SATURDAY, Nov 23rd 7:15pm

HYMNIC: A Series of Shorts

Presented by Eve Oishi ,Marisa Hicks-Alcaraz and the MIX NYC Board with live performance by Zavé Martohardjono

Coyolxauhqui (2016) by Colectivo Los Ingrávidos

Anthem (1991) by Marlon Riggs

For Flo (2013) by Cary Cronenwett

Sunsets Caramelizados (2019) by Ciriza

Femme Footprints in the Sand (2014) by Damien Luxe

RUBBERTIME (2017) by Zavé Martohardjono

SATURDAY, Nov 23rd 8:30-9

MIXr

Snack and mingle with friends between Saturday programs!

SATURDAY, Nov 23rd 9:15pm

FEATURE DOCUMENTARY

Empathy by Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli

83 minutes

This documentary film follows a heroin-addicted professional escort as she moves between New York City, Pittsburgh, and Los Angeles. Combining frank images of the actual labor of sex work with intimate portraits of her interpersonal life, the film is an alternately humorous and harrowing look at a seldom depicted side of American life as well as a meditation on the performativity at the core of documentary filmmaking and the sex industry alike. Shot on a mixture of 16mm and HD digital video in luxuriant long takes, its disciplined style foregrounds the sensual texture of the everyday while playing with the conventions of narrative cinema, focussing on the profound interrelation of performance and identity within the socioeconomic fabric of the U.S. Written in close collaboration with its subject/star, Empathy marks the feature-length directorial debut for Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24th 8pm

WORLD PREMIERE

'dekedens by Bader AlAwadhi

1h:56m

'dekedens is a journey through the filmmaker's childhood and teen years divided to three chapters. Politics: tells the tale of a family during the first Gulf War in Kuwait. Religion: explores the history of the Baha'i minority in the Middle East. Sex: explores Arab queer identity through cinema and television.