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09/03/2021 - BERLINALE 2021: In Monika Treut's follow-up to Gendernauts, it's mostly the real-estate battle that the old heroes are waging these days. But 20 years later, they sure keep on fighting Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle in Genderation There must be something very tempting about returning to the protagonists of a documentary film. So tempting that it's a wonder directors don't do it more often, given the amount of time and attention they had to provide to them beforehand. Monika Treut probably felt it, too – that and good old curiosity, which probably kicked in as well – as s...
Managing Editor BELMONT — Thanks to a sharp-eyed sheriff’s deputy and a brave resident, a calf was rescued from a barn as the structure was going up in flames Tuesday evening. According to Belmont Police Chief Andrew Miller, a Belmont County sheriff’s deputy was driving past the Stephens’ family barn on his way home from work when he noticed a small fire had broken out in the structure. Miller was the next responder to report to the scene, located just north of the village along Ohio 149. He said the structure was engulfed in flames by the time he arrived minutes after the deputy rep...
3 Things to Do This Week in DC (and Beyond) A healing arts exhibit at the Kennedy Center, a NSFW film festival, and Birchmere's 'Concert Lovers' series 1SHARES FILM Film Maudit 2.0 Festival In 1949, Jean Cocteau launched a festival to celebrate overlooked, shocking, and experimental works of cinema that the gay, influential avant-garde filmmaker named after a French phrase literally meaning “cursed films.” The outré concept was revived last year by the Highways Performance Space & Gallery, a nonprofit cultural center in L.A. devoted to providing space for and presenting work by alternati...
Santa Monica's revered Highways Performance Space presents Film Maudit 2.0, a truly unusual selection of feature, short and experimental films, some that blend performance and cinema, and others with decidedly queer themes. Named after gay art film director/artist Jean Cocteau's term for his 1949 festival of "Cursed Films," the second annual festival spans a wide range of narrative styles and streams January 12-24. The festival is free with registration. With 125 works of cinema from 25 countries including films rarely —if ever— seen in festivals, the selected works address sociopolitical...