Make Me Feel Mighty Real: Drag/Tech and the Queer Avatar 1969-2023

April 16, 2023News

We are so thrilled to have our 2008 short Robot Love included in Make Me Feel Mighty Real: Drag/Tech and The Queer Avatar (1969-2023) at Honor Fraser Gallery in Los Angeles, CA.  The exhibition is curated by the incomparable Jamison Edgar and Scott Ewalt and is on view February 24- April 29th, 2023.  According to the press release,

“Merging the formal affordances of the white cube with the maximalist aesthetics of queer nightclubs, virtual chatrooms, and underground performance venues, Make Me Feel Mighty Real transforms Honor Fraser into a living archive of glamor, grit, glitch, and gore. Canonical queer artists, filmmakers, and performers including Josef Astor, Charles Atlas, The Cockettes, Mundo Meza, and Andy Warhol are woven into a constellation of emerging and established contemporaries such as Caitlin Cherry, Huntress Janos, Jacolby Satterwhite, Devan Shimoyama, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, and Angela Washko. The careers of Leigh Bowery, Divine, RuPaul, Sylvester, Symone, and other legendary entertainers are contextualized through the illustrious resilience of transgender icons such as Potassa de la Fayette, Greer Lankton, Octavia St. Laurent, Amanda Lepore, and Marsha P. Johnson. The influence of queer collectives, like the Los Angeles-based House of Avalon, on mainstream fashion, entertainment, and social media are juxtaposed with the monstrous excess of “post-internet” identities seen in the work of Zach Blas, Dynasty Handbag, Big Art Group, Ryan Trecartin, and Theo Triantafyllidis.”

What’s not to like?!

https://honorfraser.com/?s=current&eid=199

The Palace International Film Festival

August 17, 2021News

“Stinkhorn” screens at in “The Next Generation” shorts program in Bristol, UK. on Saturday September 11.

“Who knows what is to come for the next generation of queer youth? These short films explore what it is to be young and queer now, and what that might mean in the future.” program notes

Scottish Queer International Film Festival, 2020 Edition: A Funny Thing Happened

October 1, 2020News

Hooray!  Stinkhorn is going to Scotland! (virtually).  Since 2015, SQIFF (Scottish Queer International Film Festival) has been hosting an annual festival in Glasgow, in addition to programming year-round events.  It’s thrilling that Stinkhorn has been included in this year’s festival in the shorts program A Funny Thing Happened, which thanks to Covid 19, is available online through their Vimeo channel.  Check out the program here!

 

Worldwide Women’s Film Festival

December 31, 2019News

We are pleased to announce that Stinkhorn has been selected by the Worldwide Women’s Film Festival. It will screen as part of the “Enthusiastically Creative” program on Saturday, February 8, 2020. More information about the festival: https://wwfilmfestival.com/

Pembe Hayat KuirFest/Pink Life QueerFest

December 30, 2019News

We are so excited to announce that Stinkhorn has been selected to screen as part of Pembe Hayat KuirFest/Pink Life QueerFest in Instanbul during. The festival will take place from January 23-26, 2020.

Cinematic Panic

December 1, 2019News

Stinkhorn will screen as part of the Cinematic Panic Film Festival taking place in Memphis from Dec 5-8, 2019.