F3 Preview Party

The Flaming Film Festival (F3) is coming up soon, and I intend to hit a lot of the events coming up Memorial Day Weekend (when I'm not camping). F3 has taken over much of the queer programming that the GLBT Film Festival at the U of MN used to put on, so this years F3 will be big and diverse. The F3 preview is this Saturday, and below the jump is a full list of events and films.

FLAMING FILM FESTIVAL PREVIEW meet and greet par-tay
Saturday, May 20th from 7 - 9pm
at OVER THE RAINBOW in st. paul http://www.overtherainbowtoo.com
this event is FREE
we will be showing clips of movies, looping our trailer, distributing programs, and hanging out at the OTR, yo. if you haven't checked out over the rainbow (from mpls take 94 east, exit on Dale, go left - 719 N Dale at Minnehaha, plenty of parking) on a saturday night, the place is jumping. and we'll be getting that started. flaming film festival style. Over the Rainbow is the only queer bar sponsoring the festival this year. we love them. go spend money there.
http://www.flamingfilmfestival.com

6th annual Flaming Film Festival 2006 Schedule of Events May 25-31st, 2006

Thursday May 25th Opening Night
7pm Suburban World Theater
All Aboard! Rosies Family Cruise (Shari Cookson, 91 min, 2005, USA) live music Ellis
Sponsored by Rainbow Families & Malinda Launert
Five hundred families from across the nation are on board a ship chartered by Rosie and Kelli O'Donnell for the first-ever cruise for gay and lesbian families. This historic event, a kind of nautical utopia, offers a world without prejudice, where love, compassion, and true family values prevail. However, when the families disembark in Nassau after a week of fun and adventure, angry protesters accost them, hurling hatred in the name of Christ. For many of the younger children, still untainted by the scars of human bigotry, these protests are a confusing and frightening initiation, while the parents and teenagers are left with a piercing reminder of their struggle for acceptance. Ever conscious that a picture paints a thousand words, Cookson interweaves multiple stories with simple visual images. The smiles on the faces of the children aboard the ship become a political statement unto themselves. This exquisitely layered, powerfully moving film forces us to examine our conscience as a nation and challenges us to imagine the possibility of a better world, David Courier (Sundance Film Festival).
Join us after the screening, as local singer/songwriter Ellis performs live.

Thursday May 25th Opening Night - 7pm Bedlam Theatre 18
Queer Europa
Guest Curated by Elliat Graney-Saucke
What is edgy, sexually charged, mocking American culture, completely out of control and lives way outside the cookie cutter queer community? This screening. Many titles are US premieres. Don't miss it.

Feetish (Pornova Productions, 4 min, 2005, Netherlands)
A bathroom meeting... and all you need to see is what they do with their feet!

Helpline! (Joli(e), 4 min, 2004, Netherlands)
Witty experimental animation in which calling a helpline causes more problems than it solves.

Nerdar (Joli(e), 3 min, 2005, Netherlands)
Do gaydars work underwater?

Just Another Rip Off (Simone Bennett and Vera Stiohout, 1:15 min, 2001, Netherlands)
Two detectives drive around, hang at the petrol station and eat doughnuts with no concern for the sounds of explosions around them (a take on American police films from 1960s.)

Waiting on the Man (Simone Bennett and Vera Stiohout, 1:30 min, 2006, Netherlands)
Part II of Just Another Rip Off, playing on male roles from older police films.

Crossdressing (Tatjana Gerlach, 4 min, 200x, Germany)
Binding in the mirror and discussion around a playground of gender, we hear two peoples take on being raised female and learning to play with gender rules; as well as seeing some Berlin dragsters and a visual art exhibition themed on queering gender.

Color Me Beautiful (Director, 4 min, 200x, Germany)
Creative character development: from nuns to drag queens and kings to housewives and little girls.

Ohne Worte (Kori Klima, 4:17 min, 2003, Germany)
A group of three skinny women stand and smirk at a fat dyke on the Berlin Metro, but how will they respond when a fellow chubby passenger starts everyone laughing with what she can do with her stomach.

Insult to Injury (Seb Cazes, 4:25 min, 2002, France)
A striking animated narrative of two young girls in love, set to the song Insult to Injury by The Butchies.

Sontag Morgen (Beate Kunath, 7 min, 2006, Germany)
Sitting in front of the window with heartbreak spending each day of the week asking, Why?

