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MIX NYC 30th - Opening Night
The selection of films featured in Opening Night are a hint at what's to come at MIX 30.
This showcase provides a glimpse into the many varied experiences and issues faced by our community in this day and age. Bringing to the forefront these slices of life sets the stage for further rumination on the state of our union as a community of people with so much in common, yet so much to teach each other.
Films:
Protokolle
A ton age le Chagrin C'est
Laisse Tomber Les Filles
Pricked
Music for Dead Animals #1
Feature Film:
Sisters of the Wicked Wig
Adam Golub, Gayatri Kaul, Shane ONeill
2015, USA, video, color, sound, 78 min.
Two experimental drag queens, whose love for one another is matched only by their ambition to be seen as dominant forces within the gritty drag culture of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick, create a drag festival in the summer of 2012. Follow them through two years of their lives as they contend with challenges, ranging from coming out to their families as drag queens to the sacrifices they must make to survive as fringe artists in a rapidly-gentrifying city.
Performances:
-Church
Church is a Brooklyn based PROBLEM who makes Cuntemporary Gospel music. Looking , vers/bottom, can't host.
Charlene
Brooklyns sweetheart Charlene Incarnate began to explore her identity (and later her enacted her gender transition) in performances on stages throughout the borough. She holds it down monthly for transfeminine queens at her shows Be Cute and Jizz, and practices ancestral gay magic at ritual drag shows hosted at her homes in Brooklyn and Tennessee. Charlene is the current reigning Miss Bushwig.
-Tyler Matthew Oyer
Called an "interdisciplinary gospel immortalist" by Kembra Pfahler of the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, Tyler Matthew Oyer is an artist, writer, organizer, and educator based in Los Angeles. He has presented work at MoMA PS1, REDCAT, The Getty Museum, dOCUMENTA (13), Hammer Museum, Kunstnernes Hus Oslo, Art Basel Miami Beach, Bergen Kunstall, Rogaland Kunstsenter, The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, High Desert Test Sites, Highways Performance Space, Human Resources LA and the Orange County Museum of Art. He has written works of performance including Calling All Divas, GONE FOR GOLD, Shimmy Shake Earthquake, and 100 Years of Noise: Beyoncé is ready to receive you now. Oyer is represented by Cirrus Gallery and his work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (NY). Oyer is the founder of tir journal, an online platform for queer, feminist, and underrepresented voices. He received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2012.
Check out the trailer of CALLING ALL DIVAS: https://vimeo.com/229775475/fb518386d1
DJ Will Automagic
DJ and producer William Francis has been spinning tracks and turning out dance floors in New Yorks nightlife and underground for nearly 7 years. Inspired and influenced by New York legends Nita Aviance, Danny Teneglia, Rauhofer, Junior Vasquez & Michael Magnan. William serves old school house and techo mixed with his own modern hip-hop and dance flair.
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LocationThe Dreamhouse (View)
1022 Wyckoff Ave
Ridgewood , NY 11385
United States
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| On BPT Since: Mar 10, 2014 |
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