All showings will be at the James Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St.

Free and open to the public.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26

8:00 P.M.

QUEER (S)PUNK (88 min.) Curated by Stephen Kent Jusick, originally for the MIX Festival "From the elixir of life, the catalytic viscosity that is the genesis of creation, this program plays on the force that literally comes from irrepressible queerness that can't be contained, either by traditional desire or lifestyles. The mainstream queer moving image world is impoverished in addressing the punk margin. One of the tenets of experimentalism has always been a do-it-yourself aesthetic and attitude, and punk upholds that you can fuck what anyone else thinks. This approach then leads to wild fashion, noise as music, and an aesthetic of anarchy. All of these works have been made in the spirit of just doing it. . ." Stephen Kent Jusick

KANSAS ANYMORE (D. Wilson, 1996, 30 min.) A funny and bittersweet tale of a band at the end of the road. Sad and comfortable, it evokes memories of mildewed basements' smelly and comfortable at the same time.

THE YOYO GANG (G.B. Jones, 1992, 29 min.) This classic work from the creator of the legendary queerzine J.D.'s follows the exploits of a girl gang and their queer-boy friends, as the gang forms and gets into a scrape. Hilarious.

PORTLAND (G. Snider, 1996, 12 min.) A bunch of friends ride the rails from San Francisco to the idealized utopia of Portland for a week of drinking and partying, but they end up squatting in a semi-abandoned house and get into a series of misadventures.

TASTE THE SWEAT! (D. and B. Redding, 1997, 11 min.) What makes a skinhead a skinhead, wonders Martin, the schoolboy skinhead. Maybe a tattoo from the punk tattoo artist, but those punks are not what he expected. . .

RITUAL NATION TRAILER (S. Kaminsky, 1997, 3 min.) Alternative youth culture at the Burning Man Festival and the Rainbow Gathering.

9:45 P.M.

WALT CURTIS: THE PECKERNECK POET (B. Plympton, 1995, 64 min.) "Peckerneck Poet" is a one-hour film featuring the Oregon legend Walt Curtis reading his work and expanding on his outlandish life, loves, and art. An Odd-Couple clash of high and low arts, the film is humorous, surreal, and pushes the limits of good taste as Bill Plympton follows Walt to such locations as Willamette Falls, the Clackamas County Fair (where he almost gets arrested), a Burnside porno parlor and the men's room near the Multnomah County courthouse.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27

8:00 P.M.

THE DELTA (I. Sachs, 1996, 85 min.) Ira Sachs's gripping debut feature holds your attention, as one festival programmer noted, "in the same way that snakes are said to hypnotize their prey." When Lincoln, an affluent, sexually confused teen from Memphis, is picked up by Minh, the immigrant son of a black GI and Vietnamese woman, the ensuing chain of events astutely portrays the contradictions and conflicts that define race, class, and sexuality in the New South and in our country as a whole. Sachs, a Memphis native, returned home to cast and make this visually elegant and unflinchingly precise film, one of the most compelling and memorable independent features of our time.

Introduced by the filmmaker, with a question-and-answer session to follow.

9:45 P.M.

ON THE MARGIN: BI AND TRANS WORK (69 min.)

SLAP-DRAG-ONS (S. Grandell, 6 min.) This short work explores transgender performance and misperception with a dizzying new twist.

MY LIFE UNDER WATER (A. Wright, 10 min.) The story of Anna Anderson, who thought she was Anastasia, the youngest daughter of the last tsar. Examines the nature of identity through the prism of a life remembered but not lived.

FEMALE BIDENTITY: WOMEN TELLIN' IT LIKE IT IS (J. Hardacker, 19 min.) This documentary explores several women's feelings on their experiences as bisexual women. The main focus is on how placing a label on one's identity shapes others' perceptions of them as well as their self-perceptions. Intersperses interview footage with a video sing-along of "The Borderline Bisexual Blues."

HERMAPHRODITES SPEAK! (Intersex Society of North America, 34 min.) A documentary of the first conference of the Intersex Society of North America, at which intersexed individuals from around the world met and exchanged life stories in an historically unprecedented event.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28

8:00 P.M.

CROSS-SECTIONS OF EXPERIENCE: ASIAN-AMERICAN & AIDS WORK (71 min.) This program combines the works of young Asian-American filmmakers facing the dilemma of queerness-versus- tradition with works that trace the lives of individuals touched by the AIDS crisis. Though seemingly worlds apart, the works reveal surprising formal and thematic similarities, all of the films unsentimentally capturing arresting images of such landscapes as isolation, oppression, rage, pain, and hope.

TEETHING (Y. Chung, 3:30 min.)

SNIFF (M. Ma, 5 min.)

MAYBE NEVER (BUT I'M COUNTING THE DAYS) (N. Tan Hoang, 15 min.)

LOVE LETTERS 1 & 2 (N. Tan Hoang, 4 min.)

FOREVER LINDA! (N. Tan Hoang, 12 min.)

ORIENTAL SNATCH (K. Loan Nguyen, 14 min.)

NEGOTIATING SEX IN AN AGE OF PANIC (J. Wentzy, 12 min.)

WALKING WITH THE DEAD (J. Killacky / D. Clark, 6 min.)

9:30 P.M.

LAUGHING "OUT" LOUD: QUEER COMEDY (86 min.) An uproariously funny program of short comic narratives that reveal the campiness, quirkiness, and above all the darkness inherent in queer conceptions of humor.

BAD THOUGHTS (IRONICA PART I) (J. Levitin, 20 min.)

TWISTED SHEETS (C. Deacon, 13 min.)

GOOD CITIZEN: BETTY BAKER (L. Miller / S. Dempsey, 26 min.)

CLINIC E (M. Ward / G. Grubb, 27 min.)

SUNDAY, MARCH 1

8:00 P.M.

EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS (95 min.) A program of just that: short films that bend our perception and alter our awareness through the use of such devices as animation, multimedia footage, written text, and music.

FROSTBITE (W. Mead, 1996, 12 min.)

PAIXÃO NACIONAL (K. AÌnouz, 1994, 10 min.)

WHY I HATE BEES (S. Abbott, 1997, 3 min.)

PMS (POSITIONING MY SEXUALITY) (V. Colyer, 1992, 12 min.)

MY CUNT (M. Davey, 1996, 5 min.)

NICE (K. O'Brien / J. Farrow, 1995, 9 min.)

VANILLA LAMENT (C. Crouch, 6 min.)

LILY AND LULU GO TO THE MARCH (L. Marnell / L. Moreira, 1994, 11 min.)

MONSTERS IN THE CLOSET (J. Todd Reeves, 1993, 14 min.)

A SUPER NATURAL PREMIERE (K. Kelly, 1995, 5 min.)

1919 (N. Gonick, 8 min.)

9:45 P.M.

COVENTRY (91 min.) This feature film by J. Trumbull Foster, billed as "a love story in black and white," explores the meaning of "Coventry" as a state of exclusion or a land of social ostracism. In England, Coventry was a prison state; in America, it was a farm for the Romeos and Juliets of their day. In 1925, the farm was placed on the auction block. This is a film about the prejudice that brought the farm to its near-demise and the forbidden love that ultimately saved it.

QUESTIONS? COMMENTS? Contact film festival curator Nicholas Salvato '00 (nsalvato@princeton.edu)