MIX NYC promotes, produces and preserves experimental media that is rooted in the lives, politics and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and otherwise queer-identified people. MIX’s work challenges mainstream notions of gender and sexuality while also upending traditional categories of form and content.
For complete details, schedule, tickets, venue, check out:
www.mixnyc.org
For complete details, schedule, tickets, venue, check out:
www.mixnyc.org
Lippy - Aisha Abdullah 2009, USA, video, color, sound, 5 min. Young people of different shapes, sizes, colors, races, and genders stand in front of a blank wall. Black and white fast and slow-moving images combine to form this meditation on humanity.
Bigger than Life: Experimenting with Sex - Jeffrey Escoffier
El Abuelo - Dino Dinco 2008, USA, video, color, sound, English, 4 min. Delicate, light-saturated shots of San Antonio poet and educator Jimenez ironing pair beautifully with a reading of his poem “El Abuelo.” Meditating on the act of pressing a perfect crease into a tee-shirt conjures the memory of Jimenez’s “first vato” – his first love of another man. The act of ironing becomes a metaphor for precision in queer seduction—balancing perfected performances of masculinity with the intimacy of the male gaze.
