Queens' Vernacular Fall Lineup Announced

The monthly queer film series organized by Western's Greg Youmans and Chris Vargas is starting up again for the 2017-18 academic year, with two films left for the fall: 

Funeral Parade of Roses (dir. Toshio Matsumoto, 1964)

Tuesday, Nov.  28, Pickford Film Center, 6:30 p.m. (ticketed)

Funeral Parade of Roses is a 1969 Japanese drama film directed and written by Toshio Matsumoto, loosely adapted from Oedipus Rex and set in the underground gay counterculture of 1960s Tokyo. An important work of the Japanese New Wave, the film combines elements of arthouse, documentary and experimental cinema. Funeral Parade of Roses was a major influence on Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 film A Clockwork Orange.

Day With(out) Art: ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS

Friday, Dec.1, Pickford Film Center, 9 p.m. (FREE!)

ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS is the 28th iteration of Visual AIDS’ longstanding Day With(out) Art project. Curated by Erin Christovale and Vivian Crockett for Visual AIDS, the video program prioritizes Black narratives within the ongoing AIDS epidemic, commissioning seven new and innovative short videos from artists Mykki Blanco, Cheryl Dunye & Ellen Spiro, Reina Gossett, Thomas Allen Harris, Kia Labeija, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, and Brontez Purnell. The program will screen concurrently at art and film venues throughout the US and internationally as part of World AIDS Day.