La Bestia (Girl Who Like Porno, 2:16 min, 200x, Spain)
A woman flounces about in a purple dress in a garden in Spain. Growling.

Fantasia21 (Girls Who Like Porno, 3:27 min, 200x, Spain)
A re-enactment of a 20s porn. There's gore, gender fucking and dislodged penetration.

Love on the Beach (Girls Who Like Porno, 2:10 min, 200x, Spain)
Hot gender queers doing dirty things on the beach.

Erika in Amerika (Antonia Baehr, 10 min, 1999, Germany/USA)
The clients are all wearing masks and they want Milk!!! She comments on APA (American Performance Art) in her living room; join in the journey for milk!

Never Trust a Lesbian (Samara Fansa, 4 min, 2005, Germany)
She is tied to a tree and the other woman comes to free her... until she finds something she wasnt expecting.

Travel Queeries: Queeruption, Barcelona (Elliat Graney-Sauke, 22 min, 2005, Spain/USA)

Thursday May 25th Opening Night
10pm Suburban World
Is it Really So Strange? (William E. Jones, 80 minutes, 2004, USA)
Sponsored by 89.3 The Current and Kill Rock Stars
A gay filmmaker investigates the cult of Mancunian singer Morrissey which has developed in Los Angeles. There's a whole new brand of Morrissey fans amongst the Latinos and Hispanics of LA. Fans, gay and straight, discuss what Morrissey (of The Smiths) and his music and lyrics mean to them. Desire, self-identity and devotion collide, as the complexities of the star's life, and art, are dissected by his devotees. The tattoos, the stalking, the look-alikes, it's a tremendous picture of a fascinating subculture.

Lucky Three an Elliott Smith Portrait (Jem Cohen, 12 minutes, 199x, USA)
Folk-punk singer/songwriter Elliott Smith, who rose from indie obscurity to mainstream success in 1997 when Gus Van Sant invited his music for the film Good Will Hunting, which garnered Smith an Academy Award-nomination. Director Cohen (known for many music collaborations such as the Fugazi documentary Instrument) captures a beautiful and intimate portrait of the reclusive Smith - who, to the shock of friends and fans alike, took his own life on October 21, 2003.

Wounded Winter (Lisa Ganser & Coleman Lindberg, 8 minutes, 2006, USA)
Siblings revisit the many homes they lived in during a chaotic upbringing, as they inadvertently bring the crisis to crisis lifestyle into their adult lives.

Following the screening, Gay Beast, Coleman Lindberg and other local bands fittingly perform Elliot Smith, the Smiths and Morrissey covers.

Friday, May 26th
5pm District 202
FYBY: For Youth By Youth
Sponsored by the Seward and Linden Hills Co-ops
In the Flaming tradition of programming work by emerging artists and tackling youth issues in our selection of movies, here is an action-packed screening devoted to videos by and/or about queer youth. This years screening centers around gender and sexuality through the technique of storytelling.

Gender Pains (Sarah Millet, 2 min, 2005, USA)
In this brief and beautiful video art piece, the typical gendered question is asked are you a boy or a girl?

Homophobia (SPNN, 9 min, 2005, USA)
This mini-doc explores the issue of homophobia and how it affects LGBTQ youth. The video portrays the broader perspectives people have on the issue, factual information, and the personal experiences of queer youth. The piece was created during the week-long "Real Reality TV" class at St. Paul Neighborhood Network.

Im Not a Boy (Listen Up, 5 min, 2005, USA)
One teenage trans woman of color guides us through the journey of her daily life, with the added highlight of a glimpse into the New York City ball scene.

Vicious Circle (Global Action Project, 7 min, 2004, USA)
This documentary (GAP is based in NYC) investigates acts of violence committed in the name of hate and fear.

Coming Out (Real Grrls, 6 min, 2005, USA)
This mockumentary, made by the youth collaborative in Seattle, will make you reconsider that old and tired phrase . . . coming out.

