Pioneers of Queer Cinema is an attempt to recover some American queer films that are now little-known, and many rarely ever seen at all, and put them in conversation with a relative handful of works now deemed classics--with the latter group ranging from Kenneth Anger's short Fireworks (1947) to some of the heady '90s fare that made up the movement film scholar and historian B. Ruby Rich dubbed "New Queer Cinema" in 1992. The shorts and feature films in this program, both narrative and documentary, are just a sliver of the works that were at the forefront of slowly shifting perceptions of and conversations about the queer community, for both queer and non-queer audiences alike.
--Ernest Hardy, Pioneers of Queer Cinema catalog
Pioneers of Queer Cinema is an attempt to recover some American queer films that are now little-known, and many rarely ever seen at all, and put them in conversation with a relative handful of works now deemed classics--with the latter group ranging from Kenneth Anger's short Fireworks (1947) to some of the heady '90s fare that made up the movement film scholar and historian B. Ruby Rich dubbed "New Queer Cinema" in 1992. The shorts and feature films in this program, both narrative and documentary, are just a sliver of the works that were at the forefront of slowly shifting perceptions of and conversations about the queer community, for both queer and non-queer audiences alike.
Pioneers of Queer Cinema is an attempt to recover some American queer films that are now little-known, and many rarely ever seen at all, and put them...
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
2155 Center Street Berkeley,
CA94720
4:30pm - Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives, Members of the Mariposa Film Group in Person
2023-04-13
2023-04-13
Pioneers of Queer Cinema
Pioneers of Queer Cinema is an attempt to recover some American queer films that are now little-known, and many rarely ever seen at all, and put them...
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
2155 Center Street Berkeley,
CA94720
7pm - Blackstar: Autobiography of a Close Friend, Mimi (Kim) Klausner In Person
2023-04-19
2023-04-19
Pioneers of Queer Cinema
Pioneers of Queer Cinema is an attempt to recover some American queer films that are now little-known, and many rarely ever seen at all, and put them...
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
2155 Center Street Berkeley,
CA94720
7pm - Hide and Seek, Jenni Olson in Person
2023-04-27
2023-04-27
Pioneers of Queer Cinema
Pioneers of Queer Cinema is an attempt to recover some American queer films that are now little-known, and many rarely ever seen at all, and put them...
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
2155 Center Street Berkeley,
CA94720
7pm - Paris Is Burning, Jenni Olson and Susan Stryker in Conversation
2023-04-30
2023-04-30
Pioneers of Queer Cinema
Pioneers of Queer Cinema is an attempt to recover some American queer films that are now little-known, and many rarely ever seen at all, and put them...
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
2155 Center Street Berkeley,
CA94720
5pm - The Times of Harvey Milk, Introduced by Jenni Olson
2023-05-03
2023-05-03
Pioneers of Queer Cinema
Pioneers of Queer Cinema is an attempt to recover some American queer films that are now little-known, and many rarely ever seen at all, and put them...
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)