Anna Helme

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February 1st, 2010

The session Kelli Jean and I have been curating for the Bangalore Queer Film Festival 2010 is finally finished! The festival in on this weekend, wish I could be there in India to see it… maybe next year! Here is a blurb and list of the great films which made it into the program. Hopefully we’ll be able to announce screenings for Melbourne and Sydney soon.

This program is a survey of recent radical gender/queer and trans video from Australia, curated by Anna Helme and Kelli Jean Drinkwater. “Galactic Sex Wars” rockets us into a futuristic sci-fi world where homos and heteros face off across time and space. “Jorey Corson”, “Ultimate! Dance! Video!” and “Drag Acts” address the performativity of gender, featuring queer and transgender bodies in motion, in masks and moustaches, camping it up in the streets of Berlin, tumbling across an empty sports field at night, inhabiting both the intimate and theatrical. “M.C. G.F.C.” addresses the global fashion crisis, evoking Ru Paul’s “we’re born naked, and the rest is drag”. “With Him of All People” takes a relationship drama into parallel universes of alternate gender. “Procession” is a slice of reality, albeit from a bent perspective, from the Camp Betty weekend of radical sex and politics in 2007, featuring a performative “protest”, aiming to dislocate commonplace demonstration cliches, and generally disrupt the suburbs of Melbourne.

Galactic Sex Wars (13:54) – Robbie McEwan
Jorey Corson (4:10) – Corey coda & Jackson monsternighttimepower
M.C. G.F.C. (4:21) – Anna Helme
Procession (6:51)- Anna Helme
Ultimate! Dance! Video! (3:31)- Sarakaka and Holly Fluxx
With Him of All People (6:24)- Kt spit and Cyd Nova
Flipbook (0:10)- Robbie McEwan & Anna Helme
Drag Acts (13:32)- Frances Barrett, Kate Blackmore & Anastasia Zaravinos