“Rouge”, Erwin Olaf

Running May 17 to 27 2007, Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival is proud to announce its new sidebar series The Outsiders. Featuring experimental, innovative and sometimes pornographic works, this new initiative will expands the festival’s reach into new territories such as Cinecycle (129 Spadina, down the alley). Bringing the best of contemporary culture to Toronto, the series is a unique opportunity for the more adventurous festival-goer to go where no other patron has gone before.

Features:

*Destricted (Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Marco Brambilla, Larry Clark, Gaspar Noé, Richard Prince and Sam Taylor-Wood) Seven of the biggest name in international contemporary art riff on pornography. Co-presented with the Power Plant

*I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan) The maestro of world cinema’s sublime masterpiece follows a drifter in hazy Kuala Lumpur.

*Bulldog in the White House (Todd Verow, USA) A sexy satire setting Dangerous Liaisons in the Bush White House, with the President, Karl Rove and all the other assholes played as voracious, power-hungry gay men. With local Safiya Randera’s provocative short on the Abu Ghraib torture photos, My Girl 2012.

*The Astounding Adventures of Strongman & Quickboy (Peter Kingstone, Toronto) New local pomo-porno sci-fi home-movie video-art. With bad-boy Aussie artist Scott Redford’s nasty Clown Fuck Punk.

*Québec New Wave spotlight with Canada’s first Dogme95 film, Lonely Child (Pascal Robitaille) and the shorts Derniers mots (Joe Balass) and Vaguement romantique (Sébastien Gauthier).

*Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (Mary Jordan, Canada/USA) The definitive homage to an extreme & influential American underground filmmaker. With Mike Kuchar’s (USA) mouldy melodrama The Fornicators.

Shorts Programs:

*Artfags Unite! including work by Nicolas Jenkins (New York), Daniel Barrow (Winnipeg), Oliver Husain (Toronto) and Erwin Olaf (Amsterdam). Co-presented with Pleasure Dome, and TAIS

*Time Machine including work by Stephen Andrews & John Greyson (Toronto), William E. Jones (Los Angeles), Guy Maddin (Winnipeg) and Tom Kalin (USA).

ALSO, BE SURE TO SEE ALL YOUR FAVOURITE ARTISTS IN OUR OTHER PROGRAMMING

Guest-Curated Programs:

*Backalley Jukebox 2 queer music video explosion curated by Matt Thomas, featuring Xiu Xiu, Gentleman Reg, The Gossip, Kids on TV, Peaches and more.

*Camp Will Save Us All curated by Rachel E. McRae, including work by George Kuchar (San Francisco), Kent Monkman (Toronto), Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay (Toronto) and Steve Reinke (Toronto).

*1967––Lez Be-In 40th anniversary celebration of CFMDC including historical work by Lise Beaudry (Toronto), Jane Farrow (Toronto), Barbara Hammer (New York) and Janis Cole and Holly Dale (Toronto).

*Up from the Gutter, Yours in Struggle radical queer activism program curated by Tara-Michelle Ziniuk.

Super-Special Events:

*Double-Dutch: Art Metropole and Inside Out’s Tribute to Amsterdam featuring Butt Magazine, the editors of Girls Like Us, JD Samson, Will Munro, The Scandelles and videos by Bruce La Bruce (Give Piece of Ass a Chance), Donatien Veismann (Mister Nude Punk America) and Erwin Olaf.

*30th Anniversary screening of Richard Benner’s landmark queer Canadian film Outrageous! starring drag legend Craig Russell, with cast members in person.

Artist Portraits and other Docs:

*My Name Is Jackie Beat! (Randolph Mark Viverito, USA). With Michael Brynntrup’s short The Ovo (Germany). Two radical drag queens gone wild.

*Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner (Freida Lee Mock, USA).

*Books of James (Ho Tam, Victoria).

*Small Town Gay Bar (Malcolm Ingram, Toronto). With Jay Rosenblatt’s scathing short portrait of Anita Bryant, I Just Wanted to Be Somebody (USA).

*The Fame Whore Show: Obsessed fans unleashed in Camp Michael Jackson (Q. Allan Brocka & Glenn Gaylord, USA), For the Love of Dolly (Tai Uhlmann, USA) and MK & A (Sarah McKiel, Toronto).

Shorts Programs:

*Rec Room Superstars including work by Deirdre Logue (Toronto), Roy Mitchell (Toronto), Nao Bustamante & Matt Johnstone (USA) and Pretty Thingsss (USA).

*Hogtown Homos with work by local heroes Aleesa Cohene, R.M. Vaughan, Evan Tapper, Michèle Clarke and scads of others.

ALSO NEW THIS YEAR: Guilty Pleasures and East Asia Focus sidebars.

For all further information on schedules, locations and ticketing for the 17th Annual Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival please visit www.insideout.ca .

For Media Inquiries please contact Ingrid Ingrid@gat.ca

BOX OFFICE:
Beginning May 4, purchase tickets three convenient ways:

1. In-Person:
A. NEW: Church Street Satellite Advance Box Office
(May 4 to 16) 519 Church Street Community Centre

B. Festival Ticketing
55 Bloor Street West
Main floor of Manulife Centre, North entrance

2. Online
www.insideout.ca

3. By Phone
416.967.1528