Embracing Failure and Fantasy
“Let’s leave success and its achievement to the Republicans, to the corporate managers of the world, to the winners of reality TV shows, to married couples, to SUV drivers. The concept of practicing...
View ArticleTransexual Menace
Dirty Looks NYC and The Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art, in collaboration with Northside Festival present Transexual Menace, featuring a discussion with Justin Vivian Bond and Chris E. Vargas....
View ArticleRevel, riot, radicalize
GB Jones is not only a Toronto legend but an internationally recognized pioneer of the queer punk scene. Though perhaps better known for co-founding the band Fifth Column, for her Tom Girl drawings and...
View ArticleAnd Now…Will the Real Rosa von Praunheim Please Stand Up?
Rosa came to my New York apartment in 1994 to discuss working on the treatment for his extravagantly satirical autobiography, Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversity. Neurosia was one of several of his...
View ArticleThis is the City I Want to Live In
“If you don’t like it my way, I’m gonna line you up against the wall.” Mesmerized. Slumped on a friend’s couch, maybe one-thirty in the morning, bar buzz not quite worn off but no longer in full...
View ArticleTaylor Mead Regained, Sort Of…
Andy Warhol’s playfully provocative film Taylor Mead’s Ass (1964) features the animated buttocks of queer underground poet, filmmaker, and actor Taylor Mead. The film was made a year after Henry...
View ArticleRosalyne Blumenstein (Interview)
Monika: Your movie debut took place in 1996 when you participated in the German documentary “Transexual Menace” (“Vor Transsexuellen Wird Gewarnt”) directed by Rosa von Praunheim, documenting one of...
View ArticleTranny Rage: The Politics of Mythologizing Transness
“If you wanna talk tranny rage, honey, I got a lot of tranny rage. It pisses me off sometimes, ‘cause people don’t think that we exist or you’re not there, like, ya know? Or we just exist on The...
View ArticleAnger + Rapture
Kenneth Anger, Invocation of My Demon Brother, 16mm, 11 min., 1969 Iván Zulueta, Arrebato (Rapture), 35mm on video, 105 min., 1980 Starring Mick Jagger (who also composed its score), His Satanic...
View ArticleNew York City Inferno
In 1977, Parisian filmmaker Jacques Scandelari moved to NYC. Under the equally evocative pseudonym, Marvin Merkins, he produced a doc-style porno, New York City Inferno, which follows Jerome, a...
View ArticleCheck Your Vernacular
Dirty Looks NYC celebrates the release of our first publication – Check Your Vernacular– with a performance and screening event featuring work by Dynasty Handbag, Narcissister, Colin Self and Chris E....
View ArticleMultiple Maniacs
It’s got to be my favorite. I remember that particular cinematic awakening, after years of daytime b-movies as a latch key, when my mother made that fateful inquiry. This was after I’d sought out that...
View ArticleJoin the Sassy Girls club
When I was a youth, say, about 8, I played a game in the woods with my friend Ocean where we pretended to be hookers. The game was called “Sassy Girls.” We did not know what hookers were exactly, but...
View ArticleCheck Your Vernacular (Excerpt: Colin Self)
Colin Self recently performed on the same bill as Dynasty Handbag, who poked loving fun at the artist. “Yeah, so we know who’s good and who’s evil – Colin is good. Colin is going to save us [from] our...
View ArticleNo Credit, Cash Only: Cookie in Film + Video
Dirty Looks NYC’s Bradford Nordeen will lead a visual lecture of images and clips from Cookie Mueller’s always fervent and sometimes-fleeting roles in the films of John Waters, through No Wave New York...
View ArticleDirty Looks Roahshow
Roaming queer experimental film series and online publishing platform Dirty Looks NYC touches down in L.A. and takes to the stage for an evening of radical, critically engaged entertainment. This...
View ArticleGetting to Know You…
I got to know the latter half of the sitcom duo Chris and Greg before ever seeing their online series, Falling In Love… With Chris and Greg. Greg and I first met, I believe, at an academic conference,...
View ArticleColin Self, Elation IV
MoMA PS1 Sunday Sessions presents an afternoon of performances hosted by Randy Zine: March 24, 2013 Share
View ArticleInnie-Outie: Dynasty Handbag
What does it mean to be a great performer? In a rather conventional sense, great performing is often associated with a sense of interiority, becoming your character, identifying with your role. In...
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