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7200 Drawings of Bill T. Jones
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| About the piece: The video is a 4 minute animation based on a performance--choreographed and danced by Bill T. Jones--for the San Francisco "In The Streets Festival" in 2001. When I first started thinking about making this piece I thought of the idea of "tagging" Bill T. Jones and using the trope of graffiti (as the intersection of drawing, writing and performance) to express what I saw that day. 7,200 drawngs later (the number of drawings that it takes to animate a 4 minute video) I ended up with this animation, a 4 minute piece of graffiti--tagging Bill T. Jones and his "In the Streets" performance.
Rudy Lemcke (2006) 7,200 Drawings of Bill T. Jones will have its premier screening as part of Frameline's 30th LGBT Film Festival in San Francisco. Queer Experiments (FRAMELINE 30 catalog entry) This program of queer experimental shorts begins with Rudy Lemcke's 7,200 Drawings of Bill T. Jones, an animated rendering of the dancer/choreographer from a San Francisco performance. Using archival footage and intense editing, Matt Palazzolo offers insight into the experience of queer teens growing up in a digital society in Green Room. Shon Kayli’s Drafting Dimensions is about an artist who visits her past while the military plans her future. Purge, by Etienne Kallos, is a lyrical, emotional journey of a young gay man struggling to come to terms with his HIV+ status. Stitching together pieces of horror and sci-fi B-movies, scraps of vintage children’s books and science texts, Mark Taylor’s Sensing the World by Echo presents an unconventional narrative about growing up feeling like an alien from outer space and finding one’s place in a mad world. Two guys give their take on trying to connect in the city, describing their mutual attraction and doubts in Cameron Groves’ World’s Worst Architecture. Frédéric Moffet provides a queer rewriting of the events surrounding the 1968 National Democratic Convention in Jean Genet in Chicago. 7,200 DRAWINGS OF BILL T. JONES dir Rudy Lemcke 2006 USA 4:30 min video GREEN ROOM dir Matt Palazzolo 2005 USA 6 min video DRAFTING DIMENSIONS dir Shon Kayli 2005 USA 22 min video PURGE dir Etienne Kallos 2005 USA 14 min video SENSING THE WORLD BY ECHO dir Mark Taylor 2006 USA 18 min video WORLD’S WORST ARCHITECTURE dir Cameron Groves 2005 Canada 8 min video JEAN GENET IN CHICAGO dir Frédéric Moffet 2006 Canada 25 min video in French & English with English subtitles TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 95 min Co-presented by San Francisco Cinematheque
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