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Week of WeHo Pride Arts Festival Film Screenings

Monday, June 26, 7:30pm - Experimental Shorts - Curated by Jheanelle Brown. Jheanelle Brown is a film curator/programmer, educator, and arts administrator based in Los Angeles whose curatorial practice creates frameworks to explore the boundlessness of Black life in experimental and non-fiction film and video. Jheanelle co-curates the Film at REDCAT program, teaches at CalArts, and is a programmer for Los Angeles Filmforum. At this moment, she is dreaming about cosmic marronage whilst trying to remember her terrestrial obligations.

Tuesday, June 27, 7:30pm - Girl Internet Show: A Kati Kelli Mixtape. This brand-new feature-length “mixtape” unearths and reintroduces a stunning, singular body of work by the enigmatic Kati Kelli, an outsider video artist and digital native whose subversive online uploads push at the seams of the digital form. For nearly a decade before her passing in 2019, Kati ran “Girl Internet Show,” a YouTube channel, parasocial experiment, and epically deranged one-woman universe built from scratch in her bedroom. This hand-made mixtape by Jane Schoenbrun and Jordan Wippell features a lovingly curated selection of Kati’s online work, unreleased videos, and her first (and final) short film opus "Total Body Removal Surgery.” A discussion with filmmaker Jordan Wippell will follow the screening.

Wednesday, June 28, 7:30pm - Screening - Blue by Derek Jarman. Comprising a single static shot a la Yves Klein, Derek Jarman's final film consists of diaristic and poetic text documenting his AIDS-related illness, at a time when he had become partially blind, his vision often interrupted by blue light. It was completed only a few months before he died. 

Thursday, June 29, 7:30pm - Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance featuring a live performance by Lipstick Conspiracy. At the time it was made (spanning 2006-2009), Angelo Madsen Minax's Riot Acts was one of few films about trans people that was also made by trans people, and created with one specific goal in mind: to combat mainstream images of isolation and destitution, to demonstrate that the journey within a trans experience isn't always one of tragedy, but one of creativity and joy. Documenting the multi-faceted lives of transgender and gender variant musicians, Riot Acts takes the shape of a lo-fi road movie-come-concert video to suggest that identities and bodies are undeniably political.

Friday, June 30, 7:30pm - The Adventure of Iron Pussy by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Iron Pussy decides to take a commission from a Thai government, who usually deems her indecent for her publicly supporting the sex industry. But they cannot deny her ability to scrap the crimes with beauty. An undercover operation takes her to a remote mansion where she not only discovers illegal activities, but also her past, and her first love. Written and directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Michael Shaowanasai.

Free, Open to the Public, RSVP at www.wehopride.com/artsfestival.

Part of the WeHo Pride Arts Festival; more info at www.wehopride.com/artsfestival. 
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