Just Call Me Kade (Sam Zolten, 26 min, 2001, USA)
Kade Farlow Collins is a sixteen year old FTM (female to male transgendered person) residing in Tucson, Arizona. In this delicate portrait of Kade and his family and friends, the challenges of their lives are presented in ways that bring awareness to this subject and leave the viewer with a sense of hope.
7pm Suburban World
Zero Degrees of Separation (Ellen Flanders, 89 minutes, 2005, USA)
If love conquers all, the couples at the center of this potent documentary have a lot of conquering to do. Based around a trip that Flanders took back to Israel, where she once lived as a child, ZERO portrays the violence in Israel/Palestine through the lens of two queer relationships. Selim is a Palestinian who navigates the labyrinthine rules governing his presence in Israel to be with his Jewish lover, Ezra. The activist Ezra takes the filmmaker on a long driving tour of oppression, getting into heated and fearless exchanges along the way with Israeli soldiers, while Selim mournfully attempts to straighten out his legal status. Meanwhile, Edit confronts her own guilt about being a part of the system that oppresses her Palestinian lover, Samira. The searing honesty of these romantic realists will quickly dispel any sentimental notions the viewer may have about love in a time of war. The mournful tone of this film is emphasized by haunting archival footage of Flanders family in the Holy Land in the 1950s, yet the message radiates hard-won hope, scraped out of the broken cement and rubble of occupation.

Friday, May 26th
7pm Bedlam Theatre 18
Twisted Knickers - gay male erotica/fetish
Guest curator: Lisa Vandever
New York plays host to one of the few annual sexplicit, leather and fetish film festivals, CineKink, which just celebrated it's 10th year. The festival's Director, Lisa Vandever, presents the first of two showcases, this one for those of us who love and desire men (growl), which she dubs, a collection of slightly off-kilter shorts from her highly respected festival.
Curator in attendance.

Pez Porno (Kristen Anchor and Rahne Alexander, 2 minutes, 2005, USA)
Here cums Santa Claus.

Superfag (Kurt Koehler, 22 minutes, 2003, USA)
Join Superfag and his Super Duper Friends in their quest to make the world a better place to live.

Pornographic Apathetic (T. Arthur Cottam, 5 minutes, 2003, USA)
Sex like you've never seen it before.

Eargasm (David Quantic, 5 minutes, 2004, USA)
See what curls this bear's toes in the morning.

Haircut (Bryan Jackson, 8 minutes, 2004, USA)
John gets more than he bargains for during a routine haircut appointment.

I Sit on Acid (Ryan J. Wolowski, 3 minutes, 2003, USA)
Watched by his own hand-held camera, the director explores imagery, body, sexuality and self.

Bigger (Alberto Ferraras, 13 minutes, 2004, USA)
The world of body modification and one man's obsession with a larger penis.

Pissies Not Sissies (IML 2003 - Part One) (Charles Lum, 14 min, 2005, USA)
A first-hand account of the jovial goings-on in the men's room at a renowned international leather contest.

Friday, May 26th
9pm Suburban World
Pick Up the Mic (Alex Hinton, 90 min, 2005, USA)
Sponsored by Rift Magazine and Homocore Minneapolis
Queer Hip-Hop: its a lot more than a stylish oxymoron in this surprising, fast-paced documentary on the world of queer rappers. Featuring searing public performances and raw, revealing interviews with the communitys most significant players, the film captures an unapologetic underground music movement just as it explodes into the mainstream - defying the music industry's most homophobic genre in the process.
Artists in attendance.

RPG Interlude (Soce the Elemental Wizard, 4 minutes, 2006, USA)
This is Soce's second animated music video, created painstakingly frame by frame on his computer. He thinks he's found love with a man who is trying to kill him. Poor Soce - so sad and lonely.

Q & A with Director Alex Hinton and musicians including Katastrophe, Johnny Dangerous, Deadlee, Juba Kalamka, Aggracyst, Soce the Elemental Wizard, and Minneapolis' very own Tori Fixx follows this screening. Artists perform live at 11pm.

Friday, May 26th
9pm Bedlam Theatre 18
The Best of Cinekink
Guest curator: Lisa Vandever
A special screening of past and present favorites from New York's CineKink, "the really alternative film festival." Pure Leather and Fetish.
Curator in attendance.

Polly Wally (Kirby Ferguson, 4 minutes, 2005, Canada.)
The sweet story of a polyamorous guy just searching for his non-monogamous queen.
Starring Danielle Baker, Pascal Boisvert and Kirby Ferguson.

