Feb 7, 5:00 PM: Counter Cinema/Counter Media: Our Bodies Your Selves

Four recent works that perform gender and resistance: from sex-play critique to gender outlaws, from hunger strikes to the reconstitution of an archived martyr. Curated by film and video maker Jason Livingston. Jason Livingston is a film and video maker from Upstate New York. His work has been programmed at many festivals and venues, including the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, the Austrian Film Museum, the Margaret Mead Film Festival, Ann Arbor and more. Under Foot & Overstory, winner of a Jury Prize from the New York Underground Film Festival, can be rented from the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. The Two Boys earned a Special Director's Prize for Poet of the Cinema at the late, great Cinematexas. Some of his recent video work can be seen as part of ETC: Experimental Television Center 1969-2009, a 5-DVD Anthology distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix. He is a recipient of a New York State Council of the Arts Individual Artist Grant for his work-in-progress, INTERSTATE, a long-form video essay about video collectives, the Socialist Workers Party, the Onondaga Nation, family history, political economy and disco. In addition to making moving images, he has worked in film exhibition, most notably with THAW in the late 1990s and with Cornell Cinema from 2002 - 2004. He occasionally writes about cinema for such publications as Afterimage and The Brooklyn Rail. Love It or Leave It (Dara Greenwald and Bettina Escauriza, 2007, video??, 7min) OPERATION INVERT (Tara Mateik, 2003, BetaSP, 12.5min) Notre corps est une arme – PRISONS (Clarisse Hahn, 2012, format???, 12min) BERNADETTE (Duncan Cambell, 2008, Digibeta, 37min) Counter Cinema/Counter Media Series: What is the visual language of opposition? Does the form of resistance matter today? The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality's Counter Cinema/Counter Media Project focuses on film and media practices that use form to resist and "counter" dominant film and media outlets, platforms, and traditions. In 2013, the Project will mount a series of talks and screenings curated by project director Jennifer Wild (Assistant Professor, CMS), and international film programmers, makers, collectives, and critics.

Date: February 7, 2013
Time: 5:00 PM

See:http://filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu/events/2013/our-bodies-your-selves