Vaginal Davis

'Transmissions' explores the upsurge in performance-related practice that continues to suffuse the contemporary art world. A series of reportage films and collaborations on SHOWstudio during 2005-2007, created as a diary documenting each event live, 'Transmissions' captures a portrait of the scene though artist-created footage, short film, ephemera and live imagery, directed by curator and SHOWstudio Arts Editor Christabel Stewart.

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Experimental queer short film, showing people dancing to the song "La Petite Tonkinoise".

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Queer short by Vaginal Davis.

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Queer short by Vaginal Davis.

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From the experience of a transvestite from Los Angeles, the A. shows how race and sexuality are closely intertwined. Through the malleability of the disguised identity, the A. shows an inspired philosophy of Gramsci on the practice considered as subculture field.

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A lively tribute to Dorothy Parker's intoxicated, acerbic wit.

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A bar full of people talking about Volker Spengler. HIGHFALUTIN is an attempt to create such a utopia, a simple "what if."

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Rosa von Praunheim is an icon in the scene: gay activist, loving provocateur and a very special filmmaker from Berlin for decades. His curiosity for people and their fates runs through his extensive film work. For his 70th birthday he has now made 70 new short films. In the first part of the big project, he confronts Thilo Sarrazin with the mayor of Neukölln, Heinz Buschkowsky, and the Turkish lawyer and women's rights activist Seyran Ates; shows a homosexual hustler in Bucharest; gossip reporter Andreas Kurtz, who knows everything about Berlin's celebrities; Rosa's neighbors who live with her dependent brother; Esther Bauer, who survived Auschwitz, and the Berlin comedian Ades Zabel. High on the roofs of Berlin, the gay chimney sweep Alain Rappsilber tells him about his fetish leather meeting Folsom.

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While visiting her Auntie Holly, Darling enters a parallel, dream-like world, where a series of encounters with transfeminine figures (played by Holly Woodlawn, Vaginal Davis, and Flawless Sabrina) explore the complexity of identity politics, gender construction and the edification of affects amid a kaleidoscopic depiction of time and place.

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Documentary about the groundbreaking queer feminist art band Fifth Column, who were at the centre of Toronto’s influential Queercore scene in the 1980-90s.

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The Advocate for Fagdom unites the puzzle pieces one by one. Testimonies are combined with rare archive images. Art galeries present movie extracts that are succeeded by images shot on location. And the other way round. Writers, film makers, art galeries owners, actors and actresses, photographers, producers, friends and loved ones all join in a game of interpretation, analysis or simple anecdotes. John Waters, Bruce Benderson, Harmony Korine, Gus Van Sant, Richard Kern, Rick Castro and others deliver their impressions, theories and confessions. Everything blends into the fascinating portrait of a singular person blessed with singular talents. A complex personality at war not with a system but all systems. The portrait of a man constantly moving between his punk attitude and extreme sensibility.

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Experimental queer short film, showing people dancing to the song "La Petite Tonkinoise".

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Queer short by Vaginal Davis.

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Queer short by Vaginal Davis.

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From the experience of a transvestite from Los Angeles, the A. shows how race and sexuality are closely intertwined. Through the malleability of the disguised identity, the A. shows an inspired philosophy of Gramsci on the practice considered as subculture field.

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Prostrate probing interviews! Live action murder! Naked people! Tired death-rockers! And more! Much more!!

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Streetwalker fashions! Gossip! Mayhem! Miscegenation! Pretty bull dagger gangbangers! Dorky white boys with big dicks! & other sextacular events!

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