Open (Teale Failla, 12 minutes, 2005, USA.)
With intersecting time lines, an open relationship turns the lives of three women into a whirlwind of betrayal, bingo and sex toys. Starring Mindy Seegal, Mariah Helfrich and Cynthia Kern.
(Honorable Best Mention - CineKink 2005)

Pup (Antonia Kao, 22 minutes, 2005, USA)
This tender documentary follows two gay, Christian leathermen - Master Skip and Pup Tim - as they prepare to compete in the International Puppy Contest, a leather title contest for human canines and their handlers.
(Best Documentary Short - CineKink 2005)

On My Knees (Kim Wood, 13 minutes, 2003, USA)
Culled from the secret diaries of Hannah Cullwick, a Victorian fetishist and "maid-of-all-work," a life of unabashed deviance is traced.
(Best Narrative Short - CineKink 2003)

Shine: Confessions of a Rubber Fetishist (Karine Baczynski, 28 minutes, 2003, USA)
A funny, thought-provoking and unapologetic look at Shine, who goes to work everyday, plays chess, likes to dress in rubber and craves being whipped by his friends. (Best Documentary Short - CineKink 2003)

Saturday, May 27th
5pm District 202
Pick Up the Mic (Alex Hinton, 90 min, 2005, USA) artists in attendance
Sponsored by Pizza Luce and the Birchwood Cafe
Please see description from Fridays 9pm screening.

Saturday, May 27th
7pm Suburban World
Love is Blind - shorts showcase
Each year the film fest has celebrated up and coming underground filmmakers in the queer film scene. This year, festival director Lisa Ganser takes you several steps further bringing back these favorite and established artists with their most current work. In the spirit of Gansers curatorial prowess (or twisted taste), many of these shorts are off beat and thought provoking, and all of them border on the macabre.

The Driver & the Doe (William Scott Rees Jo Ellen Martinson, 15 minutes, 2005, USA) artists in attendance
A backwards road-tripper collides with guilt and greed when a freak auto accident renders a white-tailed deer defenseless from the dangers of the forest in this tragically inverted fairy tale. A tart and gritty look at emotionally abusive relationships.

Acting on a Threat (Sadie Shaw, 3 min, 2001, USA)
This is Shaw's first appearance at Flaming, her work is distributed by the Kill Rock Stars record label. A couple greets a man on the street in Olympia, and it ends not so friendly.

I Feel Love (Matt Wolf, 15 minutes, 2004, USA)
In 1997 Andrew Cunanan was dubbed the gay serial killer after he killed gay fashion designer Gianni Versace. Hotel maid Joel Manero, a fictitious victim of Cunanan, has an accidental run-in with the killer, which leads to unexpected media celebrity.

Love is Blind (Peter Pizzi, 9 minutes, 2005, USA) Midwest Premiere, Michelle Tea in attendance
Betty (Michelle Tea) is a girl out of luck and out of love she has had it with her rock star girlfriend Crystal. She is clearly distraught, discouraged she meanders around eating cheese curls. Lucy however is a horse of a different color shes a renegade, a firecracker. Shes a whiskey-drinking Mama with the mouth of sailor. Shes also legally blind. When Betty and Lucy meet the sparks fly, and so do the bullets.

Better Left Alone (Jake Yuzna, 22 minutes, 2005, USA) artist in attendance
On a desolate rural Minnesotan farmstead, the strange young daughter of a struggling couple, Sarah, discovers an unsettling homeless man secretly living in the cellar. Unaware of his presence, Sarahs parents attend their daily lives, while the intruder lurks about and develops an unhealthy fondness for Sarah

Debris (Justin Kelly, 7 min, 2006, USA) World Premiere artist in attendance
Three fallen stewardesses unite in the lush industrial wasteland they call home.

Saturday, May 27th
7pm Bedlam Theatre
Hiddeness Is Beauty
The terms down low and ortho-dykes may appear oxymoronic as the DL references the supposedly invisible social phenomenon of men who covertly have sex with men, while ortho-dykes visibly meshes lesbianism with Orthodox Judaism - a religious sect that clearly outlaws same-sex sexual practices. This screening highlights the stories of individuals desires.

DL Chronicles (Deondray Gossett & Quincy LeNear, 28:30 min, 2005, USA)
The DL Chronicles tells the stories of men of color who by consequence and by choice, live sexually duplicitous and secret lifestyles. We enter into a provocative and intriguing world of sexual discovery, denial, betrayal, love and loss.

