Proliferations – Part I

Proliferations – Part I  will screen online as part of LADA Screens.
Proliferations – Part I will also be shown at the LADA Screens launch event, 13 July, alongside a selection of other works by Liz and films from LUX’s archive which explore cruising, female bodies and desire. These include Dyketactics by Barbara Hammer (1974), Liz’s remake of this film (Untitled) Dyketactics Revisited (2005) and Gentlemen by David Farringdon (1998). The screenings will be followed by a discussion with Liz Rosenfeld and invited guests.

Filmmaker & performer Liz Rosenfeld has developed this new project in the wake of her first feature film FOXES, and in collaboration with the sonic duo Hacklander \ Hata. For this project they have built off their research into the unwanted & censored culture of the early 20th Century Russian avant-garde. This new film pines towards a future vision that surpasses generally accepted structural limitations of the human condition. The piece moves beyond the capabilities of human perceptive apparatuses, the ego, dimensions of time and space, notions of gender, sexuality, and other societal norms.

Programme

Dyketactics, Barbara Hammer, 4min, 1974
A popular lesbian ‘commercial,’ 110 images of sensual touching montages in A, B, C, D rolls of ‘kinaesthetic’ editing. “The images are varied and very quickly presented in the early part of the film, introducing the characters, if you will. The second half of the film slows down measurably and all of a sudden I found myself holding my breath as I watched the images of lovemaking sensually and artistically captured.” – Elizabeth Lay, Plexus.
(Untitled) Dyketactics Revisted, Liz Rosenfeld, 7min, 2005
Bodies move freely through an ambiguous urban “utopia”…or do they? Shot on 16mm film and digital video, allow yourself to be led through the space where bodies exist independent of social codes. Dreamy landscapes, androgynous figures, skin, and concrete, masquerade through a fantasia of fluid forms referencing history while looking into the future. Inspired by Barbara Hammer’s film Dyketactics made in 1974.
Gentlemen, David Farringdon, 15 min, 1988
I have tried to give a truthful picture of a taboo subject in an unbiased way, which I hope gives some reason to an occupation perceived by many as unreasonable – the gay sex/desire/frustrations in toilets. D.F.