Doprovodný program
Off-program of the queer film festival Mezipatra 2011:
- parties
- exhibitions
- discussions & lectures
- misc
Zahajovací party v kavarně Lucerna. Zahraje kapela Urxin Sisters.
Big Saturday party in music club [mju:z].
Will play young fresh guys from HOMOGURU band (disko, funky).
From Hitler’s torture of homosexuals to contemporary human rights
Tom Kalin’s exhibit, The Third Known Nest, introduces the author's selection of videos and short films from the years 1991-1999.
A famous gay Swedish monodrama about the flavour of life, fear of death and sweet revenge.
Conversational comedy performed by the theater group Studividlo
Slash is a specific genre practice expressed through the involvement of homosexual elements in mainly heterosexual fictional stories.
At first we take a retro trip back to the mid 1980s, when Donna Haraway came up with the metaphor of the cyborg - “created in the post-gender world…dedicated to partialness, irony, intimacy and perversion”
Read more: Cyberqueers - gender, sexuality and new technologies
A unique opportunity to learn more about the queer aspects in Czechoslovak cinematography, the existence of which you were perhaps not aware.
Read more: Queer Reading of Classic Czech/Czechoslovak Films of the 1950s to 1970s
The lecture looks at how fans have broken down possibly Star Trek's last remaining taboo in their own semi-professional film production dedicated to their favourite cult.
A cinephile lecture with debate on the phenomenon of the New Queer Cinema wave focussing primarily on the work of its two directorial stars - Todd Haynes and Tom Kalin, a retrospective of whose work Mezipatra is showing this year.
Preview of the book Homosexuality in the History of Czech Culture