 is an experimental, historical narrative set in a mythologized, post-revolutionary Russia that re-imagines the story of the 1921 uprising of the Kronstadt sailors with a twist of gender anarchy. Agit-prop theatre group 

 guides the viewer through the story, which is narrated by fictionalized letters written by Stepan Petrichenko, the leader of the Provisional Revolutionary Committee.

Maggots and Men

A young girl that regularly dresses as a boy falls in love and seduces a young girl that has no clue that her lover has the same sex. When the girl introduces ‘her boyfriend’ to her father he becomes skeptical and unmasks the fraud. Even though strangely, the feelings of the girl persist without shifting, the father does not allow them to ever see each other again.
Furious and delusional the ‘boy’ develops an adventurous plan to prove his true ‘masculinity’ to the father of his lover.

Pierrot Lunaire

The Flaming Creatures is an Avant Grade Art film by artist Jack Smith. The film was made during the the era of the New York Underground Film movement that brought us art film artist like Andy Warhol and the Kuchar Brothers both which inspired John Waters.
The weird plotless film features male and female nudity and the police often raided showing in the sixties. The film evokes a non-narrative orgy in its parade of flaccid penises, bouncing breasts, and at various intervals depictions of both violent assault and celebratory pleasure.
Smith shot the movie on old army surplus film that was about 15 years old. 

The Flaming Creatures

From the platonic cave to post-punk, the tape traces the invisible and visible references to women who love women from prehistory to contemporary times with the sarcastic sound of the ’50s lesbian quartet from Seattle, the Sluts from Hell.

The History of the World According to a Lesbian

 is an ongoing, iterative performance that connects the drag form of a lip sync to improvisational movement as a practice of freedom and survival.

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