SATURDAY 9th APRIL

• 12:00 Event: MA Film Curators Presents: FAKING IT for FRINGE!

Students of the MA in Film Curating start off Saturday with two interactive and visually titillating events. Trailer(s) Trash @ 12:00, is a frivolous and fun examination of Queer Film Trailers. Then Film Battles  @ 13:00, a journey into their favorite queer film scenes, stimulated by audience participation

WHERE: The Book Club (Basement), 100 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4RH

££: Free. For more info and to book free tickets head here: http://fakingit.eventbrite.com/

 

• 13:30 Screening: The Most Cake readers choice: DESERT HEARTS

+  Free Cake from the The Great Cake Escape, Roller-Usherettes & Cowgirl Photobooth

 

The Most Cake readers have spoken and have selected a 100% bonafide Lesbian classic for this matinee screening. A sassy, sexy, lesbian love story played out against a backdrop of rocky landscapes and country and western songs. Made for only $350,000 in 1985 Desert Hearts is widely considered the first full-length lesbian movie love story, and its success paved the way for everything from Go Fish to the L-Word.

WHERE: Rio Cinema, 107 Kingsland High Street, Dalston, E8 2PB

££: £7.00 / £5.50 concessions: Book HERE

 

• 15:00 Screening: MA Film Curators Presents: FAKE ORGASM + Performance

A screening of Jo Sol’s documentary, Fake Orgasm & Performance/Conversation with star Lazlo Pearlman. Fake Orgasm is an exploration of the cultural binaries that surround us: Male or Female, Right or Wrong, Black or White, Good or Evil, Yes or No, Reality and Faking it.

WHERE: The Book Club (Basement), 100 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4RH

££: Free. For more information and to book free tickets head here: http://fakingit.eventbrite.com/

 

 

• 16:00 Screening: Club des Femme presents JE TU IL ELLE + LA DUCHA

Screening at the super luxe Aubin Cinema, a rare chance to see the ground-breaking first feature by Club des Femmes’ heroine: Chantal Akerman. In her provocative debut, Akerman stars as an aimless young woman who leaves self-imposed isolation to embark on a road trip. With its famous real-time carnal encounter and its daring minimalism, JE TU IL ELLE is Akerman’s most sexually audacious film. Showing with short La Ducha.

WHERE: The Aubin Cinema, 64-66 Redchurch Street, London E2 7DP.

££: £8 Armchairs / £9PP Sofa’s Book here: AUBIN CINEMA ONLINE BOX OFFICE

 

• From 16:00 Performance Event: I'M WITH YOU

An ambitious mobile performance invading Vogue Fabrics and the Royal Dalston Hotel. Featuring durational performance, video and sound installation around the building.
Performers include: Bern Roche Farrelly, Edina Husanovic, Marc Harrison Lamb, Jonny Liron, Brian Lobel, Jan Mertens, Owen G. Parry, Lazlo Pearlman Sophie Robinson, Liz Rosenfeld, Benjamin Sebastian, Thom Shaw, Caroline Smith Helena Walsh, Eleanor Weber

WHERE: Vogue Fabrics & The Royal Dalston Hotel,  66 Stoke Newington Road, London, N16 7XB

££:£3 on the door. See here for more details: http://imwithyouclapton.wordpress.com/

• 16:30 Event: GAYS ON YOUTUBE 

Film was crucial in shaping gay identity in the 20th century.  In 2011 with online viewing outpacing television watching: what gays upload, view and share on Youtube will help define what it means to be gay for our generation. Are we just rehashing and remixing old stories or telling new ones?

What are we trying to say? Why are people coming out on Youtube? Why is that man dressed like Katy Perry? 45 mins of videos interspersed with chat, hosted by Anna Leach of TheMostCake and stand-up comedian Cara Cummings.

WHERE: Dalston Superstore, 117 Kingsland High Street, London E8 2PB

££: Free, first come first served

 

• 18:30 Screening: Outfest presents BALDWIN'S NIGGER

Baldwin’s Nigger (1969) was Horace Ové’s first film. Shot in a plain and simple verité style in black and white, the film represents a triumph for the filmmaker in presenting dialogue between black people as if no white people were present. This allows the speakers and audience to deal with issues without the need to self-censor. In addition it allows James Baldwin to make a direct connection with his mostly African-Caribbean audience by drawing on cadences, language and a vibe which cuts through the varied African cultures of the New World. James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, writer, playwright, poet and civil Right activist. Most of Baldwin’s work deals with racial and sexual issues in the mid-20th century in the United States. His novels are notable for the personal way in which they explore questions of identity as well as the way in which they mine complex social and psychological pressures related to being black and homosexual well before the social, cultural or political equality of these groups was improved.

WHERE: Dalston Superstore, 117 Kingsland High Street, London E8 2PB

££: Free, first come first served

 

• 18:30 Screening:  Jonathan Keane Presents: WILD TIGERS I HAVE KNOWN

13 year old Logan has an awkward crush on an older boy so he creates a female persona to seduce him. Part dream, part longing, Cam Archer creates a truly original, poetic and subtle vision of adolescent queer desire.

Showing with Hong Khaou’s short, SPRING

WHERE: Off Broadway (Basement), 63-65 Broadway Market, London E8 4PH

££: Free, but seating is limited. Book tickets here: http://wildtigers.eventbrite.com/

Thanks to Soda Pictures.

 

 

• 18:30 Screening: The Italian Film Society Presents: SHELTER ME

An award winning lesbian drama from Italy that skillfully incorporates immigration, globalization and social class, plus gender politics and homophobia, into its love-triangle narrative. Vacationing lovers Anna and Mara return to Italy with a stowaway. The presence of a teen-age Moroccan boy, Anis, exposes fault lines in the film’s two principal settings, privileged Anna’s home and her family’s shoe factory, where both Mara and Anis toil. Presented by the Italian Film Society of London

WHERE: Time for Tea, 110 Shoreditch High Street, London E1 6JN

££: £8 including free drinks from Peroni, & Rosemary Popcorn. BOOK TICKETS HERE
 

• 23:30 Screening: Little Joe Presents TAXI  ZUM KLO

A extra special pre-release screening of Frank Ripploh’s TAXI ZUM KLO (1980) in conjunction with our fave queer film magazine Little Joe. Ripploh’s debut film is a humorous autobiography, chronicling his dual life as Berlin schoolteacher and sex “hunter”. A former cult classic, the film fell foul of the Video Recording Act of 1984 and its circulation dwindled. Now after 30 years, TAXI is back, fully restored, remastered, uncut and waiting to be rediscovered.

Rio Cinema, 107 Kingsland High Street, Dalston, E8 2PB

££: £7.50 Book HERE

 

• 21:00 Party:  I'M WITH FRINGE!

Saturday night’s party is a collaboration between the I’m With You collective and the Fringe! team. With a blend of pop, rock, house, electro it’s set to be a steamy night in our favourite Dalston basement with a great line up of DJs. Music on the night comes from Sandra Le (Dick and Fanny), Jutta Haasmann (Squeezebox/Berlin), Queer Council, David Oh (Another Night/Popstarz/Love Machine) and the Sugarlow Boys (Kimono Krush).

WHERE: Vogue Fabrics, 66 Stoke Newington Road, London, N16 7XB

££: £3, free for ticketholders of any of Saturday’s paid for screenings at the Rio, the Aubin or Artch

See here for more details: http://imwithyouclapton.wordpress.com/