First Friday Shorts: “Ancient Future: Queer and Trans People of Color” | The New Parkway

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First Friday Shorts | The New Parkway

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First Friday Shorts screens short films by Bay Area filmmakers and media arts organizations using film and video to tell stories not usually seen or heard.

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Friday, August 7, 2015
First Friday Shorts | The New Parkway

August 7, 2015 features Ancient Future: Queer and Trans People of Color Experimental Short Films curated by Queer Rebels.

“Ancient Future is irreverent, rejecting exotification – and paying homage to the wisdom of our ancestors and homelands. Ancient Future – we claim it queer with these cosmic creations.”

Queer and trans people of color experimental films
From a queer apocalyptic land, to a 70 year-old bodybuilder, to a young girl fleeing Iran at night, what does our collective future/freedom look like? Irreverent. Rejecting exotification. Paying homage to the wisdom of our ancestors and homelands. ANCIENT FUTURE – we claim it queer with these cosmic creations.

Ancient Future Films:

• Desert Lullabies (Monely Soltani)
• Keep it in, Keep it out (Wizard Apprentice)
• Land (Lares Feliciano)
• Words of Sonny (MOON RAY RA/KB Boyce)
• Finding home (Celeste Chan)
• We Come from Earth, We Come from Space (Black Salt Collective)
• Molten Tea (Laura Kim)
• ABSENCE: no fats, no femmes, no Asians (Celeste Chan)
• We are Mangos (Jeepneys and Low Leaf)

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