Queer|Art|Film Spring 2022

Monday, February 14 - Monday, May 9, 2022

Queer|Art|Film Spring 2022
Special Season curated by Angelo Madsen Minax and Mev Luna

THE EXILES * BELLY * COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN * CITY OF LOST SOULS

Queer|Art|Film returns this Winter at the IFC Center with a season curated by multidisciplinary filmmakers Angelo Madsen Minax and Mev Luna. For both artists, language and autoethnography play pivotal roles in their respective experimental documentary and visual art practices. As such, Minax and Luna have sought out presenters who are deeply invested in the intersection of the written word and visual culture.

Working across various mediums, presenters include T. Fleischmann, CA Conrad, Jeffrey Gibson, Legacy Russell, and Anaïs Duplan. This season considers: Can the narrative fictions that influenced us be an extension of lived experience? From a raunchy nightlife scene in Berlin portrayed in City of Lost Souls, to the outskirts of West Texas in Come back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, to a boozy night spent wandering the streets of downtown LA till dawn in The Exiles, or dreaming of an escape from Queens in Belly, the protagonists in these films are all fleeing to another, different, “better” life elsewhere. Sometimes the longing is for an alternative physical place or state of mind. Other times, this yearning is steeped in fantasy. Together, this collection of films reveals that as much as we aspire and dream otherwise, there are cycles that pull us back.

Series Films

Past Films