Tuesday, June 21, 2022, 8:30pm New Parkway
+Streaming
- From X to Z 👍
- Rex Ray: A Portrait 😀
- Edvard Takes a Lover 😑
- Chaac and Yum 🙂
- I Just Wanna Dance 🙂
- Pete 👍
- Prittyboy 👍
- Inside the Beauty Bubble 💖
- Holding Moses (not reviewed)
“From X to Z” narrative, dir. Florencia Manovil, 2021, USA, 11m. 👍
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“Rex Ray: A Portrait” documentary, dir. Kegan Marling, 2022, USA, 3m.,
World premiere 😀
Rex Ray (1956–2015) was a San Francisco graphic designer and artist. This short
documentary gives a brief glimpse into Ray, where the name came from, their
works, and their thoughts on art and life. Recommended.
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Official website
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• by the same director:
Groundswell: A Documentary
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“Edvard Takes a Lover” narrative, dir. Tom E. Brown, 2022, USA, 4m.,
World premiere 😑
In the midst of a raging pandemic, drawing inspiration from Tom Hanks in
Castaway, a puppet man draws a face on a lemon, talks to it,
sleeps with it, and then goes in a very different direction. Bizarre,
nonsensical, and unappealing. Not recommended.
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Trailer
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“Chaac and Yum” narrative, dir. Roberto Fatal & Xav S-F, 2022, USA, 12m., in English
and Spanish with English subtitles 🙂
Drawing from Mayan mythology, Chaac, deity of rain, seeks Yum, deity of
corn. Two people dancing in a club fade into some sort of symbolic
interpretive dance and bondage ritual. I didn’t have any context to make
sense of the images. Interesting but a bit opaque. Recommended.
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IMDb page
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Official website
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“I Just Wanna Dance” narrative, dir. Amanda Beane, 2021, USA, 5m. 🙂
Honorable mention: Jury award, Best Documentary Short
Two dancers (the description says one gay, one straight, but I didn’t get
that from the film) show up for an audition. They dance separately, then
together. The dancing is beautiful, but not really enough to convey a story.
Recommended.
“Pete” narrative, dir. Bret Parker, 2022, USA, 6m. 👍
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IMDb page
• Instagram: @PeteTheFilm
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“Prittyboi” music video, dir. Nicolas Collins, 2019, USA, 4m. 👍
A couple, dressed in ruffled tuxedo shirts, drive around and frolic, get
some ice cream, dance in the flowers, and then talk about one of them coming
out as genderqueer. Joyful, playful, highly recommended.
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“Inside the Beauty Bubble” documentary, dir. Cheri Gaulke & Cheryl Bookout, 2022, USA, 31m. 💖
Jeff Hafler followed his childhood dream of being an archaeologist … to
become a hairdresser with a museum of beauty styles, equipment, and
memorabilia. Jeff grew up in Ohio, lived in L.A. for several years, and then
settled down in Joshua Tree, California, in the high desert, where he and
his partner Mikal adopted a child, Cash. It’s 2019, and Jeff’s beauty salon
and museum are doing great, with an exhibition coming up at ✈️SFO. Cash is
in high school, and things are purring along as well as can be expected, as
a documentary film crew arrives to tell the story of beauty in the desert.
And then along came Covid. Hair salons were closed, along with museums,
hitting especially hard on a museum largely dependent on tourists driving by
and stopping in. But with a little creative adaptation, Jeff and his family
find a way through. Fascinating look at a truly unique person, family, and
business. Must see.
Winner: Jury award, Best Documentary Short
This film was not included in the Frameline Streaming Encore
presentation. Here is the Frameline program description: A queer, non-binary dancer finds the right rhythm to parent her profoundly
disabled son. From the directors of
Ahead of the Curve (Frameline44).
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IMDb page
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Official website
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