SATURDAY - PART 2

WERE THE WORLD MINE OTTO IN TWILIGHT’S SHADOW

ROMEO’S KISS

SATURDAY

goth night SCREEN A 9:30 PM

In Twilight’s Shadow

Director: TM Scorzafava 12 Minutes, USA

The adventure of a female immortal called to rise from her suspension between light and dark to rescue the mortal she loves, but left behind.

Otto; Or, Up With Dead People

Director: Bruce LaBruce 94 Minutes, Germany Canada English and German with English subtitles

Otto is a handsome, sensitive, neo-Goth zombie with an identity crisis. He looks and smells like a zombie but isn’t certain that he is one. He wanders the streets of the city, never sleeping, until one day--as he is being harassed by hooligans--he ducks into an alley and spots a poster announcing auditions for a zombie film. He soon meets aspiring filmmaker/revolutionary Medea Yarn, who is convinced that Otto, as a confused zombie, is the perfect embodiment of the effects of advanced capitalism on individuals. Medea begins to make a film about Otto, while simultaneously shooting a film about a gay zombie revolt against consumerist society. After moving in with an actor, Otto begins to remember fragments of his pre-zombie life with a sweet boyfriend. As Medea directs the final, orgiastic scene of her gay zombie film, Otto struggles to access the human emotions buried beneath his zombie exterior.

Otto; Or, Up With Dead People is a clever modern fable about alienation and the problems created by a mass-produced society, where even the members most on the fringe find it hard to resist being pulled into the mainstream. Toying with genre conventions, combining different media, and making use of Medea’s often-humorous films-within-the-film, Bruce LaBruce creates a new, sexy, hyperpoliticized zombie mythology.

OTTO

TO EACH HER OWN

Romeo’s Kiss (Le Baiser)

Director By: Julien Eger 12 Minutes, France In French with English subtitles

Cecile, Thomas and Jeremie learn what falling in love means after playing out a scene in Romeo & Juliet.

Were The World Mine

Director: Tom Gustafson 95 Minutes, USA

If High School Musical indulged in flights of homoerotic fancy, it might look something like Tom Gustafson’s Were The World Mine. But to truly capture the essence of the writer-director’s spirited debut feature, we turn to an ever more timeless source: Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

When not suffering the wrath of his homophobic classmates, Timothy withdraws into his imagination, where macho rugby players morph into dancing fairies decked out in go-go boy attire. Timothy first balks at acting in the play but eventually embraces the role of Puck and, armed with a magical pansy, turns nearly the whole town gay — with unexpected implications for his mother, his two best friends and the hot star rugby player.

With vibrant imagery, a first-rate ensemble cast and innovative music rivaling the best of pop/ rock and contemporary Broadway, Were the World Mine attempts to push modern gay cinema and musical film beyond expectation.

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