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The LGBTQ Film/Video Festival
NEWSAPRIL 11, 2005 – "Queer Window: The LGBTQ Film and Video Festival" is over, and we think it was a great success! Thank you to all our volunteers and attendees; we hope you enjoyed the films you saw, and we were very pleased that many of you expressed excitement about the fresh and innovative programming we brought to Providence. Both D.E.B.S. and Brother to Brother—our two feature films directed by Brown alums—sold out, and we were thrilled by the fantastic showings at many other screenings! We were especially happy to have director Rodney Evans with us on Sunday night to answer all your questions. We were also very happy to work with Youth Pride Inc. and Marriage Equality RI, to combine both cultural and political work, and to reach out to both campus and community organizations from across New England. The diversity of the audience—with its mix of ages and genders, activists and cinephiles, people with varied interests, identifications, affiliations, and ideas—made for an exciting energy and many stimulating conversations. And if you'd like to share that conversation with us, we would love to hear from you: feel free to email your comments about the festival to Eugenie Brinkema.
Thanks again for your support,
For those of you who have been asking about our beautiful posters (seen on the schedule page)...yes, there will be some available for sale at the Cable Car during the festival.
We are delighted to announce that celebrated filmmaker (and Brown alum) Rodney Evans will be a special guest for the "Queer Window" festival! On Sunday, April 10, at 7.30 p.m., Mr. Evans will introduce his acclaimed film Brother to Brother as well as participate in a question-and-answer session immediately after the screening. Brother to Brother traces the story of Perry, an African American art student living in New York City, adrift and alienated: thrown out of his parents' house for being gay, estranged from his homophobic African American classmates, indifferent to the mostly white art world, and annoyed by the stray objectification of his white sometimes lover. But when the seemingly insignificant old man in the neighborhood turns out to be Bruce Nugent - an active participant in the Harlem Renaissance - Perry rediscovers a world that offers a model of opposition, artistic practice, and community. Nugent regales Perry with tales of his collaborations with Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Wallace Thurman, taking him on a surreal journey back through this era. Recreating a distant time with considerable freshness and vitality, director Rodney Evans negotiates a weighty agenda, addressing concerns - personal, sexual, social and historical - with a remarkable deftness and considerable impact. This heartfelt paean to the Harlem Renaissance and lesson in intergenerational exchange is a deeply moving, exhilarating film. Brother to Brother has won numerous awards and is an important representative of artistic work about and by gay African-Americans.
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