We are pleased to announce the
St. James Infirmary's involvement with
Frameline 28 – The San Francisco International Lesbian
and Gay Film Festival! This year we are co-presenting the following program
with the Festival.
The Velvet Hammer Burlesque
Friday June 18 |
10:30 pm | Herbst
$8 members
| $9 general | VELV18H
With stage names like Bubbles La Rue, Dirty Martini, and Ming
Dynatease, the women of the Velvet Hammer Burlesque bring the fine art of
striptease to a whole new level. Sexy, bold, daring, and brash, they’re
unafraid to show some leg, and they don’t believe that beauty comes in a
bottle. Celebrating a wide range of body types and personal styles, these women
promise to show you a whole lot of flouncing flesh — and more!
Directed by Velvet Hammer’s own Augusta, THE VELVET HAMMER
BURLESQUE chronicles the group’s history and features interviews with
members who explain their own wild urges for taking their clothes off. Tips on
how to strip, original audition tapes, and scenes from live shows are also
included. With “Creativity Above All” as their motto, these women
do one hell of a job of dressing up the old art of seduction.
In IS YOUR WIFE A SECRET LESBIAN?, filmmaker Szu Burgess’s
campy lesbian porn makes creative reuse of vintage 16mm stag films (from 1930
to 1969), woven together with a lesbian propaganda piece from a 1966 Photo
Magazine.
— Erin Cullerton
IS YOUR WIFE A SECRET LESBIAN? dir Szu Burgess 2002 USA 9 min
video
THE VELVET HAMMER BURLESQUE dir Augusta 2003 USA 84 min video
RELATED FILMS OF INTEREST
Annie Sprinkle’s Amazing World
of Orgasm
Tuesday June 22
| 6:30 pm |
Herbst
Legendary goddess of porn and sexpert Annie Sprinkle brings
together 25 “orgasm experts” for the most fantastically fun film on
the subject to date. With HEARTS CRACKED OPEN, a lesbian guide to Tantric sex.
A Few Good Dykes
Saturday June 19
| 7:45 pm |
Herbst
Meet the Dyke Uniform Core, a lesbian group that wears military
uniforms in the context of BDSM, exploring the sexy dichotomy of a
woman’s body in a man’s uniform. With HEADSPACE, a look at LA’s fetish scene.
Dykes in the City
Tuesday June 22
| 9:00 pm |
Castro
Like the gals in “Sex in the City,” the dykes featured
in these funny shorts—including MERCURY IN RETROGRADE starring Lea
DeLaria—are all trying to find Ms. Right and get some action while
they’re searching.
Fun In Girls’ Shorts
Saturday June 19
| 1:15 pm |
Castro
Saturday June 26
| 6:30 pm |
Roxie
The perennially popular collection of hilarious, sexy, quirky
lesbian shorts about the downright hysterical diversity of lesbian life,
including a new comedy from dyke icon and GO FISH star Guinevere Turner.
Girls by the Bay
Saturday June 26
| 12:30 pm |
Herbst
This year, the Bay Area’s lesbian filmmakers travel
everywhere, from the annual dyke march to Mister Roger’s Neighborhood and
beyond, to demonstrate how rich and riveting the local lesbian film scene truly
is.
LipSchtick
Sunday June 20 | 11:00 am | Castro
Poor Anne Bancroft, whose portrayals of both Mrs. Robinson and
Anne Sullivan are just two of the many subjects parodied in LIPSCHTICK, a
side-splitting line-up of the Festival’s most hilarious parodies.
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FRAMELINE 28 – The 28th San Francisco International Lesbian
& Gay Film Festival, the world's oldest and largest celebration of LGBT
cinema, will run from June 17-27, 2004. The 28th edition of the San Francisco
International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival will delight over 80,000
attendees with nearly 80 features, including many world and US premieres, and
over 150 shorts. The Festival opens with TOUCH OF PINK (starring Kyle
McLachlan), Indo-Canadian-British director Ian Iqbal Rashid’s film about the
many identities we juggle each day, not always successfully. After the film,
come celebrate the joys of marriage and cinema at San Francisco's City
Hall. The Festival closes on a
fun, upbeat note with Angela Robinson’s D.E.B.S., a bubbly, sexy, fun-filled,
irreverent send-up of espionage movies, action thrillers, and teen angst. After
the film, celebrate the hottest film festival and pride season in memory at the
swanky SOMA hot spot, Terra.
PURCHASING TICKETS
Tickets are now on sale at:
http://www.frameline.org/festival, or call 925.866.9559.
Purchasing in advance is highly
advised, as shows will sell out! Discounted
group tickets are available, as well as our special GOLD PASS,
CASTRO PASS AND HERBST PASS.
MORE INFORMATION
For more information about the
Festival, visit the website at
http://www.frameline.org/festival.
2004 Frameline e-Newsletter
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Frameline's ENews. And, during the Festival, subscribers will receive a daily
update of festival news and gossip. Sign up at
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