Keep Not Silent: Ortho-Dykes (Illil Alexander, 52 min, 2004, Israel)
Winner of the Israeli Oscar for Best Documentary, as well as eight international awards, Illil Alexanders stunning debut film boldly documents the clandestine struggle of three women fighting for their right to love within their beloved Orthodox communities in Jerusalem.

Saturday, May 27th
9pm Suburban World
Sponsored by Lavender Magazine and Ground Up
Left Lane - On the Road with Folk Poet Alix Olson (Samantha Farinella, 94 min, 2004, USA) Director in Attendance
A year in the making, this documentary chronicles life on the road with spoken word artist Alix Olson and her road manager/filmmaker Samantha Farinella, as they tour the country from a high school visit in Lincoln, Nebraska to a cd release party in New York City. Including performances from around the country we play voyeur to behind the scenes glimpses at the search for independent thought. Featuring grassroots defiance, passionate connection, organic food and clean laundry. The music of Pamela Means, Melissa Ferrick, Ember Swift, Lyndell Montgomery, Chris Pureka, and Peter Mulvey,
Director in attendance.
Desdamona, Coleman Lindberg, and Running on Empty perform live following the screening. The proceeds of tonight's event will be used to assist local trans activist and artist Radford Bishop (Running on Empty) with medical bills and current health care.

Saturday, May 27th
9pm Bedlam Theatre 18
Sponsored by The Smitten Kitten
Enough Man (Luke Woodward, 61 minutes, 2005, USA) artist in attendance
Documentary meets explicit sexuality in Luke Woodward's groundbreaking debut video about body image, relationships, sex and sexuality from the perspective of nine female-to-male (FTM) transmen and their partners. Featuring health educators, college students, sex workers, activists and artists, Enough Man navigates the terrain between objectivity and personal identity, allowing viewers into some of the most personal and rarely discussed areas of transgender life.

Tour de Pants (Luke Woodward, 20 minutes, 2006, USA) work in progress
Is there something about the clanking of a drive train on an old rusty blue road bike that makes you hot? Does the smooth grind of thin bike tires rolling over pavement get your hormones pumping? Witness a bike race full of sexual diversions complete with safety gear, bike tube fetish, and wrestling matches. Proceeds for this video are being donated to the AIDS LifeCycle, a bike ride to benefit the SF AIDS Foundation. We will pass a hat at the screening.

Sunday, May 28th
5pm District 202
Drive Me Crazy: Relationships In Flux
Sponsored by Pizza Luce
Sometimes relationships just arent how they might first appear. Or if they are, they may change unexpectedly and you might be left with that same damn song playing in the car that reminds you of your old lover; except now youre with the new one. This series of shorts features candid portrayals of relationships that question whats normal and enforces the atypical.

Drive Me Crazy (Kim Wyne, 5 min, 2004, Belgium)
A woman, a car and an empty seat . . . but never for too long.

Exchange of Love (Sarah Skapin, 2 min, year, USA)
When old songs become new and . . . well . . . homoerotic.

Ochtend: Liefde in 4 Aktes (Kim Wyne, 15 min, 2001, Belgium)
This short focuses in on two couples and two single women living in Brussles, exploring companionship, solitude, and waking.

Sex Me Up (Samuel Chow, 5 min, 2004, Canada)
Filmmakers often love their video equipment, but this man has taken it to an extreme...

DL Chronicles (an episode from the series) (Deondray Gossett & Quincy LeNear, 30 min, 2005, USA)
The DL Chronicles tells the stories of men of color who by consequence and by choice, live sexually duplicitous and secret lifestyles. We enter into a provocative and intriguing world of sexual discovery, denial, betrayal, love and loss.

Sunday, May 28th
7pm Suburban World
Bad Girls Behind Bars (Sharon Zurek, 90 min, 2005, USA)
sponsored by Lavender Magazine
Ladies, get ready for a wild evening of audience participation, cellblock style! You'll thrill to the lurid melodramas unfolding on screen as you get a crash course in convict lingo to use throughout the screening! Bad Girls Behinds Bars takes a campy look at women in prison films and pokes fun at them as only lesbians can. Sharon Zurek has remixed four of the best women in prison flicks out there to tease out their not-so-latent lesbian subtext for your entertainment: Ladies They Talk About (1933), starring Barbara Stanwyck as a convicted gun moll in San Quentin; Girls in Prison (1956), in which a 21-year-old must fight off the advances of her cell-mate; Women in Cages (1971), starring Pam Grier as the sadistic pot-smoking warden of a women's prison; and Girls in Prison, (1994) a TV movie with Anne Heche and Ione Skye. This film is a cheeky commentary on the clichs and stereotypes we all know and an affectionate look at the girls you love to hate and the ones you hate to love.

