Frameline: Closing weekend.

Michael Guillen was there to hear B Ruby Rich's Persistent Vision 2006 keynote address, "The Q-Word, the Post-Brokeback Landscape, Queer Normativity and the Genderation Gap":

Admitting she had come to praise New Queer Cinema, not to bury it, she quoted a comment made by Amy Villarejo in an essay written for GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies - "The questions raised by queer studies, queer film studies, are still operative. It matters whether we choose to [embalm] them or resuscitate them, transformed for today." Qualifying that Villarejo was talking mostly about history, Rich nonetheless thought it could likewise apply to a reappraisal of queer cinema terms. "I suppose what I want to do here today is neither and both," she decided.

Extensive notes follow in this excellent entry.

"A minimum of 16 filmmakers from the Bay Area are finding at least 15 minutes of fame, if not more, in the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival this year." Susan Gerhard's got the list. Also at SF360, Dennis Harvey: "Writing at the festival's midpoint, and having come directly from a double bill of Indonesian and Filipino features that drew audiences thoroughly mixed in gender and ethnicity, one thing that struck me is how comfortable with its own diversity the SF gay community has become."

Quick takes at SFist from the fest: Eve on George Michael: A Different Story and Matt on Alonso Duralde's presentation of "a whirlwind of Elizabeth Taylor and heaving gladiators, a stream of clips that left us even gayer than we were when we walked in."

Posted by dwhudson at June 24, 2006 9:21 AM