Queen's Vernacular series to host three events next week

Funeral Parade of Roses (dir. Toshio Matsumoto, 1969)

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.

JUST ADDED!: Artist talk by Jibz Cameron, aka Dynasty Handbag!

Thursday, Nov. 30, Fine Arts 238 on campus, 5 p.m. (FREE!)

Jibs Cameron's multi-media performance work as alter ego Dynasty Handbag has spanned fifteen years and been presented at such institutions as MOCA LA, PS1, Joe's Pub, the Kitchen, REDCAT, the Broad Museum, the Hammer Museum, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. The New York Times reviewed one of Cameron's shows as “the funniest and most pitch perfect performance seen in years” and The New Yorker described her as “outrageously smart, grotesque and innovative.” She has written and produced six evening length performance pieces along with countless short performances, multiple video works, and two albums of original music. She is also in development with Electric Dynamite on a television series about a performance artist who moves from New York to Los Angeles.

Cameron's artist talk is supported by Western's College of Fine and Performing Arts, the Art Department, the Film Studies minor, and the program in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. A digital version of Chris Vargas's original watercolor poster for the event is attached!

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.