Fighten Femmes (Piper Vision, 3 min, 2006, USA)
A re-make of an earlier experimental and very political piece.

Sunday, May 28th
7pm Bedlam Theatre
Meet Your Maker
Sponsored by Over the Rainbow Too
This is a very special screening of short works by artists in attendance. Some titles will be added after this schedule goes to press. There will be a conversation following the screening about media access, alternative distribution and future projects of the artists. All the proceeds of the door will be split evenly among the filmmakers, so attend in full force. Artists confirmed Kim Fishman (Producer of Fat Girls), Alex Hinton (Director of Pick Up the Mic), Nicky Click (Cheap Date Night Program) and Samantha Farinella (Director of On the Road).

My Cousin Petunia Pie (Nicky Click, 1:30 min, 2006, USA)
A love story to Nickys cousin, Petunia Pie, all filmed in the bedroom they share.
I Wanna Exercise (Nicky Click and Mark Saboran, 4 min, 2005, USA)
An aerobic video that has been queered, with The Clicked One as the instructor

Drool (Nicky Click, 1 min, 2006, USA)
Sometimes what is attractive can turn into a monster right before your eyes.

The Shoebox (Samantha Farinella, 6 min, USA) This experimental short is a mash up music video with an eclectic mix of tunes by female musicians (from Patsy Cline to Hole). It is a simple story of an average Jane who, would not take it anymore!

Somewhere Along the Way (Samantha Farinella, 5 min, USA) Get a glimpse into a typical night in a Buffalo, New York lesbian bar in the 1950s. Same sex, different half century. This short was adapted from the feature length screenplay of the same title.

Idioteque (Samantha Farinella, 6 min, USA) Inspired by Radiohead's prophetic song of the same name, a group of Brooklynites collaborated to create this video for a drag king performance using photography, archival and news footage, as well as advertising to show a powerful interpretation of global events before and since 9/11. Co-Produced by Christie George and Colin Mutchler.

Standing Room Only (Kim Fishman, 5 min, 2004, USA) Discover the rise of Edna Jean Robinson, the most famous and sought after background standing extra. This short features exclusive interviews with renowned pornography directors, the O'Reily Brothers and the Edna's agent, Ned Bean. Also includes never before seen behind-the-scenes footage, revealing the true Edna Jean Robinson.

Q-Tip Bliss - 14 Year Old Girls (Alex Hinton, 1 min, USA) This one of three music videos (made in collaboration with Eric October) is about the video game Q-Bert and how high school life is similar to this defeatist game.

Gene Defcon - Yesses and Nose (Alex Hinton, 1:12 min, USA) The world's craziest kick line celebrates Gene Defcon's list of everything good and bad in life.

Gravy Train!!!! - Burger Baby (Alex Hinton, 2 min, USA) This song come to life as a Josie & The Pussycats style cartoon. Chunx is knocked up by a hamburger and must decide if she should should keep her burger baby.

Sunday, May 28th
9pm Bedlam Theatre
Jake and Ben Fredricksons wacky wild gay gala Nicky Click
Jake needs to e.mail me a description as soon as possible to include in this schedule!!!!

Monday, May 29th
7pm Suburban World
The Lost Generation (Jack Walsh, 64 minutes, year, USA)
This documentary, narrated by Eric Newton, explores aging, memory, loss and love from the perspective of a middle-aged artist and activist. Interweaving three distinct narrative points of view with dynamic landscape imagery, still photographs, and super 8 home movies, the film looks at the many universal questions, unresolved issues, and milestones in the filmmakers life and the 70s generation.

Present Tense (Jack Walsh, 30 min, 1987, USA)
Walsh offers us a slice of his early work, which he describes as a film about fear in general. This short examines the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s.

