OUTFEST 2011 Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary Of Platinum Section 7/7-17

Outfest, the Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing, showcasing and protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media, will celebrate the 10th anniversary of its Platinum section as part of Outfest 2011: The 29th Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, which will be held July 7th to 17th, 2011.

Platinum is Outfest's signature showcase dedicated to cutting edge and provocative film, video, performance and multi-media that push the boundaries of cinema. Notoriously edgy, politically confrontational and formally adventurous, Platinum celebrates the visionaries and renegades of queer art and culture. Platinum film screenings and events once again take place at the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

"The tenth anniversary of Outfest's Platinum section celebrates innovative work at the intersection of art and film - from the dozens of artists and curators who have exhibited highly creative and cutting-edge films, music and performances to our adventurous audience/participants," said Executive Director Kirsten Shaeffer.

Highlights of the 10th Anniversary include the Los Angeles debut performance by Thee Majesty who will play a full set of their ambient soundscapes and spoken word performed by radical pioneering musician and artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. This rare performance will blend poetry, performance with music improvisation, hypnotic loops and blistering noise into a disorienting lullaby. Genesis is also subject of the Teddy-award winning documentary "The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye," screening before the live performance.

Nao Bustamante (Bravo's "Work of Art"), inspired by queer godfather and avant-garde provacateur Jack Smith, will bring her new 'film-formance' "Silver & Gold" to Los Angeles. "I cannot compare my work to Jack's genius or prolific nature, but I can thank him for giving me a jumping off point for my own research into the exotic, and more precisely, the exotic as it is portrayed by Hollywood. I applaud Outfest's commitment to experimental works and am thrilled to be part of Platinum's 10th year celebration!" says Bustamante.

Platinum Programmer Kristin (KP) Pepe says, "For the past ten years, the filmmakers and artists who have screened in Platinum are the outlaws, renegades, art stars, underground smut and the beautiful underbelly of the queer art and film movement. This year's program showcases a stellar set of musicians, fine artists and filmmakers who demand our attention and promise to awaken our radical consciousness."

The line-up also includes screenings of Bruce LaBruce's controversial new zombie thriller "L.A. Zombie," A.L. Steiner and A.K. Burns examination of pornography "Community Action Center," and artist Ryan Trecartin's "Two by Ryan Trecartin," showcasing two films in his celebrated series Any Ever which recently showed at both The Museum of Modern Art and The Museum of Contemporary Art. There are two programs of short work, "Human Resources", a showcase of local film, music and performance in collaboration with local Chinatown-basEd Gallery and arts collective, Human Resources and the Platinum Showcase - a collection of shorts featuring work by Jonathan Caouette, Guy Maddin, Chloe Sevigny and Christophe Chemin.

With a nod to the first Platinum's legendary, epic, infamous Platinum Oasis, the 18 hour durational overnight arts fest with 40 rooms of media, interactive and salon-style installations at the notorious Coral Sands Motel, the 2011 celebration will climax with NIGHT MOVES: THE PLATINUM 10TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY at the haunted Alexandria Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Local artists Ladyboys of Sweaty Sundays choreographed by Ryan Heffington, Heather Cassils, Christopher Kreiling, Vagina Wolf and PERMS, Pigs in the Parlour, Crafternoon, TRIPLE X, Drew Droege and Nao Bustamante among others will perform work inspired by the space.

For a complete listing of films in the Festival and to purchase tickets,
log on to www.Outfest.org or call 213-480-7065.

Platinum is sponsored by REDCAT and Thomas Lavin.

Outfest 2011 is Presented by HBO, Grand Sponsors: Absolut, Ease Entertainment Services, and HGTV. Under the Stars Series Sponsor: MINI Copper. Premiere Sponsors: 104.3FM, Deadline.com, Directors Guild of America, Here Media, The Hollywood Reporter, LOGO, Merrill Lynch, and Variety. Official Sponsors: California Pizza Kitchen, Coca Cola, Orbitz, Room & Board, Southwest Airlines, Stella Artois, and Tech Pal. Day Sponsors: The Andrew J. Kuehn Jr., Foundation, The David Geffen Foundation, Gay Ad Network, Hollywood & Highland, Instinct Magazine, Lifetime Networks, NBCUniversal, Northern Trust, and Wells Fargo.

This program is made possible in part by grants from the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the Andrew J. Kuehn Jr. Foundation.

PLATINUM ANNIVERSARY LINE-UP

NIGHT MOVES: THE PLATINUM 10TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY
For this 10th anniversary, we have bent you over the chair and done you right with the biggest, baddest, most expansive Platinum in years. The celebration will climax with NIGHT MOVES: THE PLATINUM 10th ANNIVERSARY PARTY at the haunted Alexandria Hotel in downtown Los Angeles where hostess Nao Bustamante will guarantee you dance, sweat and squeal to the music spun by DJ AUTOMATON and DJ KIM ANH. Artists including: Ladyboys of Sweaty Sundays choreographed by Ryan Heffington, Heather Cassils, Christopher Kreiling, Vagina Wolf and the PERMS, Pigs in the Parlour, Crafternoon and Drew Droege among others will pepper the party, hide in The Shadows and perform work inspired by the space; TRIPLE X will fill the room with sexxy, succulent sexploitation images ... and you know we have more tricks up our sleeve.

