The Fourth Annual San Francisco Gay Film Festival

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THE FOURTH ANNUAL SAN FRANCISCO GAY FILM FESTIVAL Produced by FRAMELINE

Tuesday, June 24 Roxie Cinema 7 & 9 PM

GRETA'S GIRLS BEHIND THE FENCE BOGjAVLAR WEDDING OF THE YEAR, CHUCK & VINCE ROGER: THE DEATH OF WAYNE SUSANA THE JO Y OF APPLES TV IN AFRICA NUCLEAR FAMI LY THE ORDER

Thursday, June 26 San Francisco Art Institute Canyon Cinematheque 9:30 PM

GRETA'S GIRLS BEHIND THE FENCE BOGjAVLAR WEDDING OF THE YEAR, CHUCK & VINCE ROGER: THE DEATH OF WAYNE WOMEN I LOVE THE JOY OF APPLES TV IN AFRICA NUCLEAR FAMILY THE ORDER SWEET DREAMS

FRAME LINE is a non-profit tax-exempt collective of gay film and video people. The SAN FRANCISCO GAY FILM FESTIVA L has been established by FRAMELINE as a showcase for independent gay cinema. For more in足 formation contact: FRAMELINE 150 Eureka St. San Francisco, Ca 94114


GRETA'S GIRLS Great Schiller, New York, 1976 16mm, 15min. A look at the relationship of an inter-racial lesbian couple.

ROGER: THE DEATH OF WAYNE Wayne Justice, San Francisco, 1979 Super-B, 3min. 30sec. A conflict between personalities and sexualities of a young man who was run over by a bus and came back to life and was killed in a bowl足 ing accident.

BEHIND THE FENCE Robert F. Chamberlain, San Diego, 19BO Super-B, 4min. A glimpse of the boy next door ....

SUSANA Susana S. Blaustein, San Francisco, 19BO 16mm, 23min. A self-portrait documentary examining the struggle for self-assertation in a hostile environment.

BOGJAVLAR/DAMNED QUEERS Uppror Filmproduction, Stockholm, Sweden, 197B Made by Gunnar Almer, Nils Gredeby, Lars Gustafsson,

WOMEN I LO VE Barbara Hammer, Oakland, 1976

Staffan Hallin, Hakan Hede, Sten Ake Hedstrom, Olle Holm, Anders Naslun, Pelle Pettersson. Photography: Olle Holm

16mm, 27min.

Music: Hakan Hede, Niklaus Debrunner Stills: Dan Hansson Starring: Hakan Hede, Pelle Pettersson and friends

footage collected over five years. That pi us three months of country

16mm, 21min. We who made DAMNED QUEERS are a group of radical gays. Some of us live in the commune, mentioned in the film. The idea to DAMNED QUEERS was born as a reaction to current gay images in films. We are experts on our own reality and wanted to describe it. We made DAMNED QUEERS as a group production, where all of us sup-

The camera as a personal extension of my body, my personality, Les足 bian lovers, a new camera, out-of-date stock, celebration, play - all the vegetable garden living without cultural distractions gave me the quiet, disciplined leisure to view the moviescope faces of those I love and edit the original film directly on the synchronizer while making the AlB rolls.

THE JO Y OF APPLES Dennis Phung, San Francisco 16mm, 2min. 30 sec.

pi ied experience, ideas and practical work. Most of us had no earlier experience of filmmaking. The aim of DAMNED QUEERS is to give

Two apples meet and make love.

gay people a positive and balanced film to identify with and get strength from for cooperation and fight against oppression. We hope to make the heterosexual audience think about their fear of homosex足 uality and do something about that. We also see the film as disucssion material in sexual politics, sex roles and homosexuality.

T V IN AFRICA Roger Justice, New York, 19BO Super-B, 10min. 15sec. Parts one, two, three and four of the "Study of Motion" done in the film - translating both "TV in Africa" and "Study of Motion" into the

WEDDING OF THE YEAR, CHUCK & VINCE Christine Wynne, San Francisco, 197B Super-B, 4min. The wedding of Chuck and Vince at the MCC church, May, 1978, with ushers, drag queens etc: in attendance.

film, TV IN AFRICA.

NUCLEAR FAMILY John Canaly and Marty Monroe, San Francisco Super-B, 10min. A look at the typical American family of the nuclear age.


THE ORDER Horses, Inc., Chicago, 19BO Produced by Horses, Inc. Concept Direction, Script: Nito Manfredini Production Coordination: Toni d'Anca Cinematography: Nito Manfredini Performing Artist: Joy Lieberman, Susan Regeski Super-B, 4min. 45sec. THE ORDER is the first Super-8 film produced by Horses, Inc.; it is 4 minutes, 45 seconds in length, in color, with sound. THE ORDER was shot 1:1, which means that it was filmed as one complete take, and is totally unedited. The film has been described as " ... a great parody with an on-target punchline . .

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(Dennis Harvey, The Michigan Daily).

THE ORDER's highly stylized content staringly juxtaposes images of fantasy with practicality. The film is both comedic and satiric, prod足 ding the audience to question its own reactions of laughter to the situation portrayed. The success of this first Super-8 filmmaking at足 tempt is indicated by awards received by Horses in connection with THE ORDER this year: the film was named a winner at both the 10th Annual Ann Arbor Super-8 Film Festival, and the 1980 Los Angeles In足 ternational Film Exposition. Both awards were announced in March.

SWEET DREAMS Honey Lee Cottrell, San Francisco, 1979 16mm, 13min. Produced in cooperation with the National Sex Forum, SWEET DREAMS follows the technique and fantasies of one woman's masturbation.

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