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Platinum
Program Running Time is 62 min
A tank.tv initative curated by Stuart Comer

As the digital glow of the Internet begins to replace the dark space of the cinema, the web continues to evolve into an uncanny hybrid of personal longing and collective interaction where configurations of watching and being watched take on radically new form. To reconsider the historical contours and shifting relationships of sex and community in the digital age, a range of artists was invited to select two works: one historical film from the underground and one contemporary video by an emerging artist.

Selectors include Stuart Comer, William E. Jones, Daria Martin, Carlos Motta, Karol Radziszewski, Emily Roysdon, Akram Zaatari, and Bruce Yonemoto.


On Tuesday, July 14, the historical film program will screen at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Featuring luminaries such as Kenneth Anger, Anna Halprin, Curt McDowell, and Barbara Rubin, the screening will be followed by an onstage conversation with Stuart Comer, Curator of Film, Tate Modern, and artist William E. Jones.

On Friday, July 17, Platinum will host the contemporary video program, originally commissioned and presented on www.tank.tv.

IN COLLABORATION WITH: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and tank.tv

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 | 7 pm | Bing Theater| Los Angeles County Museum of ArtTickets required: $7 general admission, $5 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID Full program details at www.lacma.org

AFTER PARTY: Wildness, a queer party and performance happening every Tuesday in Mac Arthur Park, will host a party for THE YOUNG AND THE EVIL after the screening at LACMA on July 14. WILDNESS is a WORKSHOP and a THEME. Hosted by the SILVER PLATTER, Ashland Mines, Daniel Pineda and Wu Ingrid Tsang. 9:00-1:30

tank.tv is a not for profit online gallery and inspirational resource of artists' moving image, dedicated to providing a carefully curated platform for innovative work in film and video from both emerging and established artists.

www.tank.tv
www.lacma.org

                      

Mansfield 1962 Directed By: William E. Jones (IMDB) USA, 2006, 10 min In the summer of 1962, the Mansfield, Ohio Police Department photographed men having sex in a public restroom under the main square of the city.

Piss Watch (One to Twelve) Directed By: Naotaka Hiro 2006, 2 min The double image of a pissing penis turns about 20 to 30 degrees on each loop. They are exactly the same footage overlapping. One follows the other, but never matches exactly due to the scale difference. The bigger penis is simply the close up of the original footage. The two pissing penises just turn like a clock except that they turn counter clockwise, starting at one o'clock and turning towards twelve o'clock. Representations of the turning penises will never accord each other, wondering on the hours that don't exist.

Operation Invert Directed By: Tara Mateik USA, 2004, 13 min Are gender outlaws considered the new biological terrorists seeking weapons of mass bodily destruction? OPERATION INVERT compares the different regulations mediating botox-related plastic surgery and gender re-assignment “sex change.” Historical medical assessments of the invert (homosexual and transsexual) “condition” reveal seemingly outdated absurdities about outsider deviance. Nonetheless, current institutional loopholes governing gender re-assignment surgery suggest a fresh resurgence of loony pathology and diagnosis.

You Directed By: Ali Cherri 7 min

The Shape of the Right Statement Directed By: Wu Ingrid Tsang 5 min

Pow Directed By: Emily Roysdon 2006, 3 min

Physical Education Directed By: Siobhan O'Brien 10 min Physical Education follows a gang of girl zombies as they discover the horror of their own bodies through the traumatizing rituals of P.E. class.

Andrey/Andris Directed By: Mark Raidpere 6 min

Asswax Directed By: David Burns (IMDB) USA, 2004, 6 min ASSWAX is an examination of the nature of beauty and its relationship to suffering.