queerDOC — Day Three (part 2)

Aging Queers and Teenage Fears
‘ABOUT VIVIEN’
Dir: Kathy Sport, Aus­tralia, 2000, 16mm, 14 mins
(full house)
score: 5 out of 5
An amaz­ing sto­ry about Vivien, a cross-dress­ing man (or maybe he was trans­gen­der, I’m not sure) in the 1950s and the things he had to deal with to live his cho­sen life.
‘OPENING CLOSET X’
Dirs: Max Kel­ly & Diana Pol­ish, USA, 1998, video, 17 mins
(full house)
score: ?
Damn, in all the con­fu­sion I’ve com­plete­ly for­got­ten which one this one was… maybe I’ll remem­ber lat­er and be able to put some­thing more inter­est­ing here.
‘GAY AND GRAY IN NEW YORK CITY’
Dirs: Nicholas Ches­la, Cindy Crea­ger and Julie Eng­lan­der, USA, 1999, video, 22 mins
(full house)
score: 5 out of 5
With the out and proud gay com­mu­ni­ty only real­ly now grey­ing the issue of what hap­pens to old­er gay peo­ple needs to be addressed because despite what the dance bun­nys might think gay peo­ple don’t just dis­ap­pear after 35.
‘YOUTH OUTLOUD!’
Dirs: Becky Burklee and Kathy Hines, USA, 2000, Beta SP, 46 mins
(full house)
score: 5 out of 5
This one hit a few raw nerves. As the only place I’ve ever been per­son­al­ly been a vic­tim of hate crimes was school, the sto­ries these kids told about their expe­ri­ences were much more per­son­al.
This film stirred up a bunch of reac­tions, guilt, fear, sor­row, grief.
Some of the sto­ries were far worse than any­thing I’d ever expe­ri­enced and I found myself guilty feel­ing glad that noth­ing that bad hap­pened to me and at the same time seri­ous­ly pissed off that it hap­pens to any­one at all.
For more infor­ma­tion about queer­DOC 2001 or Queer Screen.