Monday, May 29th
7pm Bryant Lake Bowl
Cheap Date Night
Sponsored by the Lander Group
Every Monday the Bryant Lake Bowl plays host to Cheap Date Night, an evening where two people can enjoy dinner (the chefs are amazing), a bottle of wine (red or white) and a round of bowling for just $25. Celebrate this Memorial Day at our music video showcase, as the theater well accommodates wining and dining. In 2005 we hosted a successful sold out closing night screening of music videos at the Bowl, so purchase your tickets early. New to the Flaming crew, Dustin Nelson (no longer a virgin programmer) curates this collection of music videos complete with vampire bats, war, bleeding oranges, rubber vultures, meat humping and Scream Club getting a haircut from Johnny Dangerous. Featuring artists Elliot Smith, Deerhoof, Scream Club, The Decemberists, Sleater Kinney (directed by Miranda July), Xiu Xiu, Veronica Lipgloss and the Evil Eyes, Johnny Dangerous, Soce the Elemental Wizard, Amps for Christ, Hella The Mae Shi, Nicky Click and more. *Ticket price is not included in Cheap Date Night Package. Artists in attendance

Monday, May 29th
9pm Suburban World Theater 18
Scab (Thomas Jason Davis, 101 min, 2005, USA)
In the gay community, the words "I want to suck your..." are not usually followed by "blood." But that's exactly what happens in Scab, a horror flick in which the queers are vampires - and those hard penetrating objects are wooden stakes. Ajay is a West Hollywood pretty boy who falls prey to a One Night Stand of Darkness and finds that vampirism is the newest sexually transmitted disease. A terrifying twist on the genre with a ghoulish sense of humor, Scab offers a rollicking good time and includes a big supply of hot porn stars cast in the roles of vampire victims. Vampires. Lube. Loathing.

Monday, May 29th
9pm Bedlam Theatre
Screaming in Celluloid Performance through Video
A showcase of experimental shorts focusing on the collision of conventional perceptions of film and the art of performance. Includes genital operations, guessing games, urination, penis puppetry and synchronized swimming.

Ochtend: Liefde in 4 aktes (Kim Wyns, 15 min, 2001, Belgium)
Wyns explores companionship, solitude and waking in this fifteen minute short centering on two couples and two single women living in Brussels.

In The Box (Sarah Skapin, 3 min, year, USA)
Starvation, exhaustion, friendship, mortality, urination and The Sims.

A Shape called Horse (Miranda July, 3 min, year, USA)
A disappointment to horse lovers around the world, Miranda July plays guess the number with an imaginary friend, sans-horse.

The Bottom of the Bottomless Lake (Deb Norris, 13 min, year, USA)
Deb Norris hosts a party with dancing, drinking, bicycles and, of course, synchronized swimming.

Fighten Femmes (Piper Vision, 3 min, year, USA)
A re-make of an earlier experimental and very political piece.

Short Films by Trevor Adams
Adams has definitely earned himself the role of local cult filmmaker, and specializes in double exposure 16mm films. He is probably most famous for a screening years ago, where the intent was to use a knife to walk through a screen that projected images of road kill juxtaposed with footage of his grandparents. Adams accidentally cut himself with the knife, and spread blood all over the screen. Who knows what hell show us tonight

Short Films by Jason Wade
Wade is another local auteur, and is also lead singer of the band Faggot. He performs live music with 16mm films tonight, as we screen Vasectomy (yes, and it is), and a short in which his penis is once again put through serious (self inflicted) torture.

Tuesday, May 30th
7pm Suburban World
Fat Girls (Ash Christian, 83 minutes, 2006, USA) Midwest Premiere
Sponsored by Lavender Magazine
In this coming of age comedy from 20-year-old writer, director and leading man, teenager Rodney copes with his unfulfilled desires for a boyfriend and Broadway stardom while stuck in his dusty Texas town. Trusty sidekick Sabrina has a weight problem, but according to Rodney, high school has a way of making many of us feel like fat girls.
Director Ash Christian in attendance

Wednesday, May 31st Closing Night
7pm Suburban World
Killing Rock Stars Music Video meets Open Reel
Sponsored by Minneapolis Telecommunications Network and Rift Magazine
Every year the Flaming Film Festival likes to open its venue to anyone and everyone to submit a movie (that is five minutes or less). Even YOU! This years theme is music video, and we accept absolutely anything submitted on DVD or VHS up until the night of the show. Get your movies in early, though, as we will only screen the first 90 minutes of shorts submitted. All filmmakers are admitted free (and get free drinks), and there will be CASH PRIZES and other fabulous gifts will be given to the audience and festival staff favorites.

Followed by Closing Night After Party hosted by the Suburban World Theater.