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Cinema
March 1, 2022
Celebrate Women’s History Month with “Queer Genius”
The award-winning indie documentary Queer Genius, directed by Chet Pancake, screens in virtual cinemas nationwide starting on March 4 at San Francisco’s Roxie Theatre. In addition to making the feature documentary available for cinema bookings through June 2022, Frameline Distribution will release Queer Genius as a docuseries, spotlighting the featured individual artists on Vimeo beginning March 8th.
In celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8th, screen the first episode for free on Vimeo. Episode 1 spotlights the late, iconic, inimitable and pioneering filmmaker Barbara Hammer, whose groundbreaking and explicit Dyketactics (1974), was the first lesbian erotic film made by a lesbian.
Queer Genius chronicles five visionary queer artist-activists: Eileen Myles (Award winning American writer and poet), Black Quantum Futurism (Rasheedah Phillips and Camae Ayewa A.K.A. Moor Mother, literary and artistic creatives), Barbara Hammer (Filmmaker and producer), and Jibz Cameron (performance artist and actor),who unapologetically break down barriers in their creative fields outside of mainstream culture. The piece explores each artists’ “genius” – the makeup of their minds, creativity and experiences as expressed through their art and embraces communal possibilities of “Genius” from a queer and generational perspective. Director Chet Pancake said, “It features fine artist portraits of QPOC & LGBTQ Female experimental artists, examining each artist’s creative life, personal challenges, and asking the provocative question “what is genius?”
