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"An absolute gift of a free entry evening with a selection of overlooked queer cinema curated by cross-continental film club GAY24. Featuring electroclash polymath Brontez Purnell’s video mixtapes and Marlon Riggs’s towering 80s essay film on Black gay outsider identity."
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A event held at Cafe Kino on Sunday 16th June. The event starts at 20:00.
GAY24 is so excited to bring you the first of our "Encore" screenings, bringing programs that previously screened in Naarm to our new Bristol audience at Cafe Kino.
In this, the final program of GAY24's second season, we focus on the film work of Brontez Purnell - with particular emphasis on the recently released third entry in his 100 Boyfriends Mixtape series; "100 BOYFRIENDS MIXTAPE #3: FUCK BOY ANTHEM / HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION".
That piece, described by Purnell as "a choreofilm/video zine mixtape", is the third in an ongoing project of his that attempt to act as a video analogue to his now 20-year running zine Fag School. Each of them combine choreography, poetry, sex, and comedy to express some aspect of living as a black gay man in modern America.
Distinct from his previous two entries in the series, 100 Boyfriends Mixtape #3 is much more experimental in form - cutting between and layering footage into an often overwhelming barrage of content. In his own artist notes on the film, Brontez points to both the work of choreofilm artists Yvonne Rainer and Marlon Riggs as being particularly strong inspirations.
Following the screenings of all three 100 Boyfriends films, we will also view Marlon Riggs' towering experimental documentary opus "TONGUES UNTIED". An obvious analogue to Purnell's work in it's own time, Riggs also combines the forms of poetry, dance, and comedy to reflect truths about the reality of living as a black gay man in late-80s America.
It's interesting to note that a form which was seen as wildly experimental upon its original 1989 release now feels comfortingly familiar.
In Purnell's own reflections of 100 Boyfriends "There was certainly a time when the style I’m pushing here may have been considered avant-garde, but when one considers how we metabolize information these days via social media — when an image of a black man being shot by a cop runs next to a cat meme running next to how to make a vegan cupcake — we are in the very age of the dislinear."
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
In this, the final program of GAY24's second season, we focus on the film work of Brontez Purnell - with particular emphasis on the recently released third entry in his 100 Boyfriends Mixtape series; "100 BOYFRIENDS MIXTAPE #3: FUCK BOY ANTHEM / HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION".
That piece, described by Purnell as "a choreofilm/video zine mixtape", is the third in an ongoing project of his that attempt to act as a video analogue to his now 20-year running zine Fag School. Each of them combine choreography, poetry, sex, and comedy to express some aspect of living as a black gay man in modern America.
Distinct from his previous two entries in the series, 100 Boyfriends Mixtape #3 is much more experimental in form - cutting between and layering footage into an often overwhelming barrage of content. In his own artist notes on the film, Brontez points to both the work of choreofilm artists Yvonne Rainer and Marlon Riggs as being particularly strong inspirations.
Following the screenings of all three 100 Boyfriends films, we will also view Marlon Riggs' towering experimental documentary opus "TONGUES UNTIED". An obvious analogue to Purnell's work in it's own time, Riggs also combines the forms of poetry, dance, and comedy to reflect truths about the reality of living as a black gay man in late-80s America.
It's interesting to note that a form which was seen as wildly experimental upon its original 1989 release now feels comfortingly familiar.
In Purnell's own reflections of 100 Boyfriends "There was certainly a time when the style I’m pushing here may have been considered avant-garde, but when one considers how we metabolize information these days via social media — when an image of a black man being shot by a cop runs next to a cat meme running next to how to make a vegan cupcake — we are in the very age of the dislinear."
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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