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QB Studios Presents
The Cutting Edge Film Fest

Doors at 7 p.m. • March 12, 2010 • $3

Premier of Take My Hand, written, directed & produced by Marc Andrew Fitzgerald with an amazing list of other films from local & indie filmmakers plus Revealing the Alter Ego, a photo series.
DJ music with DJ Oh Snap, Films start at 8:15 p.m.

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Liss Platt

7:30 p.m. • Saturday, April, 24 2010 • $5

Liss Platt will present a selection of short videos and films spanning over a decade of her independent media career. From queer camp collaborations to appropriated mash-ups to experimental narratives and documentaries, this eclectic body of work is unified by its use of humor and playfulness to address issues of representation, identity, and subjectivity. Platt often combines video, Super-8, and 16mm film as a way of invoking various traditions that utilize these different media (i.e., infomercials, home movies, and experimental films).

Somewhere Between Here and There
2008, 10 minutes, Color, Sound by Liss Platt (16mm and Super-8 transferred to video)
Comprised of images of Brooklyn, New York, Hamilton, Ontario and the roadways that connect them, the film is a rumination on places we call home. It explores the complexities of coming and going, and the loss experienced when trying to return. The experimental form of the film is, in part, an homage to to filmmaker Diane Bonder.
Winner of Best in Show, 1078 Film Festival 2009.

 

You Can’t Get There From Here
2005, 8 minutes, Color, Sound by Liss Platt (Super-8 transferred to video)
You Can't Get There From Here is a short experimental film and a kinetic scrapbook of being sixteen. Cacophonous, contradictory, and constantly on the move, this coming of age story is rife with burgeoning desire, adolescent rebelliousness, and family crisis. Ultimately, the film is about the irreconcilability of striving for and running from, of growing up and shutting down, of pursuit and flight. You can’t get there from here.

Long Time Coming
2005, 5 minutes, Color, Sound by Liss Platt (appropriated TV footage)
Long Time Coming is comprised entirely of remixed audio and video from the last period of the 2004 Stanley Cup Final (Calgary vs. Tampa Bay). What emerges is the sexualized nature of the dance – where seductive glances give way to serious bump and grind, and a lifetime of longings are finally fulfilled. This is Canada’s national pastime as you’ve never seen it before.

Purse
1999, 6 minutes, Color, Sound, by Kelly Dolak and Liss Platt (digital video and 16mm film)
Two butch ‘girls’ are in for a surprise when a chance encounter with some purses takes a sinister turn. Through a camp send-up of the horror genre and the Surrealist films of Bunuel, the ‘threat’ of purses is hilariously exposed

 

Over the Edge
1997, 7 minutes, Color, Sound, by Liss Platt (appropriated film footage)
In an homage to late seventies teen angst, a butch (the artist) revels in her most compelling moment of identification, Matt Dillon’s first film, ‘Over the Edge.’ By re-editing the original film and condensing it to its central conflict between agitated teen rebelliousness and the sexy, slow stoner rituals of the erta, the tape evokes the Zeitgeist of a very particular youth culture.

 

Tongue in Chic
1996, 22 minutes, Color, Sound, by Diane Bonder & Liss Platt (digital video, Super-8 and 16mm)
A campy spoof on various traditions of erotic representations (from contemporary commercial porn to Warhol’s understated underground 16mm films), with special attention given to lesbian cliches such as wood nymph imagery and the 'lesbian self-reflexive' genre. The tape also features a recurring info-mercial segment where a Mary Faké representative shares her line of products for sexual illusions.

 

Painting by Numbers
1996, 3 minutes, Color, Sound, by Diane Bonder and Liss Platt (Super-8 transferred to video)
Famous historical paintings are re-staged and made into narrative tableaux with unexpected (and gender-bending) results. Shot in Super-8 film and edited on video.

 

Cutting Teeth
1991, 4 minutes, Color, Sound, by Liss Platt
The tape uses three nightmares about teeth as the basis for an exploration
of anxiety, loss, transition, and reversions to infantile states of toothlessness.

Bio
Liss Platt’s work has been screened and exhibited throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, at such venues as The Whitney Museum and the New Museum in New York, Akademie der Künste in Berlin, The San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in San Francisco, The Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio, Gallerie SAW Gallery in Ottawa, and MKG Gallery in Toronto. Most recently she had a solo show at YYZ in Toronto and participated in the Banff Centre for the Arts residency “Imaginary Places.” Liss has received grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Experimental Television Center, and the Ontario Arts Council. Her most recent film, Somewhere Between Here and There, was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York as part of the Documentary Fortnight. She is currently an Associate Professor in Multimedia at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

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1078 Gallery Film Festival
August 20-22, 2010

A juried, international film festival.

Download the sumbission form here.
2010 Submission deadline dates and entry fees payable to 1078 Gallery:

March 20, 2010 ($20), April 20, 2010 ($30), May 20, 2010 ($40).

Send your submissions to 1078 Gallery Film Festival 2010, 820 Broadway, Chico, CA 95928.