Two Upcoming Events Featuring Stephanie Gray (MFA alum)

EVENT #1

MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Fest

The Festival runs from November 9-14. As part of a session entitled "Not Found on eHarmony," Stephanie will screen her 7-minute Super-8 film "Never Heard the Word Impossible" which takes its title from 70s sitcom Laverne & Shirley. About the film, Stephanie says,

"[It's] kinda about that "L" word (and "L" shirt of you know who) in that show, those two "roommates. huh. it was handprocessed & the sound is reworked/distorted solely from a few lines in the theme song. i will be showing the real super 8 film on film, not video and we'll play the sound from a cd."

When & Where
Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 8:30 PM
Theater for the New City in the East Village
1st Ave. between 9th/10th Streets

For more information: http://mixnyc.org/23/eharmony.php

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EVENT #2

TENDENCIES: Poetics & Practice, curated by Tim Peterson (Trace), is a series of talks by and about contemporary poets, titled in honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. The series explores the relationship between queer theory, poetic practice, manifesto, and pedagogy. All events are co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, CLAGS (the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies), The Graduate Center PhD Program in English, and the Graduate Center Poetics Group.

The next event features talks by Stephanie Gray, Dawn Lundy Martin, and Nathaniel Siegel, followed by a discussion/Q&A session.

For additional information, visit the TENDENCIES website.

Thursday, November 11 at 7 PM
CUNY Graduate Center
Skylight Room, 9100
365 Fifth Avenue, NYC

FREE

Filmmaker and writer Stephanie Gray's first collection of poetry, Heart Stoner Bingo was published by Straw Gate Books in 2007. Publications include EOAGH, 2ndAvenuePoetry, The Recluse, and Press 1. Readings include the PRJCTNS, Segue, Zinc, and Poetry Project Friday series. Her short experimental super 8 films, often city portraits or mini-symphonies have screened internationally, including at the Ann Arbor, Oberhausen, and Viennale fests. Her queer-themed films are often about pop cultural figures such as dyke heroine Joan of Arc in Dear Joan and the perceived dyke heroine Kristy McNichol in Kristy, both of which have screened at gay & lesbian film fests such as Frameline (San Francisco), Outfest (Los Angeles), and Mix NYC. Her analog video from the early 00s, close your hearing for the cap(shuns) is probably the only art work out there to mash up "Our Lips Our Sealed" on slo-mo with Schoolhouse Rock's "Conjunction Junction" and Charlie Brown's indecipherable adults to explore themes of language, hearing loss and our construction of meaning. If you know of others let her know.