Queering Memory: Gathering Light Past, Present and Future
10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024
Friday, July 26 at 7:30 PM 8:30 PM
Ends Jul 26, 2024
Mooncake Directed by Rraine Hanson | 2022 | 12 min Mooncake is an experimental meditation on gender queerness and the blurred lines between influence, desire, and obsession. The docu-fictional film revisits an unnamed subject’s childhood memory, resurfacing the nascent fantasies that once captured their imagination. What can we learn from our formative fascinations? Where in our mind do they live? How do they re-emerge? Screenplay by Pangan Eggermann, Zi Lu, Rraine Hanson | Executive Produced by Taylor Roberts | Produced by Pangan Eggermann | With Arianne Alizio | Starring Kennie Zhou, Kae Fujisawa, Shan Jiang Re Entry Directed by Ariel Mahler | 2024 | 16 min When a trans scientist rediscovers a lost satellite from her former life as a NASA engineer, she’s forced to confront her painful past in order to reconcile who she once was with who she’s always been. Screenplay by Ariel Mahler, Nicholas Schmid, Kunal Sengupta | Produced by Ilayda Cetinkaya | Starring Danielle Squyres, Tirosh Schneider, Robert Dowdy, Matthew Henerson, Leon A. Walker, Jodi Harrison Neo Nahda Directed By May Ziadé | 2023 | 12 min When Mona, a young woman in London, finds archive photographs of Arab women cross-dressing in the 1920s, she starts a feverish journey of uncovering lost histories and her own identity. Screenplay by May Ziadé | Produced by Antonia Luxem | Starring Eman Alali, Mona Khaouli, Vian Rajabzadeh, Nadia Nadif Do Digital Curanderas Use Eggs In Their Limpias? Directed By Roberto Fatal | 2023 | 14 min A struggling Latinx healer considers abandoning the physical world for promises of a digital utopia. Screenplay by Roberto Fatal | Executive Produced by Erica Tremblay, Peshawn Bread, J. Amezcua Porras | Produced by Roberto Fatal, Jenny Koreny | With Bianca Beyrouti | Starring River Gallo, Angel Zeas All The Words But The One Directed By Nava Mau | 2024 | 18 min Maya and Santiago haven’t seen each other in years. Unexpectedly seated together at a professional dinner with their new partners, Maya struggles to stay focused in the present with her new partner. Screenplay by Nava Mau | Executive Produced by Lilly Wachowski, Bamby Salcedo, Alex Schmider, Sowj Kudva | Produced by Elle B | With Anesia Potter, Lø Zubia Calsada | Starring Nava Mau, Domenic Kim, Shaan Dasani, Dani Woodson, Sis, Celine Jackson The Sea Runs Thru My Veins Directed By Zara Zandieh | 2019 | 20 min A poetic, stream of consciousness documentary featuring four protagonists who have had to grapple with difficult life circumstances and complex, personal challenges. Each of them shares their own point of view on the subject keeping us most occupied – happiness. Screenwriting by Zara Zandieh | Produced by Zara Zandieh | Starring Llanquiray Valioska Painemal Morales, Sabuha Salam, Amir Zandieh, Neomi Ilan
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