Gay porn tragically described as ‘art’ at film festival.
(Illustration: College students will find the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) organization at campuses across America. This advertisement from the Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is one example of their recruitment strategies.)
The LGBT community raised its voice in the form of art last weekend as the Reel Queer Film festival presented a collection of films as diverse as the audience it was trying to reach out to.
The festival, which took place in Grant auditorium starting at 6:30 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday night was pondered by Open Doors: Queer Graduate Students and Friends with the GSO, screened a total of five feature length films and eight shorts. Produced everywhere from Germany to Greece, and ranging in scope from a 7-minute Sigur Ros music video to the 94-minute art/porn opus “The Raspberry Reich,” each of the films addressed one or more of the many social issues confronting members of the LGBT community both on a national and international scale.
Almost There
A courageous effort nonetheless, “Almost There” directed by Joelle Alexis and Sigal Yehuda was a mondo bore. Shot entirely on a hand-held consumer-quality camera, the film sought to portray the real life of the two lesbian filmmakers as they searched for a new home in Greece after deciding to leave their home in Tel-Aviv.
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