Homotopia
trailer, 3 minutes
(with Eric Stanley)
2006, 26 minutes, Color (Super 8 and DV)
Set sometime in the future-present Homotopia chronicles a group of radical queer’s dedicated to exposing the trouble with gay marriage, dismantling the State, undoing Empire, while looking totally fierce. Woven into the story of Yoshi’s adventures in love, resistance, and sex, is a critique of the crushing violence of homonormativity and its deadly perpetuation of US patriotism, conservative kinship structures and affective accumulation. Homotopia holds cinematic assumptions hostage through its motley assemblage of never-passing crew. Race, gender, ability and desire are reworked through an anti-colonial take of queer struggle creating a visual rhythm of melancholic utopianism that knows there may be no future but still hopes today is not their last. Love revolution, not State delusion, Homotopia.
Screenings
* Maine Social Forum, July 2006 Lewiston, ME
* Artist Television Access, September 2006 San Francisco, CA
* Bates College, October 2006 Lewiston, ME
* Zero Station, October 2006- Portland ME
* Wesleyan University, October 2006 Middletown, CT
* University of Maine Farmington, October 2006 Farmington, ME
* Smith College, October 2006 Northampton, MA
* Summer Camp, October 2006 Providence, RI
* Community Church of Boston, October 2006 Boston, MA
* Anarchism and Sexuality Conference, November 2006 Leeds, UK
* UC Santa Cruz, February 2007 Santa Cruz, CA
* Virginia Commonwealth University, March 2007 Richmond, VA
* University North Carolina-Chapel Hill, March 2007 Chapel Hill, NC
* Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse, March 2007 Baltimore, MD
* Swarthmore-Sager Conference, March 2007 Swarthmore, PA
* Towson University, March 2007 Towson, MD
* NYU, March 2007 New York City, NY
* Sara Lawrence, March 2007 Bronxville, NY
* Vassar, March 2007 Poughkeepsie, NY
* William and Mary University, March 2007 Williamsburg, VA
* University of Texas, Austin, April 2007 Austin, TX
* University of Iowa April 2007 Iowa City, IA
* Frameline June 2007 San Francisco, CA
* Outfest July 2007 Los Angeles, CA
* University of California, Los Angeles, October 2007 Los Angeles, CA
* University of California Irvine, November 2007 Irvine, CA
* Pitzer College, November 2007 Claremont, CA
* University of Washington, December 2007 Seattle, WA
* University of Maryland, March 2008 College Park, MD
* Knox College, March 2008 Galesburg, IN
* DePauw University, March 2008 Greencastle, IL
* Stanford University, May 2008 Palo Alto, CA
* PERVERS/CITÉ : THE UNDERSIDE OF PRIDE!, July 2008 Montreal, Quebec
* Columbia College, October 2008 Chicago, IL
* Oscar Wilde house, November 2010 Berkeley, CA