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April 20 2009
Pratt Institute of Art
Room G12
Dekalb & St. James Pl.
Brooklyn NY

The lecture will be a combination of an artist’s talk about the progression of Leah’s work and career advice about how to find work after school and how to be successful on the film festival circuit.

*photography by taxiplasm

Tony Wei (THE BEST MEN), Leah Meyerhoff (TEAM QUEEN), Laura Terruso (LESBIANS), Adam Baran (JINX), Casper Andreas (MORMOR’S VISIT), Felix Endara (BRO CRUSH)


It was all a blur.

Leah Meyerhoff (TEAM QUEEN), Laura Terruso (LESBIANS THE MUSICAL)

Alene Muller, Leah Meyerhoff, Laura Terusso, Marcin Nadolny

Backalley Jukebox 2
We’re back and we still like it when you watch. Backalley Jukebox 2 again brings you all the bent goods via a brand new audiovisual glory hole explosion. So dive in headfirst and ride this queer musical massage all the way to a happy ending. Curated by Matt Thomas.

Veronica Lipgloss & The Evil Eyes
Glamourous genderqueer creatures born from shards of strip mall glass.

Vidrar Vel Til Loftárása
Sigur Ros
Two young boys find love but heartbreakingly lose their innocence.

The Knife
Grizzly Bear
Post-genital alien crystal machinations.

Street Jizz
Ssion
Gee wiz street jizz, it feels more dirty than it really is.

Strip Mall Glass
Veronica Lipgloss & The Evil Eyes
Glamourous genderqueer creatures born from shards of strip mall glass.

Good Soldier II
Deadlee featuring Micah Barnes
Tried to be a good soldier but hate kills teenage hearts.

Breakdance Hunx
Kids on TV
Forget Paris, Toronto is burning when queer bike gangs dance off.

Mister Butterfly
Aluminum Group
Dirty thoughts and tender shots resting on my pillow.

Really Rich Italian Satanists
Dirty Sanchez
LA legends Jackie Beat and Mario Diaz go to hell in style.

Standing in the Way of Control
The Gossip
8-bit pixel madness and lo-fi dayglo soul explosions.

Wanna Be Her
Peaches
It’s only real rock and roll when there’s permanent injury.

We Don’t Play Guitars
Chicks on Speed
Give us your gaffer tape, we don’t want guitars.

All Over Your Face
Cazwell
Don’t let a drop go to waste.

Boy Soprano
Xiu Xiu
Press start. Play with ideas. Game over.

Curious
Johnny Dangerous
One part curious, two parts nasty but always Dangerous.

Over My Head
Gentleman Reg
An icy home and warm critters greet our sexy, porcelain-faced hero.

Team Queen
Triple Creme
This scene, that scene, Team Queen, his school cream.

Tax Dollar
Erase Errata
Murder! Manslaughter! All funded by my tax dollar.

Mechanical Gadgets
Addicted2Fiction
The signal comes in loud and clear, I can’t go to sleep.

Wishful Thinking
The Ditty Bops
These two girlfriends simply refuse to play nice.

Memorize the City
The Organ
Visions of Vancouver at night. Our lips barely touched.

the complete program will be announced soon

Dos Patrias Christian Liffers 01:22:00 Germany/Cuba
N. CALIFORNIAN PREMIERE
Director Christian Liffers travels to Cuba to seek reflections on the poems and prose of Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas, writings that describe the desire for love, sexual freedom and the proud and unbending fight against discrimination. Are these desires and attitudes still to be found in Cuba? These poems and prose are the reference point for the protagonists and their personal stories of present-day Cuba. Six men of different backgrounds and ages describe their life, afflictions, desires, longings and joys in Cuba. With some things in common–homosexuality (with the exception of Isabel, the transsexual) and social exclusion from the Cuban “Machismo-society”—they also have significant differences.

Team Queen Leah Meyerhoff 3:37 USA
A gender-bending, fire-breathing, tassel-twirling, post-punk rock ‘n roll prom. Featuring the best of New York burlesque: including Murray Hill, Julie Atlas Muz, Tigger, and Scotty the Blue Bunny.

All Shorts Program

Bobby Bird: The Devil in Denim
directed by Carson Mell

K-7
directed by Christopher Leone

Team Queen
directed by Leah Meyerhoff

Patterns
directed by Jamie Travis

By Modern Measure
directed by Matthew Lessner

The Tourist
directed by James Israel & Jeff Israel

Mott Music
directed by Jarred Alterman

hosted by Murray Hill
with the Gotham Girls Roller Derby League

HB: Why did you want to become a director?

LM: I was at art school when I realized that showing in galleries was
similar to preaching to the converted.
I decided to switch to filmmaking as a way to reach a wider audience
and potentially have a greater impact on the world.
Directing allows me to express myself creatively while possibly
affecting social change.

– Heather Burke
Raven Entertainment

Read the full interview here