Wednesday, November 17
5:30 pm Panel: The Future of (New) Queer Cinema
Free for U of M students with ID
M.R. Daniel, PhD, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in African American
and Film Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, GA moderates an
intergenerational panel on the potential of queer film and video.
As a filmmaker and curator, Daniel will lead a discussion about the
visibility of queer cinema. Given the number of outlets to currently
view queer work from video, cable, and commercial theatres, what
is the role of LGBT film festivals?
Co-presented by the University of Minnesota Department of
Women’s Studies.
The singalong will be emceed by Ross Raihala, music critic for
The Pioneer Press
Directed by Robert Greenwald (1980) USA 35mm 93 minutes.
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Pop chanteuse Olivia Newton-John is Kira, a muse who descends to Earth to help two friends open a roller disco, and to do a lot of singing, dancing, and flouncing around. The utopian idealism is matched only by the visual sensuality, the fabulous double-entendres, the sugary sweetness, and the always-inspiring Gene Kelley. We’d be hard pressed to find a gay person out there who doesn’t savor the ELO music, the costumes, the animation sequence, and all that roller-skating! So come one, come all, dress up, grab your lyric sheet, and let your pipes take you away! | |
9:50 pm The Mudge Boy (see Saturday Nov 13)