GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE

February 23, 2007

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Seven @ Wexner

Growing up gay in Central Ohio highlights LGBT film festival

by Anthony Glassman

Columbus-The Wexner Center, Ohio State University's bastion of cutting-edge art, is exploring its gay side with three days of queer film to kick off the month of March. The Out @ Wex queer film festival will

the world around him, and Wrestling with Angels by Freida Lee Mock follows him for three years, from the mounting of Homebody/Kabul through to his time working on John Kerry's presidential campaign, his marriage to Mark Harris and the opening of Caroline, or Change on Broadway.

Puccini for Beginners

run from March 1 to 3, featuring seven films and a tribute to Strand Releasing, which for 18 years has been one of the most notable distributors of LGBT, foreign and art films in the country.

The celebration of LGBT film kicks off with 20 Straws: Growing Up Gay, a new movie created by nine gay and lesbian students from Central Ohio chronicling their lives.

Video artist Liv Gjestvang shepherded the youth through the project, which is comprised simply of each finding their own voice to show the audience

their experiences.

20 Straws screens at 7 pm on March 1, and is followed by a discussion with the youth and a reception presented by the OSU GLBT Alumni Society.

The second film of the day is Wrestling with An-

gels: Playwright Tony

Kushner, an intimate portrait of the brilliant mind behind such pivotal pieces of theater as Angels in America and A Bright Room Called Day.

Always looking at the greater society around him, Kushner's plays seek to better

Lover Other

Wrestling with Angels will show at 8:30 pm.

Friday sees but one film, the 7 pm of screening of Wild Tigers I Have Known, a lush, intimate film about Logan, a 13year old with a crush on Rodeo, a hip ninthgrader.

After the film, there will be a celebration party with cocktails and light hors d'oeuvres.

What March 2 lacks in volume, Saturday, March 3 grossly overcompensates with four screenings, including Strand Releasing's newest film, introduced by

and his transgressive filmmaking style has always reflected that early influence.

At 4 pm, Barbara Hammer's Lover Other will be shown. Lover Other continues her quest, now going for 35 years on film, to plumb the depths of lesbian history. In this film, she examines the lives of lesbian halfsisters Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, two surrealist artists in the 1920s who worked under male names in France.

Marcus Hu, Strand Releasing's president, will introduce The Man of My Life, the company's latest release, at 7 pm.

The French film is a travelogue of three people on a sunny vacation. Co-writer-director Zabou Breitman and her collaborator Agnes de Sacy, both women, completely submerge themselves in the male point of view to examine how men view themselves, each other and the world around them.

Frederique and Frederic, a married heterosexual couple, invite their new neighbor Hugo, who turns out to be gay, on vacation, and the film centers around a late-night conversation, sort of a Gallic My Dinner with Andre. Perhaps à touch less pretentious, though.

The final film of the festival is at 9:30 pm. Maria Maggenti's Puccini for Beginners charts a bisexual romantic triangle among a group of New Yorkers, and the dangers of pledging your heart to a rebound hook-up.

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Wild Tigers I Have Known

the company presiMaggenti is best known for her film The dent. Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love.

The day starts at 2 pm with Derek Jarman's 1986

orgy of sensuality, Caravaggio.

Jarman's biopic of the famous Renaissance painter is the filmmaker's salute to another artist. Jarman began his career as a painter before moving into motion pictures,

All films will be shown in the Film/ Video Theater of the Wexner Center for the Arts, 1871 North High Street. Tickets are $7 per film for the general public, $5 for Wexner Center members, students and senior citizens. For tickets or more information, call 614-292-3535 or go to www.wexarts.org.

Dykes Towatch Out For by Alison Bechdel

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HEY, YOU CAN SIT HERE IN YOUR IVORY TOWER, BUT THE TRUTH IS, THERE ARE BAD PEOPLE OUT THERE.

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HEY! DR. JORDAN! I'M IN!

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THE Hortense Schmendrick) LECTURE SERIES WAR & LIES: FABRICATED INTELLIGENCE FROM IRAQ TO IRAN

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OKAY, BUT LET'S KEEP MY INTERNSHIP ON THE QT. THE INTEREST OF SOME INDIVIDUALS IN MY CIA EMPLOYMENT MAY NOT BE BENIGN.

THE WORK OF THE NATION.

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SAY THE WORD, AND I'LL LOOK INTO HIS GREEN CARD SITUATION WHEN I'M AT HEADQUARTERS.

LEMME GET BACK TO YOU ON THAT.

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CYNTHIA!