Queer Lives. Queer Voices. Queer Visions. The Denver Film Society at Starz is proud to present them in all their diversity via one of the only regular showcases for GLBT cinema in Denver. Here's what's coming up for January:WERE THE WORLD MINE - held over through January 8
If you had a love potion, who would you make fall madly in love with you? Timothy, prone to escaping his dismal high school reality through dazzling musical daydreams, gets to answer that question in a very real way. After his eccentric teacher casts him as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, he stumbles upon a recipe hidden within the script to create the play's magical, purple love-pansy. Armed with the pansy, Timothy's fading spirit soars as he puckishly imposes a new reality by turning much of his narrow-minded town gay, beginning with the rugby jock of his dreams. Ensnaring family, friends and enemies in this heart wrenching chaos, Timothy forces them to walk a mile in his musical shoes. The course of true love never did run smooth, but by the end of this moving musical comedy of errors based on director Tom Gustafson's prolific Award-winning short film, Faeries, the bumpy ride comes to a heartfelt conclusion. with vibrant imagery, a first rate ensemble cast and innovative music rivaling the best of pop/rock and contemporary Broadway, Were The World Mine attempts to push modern gay cinema and musical film beyond expectation.
OTTO; OR, UP WITH DEAD PEOPLE - January 30 - February 5
Otto is a handsome, sensitive, neo-Goth zombie with an identity crisis. He wanders the streets of the city, never sleeping, until one day he auditions for a zombie film. The director, revolutionary Medea Yarn, is convinced that Otto is the personification of the effects of advanced capitalism on individuals. Medea begins making a film about Otto, while simultaneously shooting a film about a gay zombie revolt against consumerist society. As Medea directs the final, orgiastic scene of her film, Otto struggles to access the human emotions buried beneath his zombie exterior. Director Bruce LaBruce toys with genre conventions, combining different media, and making use of Medea's humorous film-within-the-film, while creating a new, sexy, hyper-politicized zombie mythology.
