Event

SEX IS WORK (Night 3)

FORT BUCHANAN
dir. Benjamin Crotty, 2014
65 mins. France/Tunisia.

Following a mixed-gender group of army wives from an idyllic forest cabin to an army base in Iraq, with much mud wrestling in between, Fort Buchanan is winning comedic riff on both 90s American TV drams and Éric Rohmer that eventually establishes itself as a truly contemporary collapsing of the unstable distinctions between persona, gender, and politics. A free play of loosened signifiers that never fails to make some kind of sense even as it absolutely doesnt, its hilarious, hot, and arguably a new form of cinema itself.

NOVA DUBAI
dir. Gabriel Vinagre, 2014.
55 mins. Brazil.

NOVA DUBAI (55 min, 2014, Art of the Real) is Gustavo Vinagres hardcore-porn anti-gentrification film. It is what it pretends to be, but in the cracks of this film teem bodies rabidly seeking out new ways of interacting with the rampant real estate speculation shooting up new buildings in a suburb of Brazil. Oscillating from the abject to the beautiful to the impossible to the violent, its porn-punk in the Bruce LaBruce tradition shot through with a hyper-contemporary hyper-connected mesh of overloaded imagery.