Palomar's Queer Film Series: "Playland" w/ Q&A

EVENT DETAILS:

Join Palomar College's Pride Center for a very special screening of Playland followed by an in-person conversation with the film's director, Student Academy Award winner Georden West! The screening will take place on Palomar College's San Marcos campus on Novemver 6th at 5:30pm in room D-10.

RSVPS:

This event is free. RSVPs are appreciated but not required. We're so excited to see you there!

Screening Location:

The screening and Q&A will take place in room D-10 on Palomar College's San Marcos campus. The "D" building runs between parking lots 1&2 to the south and Comet Circle to the north. Room D-10 is located on the north side of the building, along Comet Circle road. For a map of the campus, please visit: https://www.palomar.edu/about/san-marcos-campus/?location=d

FILM SYNOPSIS:

Playland (2023)

With an eclectic ensemble of queer performers, including drag icon Lady Bunny and Pose's Danielle Cooper, Playland is transdisciplinary in every sense of the word: music, dance, archival footage, tableaux, opera, and performance art are layered into an ethereal piece subverting all boundaries. Produced by Palomar Cinema Professor Russell Sheaffer, Student Academy Award winner Georden West’s debut feature is an expressionist and very queer bricolage, focusing on an atemporal night in Boston’s oldest gay bar, the Playland Café.

SPECIAL GUEST:

Georden West

One of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film," Georden West is an artist exhuming lost histories to commune with queer ghosts.

After winning gold at the Student Academy Awards for Patron Saint, West's debut feature, Playland, premiered at IFFR and the Tribeca Film Festival. Completed while in residency at the Fine Arts Work Center, the film recieved the LEF Moving Image Fund and Frameline Completeion Fund. Playland partificapetd in Gotham Week (Fromerly IFP) US features in post-production and the American Film Festival in Poland's US in Progress.

West was a member of the iaugural Transgender Film Center Fellowship and the 2024-25 Netflix Documentary Archival Research Training cohort.

PARKING:

Visitors may park in Lots 1 and 2 (off of West Mission Road in San Marcos) free of charge during the screening. Parking in all other lots and at all other times will require a paid permit, which is availble via ParkMobile.

ACCOMODATIONS:

Individuals with disabilities, who would like to attend this event, please contact Associate Professor Benjamin Mudgett at either bmudgett@palomar.edu or (760)744-1150 ext 2737 regarding any special accommodation needs. It is requested that individuals requiring auxiliary aids such as sign language interpreters and alternative format materials notify the event sponsor at least five working days in advance. Every reasonable effort will be made to provide reasonable accommodations in an effective and timely manner.