Name: FLAMING CREATURES + THERE IS A TRANSOLUTION
Start: 2023-05-27T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Arverne Cinema

FLAMING CREATURES + THERE IS A TRANSOLUTION

Rockaway Film Festival

Co-presented by The Infernal Grove & The Film-makers' Cooperative.

Arverne Cinema

&quot;Dead person, dead person, will you partake in my persimmon feast?The body inside the body astounds, confesses sins of the funhouse.&quot;-In Aporia, Akilah OliverWe want to make a program about reproductive justice that looks at the body not as a beginning or an end point, but as an entry to larger conversations around autonomy. The autonomy of choice---in all its own implications. To have an abortion, to safely use drugs, to live a life getting clean (whatever that may mean). To have a body that holds the memory of another body that does not exist in the physical anymore.We have paired Flaming Creatures by Jack Smith alongside Viva Ruiz&#x27;s There is a Transolution to create an intergenerational portal of futures for our presents. We look to these images to think towards a collective future, where bodies can exist in the forms they like on the terms they want.Time doesn&#x27;t pass, it accumulates.-Devon Narine-Singh + Liz Roberts, The Infernal Grove.FLAMING CREATURES by Jack Smith. 1962. 43 minutes.Flaming Creatures has graced the anarchic liberation of new American cinema with graphic and rhythmic power worthy of the best of formal cinema. He has attained for the first time in motion pictures a high level of art which is absolutely lacking in decorum; and a treatment of sex which makes us aware of the restraint of all previous filmmakers. Preservation by the Barbara Gladstone Gallery.THERE IS A TRANSOLUTION by Viva Ruiz. 2019. 7 minutes.Viva Ruiz invites transgender AIDS activist, artist, and beloved friend Chloe Dzubilo (1960–2011) to speak via never before seen Hi-8 footage filmed by Chloe&#x27;s then-partner Kelly McGowan in the 1990s. The process triangulates mother (Chloe), lover (Kelly), and child (Viva) in a deliberate ritual to uplift the spirit and legacy of an ancestral teacher. Through artifacts from the moment when video first became accessible and before mobile phone cameras became ubiquitous, we witness Chloe declare herself and her sisters as leaders in art, advocacy and culture for evermore.Image copyrighted Jack Smith Archive, Courtesy of Gladstone Gallery.‍

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