INTERACTIVE ZINEBI

Laugh, my darling. Humour in feminist / Queer contemporary cinema

Kaucyla Brooke, Jane Cottis, Sadie Benning, A.S.M. Kobayashi and Kalup Linzy, a wide cross section of American and Canadian directors who have been working for years in the field of experimental cinema, form part of this short season with their recent films, which are a genuine hybrid of genres that include fiction, documentaries and filmed performances. The common denominator in these extraordinary audiovisual pieces is laughter, which appears in all of them to provide support for a profound critique whose aim is to question what is called gender normality and to make humour the basic element of queer theory and post-modern feminist discourse.

As part of this season, a special retrospective of Peggy Ahwesh’s work is being screened. She is a member of the International Jury at this year’s 51st festival and is a pioneer in this kind of cinematic practice, whose work, accurately defined as being typical of a DIY artist, doesn’t hesitate to use a wide variety of technologies, ranging from utterly obsolete ones right up to those connected with digital art. Trained as an artist in the 1970s in the New York experimental Super8 cinema scene, the feminist avant-garde movements and underground punk, since then she has applied humour and her unique poetic art of the absurd to using images and sounds to analyse political and social themes, the problems of cultural identity and gender and individual subjective experiences connected with these. This retrospective will run through the most representative films in her long career, including Philosophy in the Bedroom (1987), Martina’s Playhouse (1989), She Puppet (2001) & Certain Women (2005).

Screening venue: the Guggenheim Museum Auditorium 

Film screenings

• A PLACE CALLED LOVELY

  Ríete, mi amor
  Guggenheim Museum Auditorium
  27-11-2009 - 18:00h
  Sadie Benning | USA
  14'00''



• THE JUDY SPOTS

  Ríete, mi amor
  Guggenheim Museum Auditorium
  27-11-2009 - 18:00h
  Sadie Benning | USA
  12'00''



• THE PURSUIT OF GAY (HAPPYNESS)

  Ríete, mi amor
  Guggenheim Museum Auditorium
  27-11-2009 - 18:00h
  Kalup Linzy | USA
  5'00''



• CONVERSATION WIT DE CHUREN V: AS DA ART WORLD MIGHT TURN

  Ríete, mi amor
  Guggenheim Museum Auditorium
  27-11-2009 - 18:00h
  Kalup Linzy | USA
  12'10''



• CONVERSATION WIT DE CHUREN III: DA YOUNG & DA MESS

  Ríete, mi amor
  Guggenheim Museum Auditorium
  27-11-2009 - 18:00h
  Kalup Linzy | USA
  16'56''



• KK QUEENS SURVEY

  Ríete, mi amor
  Guggenheim Museum Auditorium
  27-11-2009 - 18:00h
  Kalup Linzy | USA
  7'20''



• DAN CARTER

  Ríete, mi amor
  Guggenheim Museum Auditorium
  27-11-2009 - 18:00h
  A.S.M. Kobayashi | CANADA
  14'00''



• FROM ALEX TO ALEX

  Ríete, mi amor
  Guggenheim Museum Auditorium
  27-11-2009 - 18:00h
  A.S.M. Kobayashi | CANADA
  6'00''



• DRY KISSES ONLY

  Ríete, mi amor
  Guggenheim Museum Auditorium
  25-11-2009 - 18:00h
  Kaucyila Brooke / Jane Cottis | USA
  75'00'' Documentary



• PHILOSOPHY IN THE BEDROOM

  Ríete, mi amor
  Guggenheim Museum Auditorium
  24-11-2009 - 20:00h
  Peggy Ahwesh | USA
  10'00'' Fiction



• MARTINA'S PLAYHOUSE

  Ríete, mi amor
  Guggenheim Museum Auditorium
  24-11-2009 - 20:00h
  Peggy Ahwesh | USA
  20'00'' Documentary-Fiction



• SHE PUPPET

  Ríete, mi amor
  Guggenheim Museum Auditorium
  24-11-2009 - 20:00h
  Peggy Ahwesh | USA
  15'00'' Fiction



• THE STARS EATERS

  Ríete, mi amor
  Guggenheim Museum Auditorium
  24-11-2009 - 20:00h
  Peggy Ahwesh | USA
  24'00'' Documentary-Fiction



• BEIRUT OUTTAKES

  Ríete, mi amor
  Guggenheim Museum Auditorium
  24-11-2009 - 20:00h
  Peggy Ahwesh | USA
  7'30'' Documentary-Fiction



• THE THIRD BOY

  Ríete, mi amor
  Guggenheim Museum Auditorium
  24-11-2009 - 20:00h
  Peggy Ahwesh | USA
  8'40'' Fiction