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Mike Sage
Joanne Loton
Lyndall Musselman
Marie Wustner
Jermaine Bagnall
Graham Runciman
Christine Engel

Lifelines 1 / 6:00–7:30 p.m.
Mélanie Saumure
Fragments de Corps
Sadia Mir
i was here before
Estelle Hébert
Passing Lines
Inger Whist
Bowl Tolling
Lifelines 2 / 8:45 p.m.
Ernie Kestler
Grains of Salt
Kate Schneider
The Valley of Dry Bones
Elaine Brodie
To Have and To Hold: Collecting and the Heart’s Desire
Joanne Loton, Women Will Come: Feminists Redefining Pornography, 2008–2009, video still.

This program poses questions that threaten to bring down the sacred cows of manliness and femininity, civil obedience, and normalcy. Mike Sage’s Survival of the Fabulous interrogates the existence of the “gay gene” in a wonderfully humorous investigation, while getting to the heart of a long-standing debate regarding the nature/nurture dichotomy in the formation of our identities. Joanne Loton’s bawdy Women Will Come: Feminists Redefining Pornography, defines the female gaze in the parlance of a feminist critique of patriarchal visual language, while engaging in the debate around the possibility of female agency in pornographic productions. Lyndall Musselman recuperates the history of a late-90s social movement in Remember Who’s Emma: Punk, Politics, and Place. The film chronicles the period in which punk youth and anarchist activists worked together to challenge the mores of the day. Marie Wustner’s Punchlines, Progress, and the Right to Remix assembles some of the best American political discourse in an explosive package of damning observations and gallows humour. Jermaine Bagnall’s After K looks at the betrayal of American values three years after the destruction of the lower 9th ward in New Orleans. Graham Runciman’s Dream House allows viewers access to one woman’s idiosyncratic world of nostalgia, memory, and fantasy. Christine Engel’s Beyond the Closet is an animated look at the coming out stories of lesbians and gay men, who variously share moments of release, anxiety and joy, in a challenging journey to self-realization.