Make your equipment reservation at the 24-hour FMA Prof. Evans’ New Feature, The Happy Sad, will be screened for its premiere at Frameline 37-The San Francisco Int’l LGBT Film Festival on Tuesday, June 25th at 9:30pm, at the Castro Theater, San Francisco, CA . Prof. Evans will attend the screening/Q&A along with a lot of the cast and crew.
The Happy Sad, follows two couples, one black and one white, whose lives collide as they navigate open relationships and sexual identity. It explores the questions that alternative twenty- and thirty-year olds face in a culture where there appears to be endless possibilities for sex but also a resistance to any definitive model for a proper relationship.
Frameline - the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival , the world’s largest LGBT media arts nonprofit organization, showcases for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) cinema runs June 20 – 30, with San Francisco screenings at the historic Castro Theatre (429 Castro Street), Roxie Theater (3117 16th Street) and the Victoria Theatre (2961 16th Street), and in Berkeley at Rialto Cinemas™ Elmwood (2966 College Avenue).With an expected attendance of 60,000, the 11 days of Frameline37 will bring together film lovers, media artists, and LGBTQ communities from the Bay Area and all across the globe to behold the best in queer cinema from this year’s record number of more than 700 film submissions. More than 30 countries will be represented, including Poland, Ireland, South Korea, Thailand, Argentina, Brazil, and Australia.
For more information please see articles from Indiewire about Frameline37 and The Happy Sad.
Prof. d’Agostino’s World-Wide-Walks projects in Australia and New York.
Prof. d’Agostino’s World-Wide-Walks projects, W-W-W / between earth & water / Rivers / Glaciers / Coastlines, works-in-progress focusing on climate change, are being previewed at the Balance – Unbalance Conference held at the UNESCO Noosa Biosphere, Queensland, May 31 to June 2; and at the ISEA 2013, International Symposium on Electronic Art, Sydney, June 7 -16. The accompanying papers for these projects are co-authored by Prof. d’Agostino and David Tafler, professor of media and communication, Muhlenberg College.
The World-Wide-Walks have been performed on five continents over the past four decades. The initial project, The Walk Series (1973-74), video documentation / performances in the San Francisco environment is part of “State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970″, an Independent Curators International (ICI) traveling exhibition that will be on view at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, June 23 – Sept 8.