrl, Anna soon joins the ranks of C(i)A and starts her rollercoaster ride from timid office girl to punk-feminist anarchist.

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