Looping in the Videotheque:

• N.U.D.E. (3 mins, dir. Carolina Larrain, NYU)
  
  
• ET/Then You will not have Love (2 mins, dir. Gloria Shin, USC)
  
  
• True Blue (Julie/Kirsten) (4 mins, dir. Hye Jean Chung, Tina Grapenthin,
  Jeff Scheible, and Sheritalyn Solis, UCSB)
  
  
• Moth to Light (10 mins, dir. Elizabeth Strickler, Georgia State University)
  
  
• Turning a Corner (59 mins, dir. Salome Chasnoff, Beyondmedia)
  

There will be a special 3-D screening on Saturday in the MCC at 12 noon:

Charming Augustine (40 mins, dir. Zoe Beloff, Queen's College, CUNY)

Stereoscopic, 16mm, black-and-white, sound film Charming Augustine (2005)
introduces the viewer to one of Charcot’s most famous patients in the Salpêtrière. The film is eclectic in its reference points, drawing from Freud’s Studies in Hysteria, Charcot’s Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière, D. W. Griffith’s filmic style, and the melodramatic form. It presents a story of Augustine in three parts: the first offers historical and cultural context, the second links Charcot’s obsession with photo-documenting the illness to the birth of cinema, and the final offers a feminist reading of Augustine’s eventual escape from the Salpêtrière dressed as a man. The film emphasizes the link between the performativity of hysteria and cinema.
The use of 3-D highlights the way in which the doctors tried to catalogue and document each mental pose in their attempt to understand the illness. It also draws the viewer into the world of the hysteric.

Here are more detailed descriptions of the videotheque films:

N.U.D.E.
N.U.D.E. is an on-camera edited 16mm short experimental piece that critically exposes the visual "appropriation" of women in modern and contemporary painting via a filmic “re”-presentation of poses from well known female nude paintings. The piece poses the representation of the female body as a site of contention and contestation, raising issues on how the female body has "comfortably" been made "available" through art.

ET/Then You will not have Love
ET/ Then You will not have Love tries to work through and complicate the extra-filmic image of movie star Elizabeth Taylor as the wanton seductress of 1960s America. Through the re-purposing of black and white photographs from the Taylor archive and a hypnotic audio loop from the notorious Joseph L. Mankiewicz film Cleopatra (1963), the film seeks to further query Taylor's demonized image of excessive, aberrant femininity, her various bodily adventures, her consummate performativity, and her genius as a film artist.

True Blue (Julie/Kirsten)
Is it possible that Julie and Kirsten from FOX's hit drama THE O.C. have a lesbian romance? This video, using and putting a spin on the form of the slash fan video, asks that question--and perhaps a few others about sexuality, representation, television, and the work of culture jamming.

Moth to Light
Caught between the domesticated world of her mother and a dark and luring force in the garden, Muriel contemplates what to do with the baby her mother dotes on and whose origins are unknown. This black and white film lingers in a dark atmosphere of a Southern gothic world, where one questions who is in control in this intensely feminine
environment.

Turning a Corner
Turning a Corner documents a media workshop facilitated by Beyondmedia with Prostitution Alternatives Round Table (PART), a project of Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, to give voice to people in the sex trades and expose the harsh realities of street prostitution. From the streets of Chicago to the legislative halls in Springfield, Illinois, the film traces how the filmmakers truly turn corners in their complex lives.