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Team Queen screens at MIX
New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival
“Backalley Jukebox”
November 11 2006
New York, NY

Charles Lum, Leah Meyerhoff (TEAM QUEEN)

Backalley Jukebox is the first travelling screening of it’s kind ever to showcase the filth and the fury of the queer music film & video culture. In a time where queer musicians are as endlessly talented as they are productive, Backalley Jukebox demands your attention …so don’t be afraid to crawl on your hands and knees to stick a quarter in this slot. Matt Thomas, Guest Curator.

IF YOU WANT IT
Giles O’Dell, 2005, USA, color, sound, 4 min.
Scream Club become a 2 headed bug cruising the insect disco for Beth Ditto from the Gossip in this animated love letter.

YOU ARE MY SISTER
Charles Atlas, USA, 4 min.
We are all beautiful, we are all sisters; an experimental visual tribute by Antony and the Johnsons featuring Boy George.

BALLAD FOR WIN AND REGINE
Sara St. Onge, 2005, Canada, 4 min.
A little fantasy from Final Fantasy at work helps pass the time.

THE BOYFRIEND SONG
Kevin Drew, 2005, Canada, 4 min.
Gentlemen Reg plays a Basement Make Out Party with something for everyone.

I BELIEVE IN THE GOOD LIFE
Joel Gibb, 2005, Canada, video, color, 4 min.
Even With the Hidden Cameras in the jury, this bad apple just wants to get off.

KEEP ON LIVIN’
Paper Tiger TV, Safespace/Rodney Street, 2002, USA, video, color, sound, 4 min.
Le Tigre sings the anthem and these queer kids don’t take no for an answer.

CALL OUT THE LIONS
Cody Critcheloe, 2004, USA, video, color, sound, 4 min.
Kansas City to NY and back to Kansas City again as The SSION reminds us: Don’t sit in the corner waiting for your chance.

PROMOFUNK
Ryan Junell, 2003, USA, video, color, sound, 4 min.
Watch the pink moustache paint the town fagtastic with Soft Pink Truth electro-nod to 70’s crisco disco clones.

PANTS INTO THE SUN
Bernadette Houde, 2006, Canada, S8 to video, color, sound, 5 min.
Zombies vs. the Queer Dance Rebellion led by Lesbians on Ecstasy.

BURGER BABY
Eric October, 2003, USA, video, color, sound, 2 min.
This song (by Gravy Train!!!!) comes to life as a Josie & The Pussycats style cartoon, where Chunx is knocked up by a hamburger, and must decide if she should keep her burger baby.

DOUBLE FANTASY 2
Justin Kelly, 2006, USA, video, color, sound, 6 min.
In the spirit of Yoko & John’s hotel bed-in for love over war, Hey Willpower stages a dance-in for world peace.

GAME ON
Kids on TV, 2005, Canada, color, sound, 4 min.
Signature Kids On TV beats and cockwolf treats in these vignettes about hooking up complete with horny robots and whip cream.

FILTHY, GORGEOUS
John Cameron Mitchell, USA, 2005, color, sound, 4 min.
Scissor Sisters and New York City explode with decadent dancing freaks.

TEAM QUEEN
Leah Meyerhoff, 2006, USA, video, color, sound 4 min.
The new girl in school is thrown into a topsy-turvy madhouse of high school hellcats. The cheerleaders are drag queens, the nerds are nymphomaniacs, the punks breathe fire and the prom band is none other than the all-girl, post-punk phenomenon Triple Creme. Starring the best of New York burlesque, including Murrary Hill, Julie Atlas Muz, Scarlet Sinclair, Molly the Dolly, Tigger, and Scotty the Blue Bunny.

NOTHIN’ PRETTY
Katrina Del Mar, USA, 2002, video, sound, 5 min.
Shot over the beautifully dreary skies of Brooklyn, the film makes suffering visible in its gritty depiction of pain and loss through scraping concrete, crumbling facades, broken glass and dripping paint. “There’s nothin pretty in my world,” sings Karen Curious, the fiery frontwoman of New Professionals, a band ringing bells back to the Pretenders and Joan
Jett & the Blackhearts.

A MIRACLE
Daniel Barrow, 2005, Canada, video, color, sound, 4 min.
The Hidden Cameras enlist animator Daniel Barrow to bleed life into a lonely boy
and his headphones.

STRIP MALL GLASS
Justin Kelly, 2005, USA, video, color, sound, 6 min.
Veronica Lipgloss and the Evil Eyes lead a decadent filth parade through the streets
of San Francisco.

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