The Arts: Don't worry, honey. They're just experimenting
OutWeek, Sept. 19, 1990, no. 64, pp. 50-51
A review by Jewelle Gomez of the third New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival. Gomez finds that while most films in the program embody a loss of naiveté (whether false of real) such as Fear of Disclosure, Tongues Untied, and Looking for Langston, some others simply exploit it such as A 25-Year-Old Gay Man Loses His Virginity to a Woman. These experimental films seek to de-emphasize narrative and to give resonance to meaning beyond the images' simple shapes.
ITEM 1990.087 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Fear of Disclosure – Phil Zwickler and David Wojnarowicz
Survival in New York – Rosa von Praunheim
Between – Claudia Schillinger
Sexual Deferment: If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him (Her, It) – Andrea Kirsch
Eye to Eye – Isabel Hegner
A 25-Year-Old Gay Man Loses His Virginity to a Woman – Philip B. Roth
Paris Is Burning – Jenny Livingston
Tongues Untied – Marlon Riggs
Looking for Langston – Isaac Julien