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SECRET PICNIC
directed and produced by philipe lonestar
co-directed by courtney trouble
Secret Picnic (2004)
Color, Sound on Mini-DV transferred from 16mm
Genre: Experimental narrative
Running Time: 9 min. 20 seconds
Brief description: With fake flowers, pink cakes and sun umbrellas, Secret Picnic is an experimental narrative about three fags who confront their sexually abusive pasts at a joyous queer picnic. Animated queer heart ring technology transports them from their everyday lives to their colorful, bubbly, and bright heaven on earth. Yet there is a unavoidable hell waiting in their picnic basket symbolized by a pad lock, a pink phone and a pair of high heels.
This color 16mm film explores stereotypes of queers including abuse, sex work and locker room beatings through three true story flashbacks. Queer space is celebrated but inevitably haunted by repressed trauma complicated by queer identity. They all finally confront and escape painful memories with their heart rings and a near-death experience menacing them with knives and crows. With an original soundtrack mix sampling old movie soundtracks, queer punk rock, locker slamming and original cello music, Secret Picnic is an adventure of delight, horror and triumph in drop dead color and bird tweeting chaos.
for info/showings contact philipe lonestar at FemmeBoySupplies@hotmail.com
Past Screenings:
Ladyfest Bay Area
Artists Television Access
July 30th 2004
http://www.ladyfestbayarea.org/filmvideo.html
Genderqueer Film Festival
Chicago WIDC Theater
August 28, 2004
http://www.widc.org/
Southern Comfort Conference
Sheraton Colony Square Hotel
Atlanta, Georgia
October 2, 2004
http://www.sccatl.org/sccfilmguide.html
Seattle Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
October 15-21, 2004
http://www.seattlequeerfilm.com/
Out On Film: Atlanta's Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
November 12-18, 2004
http://www.outonfilm.com/
Upcoming Screenings:
MIX 2004: The 18th New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival
November 17-21, 2004
http://www.mixnyc.org/
BIO: Philipe Lonestar is a transexxxual femme boy multi-media artist, internationally-screened filmmaker, gender performance artist, seamstress, and sex educator. Ze organized the 2003 Olympia Sex conference, the first sex education conference fully inclusive of trans and genderqueer people. Philipe loves tea time, clothespins, orange, aprons, chickens, kissing, fake flowers and tumbleweed the cat. Ze has been diagnosed as gender euphoric by the American Psychiatric Association. While not shooting, dreaming and editing colorful film creations, Philipe works as a domestic violence and sexual assault prevention advocate in Olympia, WA.
directed and produced by philipe lonestar
co-directed by courtney trouble
Secret Picnic (2004)
Color, Sound on Mini-DV transferred from 16mm
Genre: Experimental narrative
Running Time: 9 min. 20 seconds
Brief description: With fake flowers, pink cakes and sun umbrellas, Secret Picnic is an experimental narrative about three fags who confront their sexually abusive pasts at a joyous queer picnic. Animated queer heart ring technology transports them from their everyday lives to their colorful, bubbly, and bright heaven on earth. Yet there is a unavoidable hell waiting in their picnic basket symbolized by a pad lock, a pink phone and a pair of high heels.
This color 16mm film explores stereotypes of queers including abuse, sex work and locker room beatings through three true story flashbacks. Queer space is celebrated but inevitably haunted by repressed trauma complicated by queer identity. They all finally confront and escape painful memories with their heart rings and a near-death experience menacing them with knives and crows. With an original soundtrack mix sampling old movie soundtracks, queer punk rock, locker slamming and original cello music, Secret Picnic is an adventure of delight, horror and triumph in drop dead color and bird tweeting chaos.
for info/showings contact philipe lonestar at FemmeBoySupplies@hotmail.com
Past Screenings:
Ladyfest Bay Area
Artists Television Access
July 30th 2004
http://www.ladyfestbayarea.org/filmvideo.html
Genderqueer Film Festival
Chicago WIDC Theater
August 28, 2004
http://www.widc.org/
Southern Comfort Conference
Sheraton Colony Square Hotel
Atlanta, Georgia
October 2, 2004
http://www.sccatl.org/sccfilmguide.html
Seattle Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
October 15-21, 2004
http://www.seattlequeerfilm.com/
Out On Film: Atlanta's Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
November 12-18, 2004
http://www.outonfilm.com/
Upcoming Screenings:
MIX 2004: The 18th New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival
November 17-21, 2004
http://www.mixnyc.org/
BIO: Philipe Lonestar is a transexxxual femme boy multi-media artist, internationally-screened filmmaker, gender performance artist, seamstress, and sex educator. Ze organized the 2003 Olympia Sex conference, the first sex education conference fully inclusive of trans and genderqueer people. Philipe loves tea time, clothespins, orange, aprons, chickens, kissing, fake flowers and tumbleweed the cat. Ze has been diagnosed as gender euphoric by the American Psychiatric Association. While not shooting, dreaming and editing colorful film creations, Philipe works as a domestic violence and sexual assault prevention advocate in Olympia, WA.