we're very excited for the august my gaze///yr gaze screening as irwin will be presenting a film he's been wanting to screen since this series started: MYSTERIOUS SKIN by Greg Araki as well as "DAYDREAM BELIEVER" a short film by Irwin Swirnoff
....we were gonna screen Mysterious Skin this in june but irwin got sick so we knew we had to screen this before summer ends!
join us on sunday, august 2nd at 6pm
alley cat books * 3036 24th st, 94110
free & a free raffle for radical prizes
MYSTERIOUS ...
we're very excited for the august my gaze///yr gaze screening as irwin will be presenting a film he's been wanting to screen since this series started: MYSTERIOUS SKIN by Greg Araki as well as "DAYDREAM BELIEVER" a short film by Irwin Swirnoff
....we were gonna screen Mysterious Skin this in june but irwin got sick so we knew we had to screen this before summer ends!
join us on sunday, august 2nd at 6pm
alley cat books * 3036 24th st, 94110
free & a free raffle for radical prizes
MYSTERIOUS SKIN (Greg Araki, 2004) - based on the brilliant book by Scott Heim, this is a film unlike & trumps anything Araki had made up to this point .it's tender, hazy, and haunting. with incredible performnaces by joseph gordon-levitt & brady corbet. hustling, ufo's, aids, molestation, reclamation. with one of the most beautiful scores of all time by robin guthrie of the cocteau twins with the great harold budd.
i watched this film on the big screen two times within the first week it opened. it impacted me so strongly that i vowed never to watch it again unless it was on a bigscreen. so here comes that viewing a decade later on the big screen at alley cat!
DAYDREAM BELIVER (Irwin Swirnoff, 2007?)
a film i thought was forever lost but just found! a meditation on loss and beauty filled with hazy memory and boys with bangs. with a beautiful score by preston swirnoff
my gaze///yr gaze is curated by irwin swirnoff.
irwin swirnoff (b. pheonix 1977, lives in the bay area) received his mfa from the san francisco art institute, and teaches in the cinematic arts department at cal state university monterey bay.
using film, photography, creative writing, and his background in zine & d.i.y. culture, he creates intimate work with a queer sensibility, exploring intimacy, longing, loss, desire, physicality, sexuality, and the constant struggle to remain in the here and now. a longtime dj, he's hosted the popular radio show, sleeves on hearts and served as the music director of kusf 90.3fm, in san francisco.
irwin's work has been shown throughout the united states and europe at festivals like outfest, the new york film fest, frameline, seattle queer film festival, toronto inside out, etcetera, and he's been featured in the new york times, sf weekly, maximum rock n roll, punk planet, and the bold italic.