[UWcinema] [Pacific Northwest Media Commons] Upcoming Talk: Friday, 11/17 @ 3:30--Greg Youmans: Bay Area Surrealism: Steve Arnold, the Cockettess, and Salvador Dalí

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Hello Pacific Northwest Media Commons friends!

This coming Friday, November 17th at 3:30pm, we are excited to host the latest in our work-in-progress speaker series--Greg Youmans!

Please join us at the following link<https://seattleu.zoom.us/j/6498489179?fbclid=IwAR2KrAE_vXB0jThw3Q7ZwTmR8HBoLWI2Z4fZhlZC8bL-Y5j6qlED1_4qh2k#success> (you can also link through Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/events/645725164110717?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22:%5B%7B%22mechanism%22:%22search_results%22,%22surface%22:%22bookmark_search%22%7D%5D,%22ref_notif_type%22:null%7D>). And please help us spread the word for what promises to be an excellent talk!


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 Bay Area Surrealism: Steve Arnold, the Cockettes, and Salvador Dalí

Abstract: The talk explores the influences upon and the impact of the work of artist and filmmaker Steven Arnold, who was a major figure in the queer, artistic, and countercultural milieux of the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Arnold helped launch the midnight movie phenomenon in the U.S. and gave the famous hippie-drag troupe the Cockettes their first stage. As a filmmaker, his biggest success was the 1971 psychedelic art-porn feature Luminous Procuress, which featured the Cockettes, screened at the Cannes Film Festival, and had a two-week run at the Whitney Museum in New York, where he met Salvador Dalí and became his protegé. Arnold’s influences were eclectic, though surrealism was central to his art practice, philosophy, and way of life almost from childhood. In this presentation, I will use Arnold as an opportunity to trace the history and influence of surrealism on queer art and filmmaking in the Bay Area, and I will attend as well to other key influences on his work, in particular the 1960s films of Jack Smith and Federico Fellini, and the fashion designs and performance art of his frequent collaborator, Kaisik Wong.

Bio: Greg Youmans is associate professor of English and film studies at Western Washington University. His essays have appeared in Camera Obscura, Millennium Film Journal, and the Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema among other publications. His first book was a study of the 1977 documentary Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (dir. Mariposa Film Group), and he is currently at work on a second book project tentatively entitled “Something New Under the Sun: Bay Area Queer Filmmaking Across the 1970s.”
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