Schnitzer Cinema, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art’s annual film series, continues its Queer Productions series with films directed by Jenny Livingston and Wu Tsang.
On April 12, at 7 p.m., “Paris is Burning” will be shown at the Wayward Lamb located at 150 West Broadway, followed by “Wildness” on April 13, at 7 p.m. at the JSMA on the University of Oregon campus. Programmed by Richard Herskowitz, JSMA curator of media arts, with the help of Professor Quinn Miller, both films are free.
“Paris is Burning”
“Paris is Burning,” a moving documentary that follows minority drag queens and cross-dressers in New York, will be screened at The Wayward Lamb on Tuesday, April 12 at 7 p.m. The film explores the poverty and racism from which “voguing” emerged and interviews legendary drag queens Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija and Dorian Corey.
Tuesday, April 12 – 7 p.m
The Wayward Lamb – 150 West Broadway
"Wilderness"
On April 13 at 7 p.m., “Wildness,” a documentary about the Silver Platter, an iconic bar in MacArthur Park, Los Angeles, that has hosted Latin/LGBT communities since the early 1960s, will be screened at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. “Wildness” deals with issues of identity, conflict and marginalized communities. With a magical-realist flourish, the bar itself becomes a character, narrating what happens when a group of young artists create a weekly performance art/dance party called Wildness, which explodes into creativity and conflict. “Wildness” was included as part of both the 2012 Whitney Biennial and 2012 New Museum Triennial, and was created by the artist Wu Tsang, whose works often explore issues of transgender identity.
April 13 – 7 p.m.
The Wayward Lamb – 150 West Broadway
Cinema Pacific’s Queer Productions series is supported by the Department of English, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Office of Academic Affairs, a JSMA Academic Support Grant, Center for the Study of Women in Society, and the Cinema Studies Program.
More information on Queer Productions can be found at: https://jsma.uoregon.edu/QueerProductions