THEE MAJESTY PERFORMANCE

Thee Majesty will play a full set of their ambient soundscapes with spoken word performed by radical pioneering musician and artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV). Genesis is the subject of the documentary THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND Lady JAYE and will be joined by collaborators avant-garde guitarist Bryin Dall (Hirsute Pursuit, 4th Sign of the Apocalypse and A Murder of Angels) and percussionist Edley ODowd (Psychic TV and Toilet Boys). This rare performance promises to combine poetry of a transgender creation story, music improvisation and hypnotic loops with blistering noise into a disorienting lullaby that is not to be missed.

BALLAD OF GENESIS AND Lady JAYE

Dir: Marie Losier, 2011, France/USA, 75 min.

BALLAD OF GENESIS AND Lady JAYE is a tender portrait of rebel performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV) and her soul mate and collaborator, Lady Jaye. P-Orridge's contributions to the industrial and underground music scene in the 1970s take backseat to the couple's great love affair and daring gender and identity transformations they underwent for their Pandrogyne project, where the pair received surgical procedures to merge into a third pandrogynous being. Winner of the Teddy for Best Documentary at 2011 Berlinale.

COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER
Dir: A.L. Steiner & A.K. Burns, 2010, USA, 69 min.
COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER playfully meshes the erotics of a community of lovers, friends and
collaborators where the personal is not only political, but sexual. This queer, trans and women-centered
project is heavily inspired by seminal 1970s porn - yet the film demands that this representation not only be included but attacks the canon of pornography itself. CAC is set to a soundtrack of Chicks on Speed,
Electrelane, K8 Hardy, Lesbians on Ecstasy, Light Asylum, Thee Majesty and MEN and includes original
compositions by Justin Bond, Ashland Mines & Wu Tsang among others.

HUMAN RESOURCES

This electrifying showcase of live performance, live music and video represents the spirited arts collective Human Resources and its desire to broaden engagement with contemporary and conceptual art, with an emphasis on performative and underexposed modes of expression. The videos have a decidedly musical bent like the moving Light Asylum music video and artist Christophe Chemin's Pink Floyd-inspired piece - but look out(!) for the fiery unicorn orgy and spicy alien sex tape! Live performances include new work by Mark Golamco, Kate Gilbert and Rafa Esparza. Performances co-curated by Dawn Kasper.

SYNCPOINT Dir: Isabell Spengler & Larry Peacock, 4 min. BOOTHDANCE Dir: Jacinto Astiazarán, 6 min. SONIC BOOM Dir: Mak, 4 min. WHEN I WAS A CHILD I HAD A FEVER Dir: Christophe Chemin, 5 min. ALIEN SEX VIDEO Dir: Kate Gilbert & Jenn Kolmel, 4 min. A CERTAIN PERSON - LIGHT ASYLUM Dir: Eden Batki, 5 min. OSMOSIS OF THE UNICORN Dir: Isabell Spengler, 12 min. TWO TYRANTS Dir: Mark Golamco, 3 min.


L.A. ZOMBIE
Dir/Scr: Bruce LaBruce, 2010, Canada, 63 min.
L.A. ZOMBIE is a queer hardcore zombie splatter/gore porn movie made by renowned subversive director, Bruce LaBruce. An alien zombie beauty (international porn star and model Francois Sagat) trudges through Los Angeles stumbling upon dead men - a white collar criminal, a gangbanger, a homeless junkie, drugaddicted porn stars - and sublimely screws them back to life. The film plunges deep, in more ways than one, past the superficial erotic thriller as LaBruce shows the zombie's desire for intimacy as sincere and human.

PLATINUM SHOWCASE

The renegades of queer film run wild in this showcase of experimental film. Chloe Sevigny is a red-eyed shapeshifter, Lexi Tronic resurfaces in Guy Maddin's breathtaking tribute to FLAMING CREATURES, a catfight breaks out amidst Stepford-wives-mannequin-ish tranquility, a pair plays out a BDSM scene that promises to make you squirm, squeal or sick and really, who doesn't love butch tits?

ALL FLOWERS IN TIME Dir: Jonathan Caouette, 14 min. THE GOLD ROOM Dir: Christophe Chemin, 5 min. BUTCH TITS Dir: Jen Crothers, 4 min. JAN VILLA Dir: Natasha Mendonca, 20 min. LITTLE WHITE CLOUD THAT CRIED Dir: Guy Maddin, 13 min. THE GARBAGE, THE CITY, AND DEATH Dir: Mariah Garnett, 8 min. LES NANAS Dir: Danielle Morgan, 3 min. SMOOTH Dir: Catherine Corringer, 24 min.

SILVER & GOLD

Dir/Scr: Nao Bustamante, 2010, USA, 45 min.

SILVER & GOLD is Nao Bustamante's (Bravo's "Work of Art") new creation, a living, breathing "filmformance" combining film, live performance, audience interaction and original campy costumes. She channels both queer godfather filmmaker Jack Smith and his muse, 1940s Dominican movie star Maria Montez, in a bizarre and radical exploration of race, glamour, sexuality and the silver screen.

TWO BY RYAN TRECARTIN
Ryan Trecartin emerged from the 2000s as an innovator of ecstatic new frontiers in art and cinema.
SIBLING TOPICS and P.OPULAR S.KY are two selections from his recent seven-part work, Any Ever, produced in Miami with collaborator Lizzie Fitch. In SIBLING TOPICS, a set of quadruplet sisters played by Trecartin engage in a series of episodic adventures and "premises"-situations sold by identity-tourism agencies with predetermined tones, terms, and trajectories. P.OPULAR S.KY, functioning as a kind of B-side, submerges characters from SIBLING TOPICS into a shadow state of mental projection, weaving threads from the rest of Any Ever into versions of their finalities.

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