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DIRTY LOOKS — EIGHT YEARS ON

Join filmmakers Marvin Astorga, Mariah Garnett, Aimee Goguen, Young Joon Kwak, Brontez Purnell, Jill Reiter, and Michael Robinson as Dirty Looks celebrates eight years of transgression with an evening of screenings.

Featured films include Purnell’s 100 BOYFRIENDS MIXTAPE (THE DEMO), Reiter’s FRENZY, Robinson’s ONWARD LOSSLESS FOLLOWS, Goguen’s TONGUE JOB, Garnett’s ENCOUNTERS I MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE HAD WITH PETER BERLIN, and Warren Sonbert and Wendy Appel’s AMPHETAMINE.

The night will end with a reception and DJ set by Discostan.

DIRTY LOOKS—EIGHT YEARS ON

Saturday, January 26.

From 8 pm to midnight.

Ace Hotel, Segovia Hall

929 South Broadway, downtown Los Angeles.

From top: Mariah Garnett,s Peter Berlin in Encounters I May or May Not Have Had with Peter Berlin (2012), (2); Warren Sonbert and Wendy Appel, Amphetamine (1966); Michael Robinson, Onward Lossless Follows (2017).

JEWEL’S CATCH ONE

C. Fitz’s documentary JEWEL’S CATCH ONE celebrates the first club for African-American gay and lesbian people in Los Angeles. Businesswoman, activist, and healer Jewel Thais-Williams ran the club on Pico for over forty years, from 1973 to 2015.

As part of Dirty Looks on Location 2018, curators Raquel Gutiérrez and Suzy Halajian will present the film, as well as a program including Cole Jupiter JamesPOSTURE IN PREPARATION, which “explores the concepts of race, gender and class through video and language.”*

 

JEWEL’S CATCH ONE, Monday, July 9, at 9 pm.

UNION (formerly Jewel’s Catch One), 4067 West Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles.

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Jewel Thais-Williams. Photograph by Katie Falkenberg.

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ZACKARY DRUCKER — REDCAT AND OUTFEST

This weekend at REDCAT, Dirty Looks on Location and curator Darin Klein present a survey of “short films and performance documentation by Zackary Drucker and her collaborators, exploring twelve years in the career of a groundbreaking American transgender multimedia artist,” actor, producer, and film director.*

A conversation with Drucker and USC professor Amelia Jones will follow the screenings.

 

HARD TO LOOK AT—FAVORITES AND RARITIES BY ZACKARY DRUCKER, Sunday, July 8, at 3 pm.

REDCAT, 631 West 2nd Street, Disney Hall, Music Center, downtown Los Angeles.

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Drucker also directed two shorts at this year’s Outfest as part of the series Queeroes (a Jill Soloway initiative), and Desires and Resistance—Unearthing Trans Legacies.

MOTHER COMES TO VENUS, followed by a panel discussion.

Saturday, July 14, at 7:30 pm.

HARMONY GOLD, 7655 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood.

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AT LEAST YOU KNOW YOU EXIST, Sunday, July 15, at 4:30 pm.

REDCAT, 631 West 2nd Street, Disney Hall, Music Center, downtown Los Angeles.

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Zackary Drucker.

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THE DANCES OF ED MOCK

Ed Mock [the late San Francisco dancer, teacher, and choreographer] is the missing choreographic link between Alvin Ailey, Anna Halprin, and Bill T. Jones. He is my direct predecessor, creatively. We—artists, black queers, Bay Area dancers, gay men—have to extract our collective past and create the historical record.” — Brontez Purnell

Dirty Looks On Location premieres UNSTOPPABLE FEAT—THE DANCES OF ED MOCK, the debut feature film by artist, choreographer, punk musician, and writer Brontez Purnell.

 

UNSTOPPABLE FEAT—

THE DANCES OF ED MOCK

Monday, July 2.

Downtown Independent

251 South Main Street, downtown Los Angeles.

Ed Mock. Photograph by Simo Neri.

DIRTY LOOKS ON LOCATION

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“I was the male lead. But I was completely unaware of what MY HUSTLER was all about. They didn’t tell me. I was on LSD the whole time, and I thought I was just going through some practice motions.

“It was shot in one day, and though we wanted to go back to Fire Island to finish it, we couldn’t because there was trouble with the man who put up the money. We used his house for the movie, and it was destroyed – the furniture all torn up and burned in the fireplace. We were like little children in a playpen.” — Paul America

This weekend, Dynasty Typewriter and the Voyager Institute present a 50th-anniversary celebration of Most Unusual Film Festival, the groundbreaking, queer-centric fest at the old Park Theater in MacArthur Park.

Curator Bret Berg has programmed two films from 1965—Andy Warhol’s MY HUSTLER, and JEROVI, a short portrait of Jeroví Sansón Carrasco as Narcissus, directed José Rodríguez-Soltero—for this opening night of Dirty Looks on Location, 2018.

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MY HUSTLER preceded by JEROVI, Sunday, July 1, at 7 pm.

HAYWORTH, 2511 Wilshire Boulevard, MacArthur Park, Los Angeles.

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See: pdome.org/jose-rodriguez-soltero

Top: My Hustler, which had a 7-week run at the Hudson.

Above: Jeroví Sansón Carrasco in Jerovi.

Below: Paul America (foreground) and Joe Campbell in My Hustler.

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