Interactive Media (In the DGA Lobby)

Curated by Rajendra Roy (Executive Director, MIX Festival & Guggenheim Museum Film/Media Arts Program Associate)

From Silicon Valley to Cannes to your local Cineplex, the advances of New Media are impossible to ignore. Interactive Digital Media and internet video streaming technologies are rapidly providing filmmakers and artists with increasing opportunities to control the means of production and to reach wide audiences at much lower costs than conventional distribution. The notion of “passive viewing” is being swept away and soon it will be more convenient to watch the movie of your choice on your computer screen than to run out to the video store. Queer image-makers have been at the forefront of this technological revolution, embracing the access and immediacy New Media affords.

This year, OUTFEST has cast its net wide to include some of the most cutting-edge digital shorts and interactive media being created today. From Leah Gilliam’s sci-fi B-movie inspired CD-ROM; to Larry Shea’s surveillance inspired digital cruising video that roams from the dunes to the locker room to the web, to Peter Cramer and Jack Waters’ digital dance duet, to Brad Wolfley’s digitally animated CK manifesto, we have captured a wide variety of strange and sexy web creatures for your examination. All you have to do is point, click and enjoy!

INTERACTIVE DIGITAL MEDIA

“Split: Whiteness, Retrofuturism, Omega Man”
(Leah Gilliam, 1999, CD-ROM)

“Fetish World”
(Lucretia Knapp, 1999, CD-ROM)

DIGITAL SHORTS PROGRAM (May be viewed online here on July 1st 99 and in the DGA Lobby during OUTFEST)

“How Calvin Klein Ruined My Figure”
(Brad Wolfley, 1997, Digital Animation, 2 mins)

“Black & White Study: The Dance”
(Peter Cramer & Jack Waters, 1999, DVD, 5 mins)

“Dear Father (an extension of 12, 28, 37)”
(CB Cooke, 1999, Macromedia Shockwave, 2 mins)

“Land of the Lay”
(Larry Shea, 1999, Digital Video, 5 mins)

“Taboo Series #1 (Two Women Kissing)”
(Jocelyn Taylor, 1997, Digital Video, 3 mins)