Archive for the “Film” category
Katharina Klewinghaus at 3. Porn Film Festival Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on October 26, 2008
As someone who was addicted to slasher films as a child in the 1980s, and who went on to read a ton of feminist and queer theory at university in the 1990s, I’ve long been fascinated with the contradictory ways (…)
Charles Lum at the 3. Porn Film Festival Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on October 25, 2008
One of the highlights of this year’s Porn Film Festival was last night’s screening of a suite of short films by Charles Lum, The HIV Collection. Taken together, the films form a fractured feature of sorts that sustains itself thematically (…)
PORN AGAIN: 3. Porn Film Festival Berlin
by Travis Jeppesen on October 24, 2008
This week I’ll be “reporting” from the third installment of Berlin’s Porn Film Festival. By reporting, I mean that I’ll be catching films here and there, discussing what I’ve seen, exploring general issues that arise in the conflation of art (…)
You’ll Know What to Do: Vaginal Davis Guides Us into Summer
by Travis Jeppesen on May 26, 2008
The maverick terrorist drag artist Vaginal Davis was recently enlisted by the Berlin art academy at Weissensee to submit a select group of students to a sort of week-long avant-garde boot camp, the result of which was a one-off performance, (…)
Jarman, Julien, Wittgenstein, Martians
by Travis Jeppesen on May 22, 2008
Of all the possible mediums he could have chosen, it is somehow curious that Derek Jarman decided to become a filmmaker. He didn’t just do film, of course, but it is for his films that he is best known. Perhaps (…)
Derek Jarman’s Wittgenstein
by Travis Jeppesen on May 20, 2008
